The European radio project “Europe on Air” was organized for the fifth year running, this time in Sofia, jointly by the BNR Binar radio, the Green Sofia programme and the Sofia University Faculty of Journalism and Mass Communication. The project this time was mottoed Urban Sofia.

Within the intensive radio-week the radio journalism students from the universities Plantijn in Belgium, GIPA in Georgia, Anadolu in Turkey and the Sofia University Faculty of Journalism and Mass Communication created three radio formats focusing on the problems the capital city faces connected with the sustainable development of town planning and city transport, green energy and innovative green solutions aimed at improving the quality of life in Sofia which is applying for European green capital.

The aim of the “Europe on Air” project is for students from different European countries to find out more about radio practices in different countries, about different radio programme models and to get acquainted with the experience of the host country in this sphere. The idea for this kind of training is Belgian, and it is in Belgium that the project was launched in 2013.

The intensive training radio journalism programme develops professional competences that meet the requirements set down in the Tartu declaration, adopted by the European Journalism Training Association, EJTA. A special jury evaluated the results, in direct discussion with the participants.

Radio Bulgaria is honoured to present the work of this year’s “Europe on Air” radio project participants.