About the project environment and local community:

Salzburg is the fourth biggest city in Austria (170.000 inhabitants). It is situated 300 km west of Vienna right at the border to Germany. Apart from Vienna Salzburg is THE city in Austria to attract tourism. The beautiful old part of the city is overlooked by an impressive fortress on a hill. The region around Salzburg is very scenic with lakes and mountains allowing a lot of leisure-time activities. The city is renowned for its musical festivals (summer and Easter). There is also an university at which 20.000 students are enrolled.
Radiofabrik is located in a city quarter called "Nonntal". It´s about 5 min walking distance from the old town of the city and has therefore an advantageous location. It is part of the cultural complex ARGE Kulturgelaende, a place where many different cultural events take place - concerts, cabarets, parties, events. In this (new) building we have about 120 sqm: big office for all team members and volunteers, two studios (one for broadcasting, one for producing) and a seminar room. We have a small kitchen, where we can make coffee, tea etc.
Within the complex there is also kind of pub/restaurant which is quite renown in Salzburg as an alternative meeting place for people interested in arts and culture. Just next to the ARGE Kulturgelaende and the Radiofabrik there is a big international youth hostel, a school complex, an art gallery and the sports union of Salzburg with a big sports ground and indoor sport halls. The "Nonntal" is a quite old part of the city and you can find a nice mixture of quite narrow streets and squares and modern buildings and shops

Proposed Activities

One of our aims - among others - is the transfer of know-how and competence in media. Especially young people should learn to express their opinions freely. In addition they should also gain technical experience. With the project 'European Voluntary Service' this aim is also linked to one of our further principles: the exchange of information and experience across the borders. The Project 'European Voluntary Service' is in line with our philosophy, to be a platform that connects cultures and also generations.
The volunteer can learn a lot about radio journalism, moderation and radio techniques. She/he will be a part of the team, especially of the editorial staff. After the time working here she/he will be able to make an own radio program and got an insight in and an overview over the work of an (non commercial) radio station (and also of an institution, that carries out many projects).
In the first weeks the volunteer will get to know the whole studio and learn about all the technical facilities. The volunteer will get a complete introduction to all the technical and computerised appliances and she/he will have the possibility to learn about this step by step. Then the volunteer should be ready for the following tasks.
The volunteer should support the staff in tasks such as: run errands, take care of the office supply, take care of the technical devices that can be rented, take care and programming the automatic play-list manager > working with the program: YARM (yet another radio manager)(to archive, help with the renting of it).
It would be wished after the first time of introduction for that the volunteer also gets creative and makes his/her own broadcast (whatever the topic will be - and even in her/his own language or in two languages.) The first contribution to the program will be cultural event tips, which is good for training the technical abilities, the moderation, the journalistic methods and so on. After that she/he will be sent to press conferences and cultural events will produce short reports.
As soon as the volunteer is fully acquainted with the studio and the surrounding and s/he feels comfortable and able to do so s/he would be offered to develop an own project: e.g. initiate and produce an own programme together with other youth, emphasise on a cultural exchange between the Radiofabrik and other free radio stations within Austria or with other countries (probably the country s/he comes from) and exchange ideas and broadcasts with them.
If the volunteer wants to she/he can make his/her own contribution to the homepage.

Volunteer profile

The volunteer should have technical interest and interest in radio. She/he should be motivated for creating own inputs for the radio, work independently and be creative. Some experience (study, job…) in media or cultural institutions would be fine, but is not necessary.

Previous experience in the field of radio prodcasting is not required. German skills would be prefered, but are not necessary.