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This paper takes as its general reference the European Higher Education Area (EHEA), whose creation endeavoured an educational approach across all the European Union countries. A new educational model must foresee the development of new skills and information skills constitute one of the most important requirements that university students need in the Information Era. These skills were effectively prioritized in the conception of the European educational model and, consequently, they should have an impact on the teaching-learning process. So, it is important to know and understand how these students are prepared in terms of competences and skills, regarding the access to, use, (re)production, and diffusion of information gathered and applied in different contexts. It is also necessary to establish a connection between training and the acquisition of information skills prior to university, during the university attendance period and at the end of the university degree. This configures a comprehensive approach that will consider the educational context, the students' informational behaviour and their personal and social contexts and demands. An ongoing research project, that supports the present paper, has incorporated these elements and they are positioned at the core of the work. It configures an information behaviour study focused on the issue of information literacy in the current Portuguese and European learning models, the determination of the contextually acquired competences, and the intrinsic abilities to search for and use information. The theoretical-practical model in development will contribute to setting a strategy that will support the effort of Portuguese universities in this field.

La presente investigación, financiada por la Universidad San Pablo-CEU, tiene como objeto de estudio fundamental el análisis de las demandas informativas de los inmigrantes latinoamericanos en la Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid. Sus objetivos específicos han sido averiguar cuáles son las aspiraciones o metas de los sujetos, sus necesidades y deseos, sus problemas y preocupaciones, así como las aficiones, tiempos y espacios de ocio. De los resultados de todo ello se han podido identificar los objetos de referencia o demandas informativas de este colectivo, en función de sus temas de interés, que han sido los siguientes: la legislación española de extranjería, el trabajo, el paro, la vivienda, el dinero, los estudios, la integración social, la música y baile, y el fútbol. A partir de estos resultados se tiene previsto llevar a cabo una segunda investigación sobre las fuentes de información y usos de la comunicación por parte de este mismo colectivo de inmigrantes.