The UNESCO Chair in Communication (InCom-UAB) renewed until 2024
The UNESCO Chair of Communication (InCom-UAB) was created in 1990 and was the first to specialise in communication. Now, it has been renewed until 2024 and Professor Amparo Huertas has been appointed director.
14/01/2021
The UNESCO Chair of Communication (InCom-UAB) has been renewed until 2024 by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The UNESCO has also validated the appointment of Professor Amparo Huertas as new director of the Chair. The request to renew this Chair was formalised by the UAB and the UNESCO's higher education section, which evaluated the report submitted and made official the renewal. The UNESCO also assessed the academic and research trajectory of Amparo Huertas, Professor of the Department of Audiovisual Communication and Advertising and Director of InCom-UAB, and certified her appointment as head of the Chair in substitution of recently retired Professor María Dolores Montero.
The UNESCO Chair in Communication (InCom-UAB) was created in 1990 and it was the first of its kind worldwide to specialise in communication. Among the most improtant activities to be offered in this new period are the Master's Degree in LGTBI+ Communication, with registration for the 2021/22 academic year already open, and the research activity of the International Communication and Culture Study Group related to issues in technology, diversity, gender and social cohesion. The chair continues to strengthen its international ties witht he Higher School of Advertising and Marketing in São Paulo, Brazil, and in other interuniveristy centres.
Not only that, but the chair is currently working on other projects such as a PhD thesis on feminism, empowerment and women in Saudi Arabia by Professor Nadine Naser Jitan from the University of Business and Technology in Saudi Arabia, and the organisation of an online meeting to debate the representation in the media of gender-based violence against women and the LGTBI+ community.
The UNESCO Chairs initiative was founded in 1989 with the objective of conferring this distinction on higher education teaching and research units and research centres standing out for their academic excellence, and which also share the objectives of the UNESCO. Its main purpose is to encourage the cooperation and creation of networks among universities with the aim of exchanging knowledge and sharing projects. In 1992, the UNITWIN programme was also created, which brings together the 830 chairs existing in the 110 UNESCO member states, among which is also the UNESCO Chair in Communication (InCom-UAB). The chairs are grouped together into UNESCO priority areas and work to achieve the sustainable development goals which are a part of the 2030 Agenda.
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