On Thurs­day 5th and Fri­day 6th of Sep­tem­ber 2019, the Grass­roots Radio con­sor­tium cel­e­brat­ed the third gen­er­al assem­bly of the project, host­ed in the friend­ly build­ing of 11.11.11. – the coali­tion of NGOs, unions, move­ments and var­i­ous sol­i­dar­i­ty groups in Flan­ders (Dutch speak­ing North­ern part...

Grass­roots Radio part­ner Cere­Proc has launched the world’s first com­mer­cial­ly avail­able Irish lan­guage syn­thet­ic voice as part of the Grass­roots Radio project. CereProc’s Text-to-Speech tech­nol­o­gy will be used by a com­mu­ni­ty radio sta­tion on Bere Island in south-west Cork to gen­er­ate spo­ken con­tent when the sta­tion...

Uni­ver­si­ty Col­lege Cork and Bere Island Her­itage Cen­tre rep­re­sent­ed the Grass­roots Project at the recent Oral His­to­ry Net­work of Ire­land Con­fer­ence in Lim­er­ick.  The con­fer­ence was about oral his­to­ries in the dig­i­tal age and we pre­sent­ed ideas of col­lect­ing Bere island’s oral his­to­ries via the...

Tech­no­log­i­cal changes, high con­nec­tiv­i­ty, and par­tic­i­pa­tion all fits in a buck­et For the first time in Roma­nia, two com­mu­ni­ty radio sta­tion licens­es have been issued in the frame­work of the Euro­pean project Grass­root Wave­lengths. The new high-tech FM sta­tions will broad­cast in, engage with, and serve...