Workshops for University Students
The Lebanese National Commission, in collaboration with the Francophone Association of Journalism (AFEJ), launched a series of training workshops on “Media Education in Times of Crisis” targeting school teachers and students, journalism professors and students in universities, media clubs and journalists.
The project was elaborated and granted emergency assistance through UNESCO Participation Programme, following the horrific Beirut Blast on August 4, 2020, and in response to the accompanying media context which included a lot of violence, hate speech, disinformation and the spread of fake news, all of which were traumatic for individuals and destabilizing for society in general. Hence, the workshops aim at developing critical thinking and an active processing of information not just passive reception of that information to detect fake news, as well as developing journalistic skills.
The first two workshops, organized respectively from December 7 to 10, and 14 to 17, at the Radisson Blu Hotel – Verdun, targeted journalism students from the following 10 universities: Lebanese University, Beirut Arab University (BAU), Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (USEK), Antonine University, Lebanese International University (LIU), American University of Science and Technology (AUST), Jinane University, Notre Dame University – Louaize (NDU), Lebanese American University (LAU), and University of Sciences and Arts in Lebanon (USAL).
