Halle, October 25th. The UMAC toolbox was presented during the AMARC Europe Conference, that took place in Halle, Germany, on 25th October 2016.
Sally Galiana and Chris Wohlwill presented the toolbox as part of a plenary session on the afternoon of the 26th October 2016 (2 pm) which look into resources available to community radios, and which was attended by participants from Germany, Austria, Italy, Basque Country, Ireland, UK, Czech Republic, Cameroon, Argentina and the Community Media chair of Unesco, Vinod Pavarala. Toolbox promotional materials were distributed among all participants.
The UMAc project has now been linked to the AMARC Europe website front page.
The Understanding Media project (UMAC) funded by the European union Erasmus+ program held its third meeting in Turku, Finland 15th and 16th of October 2015. The mandate of the project is to facilitate community media throughout Europe to promote media literacy. Project partner at the meeting were NearFM (Dublin, Ireland), Freies Radio Wüste Welle (Tübingen, Germany), Radio Robin Hood (Turku, Finland) , Radio Kultura (Hasparren, Basque country), Radio Tilos (Budapest, Hungary) and RadioExpert (Brno, Czech Republic). The objective of the meeting was to build the framework of online training toolbox.
