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...
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 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...
As the Coronavirus is spreading across Europe, Grassroots Radio project partners are devoting their energies to arrange information initiatives to keep local populations informed about data and events connected to the health emergency. Additionally, there are members of the consortium who are also active to...
Good news for Grassroots Radio stations in Romania! The Romanian stations have had their first Text-To-Speech (TTS) broadcasts. These include some news stories as well as an automatic weather and wind audio forecast generated and placed on their schedule four times a day. The content of the...
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...
We are happy to share a nice clip introducing Radio Civic, the community broadcasting service developed in Romania thanks to the Grassroots Radio project's efforts. Radio Civic broadcasts audio programs dedicated to audiences belonging to the rural communities of Sfantu Gheorghe and Vârvoru de Jos. [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QZ4xHzXscA&feature=youtu.be[/embed] 20...
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...
Romania: the 30th of May at 12h20 local, it was a small step for radiophony but a huge step for the Romanian community of Sfantu Gheorge. On the 89.9 Mhz FM frequency, on air operations have officially started. The RootIo technology, still in its experimenting...