Presentation of the Postgraduate programme in Multimedia Communication

The UPC and Antena 3 Foundation have presented the first edition of the postgraduate programme in Multimedia Communication for disabled persons, which takes place within the Proyecto PRO (PRO Project). Lectures for this programme, with 20 students, shall start on the 27th January at the UPC School.

The postgraduate programme in Multimedia Communication will start on the 27th of January 2012 at the Tech Talent Center, after a previous selection of 20 places which will be fully subsidised by the grants programme awarded by the Antena 3 Foundation.

The aim of this pioneering programme is to offer a group of people with physical or mental disabilities the basic tools in multimedia communication to help them enter the labour market in this field. More specifically, the contents of this programme are focused on multimedia communication and, in this sense, the development of design, and the architecture of contents, as well as multimedia tools and on-line marketing, and the social media.

The teaching staff on the programme, lead by David Sánchez Carreras, a professor in multimedia at the UPC Centre for Image and Multimedia Technology, includes teaching professionals from the UPC and consolidated professionals working in the sector, who will offer students a practical vision focusing on the current needs within this profession.

In fact, this practical approach is one of the key elements of the postgraduate programme, whose ultimate objective is for all the students taking the course to gain 320 hours of work placement in leading companies in this sector who have joined this initiative by Proyecto PRO: Cromosoma, Mediapro, Cadena Ser, Tv3 and Vértice 360.