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Lusófona University

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The Centre for Research in Applied Communication, Culture, and New Technologies (CICANT) results from the combined efforts of Lusófona University (Lisbon and Porto, Portugal) researchers in Communication Sciences. The centre is geared towards innovative and interdisciplinary research and promotes theoretical and applied research at the crossroads of media, society, literacies, arts, culture and technologies. CICANT has extensive research experience in the Media, Society and Literacies (MSL) area and hosts the MeLCi Lab – Media Literacy and Civic Cultures Laboratory. MelCi Lab’s primary mission is to aggregate researchers and the research done at CICANT in the field of media education and civic cultures, in connection with everyday life in today’s deep mediatised and digitised society.

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Universitat Politecnica de Valencia

UPV is a public University with 30,000 students and 4,000 staff. It is the first technological university in Spain according to international rankings and focuses mainly on engineering and technical studies. It is the second-largest MOOC provider between European Universities. It is also known in the Educational Technology area, with their Flipped Teaching initiative and is a member of the Media and Learning association and the Opencast community for video in education.

Organisational member Netherlands

Delft University of Technology Library (TU Delft)

The NewMedia Centre (NMC) is a media production and expertise centre for education and research. The centre creates video (in a green screen studio and on location), livestreams, animations, infographics, augmented/virtual reality and is responsible for the university’s lecture capture. NMC experiments, together with lecturers and students, with media technology in education, such as holography, 3D models, AR, 360 video and audio and much more.

Organisational member Netherlands

Saxion University of Applied Sciences

Saxion University of Applied Sciences is one of the largest institutions of higher education in the Netherlands, with close to 27,000 students. Saxion provides solutions to social issues through education and applied research. The international student population tops 3,500 students with more than 89 different nationalities. Saxion is an official member of the E³UDRES² European University Alliance. Composed of nine universities, E³UDRES² is a European network that decided to closely work together and collaborate in the fields of research, teaching, innovation, entrepreneurship and much more. Within Saxion, the Saxion Audio and Video Unit has been established in 2019. The growing unit comprises as of this moment a team of four educational experts, four content producers, and a team leader, working in collaboration with external content creators, media companies and also collaborating closely with the Creative Business bachelor’s programme. Its focus lies on producing professional, high-quality audiovisual productions. The unit has significant expertise in assisting educators with audiovisual creation for instructional purposes and guidance on storytelling, script outline, technical producing and publishing. In 2019, the unit initiated the educational podcast, accumulating valuable experience in assisting teachers with podcast creation for their instructional purposes.