Irene Andriopoulou
Media literacy expert, researcher, policy analyst and practitioner for nearly 20 years. Member of the European Commission Expert Group on Tackling Disinformation and Promoting Digital Literacy through Education and Training (2021-2022) and former member of EC Media Literacy Expert Group (2006-2018). Elected global co-Secretary General of the International Steering Committee for UNESCO Media & Information Literacy Alliance and author of UNESCO’s policy papers and publications, among them UNESCO “Media and Information Literacy Curriculum for Teachers” (Gr. Eds, 2014). Member of Making Sense of Media Research Working Group by OFCOM, UK. From 2018-2023, Head of Research, Studies and Education Department at EKOME, the National Centre of Audiovisual Media and Communication in Greece, coordinating the EU Sub Chapter Mediterranean Group of UNESCO MIL Alliance. Present position at Secretariat General for Communication & Media, Directorate for Media, Dpt for Audiovisual Media & the Internet, Presidency of the Government.
Greek co-author with Art Silverblatt of the book “Media Literacy: Keys to Interpreting Media Messages" (DIMLE, 2016), among a series of articles and journal publications. Her most recent authoring work can be found in Routledge’ new handbook ”The Routledge Handbook of Media Education Futures Post-Pandemic” (2022), with the article “Media Literacy in Greece During the Covid-19 Pandemic” (Andriopoulou, Panagiotou).
Through focusing on evidence - based research combined with practice and synergies with public service and school platforms and advocating through extensive public speaking and writing, her upper goal is to achieve lifelong learning media literacy competence for all. BA on Communication & Mass Media, Athens University, Master of Arts in Media Studies, Sussex University, and PhD candidate at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Faculty of Journalism and Media Studies on MIL policies.
Francisco Javier García Marco
Achieved his PhD in Philosophy and Arts in 1994 and is a professor of Information and Library Science at the University of Zaragoza from 1996 and chair from 2011. He has been director of the Department of Library and Information Science, organized the LIS postgraduate programme of the University of Zaragoza and was director of the Education Innovation programme of his University. He is chair of IBERSID, an International Conference on Information and Documentation Systems (1996-), the director of the journals "Scire" and “Ibersid”, and a committee member of several other international journals. He has researched and published extensively on the theory of information, knowledge organization, information literacy, digital change and its social, ethical and juridical impact.