World Radio Day 2025 is approaching! On February 13, 2025, radio stations worldwide will unite their frequencies for a better future—for our world, our planet, and the environment in which we live, grow, and create.
This year, UNESCO invites us to celebrate under the theme “Radio and Climate Change” proposing 13 ways to highlight the connection between radio and climate action.
You can create radio programs focusing on the impacts of climate change, share local and global stories, conduct interviews with experts, and explore solutions to tackle the issue. At the same time, engage your listeners by encouraging them to share their experiences and concerns about climate change through messages, classroom teleconferences, or social media discussions.
Unleash your creativity by producing audio stories incorporating nature sounds—such as lava flows, wind, wildfires, floods, and storms—to make climate change coverage more vivid and immersive.
Let’s use the power of radio to raise awareness and inspire action for a sustainable future!
European School Radio on UNESCO’s map
We invite you to celebrate with environmental empathy, recording stories that showcase how our lives have changed and awaken awareness in the younger generation. Your stories can be shared as short radio messages on special commemorative days.
Finally, we want to unite your voices, wherever you are! We want to get to know you through your recording space at school—whether it’s a more professional studio or simply a corner you’ve set up to record your shows or songs.
Your voices have power because they broadcast together, in harmony, from every location, from every school that raises awareness, inspires, and provides students with the tools to create, communicate, and work towards a better future.
Send us photos or short videos of your recording moments, ensuring that children’s faces are not visible. Please include your school’s name and submit your material by February 12, 2025, to eduthess@europeanschoolradio.eu.
We will create a special video titled “From your school studio, for a better tomorrow” featuring your photos and videos. This collectible video will be published on World Radio Day, Thursday, February 13, 2025!
This year, for our anniversary on December 19th, we decided to celebrate with everyone in our city, Thessaloniki, by organizing our radio event in the festive Aristotelous Square, with the support of the Municipality of Thessaloniki. Representatives of the Administrative Committee, Partners, and members of the Student Radio Team from the International Hellenic University (Department of Information and Electronic Engineering, Department of Library, Archival and Information Studies, Department of Organization Management, Marketing, and Tourism), and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (School of Journalism and Mass Communications) joined us in the celebration. Also present was the Vice Rector of Internationalization, Public Relations, and Digital Governance of the International Hellenic University, Professor Konstantinos Diamantaras, who has been by our side for many years in this effort. He gave a live interview on air and sent 13 wonderful wishes to all our radio members!
In an atmosphere of joy and emotion, we celebrated outside the studio for the first time as part of the European School Radio’s anniversary broadcast series. This marked our inaugural public outreach event, where we hosted a rich live program filled with music and heartfelt wishes from our schools, broadcast live on European School Radio, and heard throughout the square. A large crowd of passersby, young and old radio enthusiasts, visited our wooden booth, gave interviews, participated in competitions, took on challenges, and received gifts from the event sponsors, including Cineplexx (movie tickets), Egoboo (headphones, mobile phone accessories, and power banks), and Kyana (shampoo).
It was a vibrant party, complete with treats and drinks offered by Sklavenitis Supermarkets. Ultimately, the production team sang the radio station’s birthday song together and blew out the candles on the birthday cake.
We warmly thank the schools for their wishes, all our visitors and listeners, our supporters, and the media that covered the event with reports and publications.
We are delighted to invite you to the 13th-anniversary celebration of European School Radio, the First Student Radio! On Thursday, December 19, 2024, at 6 pm, we are waiting for you at Aristotelous Square in Thessaloniki, to celebrate together in a special live radio show.
The event will include:
Live radio shows, with the participation of students and teachers.
Musical interventions and presentations of school creations.
Competitions and surprises for all attendees.
We invite you to participate actively by sending us your radio message for European School Radio’s 13th anniversary! Please send us a radio message with your wishes for European School Radio with a challenge… containing the number 13!
Beyond your birthday wishes, we’re also looking forward to your Christmas and holiday messages
GUIDELINES
From “Create show/podcast”, you will select “Podcast”. Then. you will find the production type “Radio message for the 13th Anniversary of ESR”. The limit for your audio is one and a half minutes.
Similarly, you can select the “Christmas greetings” type.
These messages will be heard during the broadcast, highlighting the voice and creativity of your students. Your presence at the event will fill us with joy, as we will have the opportunity to celebrate together the values of collaboration and creativity. Come and celebrate the Birthday of the Student Radio together! For more information, do not hesitate to contact us.
UNESCO is celebrating World Radio Day, along with us who were invited as a radio station to participate in the action. It was an open call to the radio industry so that we could all talk about the uniqueness of this medium for 100 years and discuss its evolution in the next century. We have declared ourselves open to collaboration with other stations around the world and we are already preparing an exchange of radio material with the French radio station https://www.rvvs.fr/
What role did radio play in history in these important areas? What does radio mean to us? Why is it different from other media? Even now that technology has changed a lot in a few years, as a medium it remains there for many reasons, but now it has to face new challenges. UNESCO’s World Radio Day 2024 announcement reminds us of its timeless value. But, at the same time, it worries us. The motto this year is: “Radio: A Century of Information, Psychology and Education”. Discover the network of radio stations taking part in the action through the World Radio Day map.
