The Grassroots Radio consortium is excited to announce the event that will close the project's official activities, which will take place online on December 17-18, 2020. To celebrate three years of tireless research and community work, the project has called relevant internationl speakers together, to...
The Grassroots Radio project participated in the 11th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction ( ’20), which took place virtually on October 25 – 29, 2020. The conference was supposed to be held in Tallin, but the organizing committee decided to move online due to the Covid-19’s...
The journalists of Radio France International (RFI) Romania have interviewed Radio Civic volunteers in Romania. Simona Fortan from Radio Civic Varvoru de Jos, Mira Balan from Radio Civic Sfantu Gheorghe, and Liana Ganea from the Grassroots Radio project partner ActiveWatch have had the chance to...
In September 2020, as part of the GR Project, the locals from Sfantu Gheorghe village, in the Danube Delta, received free radio sets so that they can listen to the radio shows created for them by community volunteers. In this village, one of the two...
Grassroots Radio's Irish partners University College Cork (UCC) and Bere Island Community Radio joined the Irish Island Innovation Summit, which took place online between 7th and 20th September 2020. The presentation focused on the role of the radio in fostering connection during the COVID restrictions. Great...
Despite the restrictions caused by the pandemic, it’s been a lively summer for the Grassroots Radio project, which shaped several field and dissemination activities. One of them has been the participation in the 4S/EASST Conference – the joint meeting of the Society for Social Studies...
Grassroots Radio was present in the interactive workshop “Commoning Design and Designing Commons”, organized as part of the Participatory Design Conference (PDC) 2020. The workshop aimed at understanding the relevance of the concepts of commons and commoning – as an objective to be pursued and...
We are very happy and proud to celebrate one year of life of Radio Civic, the community radio born in Romania thanks to the energies generated by the Grassroots Radio project. It's been a year since the first shows, rhythms, news were broadcast on the radio: "I'm...
The Grassroots Radio project is proud to celebrate the World Press Freedom Day, whose overarching theme this year is Journalism without Fear or Favour. The World Press Freedom Day was proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in December 1993 following the recommendation of UNESCO's General Conference....
The community radios supported by the Grassroots Radio project are keeping on arranging initiatives to help local populations coping with these uncertain times in a variety of ways. Radio Civic – the Romanian radio operating in the communities of Sfantu Gheorghe and Vârvoru de Jos...