MILID Week

Oct 16, 2014

The 2014 Media and Information Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue Week (MILID Week) will be hosted by the Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, and will be held from 27 – 28 September. This annual event is led by UNESCO and the United Nation Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) within the framework of the Media and Information and Intercultural Dialogue University Network (MILID University Network).

For the third time, MILID Week will be uniting diverse actors committed to promoting media and information literacy (MIL) as a way to foster social inclusion and inter-cultural dialogue. Stakeholders, international organizations, universities, associations, research groups and teachers from all around the world will attend to give momentum to the dialogue at a global level.

MILID Week offers opportunities to draw worldwide attention to how MIL helps empower citizens. It seeks to foster synergies among experts, academics, and other civil society actors and practitioners of MIL by encouraging them to work together. MILID Week is a platform for cooperation, debates and exchanges of experiences.

MILID week 2015 will be held in Philadelphia. June 26-27, 2015

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