This cycle of digital conferences is part of the project “Planet UAB: The journey to the other – equals in differences” organised by the Gabinete during the academic year 2020-2021, with the support of the Solidarity Fund of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, which organised a series of activities and awareness-raising actions based on the concept of the UAB campus as a “planet” and which dealt with major issues such as the culture of peace, sustainability, the environment and interculturality, among others.

According to Santiago Tejedor, director of the Gabinete de Comunicación y Educación (UAB), these meetings will “allow us to talk about the adventure of exploration, discovery and learning that means learning, research and training“. They will address issues related to culture, otherness, health education, the environment, information technologies and interculturality, among others.

This cycle was inaugurated with a talk entitled ‘Story seekers. Jungles, jaguars and volcanoes‘. The writers Sabrina Duque, Joseph Zárate and Santiago Wills explained their different journalistic projects focused on social and natural themes and debated the different characteristics that make up the journalistic chronicle. All of them analysed how narrative, literary journalism can be carried out, far from immediacy. Empathy, observation, the search for details, documentation, the search for sources and creativity were some of the topics discussed.

Sabrina Duque is a 2019 Michael Jacobs Travel Writing Fellow for her project Nicaragua: villages, lava and ashes. She is an Ecuadorian journalist, chronicler and translator. Throughout her career she has published for various publishers and newspapers in Portugal, Brazil, Italy, the United States, Ecuador and Uruguay.

Joseph Zárate is a journalist and editor. He was deputy editor of the magazines Etiqueta Negra and Etiqueta Verde. In 2016 he received the Ortega y Gasset Award for Best Story or Investigative Journalism and in 2018 the Gabriel García Márquez Award, in the Text category. Author of ‘Guerras del interior’.

Santiago Wills is a journalist. He studied Philosophy at the National University of Colombia and holds a Master’s degree in Journalism from Columbia University in New York. Winner of the Michael Jacobs Travel Writing Fellowship in 2021, for his project entitled “The Shadow of the Jaguar: Capturing the Spirit of America”.

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Santiago Tejedor, director of the UAB Office and the Department of Journalism, was in charge of welcoming the event. Maria José Recoder and Cristina Pulido then showed and explained to the attendees the layout of the website.

Throughout the event, the professionals, teachers, professors and researchers present exchanged educational scenarios from different Ibero-American regions. A noteworthy phenomenon that took up a large part of the debate was that which many information faculties are experiencing: students dropping out of their studies at Ibero-American universities.

One of the most important objectives agreed upon was to function as an exchange network that would benefit communication and journalism in different Ibero-American regions. In this way, the meeting focused, among other points, on analysing the challenges posed, “not only by social networks and traditional media but also by these new figures of influencers and tiktokers who pose important challenges for what is rigorous journalism”, as Recoder stated.

Finally, a review was made of the evolution of the Red Innovacom, which brings together more than a dozen Ibero-American universities. “It is a great opportunity to promote synergies between universities, to twin initiatives and to build together a space for training, reflection and growth focused on journalism and the preparation of future professionals,” Tejedor stressed.

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The Red Innovacom brings together teachers and researchers from Iberoamerica working in the field of journalism training and research. It focuses on defining and promoting lines of action to address the training challenges that the new communication scenario demands of communication professionals in three main areas: teachers, students and teaching strategies. In 2006, the 1st Conference on cyberjournalism took place: Teaching and lines of research in online journalism.

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Carolina Escudero has specialised in Social Psychology (PhD and postdoc, JFK University, Argentina), Sexual Difference (MA, University of Barcelona), Journalism (BA, Université Robert Schuman, France). Her research area focuses on the role of emotions in journalistic production (trauma, vicarious trauma, empathy with sources, self-care of journalists) in the mediatisation of cases of enforced disappearances (victims/ re-victimisation, stigma). She teaches seminars and researches on human rights issues, reparation of victims through stories and the emotional health of journalists. She has studied and worked in Argentina, Belgium, Bolivia, China, Spain, the United States, France and the Netherlands. She was awarded the following grants: Leonardo Da Vinci of the European Union (Brussels, 2001); Research and Creativity, University of Missouri, (USA 2018) and Postdoctoral Research UJFK (Argentina, 2021). Research and Solidarity Award, Spain (2017) and distinction for International Journalism, FOPEA Argentina 2013.

