When I was studying, I studied a semester abroad in Dublin, so this makes me kind of the official representative of the Irish community radio landscape and the report, Kefi did. And later on from my work at Commit, i was visiting once for another european project the community radio station near fm in dublin so i got some insights how community radio and community media is working in dublin especially in ireland and as you can see, in Ireland there are 22 licensed community stations, both in urban and rural areas. There are 20 more who are kind of developing stations, from my understanding not fully licensed so far, or only broadcasting in some parts of a day. licensed so far or only broadcasting in some parts of a day. Please correct me the Irish experts if I'm wrong here. And yeah, community radio, community media in Ireland are also not-for-profit entities. They are owned by the community and should provide for community, for their communities. And my experience when I visited NIAFM, like in Cathy's report, which said the same, that community radios all over Ireland are very strongly connected to their communities. So generally, from my understanding, community life plays a strong role in Ireland. community life plays a strong role in Ireland. And as you can see, there are, as I said, urban and rural areas. I guess it is very different being in the countryside active in a community radio than it is perhaps in Dublin. And another thing, as you can see, the national network of community radios, the Community Radio Forum of Ireland, CRAIL, they are also organizing a lot of trainings and community radio in Ireland is very also recognized as a place where people can learn topics related to media literacy and connected to this strong community aspect. This is also a good relation. We saw in the report that the national health system and the health department in Ireland is also very strongly developing health programs related to communities. And this could be a link that you link the community radios with this health community programs. It still maybe lacks a bit of connection because of the funds. Community media, as you know, everywhere needs more funding to be operating. And in Ireland this is also a topic. As you can see before, I just jumped over this, community media got recognized more with a social benefit framework. Marcella from Clare Morris Community Radio will talk a bit in detail later on about this, but this is the thought about this is to make community media more visible in the public life. Also media more visible in the public life. Also regarding the regulating authority and also like to strengthen this framework and the social benefits a community radio delivers to their communities. And yes you can see the healthcare system in Ireland when I was studying there it was 2009 it was after the financial crisis I also experienced a lot of housing problems people without homes I think in terms of like homeless people it got worse I think with the the renting prices in Dublin my colleagues from Ireland told me it's really hard. And these are topics that deal with health, of course. And community media are strongly connected to these communities and offer work in places where people meet, learn, and discover, doing radio and doing media in general. And you can read, of of course more in the report and there are topics present in irish community media community radios that are dealing with public health with health related topics as you can see here some of the issues and community radio, community media in Ireland as in other parts of the world are only, sometimes the only local media present. So this can deliver other aspects to getting known with different sources. You can deal with topics differently with a local aspect, which is maybe not present in commercial media. And this strong connection to the community offers a lot of possibilities there. And the workshop in Ireland at the Clare Morris Community Radio, I guess Marcelo will talk a little bit further on this, also was exploring the topics of media and health literacy related to community topics, as you can see here. I wanted to finish with an Irish blessing but I forgot it somehow but and yeah I will just change the presentation and meet Marcella Kaiser from Clare Morris Community Radio in Ireland from clay morris community radio in ireland i'm a salem from clamorous community radio and i'm pleased to be here today representing the irish part of the project and i really would love to say hello because i know someone on zoom from our radio station is watching this um so big hello to ireland and i i'm hoping i'm not making a big mess of it because i'm missing our frontman i'm in actual fact um i'm the project manager for that particular project. However, our manager who would be usually doing such presentations is much more experienced in that. So maybe I will talk about Climoris Community Radio first. birthday this year so we're looking forward for that event and um we got our first full-time license in 2006. full-time license means that you can um the other radio stations uh 20 others radio stations have maybe 30 days a a year to broadcast or only broadcast one one day a week or the weekends so fully uh we are fully licensed that means we are broadcasting 89 hours a week or the weekends. So we are fully licensed, that means we are broadcasting 89 hours a week, seven days a week and our speech to music ratio is about 48 to 52 percent. Integration is at the heart of our mission in community radio and a little bit of an explanation. Camarys is basically a really, really small town in the west of Ireland. We have about 2,000 inhabitants in this town and about 10,000 in the hinterland. Our broadcast radio and FM is 10 kilometers, so we are small. However, because we are small, we are really really close to our community. So since 2019, we are finally registered with the charities regulator and we are recognized as a charity, which actually distinguishes us from commercial radio. Because, and I will