Vitor Tomé

Vitor Tomé is an international expert (Digital Citizenship Education – Council of Europe; Tackling Disinformation and Promoting Digital Literacy Through Education and Learning – European Commission) and a researcher at Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology of ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon (main projects: IBERIFIER - Observatory for Iberian digital media research and fact-checking; Teacher's Professional Development Centre of Georgia – Tbilisi). In Portugal he is a scientific coordinator (Digital Citizenship Academy, funded by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation; Media Literacy and Journalism – Portuguese Journalists Union), a lecturer (Autonoma University of Lisbon), a journalist, a teacher trainer (Ministry of Education) and a journalist’s trainer (CENJOR). He concluded a degree in Education, post-graduations in ICT and in Journalism, a PhD in Education (Media Literacy), and a 6-year post-doctorate in Communication Sciences. Lectured in Brazil and Japan, and is the author of several books, book chapters and articles in scientific journals.