Micro Europe
Micro-Europa is a cooperative European radio network of students and prospective journalists with a focus on local European journalism.
The aim of the cooperation is to find new radio-journalistic opportunities to provide information about European affairs locally and to promote European awareness in the media. In cooperation with university lecturers, students from participating universities, journalism and technical colleges create radio reports or entire radio programs. The contributions are based on a common topic that changes monthly and has a European focus or approaches. These topics are determined in advance at annual meetings of representatives from the participating editorial teams. The network currently consists of ten participating university radio stations in seven European countries (as of March 2011).
Attendees
| Station name | Supervising institution | Location | reception |
|---|---|---|---|
| BiTS fm | Business and Information Technology School | Iserlohn (Germany) | VHF 92.5 MHz in Iserlohn and Stream |
| Quindo | Howest Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen | Kortrijk (Belgium) | Stream |
| EC1 fm | City University London | London (Great Britain) | FM 101.4 MHz in London City |
| Eur @ dionantes | Radio Nantaise Européenne | Nantes (France) | FM 101.3 MHz in Nantes and Stream |
| Régie 5 | Institut des Hautes Etudes des Communications Sociales (IHECS) | Brussels (Belgium) | Stream |
| Supo | Katholieke Hogeschool Mechelen | Mechelen (Belgium) | Stream |
| UBB radio | Babes Bolyai University of Cluj | Cluj-Napoca (Romania) | Stream |
| Uniwelle Tübingen | University of Tübingen | Tübingen (Germany) | Antenna VHF 96.6 MHz; Cable: VHF 97.45 MHz in Tübingen and Reutlingen and archive |
| La Sestina Radio | University of Milan | Milan (Italy) | archive |
| University of Barcelona UAB | University of Barcelona | Barcelona (Spain) |
history
At a meeting of around 50 journalists, journalism teachers and members of various organizations in Nantes (France) in November 2007 , the foundation stone for the journalistic education project was laid. Those involved, who accepted the invitation of the initiator Laurence Aubron, on the one hand noticed a need for action under the impression of a low turnout in the European elections, but on the other hand also realized that Europe was not exactly an attractive information topic. The conceptual elaboration of the project was therefore limited to the medium of radio, as it accompanies people in their everyday life and can also be used in the training of students.
In October 2008 the network was founded under its current name. The seven founding participants included employees and students from the following universities:
- Institut des Hautes Etudes des Communications Sociales (IHECS) from Belgium
- Katholieke Hogeschool Mechelen from Belgium
- Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen (HOWEST) from Belgium
- City University London from Great Britain
- Eur @ dioNantes from France
- BiTS-Iserlohn from Germany
- University of Tübingen from Germany
- Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj from Romania.
production
The production concept is designed for a strong intercultural exchange as well as a horizontal transfer of information . Every month or every two months, the students who participate in the radio network create a maximum three-minute contribution on a common topic. The transcript of the contribution in the respective national language and in English translation will be placed together with the contribution in a contribution pool that is accessible online for all radio network partners. The partners of the radio network translate these transcripts into their own language and produce the contributions in their own national language. All contributions made by the participating students for the radio network are also available online.
Uniwelle Tübingen
In the university radio of the University of Tübingen , Uniwelle Tübingen, which was founded in 1988, media studies students first created a one-hour program with self-produced and translated radio reports from the network and music Open to all students at the University of Tübingen. For decades, under the direction of Sigi Lehmann, the students broadcast waves on the VHF frequency of the desert at different times . In mid-2014, the license was not renewed by the management of Eberhard Karls-Universität , so that the last live broadcast was broadcast in mid-July 2015. However, the students from the former Uniwelle Tübingen sat down and developed a concept that continued on a cross-media basis: cantaloup.fm .
Broadcast topics
Series of topics 2009
| month | theme |
|---|---|
| January | Food wastage |
| April | Minorities in Europe |
| May | European Elections |
| June | Start-ups |
| July | Revolutionary Students? |
| October | High Education Cost |
| November | From A to B on Low Money |
| December | Climate change |
Series of topics 2010
| month | theme |
|---|---|
| January | Strike and Protest |
| February | National Identity |
| March | National Sports |
| April | Privacy |
| May | Poverty |
| June | Tourism |
| July | Night life |
| October | Agriculture |
| November | European Regional Development Fund |
| December | Job migration |
Topic series 2011
| month | theme |
|---|---|
| January | Volunteering |
| February | Gender issues |
| March | Fashion / Arts |
| April | religion |
| May | Love |
| June | Participative Democracy |
| September | Testing |
| October | Revolutions |
| November | Folklore And Traditions |
| December | Sense of humor |
Sequence of topics 2012
| month | theme |
|---|---|
| January | Social Europe |
| February | Lost Crafts |
| March | Translation |
| April | Social mobility |
| May | My Home |
| June | New Icons, Myths and Legends |
| August | Media and Crime |
| September | Summer festivals |
| October | After Rio +20 |
| November | Corruption and Lobbying |
| December | Low cost |
financing
The program is supported and co-financed by the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency of the European Commission .
literature
- Jean Lemaître: Europe is all around you. Practical tools for the practice of local European journalism. 2010 ( PDF file; 307 kB ).
- Jean Lemaître: Methodological Guide for Students. The practice of European journalism close to the people. 2010 ( PDF file; 500 kB ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b cf. Micro-Europe "Topic List"
- ↑ cf. Micro-Europe "Team"
- ↑ Stream from BiTS fm ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Stream of Quindo
- ↑ Stream from Eur @ dionantes
- ↑ Stream from Regie5
- ↑ Stream from Supo ( Memento of the original from May 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Stream from Radio UBB
- ↑ Broadcast archive: Micro-Europe broadcasts of Uniwelle Tübingen
- ↑ Broadcast archive of the La Sentina radio station
- ↑ a b c d cf. Micro-Europe: "About Us"
- ↑ cf. P. 6ff: Jean Lemaître: Europe is all around you - Practical tools for the practice of local European journalism (PDF file; 298 kB)
- ↑ Uniradio can only be received via FM until the end of 2015 . In: Schwäbisches Tagblatt online . ( tagblatt.de [accessed on January 25, 2018]).
- ↑ We are ripe! In: cantaloup.fm . ( cantaloup.fm [accessed January 25, 2018]).
- ↑ see: List of Approved Project 2010 ( Memento of the original from October 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 87 kB)