talk a little bit later about social benefit, we in Ireland, we had a lot of problems when we were approaching funders, regulators, councils, when it comes to funding, the misunderstanding what community media in actual effect is, that we are not just a small local radio station that we do so much more and that we integrate that we we are actually yes we do radio program but it's it's different it's different to local radio who are who are commercial who who need to be pleasing to to advertisers basically so we we are very free in what we can broadcast and the aims of Clamoris Community Radio is to reflect the diversity in cultures and range of abilities in our catchment areas to advance community development to develop media skills and media literacy CREOL our umbrella organization is an actual fact recognized as a college and we have certified courses in media literacy and broadcasting skills. We produce and promote programming of all types and genres, including Irish language content, and integrate those who are marginalized and promote their full participation in our radio program making. We also promote voluntary work. On our schedule of programming, our programming is produced solely by volunteers. No one is paid, and they're coming from a very diverse range of backgrounds from within our community. That means we have people who have disabilities, we have people who are displaced by war, we have a lot of elderly people, we have students who are doing work experience, and we have pupils. So I brought a little bit of a slideshow of the different, because we are really, in our place, people are coming together and and that's it's really wonderful to see how how borders are broken down because they're meeting and doing something creative together so um on our daily life shows we provide interview opportunities to local individuals clubs and organizations to promote their activities and we record local playwrights, musicians and artists and also school plays, which is kind of we can see online that we have a lot of listeners in the USA, in the UK, which are originally from Claremorris and who are tuning on into us and see what's happening in the hometown. Clare Morris and who are tuning on into us and see what's happening in in the hometown our documentaries are high quality programs based on Irish culture heritage and experiences or raise awareness on social economical or environmental issues some which are produced in Irish through those we strive to preserve records of our local history, present the diversity of our culture and heritage, and raise public awareness and understanding of issues impacting on our local area and elsewhere. We offer certified radio and media skills courses, especially targeting with that we are going out to the marginalized communities. Each year we we deciding which communities we are approaching could be members of the traveling community could be um could be people for living in direct provision and we're going out to them and trying teach them how to make radio and with this skills and we are hoping through these courses that we always get one or two from these communities as a volunteer and so we are continuing the spread of diversifying the media landscape. Integration is at the heart of our service, we provide programs for new arrivals, minorities and marginalized groups and we have paid workers who are actually not doing the programming but doing all the support the outreach the income marketing these sort of things a manager and 70 of these places are reserved for marginalized groups um um the overall ethos oops sorry um Oops, sorry. The overall ethos and aim of our efforts is toward an integrated and fair and just community. So let me talk about the social benefits. So we discovered in Ireland that it is so difficult to go and get funding. And I think it was 2018, Claremont Community Radio participated in a research project on community radio delivering social benefits and these social benefits which we found were the following. Individuals, especially minorities and those who are marginalized, are growing in confidence and creativity and it reinforces a sense of belonging directly from engaging with community realization. A social benefit to individuals are enhancing the employment prospects through gaining skills and confidence, reinforcing the community identity. Community members are informed and aware of what is happening around in our community. Community members are responding more effectively to issues local to global because they have access to diverse viewpoints and to more and better information and community-based organizations are facilitated and reinforced in their capacity to achieve their goals. And the last one is community, the community sense of identity and cohesiveness is enhanced through interaction and collective action. So that was found in that research. And with this document, it's actually a full booklet which is explaining what is community media. We can go now to the regulators, to the funders and say, look, we are not a small local radio station. We are doing so much more so now let me talk about the healthy conversations but that's about better living that was a very unambitious project which says oh we just find public health experts and people managing public health putting together into a room and let them have chats which is easily said difficult on one of the research findings in the original papers was that public health experts do not recognize community media as a platform for them. So I started this project and I think Brigitte was kind of getting very, very nervous because my recruiting phase was a little bit drawn out. But what I did, I went out into the community and I was really stopping people on the street. I went to the truck show and everything which looked a little bit health related, like from the Red Cross who were the hospice who were collecting, everyone was approached and I had my little flyer and said, look, this is such a great project. Would you like to get involved? And