RTVE and the Autonomous University of Barcelona create the Chair for Innovation of Informatives in Digital Society

Both institutions sign a collaboration agreement that will allow them to cooperate in innovation, training and dissemination.

Spanish Radiotelevisión and the Autonomous University of Barcelona have signed a collaboration agreement to create the Chair for Innovation of Informatives in Digital Society, which will allow both institutions to cooperate in innovation, training and dissemination. The agreement has been signed by the Rector of the UAB, Ferran Sancho and the Corporate Director of RTVE, Enrique Alejo, in the University Rectorate.

Enrique Alejo recalled that "this is the third chair that the RTVE Crea Corporation, coinciding with the 60th anniversary of TVE and its first broadcasts from the Paseo de la Habana." "The university has much to contribute, since it is a seedbed of ideas, knowledge, innovation and contact with young people." "We want to open the doors and windows of RTVE, which has been a pioneer and continues to be."

Sancho said that "we are very happy that you are here to sign the agreement to create this chair, since in the end it will be the teachers who will develop their initiatives."

The RTVE-AAB Chair has its origin in the Informative Innovation Observatory in Digital Society (OI2), created by RTVE and UAB in September 2015 to observe informative narratives and reflect on supports, formats and the evolution of technologies. The first director of the chair will be José Manuel Pérez Tornero, professor of the UAB, who will work in close coordination with RTVE professionals to promote activities that allow generating innovative content and formats.

The agreement provides for collaboration in the following areas:

– Innovación en materia de formatos y contenidos; en tecnología y modelos de producción; en modelos de cooperación, participación y desarrollo; y en información y redes sociales.
– Formación para permitir al personal de ambas instituciones adquirir conocimientos y experiencias en sus diferentes ámbitos de actuación.
– Divulgación en el ámbito de las tecnologías de la información y las comunicaciones (TIC).