This inclusion highlights our commitment to excellence in the fields of media and communications and KAIROS’s quality and its role in advancing scholarly discourse in the field of media and communications.

The frequent criticism from influential political actors (both from the former prime minister and the leader of the opposition) towards the media is worrying, which encourages a climate of distrust towards media workers and violation of freedom of expression.

Macedonia is threatened by various pollutants. Air pollution is one of the highest in Europe, a large amount of waste is not being recycled, water quality is deteriorating, there is excessive deforestation, biodiversity is under the threat of extinction, and climate change is affecting food production. In such a growing environmental crisis, public institutions, businesses, civil society organizations, the media and academia should become increasingly accountable for their actions and communicate about the environment. In this way, awareness and understanding of complex environmental issues will be raised, which in turn will strengthen the role of citizens and organizations in the

The Master Classes were designed as a series of presentations, exercises, and discussions, to equip participants with the skills needed for the digital era.

Through demonstrations and examples, participants were introduced to the latest achievements in creating multimedia content with the help of artificial intelligence and its vast potential for innovation in digital journalism.

Between the two extreme opposing views of artificial intelligence, the utopian one - that it will give people enormous power, and the destructive one - that technological progress will replace people in jobs, the most acceptable position is that artificial intelligence (AI) cannot be ignored, but the use and application of its tools must be careful, supervised, and transparent.

Notably, this period saw prevalent accusations aligning parties with either "pro-European" or "anti-European" stances, contributing to polarization

The symposium is centered on the crucial convergence of media and information literacy with the fast-evolving domain of Artificial Intelligence (AI).