Conferences and Calls for Papers

This public consultation will help assess the effectiveness of current actions by market players and other stakeholders, the need for scaling them up and introducing new actions to address different types of fake news. Click here to read more.

Call for proposals/abstracts:October 1, 2017- November 4, 2017. Notification of acceptance: December 1, 2017. Strand 1: Media Literacy: Past, Present, and Future: Papers/Presentations in this strand will explore the growth of media literacy through a current and/or historical lens in all facets–academia, education, non-profits– looking to understand the foundations of the field, and what they […]

PLURAL+ 2017 the youth video festival on migration, diversity, social inclusion and prevention of xenophobia will celebrate 27 award-winning videos of the 320 entries received from all around the world. Awards ceremony at United Nations Headquarters, New York: November 9, 6:30-8:30 pm. Followed by a reception. Panel discussions at the Paley Center for Media: November […]

The annual Global MIL Week activities and the feature conference are important opportunities for stakeholders globally to celebrate the progress achieved towards the process of “MIL for all”. Global MIL Week also enables connections and sharing of creative projects, the latest research, new ideas, and information across countries and stakeholders involved in MIL, and in […]

Media literacy professionals from all over Europe will be gathering in Sarajevo in September 2017 to explore the huge challenges of our rapidly changing media world. Given the tidal wave of information, disinformation, propaganda and lies that we have witnessed in the recent past, the Media Meets Literacy 2017 conference, organized by the Evens Foundation […]

The UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP) is calling for unique proposals to be featured at its international ed-tech conference, “TECH”. ​ Final Date for Submission: August 15, 2017 To read more, click here.

The Media and Information Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue (MILID) Yearbook 2017 is currently seeking proposals of articles. The MILID Yearbook is a peer reviewed academic publication and a joint initiative of the UNESCO-UNAOC University Cooperation Programme on Media and Information Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue. The cooperation programme was launched in 2011 within the framework of […]

The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) and the Media Diversity Institute (MDI) with selected partners and experts from the region will help talented local individuals, media, civil society representatives and others, to develop new ways to inform and engage audiences with entertaining, locally-relevant, high-quality content. This program will offer grants between $5,000 and $100,000 to successful […]

The Media Studies M.S. Program at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York is pleased to announce its first annual DIGITAL EngAGEment conference on May 5, 2017 at 25 Broadway in Manhattan’s Financial District. DIGITAL EngAGEment encompasses the myriad ways humans encounter, utilize, create and participate with digital technologies, processes, experiences, cultures and […]