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About ICS

The Institute of Communication Studies is a leading research organization in the field of journalism and media studies, public relations and corporate communications. Our mission is to contribute towards strengthening of Macedonian democracy by working with media, civil society and public institutions, educating a critical public that will ask for greater transparency and accountability through engagement in the policy creation process.

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This is made possible by the digital platform that supports the Water Ledger - a water management database - and the Methodology for Monitoring of Water, which were developed within the “Clear it Up” campaign, for the needs of the Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning (MoEPP).

The draft Law on Water opens up greater opportunities for the protection of water resources after the Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning (MoEPP) involved civil society organizations and experts from the “Clear it Up” Alliance in the earliest stage of drafting the law. However, the "Clear it Up" Alliance believes that the proposed legal amendments are not enough and there are still shortcomings in terms of full regulation of water use and storage.

The complexity of media literacy and the various approaches in its implementation within the education were the main topics of the two-day international symposium organized by the Institute for Communication Studies (ICS) and IREX "Keeping up the pace: media literacy education in an acceleration age", which took place on 3 and 4 February 2022 as part of the USAID’s Media Literacy Project YouThink. The online event was attended by world-renowned media literacy persons of authority, such as American professors - Renee Hobbs and Paul Mihailidis, but also well-known individuals from Europe and the Western Balkans who empirically confirmed that the systematic