In November, and for one year, this project will be developed through two practical workshops, two days of reflection and a series of debates in the border city of Tijuana (Mexico). The project, which has the collaboration of the Gabo Journalism Foundation, the Baja Autonomous University of Baja California (Tijuana) and the Mexican journalists’ network “Yo sí soy periodista” has established 5 lines of action: to promote cross-border journalism, to change spaces for reflection, co-creation and debate with journalists in Mexico, to modify news coverage of migratory movements, to contribute to different and rigorous news coverage and to create journalistic stories that raise awareness among the population, to contribute to promoting the narrative of stories of women leaders, transformers and generators of social change and to provide journalists with tools, platforms, networks and resources to react to complicated situations arising from threats, aggression or other types of conflict.

The working team is made up of the following journalists and teachers: Santiago Tejedor, teacher and head of the project, Martín Caparrós, Argentine journalist and chronicler, David Jiménez , journalist and writer, Agus Morales , director of 5W , Cristina Pulido , lecturer Serra Húnter of the Department of Journalism and Communication Sciences UAB, María José Recoder , PhD in Information Sciences UAB, Carolina Escudero, associate professor of the Department of Journalism and Communication Sciences UAB, Beatriz Villarejo, PhD in Education UB, and PhD and Master students Kelly Robledo, Belén Sancho and Elena Hita. Also taking part are Diana Denisse Merchant Ley, María de Jesús Montoya Robles, Ángel Cilserio Ruiz Rios and Feliciano Castro Loya from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Autonomous University of Baja California. The co-organising team in Tijuana of the collective “Yo Sí Soy Periodista” is made up of journalists Sonia Elva Rosas de Anda, Alma Yolanda Morales González, Inés García Ramos and José Ibarra Amador.

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 Office 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 Cabinet organises an academic expedition that travels 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 Reporteros de la ciencia.

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Mexico has become the most dangerous country in the world to work as a journalist. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a total of 142 journalists have been killed in the country between 1992 and 2022. This project, in collaboration with the online media Revista 5W, which specialises in migration, the Gabo Journalism Foundation, the Baja Autonomous University of Baja California (Tijuana) and the Mexican journalists’ network “Yo sí soy periodista” has established five lines of action: to promote cross-border journalism, spaces for reflection, co-creation and debate with journalists in Mexico, to modify news coverage of migratory movements, to present a different and rigorous informative treatment and create journalistic stories that raise awareness among the population, to contribute to promoting the narrative of stories of women leaders, transformers and generators of social change and to provide journalists with tools, platforms, networks and resources to react to complicated situations arising from threats, aggressions or other types of conflicts.

The working team is made up of the following journalists and teachers: Santiago Tejedor , teacher and head of the project, Martín Caparrós, Argentinean journalist and chronicler, David Jiménez, journalist and writer, Agus Morales, director of 5W, Cristina Pulido, Serra Húnter professor of the Department of Journalism and Communication Sciences UAB, María José Recoder, PhD in Information Sciences UAB, Beatriz Villarejo, PhD in Education UB, and PhD and Master’s students Kelly Robledo, Belén Sancho and Elena Hita. Also taking part in the project are Diana Denisse Merchant Ley, María de Jesús Montoya Robles, Ángel Cilserio Ruiz Rios and Feliciano Castro Loya from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Autonomous University of Baja California. The co-organising team in Tijuana of the collective “Yo Sí Soy Periodista” is made up of journalists Sonia Elva Rosas de Anda, Alma Yolanda Morales González, Inés García Ramos and José Ibarra Amador.

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 Office 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 Cabinet organises an academic expedition that travels 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 Reporteros de la ciencia.

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This initiative, which has won the 39th call of the UAB Solidarity Fund for inter-university cooperation projects led by PAS, PDI and UAB students, reflects on the fact of being a woman journalist in Mexico, a reality where “violence and reprisals predominate in order to exercise freedom of expression”. In this sense, the project aims to educate about the importance of the role of the media in avoiding the dissemination of negative stereotypes of women and to help implement principles of news coverage that avoid re-victimisation, encouraging ‘the narrative of stories of women leaders, transformers and generators of social change’. To this end, it will create a workshop in which, based on the study and analysis of materials and real case studies, it will reflect on other types of narratives and perspectives.

