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citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . july 2012 learn how and when to remove this template message learn how and when to remove this template message euranet broadcast area across the european union frequency fm internet first air date april 2008 format international broadcaster website http www.euranet.eu euranet european radio network is a consortium of international national regional and local european broadcasters . euranet covers events in europe from a transnational point of view . euranet offers a pan european treatment of information about european affairs covering both eu institutions and individual member states . contents 1 history 2 members 3 consortium 4 audio formats 5 web portal 6 euranet university circle 7 connecting u and the eu 8 external links history edit on the initiative of deutsche welle dw and radio france internationale rfi 16 international national regional and local european broadcasters from 13 eu countries joined forces to create a pan european media consortium on 25 july 2007 . this comprises both public and private broadcasters . the aim of the co operation is to improve the quality of reporting on and from europe and to stimulate discussion about togetherness in europe to promote a european general public . the official presentation of the european media consortium euranet by margot wallstr m vice president of the european commission took place on 26 february 2008 in brussels . as the commissioner responsible for institutional relations and communication strategy margot wallstr m announced that euranet would receive 5.8 million euros in financial support from the european commission over the first five years while guaranteeing the broadcasters full editorial independence . in the first year euranet programmes were broadcast in the five main languages german english french polish and spanish as well as five further languages bulgarian greek portuguese romanian and hungarian . as of july 2012 euranet brings together 26 professional radio stations supplemented by 10 campus radios . all of these partnerships allow coverage to be delivered to more than 20 million daily listeners in all 23 official languages of the community . the euranet network produces and broadcasts annually more than 2.000 hours of eu related news and magazines with its members adopting a co operative and collaborative production model and bringing a transnational view to its listeners . members edit the following radio stations are members of euranet country broadcaster belgium rtbf bulgaria bulgarian national radio croatia hrt croatian radio czech republic czech radio cyprus cyprus 107.6 danmark radio m lkeb tten finland radio moreeni france radio france internationale rfi bfm business france inter germany ams net radio bielefeld radio g tersloh radio herford radio hochstift radio lippe radio waf radio westfalica greece skai radio hungary magyar radio italy radio24 ilsole24ore latvia latvijas radio lithuania ini radijas malta public broadcasting services ltd pbs the netherlands radio netherlands wereldomroep poland polskie radio sa portugal radio nostalgia romania radio romania international rfi romania slovakia radio sity slovenia radio slovenia international spain punto radio castilla y le n united kingdom community media association consortium edit euranet was launched as a consortium between radio enterprises from different countries of europe and its activity is governed by a contract of service with the european commission which is its only source of funding . euranet operates according to two major principles of editorial policy which are unanimously endorsed by its partners non interference in the programme schedules of partners and management by editorial consensus . governance is structured around three main bodies editorial committee editorial co ordination and language groups . euranet s legal structure was converted in 2009 to facilitate the development of its model evolving from a simple contractual arrangement as a consortium to a fully integrated legal structure as a groupement europ en d int r t economique geie . euranet is fully independent of any instruction pressure or request emanating from an eu institution a member state of the eu or of any other state or institution concerning the content of its broadcasts and programmes on topics relating to the eu . audio formats edit euranet reports on cultural social economic and political events in the eu from a pan european perspective . the programmes made by europeans for europeans enjoy a daily air time of between 30 and 60 minutes . these are broadcast at prime time and are re broadcast several times . news important daily information about newsworthy events in europe . current affairs daily reports about politics economics and society . magazines daily in depth background features from a pan european perspective on cultural social economic and political events across europe . dossiers devoted coverage appearing several times a year in all languages focussing on topics ranging from immigration to energy and the environment through to lifestyle . live live coverage of special events in europe 3 to 4 times a year . affiliated radio stations deliver individual programme elements in their respective language for example reports reportages interviews etc. for individual programming which then form part of joint european programming and are broadcast and re broadcast by the respective partners . the network produces around 110.000 minutes of programmes each year . all the programme elements are broadcast on the existing frequencies of participating stations . web portal edit the euranet web portal at www.euranet.eu is made up of several services . web radios are available in each language the most recent network productions in each language are assembled and accessible via continuous web streaming . a user may also build a custom feed by aggregating stories of particular interest for continuous listening . all of the content can be heard in streaming or podcast format for listening on mobile devices . the multi lingual euranet specials are developed in a collaborative manner between all partner news teams . each piece in a euranet special is presented with an english teaser text the result translates into an area of selected topics organised the same way in all the different languages in a text format illustrated with photos and with a graphical unity from one language to another . moreover the euranet brand has a presence on the major social networks facebook and twitter and provides channels on youtube vimeo and flickr . euranet university circle edit within the euranet university circle journalism and or foreign language students have the opportunity to use euranet programmes as learning material . additionally students from participating universities provide the programme makers with feedback and suggestions concerning euranet broadcasts . in addition to the participating radio stations euranet programmes are also re broadcast by several campus radio stations . the local partner stations are associated members of the consortium . the partner broadcasters are finland radio moreeni university of tampere ireland trinity fm trinity college dublin germany bonncampus 96 8 university of bonn poland academic radio kampus university of warsaw romania ubb radio babe bolyai university spain radio universidad de salamanca university of salamanca uab uned radio uned spanish national university of distance education sweden radio campus rebro rebro university connecting u and the eu edit as an extension of the university circle the connecting u and the eu initiative aims to foster the debate between youth from the different european countries and european policy makers . around a given theme students fuel the discussion with questions opinions and content . all of this material is then used by a team of euranet journalists to construct a debate with the various stakeholders and in particular with the members of the european institutions experts parliamentarians members of the european commission etc. . the main thrust of the initiative is a live debate which brings together the protagonists to exchange their points of view . launched in early 2011 the first fruit of the initiative was a live debate held in brussels in april 2011 on the subject of employment of young people in europe . after 12 successful debates the last one was held in june 2012 on the topic of online shopping in the eu why not more cross border the connect.euranet debate series will continue in september 2012 with the first debate on the topic of corruption . external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to euranet plus . official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title euranet & oldid 641942968 categories international radio networkspublicly funded broadcasterseuropean commission projectsmultilingual 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