UNESCO and UNAOC have created the UNESCO-UNAOC UNITWIN Global
Chair on Media and Information Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue
(“UNESCO-UNAOC MILID UNITWIN”).
Chair on Media and Information Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue
(“UNESCO-UNAOC MILID UNITWIN”).
UAC-MILID specific objectives include:
- Act as a Observatory for critically analyzing: the role of Media and
Information Literacy (“MIL”) as a catalyst for civic participation,
democracy and development; for the promotion of free, independent and
pluralistic media; as well as MIL’s contribution to the prevention and
resolution of conflicts and intercultural tensions and polarizations. - Enhance intercultural and cooperative research on MIL and the
exchanges between universities and mass media, encouraging MIL’s
initiatives towards respecting human rights and dignity and cultural
diversity. - Develop within the participant universities educational and media
production practices that contribute to dissolving prejudice and
intercultural barriers and favour global dialogue and cooperation among
citizens as well as social and political institutions around the world.
In addition to the international dimension, these practices will be
reflected at the local level in the 8 cities or neighbourhoods in which
the partner universities are located. - Promote global actions relating to MIL (including adaptation of the
UNESCO MIL Curriculum for Teacher Education and other relevant tools,
publications, congresses, seminars, teaching resources, and faculty and
students’ exchanges) that could contribute towards stimulating dialogue
and understanding among people of and within different cultures and
societies. - Create a virtual centre to research on, and study and develop MIL
initiatives aimed at the creation of projects and publications linking
universities and research centres. - Promote and support other global media initiatives that could
reinforce civic participation through open, free and independent media
and information systems that favour intercultural dialogue and
cooperation. - Encourage and support citizen participation as well as educational
and cultural institutions whose initiatives promote media and
information literacy, cooperation and intercultural dialogue.
UNESCO-UNAOC MILID UNITWIN current universities include:
- The Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
- The University of Cairo, Egypt
- Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
- Temple University, Philadelphia, USA
- The University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Queensland University of Technology, Australia
- University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica
- Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fez, Morocco
For information on UNESCO-UNAOC MILID UNITWIN, please contact Jordi Torrent, torrent@un.org