PNCECS: UNESCO supports the promotion of media research in Palestinian universities

  The Palestinian National Committee for Education, Culture and Science PNCECS, and Al-Quds Open University, have announced the launching of a journalism and media research project in Palestinian universities, which is part of the UNESCO International Program for the Development of Communications, funded by The Islamic World Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ICESCO). The project aims to develop a cooperation framework for Media faculties in Palestinian universities by establishing a network that includes journalists and professors to implement specialized training in journalism at the local level, so that the project's outputs are positively reflected in improving student capabilities in journalism and journalistic research.

The project aims to establish an association for the Media faculties in Palestinian universities with the aim of developing a research core that attracts researchers, academics and students of Journalism, public relations and communication sectors. It also supports the furnishing of the headquarters of the Media and Communication Research Center at the Faculty of Media, which is the center that will serve as the headquarters for the desired association, in addition to implementing a training program for media students from various local universities.

Prof. Yunes Amr, President of Al-Quds Open University, praised this fruitful cooperation between the University and PNCECS as well as with UNESCO, emphasizing the importance of strengthening the role of the Media and teaching it in Palestinian universities through electronic platforms for distance learning, especially in light of these difficult circumstances imposed by the Corona pandemic. Prof. Amr also stressed the importance of strengthening partnerships between Media faculties in Palestinian universities to come out with working mechanisms that would advance the process of education and training, noting that Al-Quds Open University, with support from the UNESCO office and in partnership With the Jordanian Ministry of Higher Education, has implemented a project to develop a self-education course in the Arab countries (Jordan and Palestine).

For his part, Dr. Dawas Dawas, Secretary General of the Palestinian National Commission for Education, Culture and Science, stressed the importance of the UNESCO International Programme for Development Communication (IPDC), which comes as part of UNESCO's efforts to assist countries in developing media capabilities, and at the same time extended his thanks and appreciation to ISESCO represented by its Director General Dr. Salem bin Muhammad al-Malik and all of its staff, including the efforts of the ISESCO Representative Office to UNESCO in Paris in their support for this project, as well as the role and efforts of the National UNESCO Office in Palestine which follows up the stages of implementing the project that comes as a contribution to support the media landscape in Palestine, stressing that strengthening partnerships between Media faculties in Palestinian universities will contribute to developing the Palestinian media and increase the benefit of modern technologies in this field.