IAMCR is co-sponsoring Gendering Communication for a Sustainable and Smart Planet, a roundtable to be held at EXPO 2015 in Milan, Italy on 27 September 2015. The event is organised by the University of Padova Center for Gender Studies and DonneinQuota and also co-sponsored by the Women’s European Coalition Against Media Sexism (WECAMS). UNESCO's Global Alliance for Media and Gender (GAMAG) is also involved.
The roundtable will bring together academic and research institutions, media organizations, journalists, communicators, policy-makers and civil society organisations to work towards a plan of action to make media gender equality a reality that can contribute to a sustainable and smart planet and to discuss the opportunities and challenges to implementing and monitoring gender equity across the media.