The creation of the International Media and Information Literacy Institute with the support of UNESCO, NORDICOM and other partners is a need expressed by international experts and industry companies to face the current challenges in our society. This report describes this need and defines the bases of the Institute.
The report is divided into two main sections. The first one presents the findings obtained through the survey addressed to international experts, industry companies and institutions focusing on their possible contribution to the creation of the International MIL institute and its services. This section also demonstrates the results of the benchmarking developed to identify.
The second section presents a proposal of the definition and structure of the International MIL Institute. This proposal is developed after considering the findings obtained from experts and industry companies, in addition to the lessons learnt from other similar institutions.

Summary of findings

1. The proposed International Media and Information Literacy (MIL) Institute would be the first of its kind. Currently, there are not any institutes with characteristics similar to those proposed for this
   one.
2. There is a consensus among experts, industry companies and other stakeholders about the real need of this Institute.
3. Experts, industry companies and institutions expressed their interest in collaborating in the activities proposed (research, training, advocacy, capacity building, policy development).
4. Industry companies are highly interested in research and training activities. Regarding the training activities, they highlighted joint degrees between universities, PhD programs, MOOC course with a certificate, workshops among others. Experts agree with the industry companies on this.

1. Experts agree on the need to create more political relevance to MIL as a matter of public policy, and hence help current practitioners to gain attention and legitimise their work.
2. Stakeholders and industry companies offered diverse types of potential cooperation with the Institute; sponsorship, financial support, research collaboration, dissemination of the activities in the media, participation in educational activities and workshops, advocacy, lobbying, capacity building and policy development.
3. Experts proposed that the International MIL Institute acts as a knowledge hub, a repository and a place to get information on projects and aid to develop MIL initiatives in different regions. They added that the
   Institute could help strengthen joint research and international comparison/assessment schemes to create “key performance indicators (KPI) to measure the progress”.
4. The experts propose five central units defining the principal functions of the International MIL Institute:
   •• Education Unit, •• Research Unit, •• Information and Communication Unit, •• Policy and Advocacy Unit and •• Management and Funding Unit.

1. Regarding the governance, it is proposed that the International MIL Institute be directly linked to UNESCO, the MILID Network and GAPMIL.
2. The structure of the MIL Institute must correspond to an active network of a limited number of research centers and Universities.

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José Antonio Bastos, former president of Médecins Sans Frontières, an organisation that received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999, will also take part in one of the dialogue blocks of The Journey to Peace. Together with Martín Caparrós, Argentinian journalist and writer, he will reflect on peace and hunger in a round table moderated by María José Recoder, Dean of the Faculty of Communication Sciences at the UAB.

The event will bring together more than twenty journalists, writers, activists and leaders of different projects and initiatives fighting for peace in different parts of the world for 12 hours (from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. CET). The event will close with a round table with the participation of five Nobel Peace Prize winners to reflect on the achievements and challenges that peace poses to us as a society and as a planet.

Professor of Journalism José Manuel Pérez Tornero, director of the Communication and Education Office, points out that “the conference brings together three decisive actors in the achievement of fairer and more democratic societies: journalism, dialogue and cooperation”. Santiago Tejedor, Director of the Department of Journalism and Communication Sciences, emphasises that the conference will allow “reflection on the capacity of journalism to tell stories that contribute to building societies that are more critical and committed to the milestone of peace. And, especially, it will allow us to ask ourselves from what point of view and with what characters we inform or misinform about war, and whether journalists could also be ‘peace correspondents'”.

The conference is supported by the Department of Journalism and Communication Sciences and the Faculty of Communication Sciences of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), as well as the Autonomous Solidarity Foundation (through the project “Planeta UAB: El viaje al otro”), the UNESCO Chair for the quality of journalism, the Gabo Foundation, the Intercampus project and the Ibero-American association ATEI.

The event is organised around dialogues with the participation of Federico Mayor Zaragoza, former Director General of UNESCO; journalists and academics José Manuel Pérez Tornero, David Jiménez, Iñaki Gabilondo, Santiago Tejedor, Plàcid-Garcia Planas, Rosa María Calaf, Sara Rancaño, Xavier Aldekoa, Mikel Ayestarán, Mar Abad, Martín Caparrós, María Eugenia Mosquera, Leila Guerriero, Agus Morales, Jaime Abello, Gabriel Torres, Paty Godoy, Laura Cervi, Cristina Pulido, Diana Sanjinés, Santiago Giraldo and Tapio Varis; as well as leaders and activists Adonaí Rincón, Jelen Amador and Adiela Mera Paz.

In addition, the event will be attended by Jordi Prat, director of the Autonomous Solidarity Foundation, María José Recoder, Dean of the Faculty of Communication Sciences and Javier Lafuente, Rector of the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

The conference is free of charge. Register through the following form.

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