The event, which will take place from 2 to 4 October 2024 at the Universitat Jaume I in Castellón de la Plana, will feature presentations by several leading figures in the fields of education, journalism and communication, who will explore the latest trends and strategies in the field of media literacy.

In this way, the event will be a forum for ideas and debates, with the participation, among other experts, of Manuel Pinto, Luciano di Mele, Félix Ortega, Carmen Marta, Agustín García Matilla, Ignacio Aguaded and José Manuel Pérez Tornero (professor of journalism at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and coordinator of the UNESCO Media and Information Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue Programme).

The conference will seek to deepen the understanding of how media literacy can empower citizens in an increasingly digitised society and will address issues such as the role of media education in fostering critical and participatory citizenship or the impact of emerging technologies on the practice and teaching of media literacy, as well as presenting examples of innovative experiences and case studies in the implementation of media literacy programmes.

Projects or initiatives such as CrAL, Omedialiteracy or IVERES, which have been promoted by the Gabinete de Comunicación y Educación of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) with the aim of empowering the journalistic community and the local population in the use of tools for the development of a critical spirit and the fight against disinformation.

The Gabinete de Comunicación y de Educación is a consolidated group specialised in scientific research and dissemination, which belongs to the Department of Journalism and Communication Sciences of the UAB. Recognised by AGAUR (Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca) of the Generalitat de Catalunya as a Consolidated Research Group on the basis of its trajectory, projection and development, it develops projects and research in the field of convergence between communication and education. Since its creation, it has developed initiatives aimed at integrating, with awareness and freedom, communication technologies in the so-called global or knowledge society. Under the direction of Santiago Tejedor, the Gabinete organises different Master’s Degrees, such as the Master’s Degree in Travel Journalism (on-site and online), the Master’s Degree in Communication and Education, the Master’s Degree in Environmental Communication and the Master’s Degree in Political and Electoral Communication Management. The group has a wide and varied collection of publications, in the form of scientific articles, books and book chapters, and other works, which is constantly being renewed. It also has a laboratory for teaching innovation projects, transfer and new formats that are conceived and developed from a perspective based on creativity and multidisciplinary work. Every year, the Gabinete organises an academic expedition that travels around the world with students from different universities and degrees. This is the Tahina-Can Expedition, which has been awarded as the best educational project in Spain. It also has the portal Tu Aventura, the educational platform InfoEDU and the newsgames and science project Reporter@s de la Ciencia.

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The course will be held on Wednesday, 26 June, and 10, 11 and 12 July at Calatayud Town Hall. In these sessions, participants will be trained in advanced techniques for news verification using artificial intelligence, a key competence to face the growing challenge of fake news and disinformation.

The VerificaRTVE team, together with experts from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), the Carlos III Universidad de Madrid (UC3M) and the Universidad de Granada (UGR), will be in charge of the workshops. Participants will be able to learn about voice and image authenticity verification and chatbot detection using tools developed specifically for the IVERES project.

In addition to acquiring practical skills, attendees will have the opportunity to make valuable connections with other professionals and experts in digital journalism, thus strengthening their professional networks and contributing to the enrichment of journalism with innovative technologies.

Students will be entitled to a Certificate of Attendance that will accredit their participation in the course provided that they have attended at least 85% of the classroom hours.

The IVERES project, led by Santiago Tejedor, director of the Gabinete de Comunicación y Educación of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and Pere Vila, director of technological strategy at RTVE, aims to create a system for verifying information in Spanish against self-interested disinformation.

The Gabinete de Comunicación y de Educación is a consolidated group specialised in scientific research and dissemination, which belongs to the Department of Journalism and Communication Sciences of the UAB. Recognised by AGAUR (Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca) of the Generalitat de Catalunya as a Consolidated Research Group on the basis of its trajectory, projection and development, it develops projects and research in the field of convergence between communication and education. Since its creation, it has developed initiatives aimed at integrating, with awareness and freedom, communication technologies in the so-called global or knowledge society. Under the direction of Santiago Tejedor, the Gabinete organises several of its own Master’s Degrees, such as the Master’s in Travel Journalism (on-site and online), the Master’s in Communication and Education (on-site, online and in English), the Master’s in Environmental Communication and the Master’s in Political and Electoral Communication Management. The group has a wide and varied collection of publications, in the form of scientific articles, books and book chapters, and other works, which is constantly being renewed. It also has a laboratory for teaching innovation projects, transfer and new formats that are conceived and developed from a perspective based on creativity and multidisciplinary work. Every year, the Gabinete organises an academic expedition that travels worldwide with students from different universities and degrees. This is the Tahina-Can Expedition, which has been awarded as the best educational project in Spain. It also has the Tu Aventura portal, the InfoEDU educational platform and the newsgames and science project Reporter@s de la Ciencia.

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The work has been developed by the research team of the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, based on a systematic review of European literature, policies and initiatives in the field of media literacy and the fight against disinformation in the European Union and, more specifically, in Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands and Austria. The documents aim to break down the findings of these first three reports and make them more accessible to the general public and to the main target groups defined in the project’s communication plan: educators, journalists and policy makers.

The infographics are now available free of charge on the official Omedialiteracy website. The project, which ended on 29 February 2024, is now in the final phase of justification and is awaiting renewal for a second part, which will focus on communicating and disseminating the results obtained during the first phase of the research.

Omedialiteracy is an initiative funded by the European Media and Information Fund (EMIF) and led by the Gabinete de Comunicación y Educación of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), together with the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, the University of Vienna and the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam, whose main objective has been to analyse state of the art in media literacy and the fight against disinformation in the countries of the respective agents involved: Spain, Portugal, Austria and the Netherlands.

The Gabinete de Comunicación y de Educación is a consolidated group specialised in scientific research and dissemination, which belongs to the Department of Journalism and Communication Sciences of the UAB. Recognised by AGAUR (Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca) of the Generalitat de Catalunya as a Consolidated Research Group on the basis of its trajectory, projection and development, it develops projects and research in the field of convergence between communication and education. Since its creation, it has developed initiatives aimed at integrating, with awareness and freedom, communication technologies in the so-called global or knowledge society.

Under the direction of Santiago Tejedor, the Gabinete organises several of its own Master’s Degrees, such as the Master’s Degree in Travel Journalism (on-site and online), the Master’s Degree in Communication and Education, the Master’s Degree in Environmental Communication and the Master’s Degree in Political and Electoral Communication Management. The group has a wide and varied collection of publications, in the form of scientific articles, books and book chapters, and other works, which is constantly being renewed. It also has a laboratory for teaching innovation projects, transfer and new formats that are conceived and developed from a perspective based on creativity and multidisciplinary work. Every year, the Gabinete organises an academic expedition that travels around the world with students from different universities and careers. This is the Tahina-Can Expedition, which has been awarded as the best educational project in Spain. It also has the portal Tu Aventura, the educational platform InfoEDU and the newsgames and science project Reporter@s de la Ciencia.

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