This project will collaborate with the network of Mexican journalists “Yo sí soy periodista” working in the city of Tijuana and has the collaboration of the cybermedia Revista 5W, specialised in migrations, the Gabo Journalism Foundation and the Baja Autonomous University of Baja California (Tijuana). Among the members of the work team are Santiago Tejedor, teacher and project leader, Martín Caparrós, Argentinean journalist and chronicler, David Jiménez, journalist and writer, Agus Morales, director of 5W, and teachers and researchers from the Gabo de Comunicación y Educación UAB, the teachers of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Autonomous University of Baja California Diana Denisse Merchant Ley, María de Jesús Montoya Robles, Ángel Cilserio Ruiz Rios and Feliciano Castro Loya. The co-organising team in Tijuana of the collective “Yo Sí Soy Periodista” is made up of journalists Sonia Elva Rosas de Anda, Alma Yolanda Morales González, Inés García Ramos and José Ibarra Amador.

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. It has been 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. Since its creation, it has developed initiatives aimed at integrating, with awareness and freedom, communication technologies in the so-called global or knowledge society.

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This webinar addressed how media and information literacy is crucial to combating disinformation and its role in democratic governance and peace. In this sense, it emphasised the idea that “teachers and young people capitalise on the learning, social engagement and creativity offered by the exponential growth of digital technologies and the explosion of new forms of media”.

The webinar was opened by Tawfik Jelassi, Assistant Director-General of UNESCO’s Communication and Information Sector. Different researchers and professors from different nationalities participated in the webinar: Estrella Luna, project manager of Media Arts and ICT from Mexico, Mariana Lameiras, CSRC researcher at the University Do Minho in Portugal, Santiago Tejedor, director of the Department of Journalism and Communication Sciences at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Cristina Pulido, lecturer Serra Húnter of the Department of Journalism and Communication Sciences UAB, Drissia Chouit, professor at Ismail University in Morocco, Samy Tayie, professor at Cairo University, Jun Sakamoto, professor at Hosei University in Japan and Kyoko Murakami, professor at the same university and member of the UNESCO University Network for Media and Information Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue.

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. It has been 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. Since its creation, it has developed initiatives aimed at integrating, with awareness and freedom, communication technologies in the so-called global or knowledge society.

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The day will begin with a presentation of the initiatives and work carried out by Reporters Without Borders, an organisation that defends access to news and information so that citizens can “know, understand and develop an opinion on what is at stake in the world and their environment”. It was created in 1995 with the aim of promoting journalistic freedom, pluralism and independence.

The second block will feature the participation of Amnesty International, “a global, independent organisation of more than 10 million people who act against injustice by defending human rights around the world”.

The dialogue will then move on to Open Arms, a non-profit organisation that operates in the Mediterranean Sea to protect people who try to reach European coasts fleeing from their countries due to war, poverty or persecution. They also promote education and knowledge about freedom, equality and migratory rights.

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) will engage in the fourth dialogue of the day to share its actions and achievements. The agency, which has been leading and coordinating refugee protection worldwide since 1950, is tasked with providing vital assistance to refugees, asylum seekers, stateless or displaced persons and ensuring that their rights are respected.

The meeting will close with the participation of the Universitat de la Pau, an institution founded in 1984 with “the aim of creating the conditions and facilitating the necessary tools for training, debate, reflection and the exchange of opinions and experiences on conflict and peace-building”.

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The day will begin with the round table entitled The adventure of telling the world in which David Rull, Egyptologist, travel guide specialising in North Africa and lecturer in the Department of Journalism at the UAB, will talk to Jordi Llompart, journalist, filmmaker and writer.

The second round table will be dedicated to two projects that are committed to change. It will be moderated by Ricardo Carniel, lecturer in the Department of Journalism at the UAB, and will include the participation of Juanjo Conejo, director of the project Technolita and the blue planet, an educational initiative to raise awareness among children of the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda, Elsa Velasco, coordinator of the latest edition of the PerCientEx project and member of the Catalan Association of Scientific Communication (ACCC), and two members of the project Zoroastro, a short film made by a group of students at the UAB in commemoration of the murder of Chico Mendes, a Brazilian environmental activist. and two members of the Zoroastro project, a short film made by a group of UAB students in commemoration of the murder of Chico Mendes, a Brazilian environmental activist.

