Each summer, engineers from our Member organizations come in
pairs to Geneva for a
month-long training period at the Euroradio Control Centre (ERC).
They are trained by Robert Cutliffe to assist in the coordination
of the concerts in the Euroradio Summer Festivals (handled by the
Radio Department's Euroradio/Classics Section) and are responsible
for the smooth transmission of some 250 live concerts. This
provides them with an opportunity to learn about everyday working
life at the EBU and the differences between their normal tasks and
international cooperation.
This is the third Euroradio engineer training stint for Bojan
(on the left), who comes from RTVS (Slovenia). He enjoys these
regular breaks from his job in Radio Slovenia's technical
maintenance and development service to come and work on live
concert broadcasts, where communication is paramount. He also likes
meeting interesting people from other cultures and establishing
contacts with technicians, enabling him to exchange technical and
cultural experiences afterwards.
Slawek (on the right) is from Polish Radio. This is his first
time in Geneva and he hopes, not his last. In Poland, he works at
his organization's control centre in the new technology unit. He
therefore feels very much at home at the ERC, but he feels he has
learned a great deal through this cultural and technical
exchange.
They love Geneva in the summer and particularly appreciate
working alongside Robert Cutliffe.