In the February 13 radio program, we plan to broadcast special programs dedicated to Radio Day. You too can book and send us a show. In the educational program, we will have a special live show that day at 11.00, from the Music School of Veria, and a surprise band that will play live. The program’s Student Radio & Podcast Group will take over for a live music show, to which we invite you!
In what way?
By sending us in the Forum (https://community.europeanschoolradio.eu/el/groups/studio-esr/) your favorite song that contains the word “radio” in the lyrics in any language you want or refers to the medium of radio! From these, we will choose 10 songs for a unique TOP10 that we will have on the live show of the Student Group Radiio & Podcast on Tuesday, February 13 from 12 to 1 in the afternoon!
By staying tuned on the live radio show and joining the Player chat to take part in a Q&A game about the songs you’ve chosen and we’ve featured for our show!
By creating a 30-50 second spot talking about radio, expressing your opinion about this wonderful medium of communication, entertainment, and education, or just telling us why you chose and recommended this song! To do this, you should from the “Create Show/Podcast” and the “Production type” option select “World Radio Day Spot”
The online radio station European School Radio, in collaboration with the Regional Thematic Network for Internet Safety (https://isecurenet.sch.gr/portal/), invites you to actively participate in a new radio initiative dedicated to Safer Internet Day 2024 titled:
“Surf Safe through Web Radio Wave”!
Technology is part of our daily lives, but security must always be a priority. Whether as consumers or as producers and content creators from a very young age, we need to be aware of what to watch out for. Information is incredibly vast, and there are many risks as well. Are you sure you know them all? Get ready for an exploration of internet safety and create original radio messages with your school. Student submissions will be accepted by European School Radio until February 4th, so that we can organize the material and broadcast it on the radio program on February 6th, which will feature thematic productions as part of Internet Safety Day.
Next, from the “Podcast/Radio” menu, choose “Create a show/podcast.” Select “Show” and set the production type as “Safer Internet Day”
This initiative will be competitive, and we will reward schools that participated, highlighting the best, most creative, and successful efforts!
Categories
30-second radio message
“They may include brief instructions for online safety. The short radio messages will compose a series of episodes, featuring a distinctive signal at the beginning, and will be able to inform listeners about Internet Safety.”
Here are some examples from the Experimental High School of Patras
Interviews: Experts from invited experts who speak about internet safety.
Panel: The presenters (2 or more speakers) cover different perspectives on internet safety through a brief and focused discussion.
Audio Drama: Students as actors take on roles and, through theatrical dialogue, highlight various aspects of the topic.
Also, you can plan and develop a long-format radio show (half or one hour) and schedule it to be broadcast on February 6, 2024. It could serve as a comprehensive report on Internet Safety and the risks young individuals face, starting from an early age, as content creators on social media platforms.
Below, you can find our clever tips for creating successful radio messages
Choose brief slogans
“Surf Freely – Click Everything?”
“Your Digital Data? Safe is up to You”
Advise the listeners on safe internet browsing
“Listen to our story on how to keep your personal information secure online.”
“Take Control: Learn how to adjust your privacy settings.”
Communicate it with humor
Do you want to convey something important, something you think they should pay attention to? But how? Unleash your imagination, think creatively, and make the listeners smile. Play with the internet and digital world terminology, and use them cleverly in everyday speech. Or, you can create a fictional hero who will narrate your story… It might sound funny or not serious, but believe us. This will stick with them!”
Tune in with us to explore the digital world, have fun, and Surf Safe through the Web Radio Wave of European School Radio…
The broadcast entitled “12 Years European School Radio” was hosted on the Radio and Television Studio of the Department of Information and Electronic Engineering of the International Hellenic University (IHU) on Tuesday, December 19, 2023, from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
The event was organized in the Alexander Campus of IHU where schools visit and broadcast live each week. The live show hosted 37 Primary and Secondary Schools from Greece and Cyprus, members of European School Radio that were connected via video conference from their school classes to the Studio! The student radio groups presented the shows they have prepared or are in their plans for this radio school year, they told us about their experiences in Student Radio, they wished us by singing the Birthday Song for European School Radio, while some told us carols about Christmas is coming! Along with the 12th Birthday we also celebrated the Official Launch of the new European School Radio application, which was developed in the context of the European Social Radio 2.0 project. This broadcast also marked the start of the new radio year, with improved online services to all schools making the new European School Radio the most modern Social Network for school radio & podcasts across Europe, allowing students to make an account, follow podcast series, share and interact with others with similar interests, and create content as part of the educational process.
The show was dedicated to Christos Valasselis, Creator of Jazler, our supporter since our first step as a radio station. The purpose was to honor a man in our field, loved by all for his contribution, work, and character, who suddenly left us.
Our project was large and demanding, coordinated by the Scientific Society “European School Radio” and the production of which was entirely undertaken by the Student Team of the Educational program “Broacast on European School Radio – Journalistic Production”, from the Department of Information and Electronic Engineering and the Department of Library Science of the International HellecinUniversity, the School of Journalism and Mass Media Communications of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. The Undergratuate Student Group was created in the academic year 2023-24, in partnership with the two Tertiary Institutions. They were given the opportunity to practice audiovisual production and broadcasting for the Student Radio, using their knowledge from the courses. The participation of the members of the Team in different posts and with separate roles in the technical and journalistic part for the training of the students in the educational program every week has led to a pleasant atmosphere and constructive cooperation, which will encourage interesting and creative initiatives.
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