Cristina Pulido, Professor Serra Hunter from the Department of Journalism at the UAB, will introduce the next round table dedicated to Uninformed Consumption. Brenda Chávez, journalist and researcher specialising in consumption, sustainability and culture and member of the female collective of investigative journalists on consumption Carro de Combate will reflect on the subject together with Javier Raboso, sociologist at the Complutense University of Madrid, human rights activist and head of the Democracy and Culture of Peace campaign at Greenpeace Spain.

The day will continue with the presentation of three books on the subject. Santiago Tejedor , director of the Department of Journalism at the UAB and co-director of the Masters in Travel Journalism and Environmental Communication, will moderate the round table with Jordi Serrallonga, archaeologist, naturalist, expedition guide and author of the book Dioses con pies de barro (Editorial Crítica); Gabi Martínez, writer and editor specialising in travel books and author of Un cambio de verdad (Editorial Seix Barrel); and Odile Rodríguez de la Fuente, graduate in Biological Sciences and Film Production, creator of the Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente Foundation and author of the book Félix. Un hombre en la tierra (Editorial geoPlaneta).

Finally, Marciano Venté , director of the Regional Observatory of Information and Communication Media of Eastern Colombia (ORMIC) and professor at the UNAB, Colombia, will be in charge of moderating the last round table entitled A Planet in Danger, which will include the intervention of Heriberto Araújo , journalist, writer and lecturer who reports on the environment, human rights and Latin America and who is currently writing a book on the Amazon rainforest. And with the participation of two projects developed in Peru: Micaela Egúsquiza, a graduate in communication and journalism, will present the documentary PACIFICUM, return of the ocean; and María Elena Carbajal, journalist and environmental and social communicator, will present the initiatives carried out by the Wildlife Conservation Society Peru.

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The meeting will be attended by:

• José Manuel Pérez Tornero, Professor UAB, Director of the UNESCO Chair in Media and Information Literacy for Quality Journalism.
• Laura Cervi, postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in the Department of Journalism, UAB.
• Omar Rincón, Professor in Media, Culture and Entertainment, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia.
• Alejandro Piscitelli, head of the Pedagogical Innovation Laboratory at the Communication Sciences Department, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• Francisco Sierra, Professor of Communication Theory, University of Seville.
• Cristina Pulido, Serra Húnter lecturer in the Department of Journalism and Communication Sciences UAB.

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The project is based on the need to encourage interdisciplinary debate and generate points of reflection between faculties that allow teachers, researchers and students from different subjects (degrees, master’s degrees, doctorates, faculties, etc.) to participate in joint initiatives to develop activities and projects. It also seeks to generate spaces for debate and exchange of ideas with the aim of improving the university, conceived as a “planet” where all points of view and all visions are of great value and importance.

The UAB, with more than 40,000 people between teaching staff, students and administrative staff, has more “inhabitants” than countries such as Liechtenstein (36,000), Monaco (33,500), San Marino (31,000) or the Vatican (800). Added to this is the variety of origins of the teachers, students and researchers who, every day, determine the campus, in a space where more than 50 nationalities, cultures and idiosyncrasies coexist. More than 6,000 students come from exchange programmes… This rich and stimulating mix is a great opportunity to encourage reflection and the fight against prejudice, exclusion, inequalities, environmental degradation and discrimination in all its dimensions. In the same way, the richness of our campus provides an excellent setting to encourage debate and the development of actions on coexistence, social equity, human rights and the different challenges related to education for global justification,” say the project members.

Planeta UAB is inspired by the elements of nature that many ancient cultures used to explain the world. These are different types of energy that are permanently interacting with each other. Based on them, a communication, training and awareness-raising strategy has been designed based on the following thematic pillars:

• Water: Symbol of life, calm and well-being, it represents education in values and the culture of peace as a great challenge for our societies.
• Earth: Conceived as a space of crossing, mixing and interaction, it represents the interculturality that defines our societies and, therefore, our university.
• Air: From its meaning of current or breeze that cleans places, it represents sustainability, as a decisive and urgent commitment of our societies and of the planet in general.
• Fire: Understood as the emission of light and heat, it represents the change and transformation that all societies need to advance and improve.

This project is supported by the Fons de Solidaritat de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

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