I just was kind of hoping one, please, please got one person, one public health expert, please come into our radio station, do this project for us. And from one week to another, I got 12. So it was, we got 12 people who are really interested, who had a public health background. And I was, and really we were stopped on the road and thought this is a really worthwhile project. Not everyone continued, but we still have the addresses and thought this is a really worthwhile project. Not everyone continued, but we still have the addresses who want to be on for an interview sort of thing. So Healthy Conversations, Chats about Better Living is an initiative by Klamauers Community Radio and utilizing community radio as a platform to promote public health, educate the community, empower individuals and foster community engagement and collaboration. So the project's goal was to create a new program series fostering engaging discussions between local health experts and individuals coping with personal health challenges. These conversations aim to combine personal narratives with expert insights. The program was designed to cater for diverse communities, tailoring its content to specific health topics and audience demographics. Claremont Community Radio adopted an inclusive approach by partnering with health-related organizations, encouraging community members to become long-term radio contributors. The program's format features episodes lasting 30 minutes characterized by a conversational and open style of talking. So the project successfully achieved its objectives by developing a concept for public health radio program series that brings together trust-perce experts and individuals with direct experience of health challenges. We were recruiting new volunteers from the community with a public health background and members from community groups who are interested in public health to participate in the radio program. We fostered community engagement and empowerment through media access training and involvement in the production process. We provided a platform for experts and community members to share personal stories and expert knowledge, promoting understanding and awareness of public health topics and be produced as a sustainable and regular public health radio program for our monthly broadcast schedule. So basically, I mean, as I said, you know, very nervous. We found our members in the middle of August and then we kind of created a course based on their needs. So we had this public health expert who had no idea, they never sat in front of a microphone, so we had to have some sort of a two-fold workshop, one was specializing on what is public health for our community broadcasters to get them informed, and the second part was basically for the public health experts to show them what in actual fact is community radio with basic interviewing skills, how to approach sensitive topics and so on. So at the workshop we still had 12 people but it was really because of short timing and the schedule of different people it was down to six public health experts and six community broadcasters which was a great workshop everyone enjoyed it and after that so we are end of august now we had six new people who never sat in front of a microphone and by the 30th of October we are supposed to submit a program so at that stage i was so grateful that Philip and i would like to say hello to Philip if he's listening in, he's our manager at the Clemaris Community Radio Station and he took on the training of the new participants. So, sitting them down in front of a microphone, this is the record button, this is a microphone sort of thing, basic interviewing skills, mock interviews and that all within a month. We got them to a stage where they actually were able to be sent out in the community and start finding stories. And we were amazed. It was astonishing with how much sensitivity, with how much passion they went out and went into the community and found people to interview. And we were absolutely surprised by what we got back. Oh yeah, we're getting waves here. Yeah, so we created two programs but we have a full bag of interviews still in our folders, which just need to be edited and put together into programs. As I said, we are planning to have it as a monthly sort of program going out. It's a repeat every fortnight. And we have lots of people from EM know, from EMTs, nurses, people from community groups who are kind of involved in diabetes awareness. And so it's a really, really mixed bag who is delivering this sort of radio program. And because we are running short of time, we just listened to our 30 second promo. And I really would like to thank Philip who has done the matic marketing, the promotion, the editing. It's fantastic. 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Let us know what you'd like to hear or maybe you'd like to share your story in confidence email health at ccr946.ee healthy conversations chats about better living hello here comes so just to give you a little bit of an overview, we had interviews in about postnatal depression, deep water aerobics, cerebral palsy. We had guards in talking about elderly safety. So it is really, really broad. And I'm so delighted to have this involvement from the community and we also got the feedback from the community because the people are kind of known to the community who are doing it, how great it is, you know, both the health expert and the people who are managing their own personal health to be so open about it. So thank you very much to be here so does anyone have a question in here the material um you mean the social benefit? I don't have a PowerPoint, I'm kind of free speech. We make all material available, you see here presented. We will put this into the collection of resources you get afterwards so if it's about the social benefits if you google community radio they live in social benefits you find it online on the website another quick question okay thank you very very much for this very interesting presentation.