Students and academics from across the AREACORE network came together at Ahram Canadian University in Cairo for an intensive programme of learning, exchange, and creative media production.   From 11–20 September 2026, the Faculty of Mass Communication at Ahram Canadian University (ACU) hosted this year’s AREACORE Summer School under the...

      Media and Information Literacy Academy (MILA) 2025 – Empowering Minds, Reviving TruthFor the third consecutive year, the Media and Information Literacy Academy (MILA) took place from 11–20 June at the Jordan Media Institute (JMI) in Amman. This year’s cohort brought together two students and one staff member...

The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in collaboration with the AREACORE partners, the Faculty of Mass Communication at Ahram Canadian University and the Institute for Media and Communication Studies at Freie Universität Berlin, organized the COSIMENA SummerSchool from 10-17 September 2023 in Cairo. 25 master’s students from 12 different nationalities:...

The 2023 Media and Information Literacy Academy Amman (MILAA) was held in June in Amman for the first time and was organised locally by our AREACORE partner Jordan Media Institute (JMI). MILAA 2023 hosted 70 participants (students and faculty) from our AREACORE partner universities in Egypt, Palestine, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon,...

After a two years break, the media and Digital Literacy Academy was finally taking place again at the Institute of Media Research and Training (IMRT) at the Lebanese American University (LAU) in Beirut, directed by AREACORE member Dr. Jad Melki. MDLAB aims to develop media and digital literacy education in...

The Media and Digital Literacy Academy of Beirut (MDLAB) hosted its seventh annual summer training session from June 16 to 22, 2019, at the Lebanese American University (LAU), Beirut campus. Organized by LAU’s Institute of Media Research and Training (IMRT), MDLAB seeks to prepare a media literate generation in the...

Since 2014, the IfPuK has been participating in the Media and Digital Literacy Academy in Beirut (MDLAB) as part of a DAAD project led by Prof. Carola Richter. “Media and digital literacy” describes the creation of awareness about media and is understood as a sustainable learning project. Citizens should develop...

MDLAB aims to advance digital and media literacy education in the Arab region by training a generation of teachers and scholars and developing locally rooted curricula. The 2013 academy was the start of this initiative. So far, MDLAB has succeeded in introducing media and digital literacy to 40 Arab universities...