A Working Session at the 2nd UNAOC Global Forum, April 2009, Istanbul, Turkey
This breakfast, co-organized with UNESCO and NORDICOM (Nordic Information Center for Media and Communication Research), was an opportunity to publicly present and discuss the creation of the UNESCO UNITWIN UN Alliance of Civilizations Chair on Media Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue. At its initial phase this UNITWIN (UNESCO’s Chair program for universities linked in network) will include six universities: Sao Paulo University (Brazil), Tsinghua University (China), Cairo University (Egypt), University of West Indies (Jamaica), Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain), and Temple University (USA). Representatives of the universities attended the session and explained to the participants the main objectives and planned outcomes of the Chair.