MILA is always happy to work with and support initiatives that underpin media and information literacy. We are particularly pleased to so with stakeholders that represent a wide variety of professional and sectoral perspectives. We are thus pleased to promote the 2021 edition of the SciBeh workshop, on 18-19 November.
The SciBeh initiative seeks to create an online infrastructure for crisis knowledge management in the behavioural sciences. It held a previous workshop in 2020, which played a notable part in triggering the COVID-19 Vaccination Communication Handbook, which is practical guide for improving vaccine communication and fighting misinformation, and therefore has an obvious bearing on media and information literacy.
The aim of the 2021 workshop is to bring together an interdisciplinary group of experts and practitioners to explore how science communication can be approached as a collective intelligence issue. The outcome of the workshop is a joint manifesto that sets out a position for scientists on communicating science as a collective.
To achieve this, the workshop will host panel discussions about the challenges facing science communication, followed by discussions about these issues that all attendees are invited to participate in.
The programme for the workshop can be found here: https://www.scibeh.org/events/workshop2021/ . And the sign up link can be found at https://bit.ly/SciBehWorkshop2021 .
