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...
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 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 information and community activities related to Coronavirus are keeping Grassroots Radio members quite busy. This is also the case for the Irish community of Bere Island, which is doing everything to adopt measures and behaviors that can protect local inhabitants. This includes an appeal to...
To celebrate and wish a wonderful World Radio Day, which this year is framed within the theme of diversity, the Grassroots Radio team has developed 3 great video clips that highlight the extraordinary diversity informing the project. The clips are made in English, Romanian and...
The Grassroots Radio project joins its voice with community radio stations worldwide to celebrate World Radio Day 2020. According to UNESCO: radio is a powerful medium for celebrating humanity in all its diversity and constitutes a platform for democratic discourse. At the global level, radio...
Radio Civic, the community radio developed in Romania thanks to Grassroots Radio, is advancing and improving its activities with changes in the scheduling to better respond to the needs of the communities. The National Council of Audiovisual has indeed approved these scheduling changes for Radio...
We are thrilled to see the Grassroots Radio project featured on the European Journalism Observatory (EJO), a network of 15 independent non-profit media research institutes which aims to bridge journalism research and practice in Europe, and to foster professionalism and press freedom. The article describes the...