Presentation

Euradio, a local media for information and training on Europe

euradio is an independent, community radio station that provides news coverage in an original way – by linking the local and the European, i.e., by showing how what happens here resonates with what happens elsewhere, and vice versa.

Its objective is to offer local community-based European information. To this end, it proposes programmes that discuss Europe in a hands-on and accessible way to highlight the links between EU policy, its impact at the local level, and how it affects citizens’ lives. It also analyses the often complicated realities of certain situations and presents them in a way that is easy to understand.

As it is young people who will build the Europe of tomorrow, Euradio is also a radio school providing courses in European journalism for students and volunteers from all over Europe. In its thirteen years of existence, the radio school has already trained more than 250 young people of some thirty different nationalities.

euradio is a participatory platform for citizens that is open to civil society stakeholders wishing to talk about Europe and take part in its construction. There are many volunteers from France and abroad who are involved in bringing its programme to life.

As an ideas laboratory in the heart of Nantes, Euradio helps place Europe at the heart of national debates.

Euradio also showcases Europe’s cultural and linguistic diversity through a musical programming that helps people discover Europe’s independent scene.

This diversity is an inexhaustible resource for the radio station and as such its airways are replete with the sound of world music and self-produced programmes broadcast in different European languages.

Training

Radio is the medium of instantaneous news. Listeners can tune in anywhere, whether they are at home, out and about, at the office, in the countryside, in the car, when travelling, with just a transistor radio and some batteries, a computer, or as is more often the case nowadays, with a mobile phone.

“Learning and teaching through radio” is the station’s remit which runs through its awareness-raising workshops or training courses that have been designed for trainers, teachers and student teachers wishing to use radio to make their classroom practices more dynamic.

Euradio offers two-hour awareness-raising workshops and tailor-made training courses lasting anywhere from between three to thirty hours.

Objectives

  • Learn how to use radio in the classroom, from beginner’s level and beyond ;
  • Recognise and differentiate between the different types of radio programmes ;
  • Identify the characteristics of different types of radio material for classroom use ;
  • Know how to select and time a sound bite in order to theorise it ;
  • Create a teaching sequence for use in the classroom based on a radio sound bite ;
  • Learn about journalism techniques for spoken and written expression classroom activities ;
  • Carry out radio production activities in the classroom ;
  • Use simple material (smartphone, Audacity software) for adopting radio in the classroom ;
  • Develop critical listening skills for radio broadcasting media (media literacy).

These objectives will be covered in varying depth according to demand and the number of hours selected.

Trainers

Depending on format: 1 facilitator and/or 1 technician and/or 1 coordinator

Professional equipment

Studio Table – Wireless handheld microphones – Table microphones – Headphones – Recording equipment

Participants / Number of trainees

8 participants maximum

Training can be adapted to all levels of education.

Location

Euradio studios (19 rue Jeanne d’Arc in Nantes) or at your institution.

Duration

Customisable according to course, from three to 30 hours.

Examples of workshops and training courses

Radio broadcasts are an ideal medium for addressing and developing speaking skills in the classroom.

The range of topics addressed and the educational activities they enable enhance the acquisition of skills needed to learn a language or a course theme.

Our workshops and (long or short) training courses are geared towards the use of audio tools or radio production.

Integrating new and innovative approaches from the outset : Workshop lasting between three hours (awareness raising) and six hours or more (activity creation during the workshop).

Creating an educational sequence based on a radio broadcast : Training course from eight to twelve hours (educational sequence created during the course).

Adopting radio in the classroom : Training course lasting three hours (initiation) then six hours or more according to the selected radio format (skill development and radio production covered during the workshop).

Reporting: Eight- to 12-hour training course (creating a report).

Creating a podcast: Eight- to 12-hour training course (creating a podcast during the course).

Other examples of training courses on journalistic and radio techniques that can be used in the classroom are:

  • The angle in radio li>
  • The 5 Ws
  • Sources and fact checking
  • Writing for radio
  • Correct your own writing
  • Corrigez vous-même votre écriture
  • Interview techniques
  • Voice training
  • News bulletin (anchor intro, copy, structuring the bulletin, headlines, running order sheet)
  • News reporting (audio recording, sound, vox pops, microphone).