Launch of the UNESCO Chair in Communication, Media and Information Literacy and Citizenship

Date: 30th October 2024
Time: 3pm – 5.30pm
Place: ESCS- Vítor Macieira Auditorium

On 30th October, between 3pm and 5.30pm, the inauguration session of the UNESCO Chair in Communication, Media and Information Literacy and Citizenship will take place at the School of Communication and Media Studies (Vítor Macieira Auditorium).

The session will be attended by the President of UNESCO’s National Commission, Ambassador José Filipe Moraes Cabral, and will include lectures by two leading national and international figures in the fields of communication and media literacy: Maria Augusta Babo (Professor at Nova University) and Paolo Celot (Founding Member and Secretary General of EAVI – Media Literacy for Citizenship). The programme also includes a cultural moment by students from Lisbon’s School of Dance and a visit to the exhibition at the Museu da Paisagem/Entre Serras.

This is the launching of the first UNESCO Chair in Communication and Media Literacy to be established in Portugal at the ESCS/Lisbon Polytechnic Institute. The Chair aims to promote a collective process of empowerment and involvement of people as global citizens, with communication and media literacy at the centre of the strategies, while envisaging a culture of communication that is open, inclusive and based on respect for human rights and democracy, contributing to the development of communication and understanding of the world.