Since 1999, three European educational projects aiming to encourage the communication, the mutual discovery and the interaction between young people by the way of the exchange of sound documents and the recording of radio broadcasts have been carried out with 16 schools from 12 different countries.

These Comenius projects, coordinated by a french school, la Cité Scolaire Paul Scarron from Sillé le Guillaume, and its local radio Fréquence Sillé were successively :

1/ the "WAVE / RadioNet project", from 1999 to 2002 : a project based on the recording of sound clips and reports by the students from the different schools, on society subjects like tobacco and health, school and the educational system, the dreams of young people before the entry in the year 2000, etc... Nine schools from Irland, Luxemburg, Germany, Italy, Poland, Latvia and France were involved in this project.

2/ the "Sounds, Voices and Words from Europe project", from 2002 to 2005 : a project based on the recording and the exchange of productions and sounds exploring several topics such as "Sound Postcards", typical songs from the different countries, literature, poetry, theatre, roman and virtual shows. Three "European classes" were also organized during this project, in Germany, Spain and France, allowing students from the different schools to meet each other and produce together multimedia presentations and sound reports. A series of radio shows involving the students were also broadcasted "live" on the airwaves of Fréquence Sillé and its internet audio broadcast. Eleven schools from Romania, Spain, Irland, Germany, Poland, Luxemburg, Denmark, Latvia and France took part in this project.

3/ the "New Years Agency project" : this project, currently in progress (started in september 2005, until 2008), based on the idea that young people from different countries, working together, can offer a dynamic and enriching crossed-view of society subjects and on news, is organized on the basis of 3 main objectives :


- lead the pupils to get informations and documentation on subjects relating to the news from their country and from the European Union, and to record sound reports ans interviews intended to be broadcasted on the radio,

- organize "multiplex" radio broadcasts involving the students, and sometimes the teachers, by the mean of telephone and Internet connections, these shows beeing broadcasted on the airwaves of Fréquence Sillé and on its Internet audio webcast,

- organize, each year, a meeting intended to allow young people to work directly together on society subjects, to learn "radio animation techniques" and to record radio shows. The first "European class" of this new project will occure during spring 2006 in Ankara, Turkey, and will be dedicated to the entry of Turkey in the European Union.

Nine schools from Belgium, Luxemburg, Germany, Romania, Turkey, Spain and France are taking part in this Comenius project. These schools will be joined, on some aspects of the project, by several "free partners" from other countries, such as Latvia and Denmark.