Be part of the anniversary year!
2025 is the year to celebrate!
An anniversary in the making – and we want you to join us!
For Grimeton Radio Station’s 100th anniversary, we have created a concept and approach that we hope will inspire you and your business to want to participate, develop and create something, big or small, that can become part of the anniversary celebration. We envision exciting, knowledgeable and perhaps unexpected activities, products and stories happening both in your country and in ours – and leaving a mark on the future.
Who can contribute to the anniversary program?
- Companies
- Associations
- Public organizations
- Schools
- Parishes
What can you add to the program?
- Communication, World Heritage or Technology activities and events
- Products related to Communication, World Heritage or Technology
What period does the anniversary year cover?
The celebrations start in December 2024 and continue throughout 2025.
We can already mention two of the highlights.
To commemorate the fact that the Grimeton Radio Station started broadcasting on December 1, 1924, we want to organize a kind of kick-off of the anniversary year in December 2024.
And as a fine start to the summer season during the anniversary year, on July 2, 2025, a celebration on par with the one in 1925 when King Gustav V solemnly and grandly inaugurated the facility is planned. On July 2, 2025, our revamped visitor center will open and we want to fill the area with activities and people who inspire, communicate and share the world’s best place to experience wireless communication.
But we hope and believe that together we can do so much more! Not everything that will happen has been decided, but what we do know is that we want to do something together with more exciting and committed actors.
Do you want to participate? Do you have an idea?
Our common heritage is a unique story that can be told by many others. We link the celebrations to 3 themes!
Photo: Calegi/Halland Cultural History Museum
Be part of the celebration!
Organize, produce or narrate
related to one of the three themes of the Jubilee. Communication. World Heritage. Technology.
Let’s join forces and create
the next chapter of the Grimeton World Heritage story. Submit your ideas now!
Free visit for those who create the anniversary!
If you are a co-creator and partner in the jubilee, you are welcome to book a “jubilee partner visit” with us to get coffee and a sneak peak!
You will meet one of us and get an insight into why we Grimeton Radio Station is a World Heritage Site, visit the Broadcasting Hall, hear a bit about the anniversary and the ongoing rebuilding of our Visitor Center.
Dates for this are released from time to time. As a partner, enter the discount code you received from us via email, and the visit is completely free.
Communication
The basis for today’s wireless communication is the Grimeton World Heritage Site. The rapid development of communications is essential for a sustainable society in the future. But this rapid development also raises a number of questions: How much communication can we demand? And how much communication can we tolerate? What happens if we don’t communicate?
During the anniversary, we want to continue talking about how communication has made our lives easier, but also about the risks associated with communication. We also want to tell you about communication heroes who have worked here at the radio station.
Do you have a story or idea that works in this context? It could be anything from a love bombing campaign via text messages at your company, to dance performances or throat lozenges that get you talking. Or communicate our shared world heritage in some other exciting and creative way. It is almost only the imagination that limits how we can tell together about this theme that has affected, is affecting and will most likely always affect humanity.
MESSAGE:
Communication in the service of people
World Heritage
Grimeton is the best place in the world to experience wireless communication. As a World Heritage Site, we also have a global responsibility to tell this story. UNESCO’s work on World Heritage also focuses on promoting peace through education, science, culture and now communication.
Of course, we take the main responsibility for telling the story of the World Heritage Site. We are already doing this today, for example through
tours, exhibitions and activities.
But do you have any anniversary initiatives on the theme of education, science and culture that can contribute to a more peaceful and sustainable world? Maybe a campaign against cyberbullying? Or why not an exciting theater performance or peace concert, with good, locally produced food and drink in the break?
In particular, we want to highlight all of you who are active in the vicinity of the World Heritage Site today. The place would never have been what it is without all the people who have lived and worked here, past and present. Maybe the radio station’s history of apple growing in the Radio Village will inspire you to make the best must for visitors during the anniversary year?
MESSAGE:
Communication for good
Technology
The Grimeton World Heritage Site focuses on telecommunications. We know the history of technology in this area and we already communicate this as often as we can.
But what is the technological future of communications? And what is happening in the field today? Here we may need help from both researchers and technology companies to raise awareness.
Maybe you have some exciting technology solutions that you want to share and spread during the anniversary year? We are of course also interested in the risks and downsides of the technological developments we face. Can you help us here? If so, you are very welcome to lecture on current and future technological developments in the field of communication, here with us, or on other stages in Halland. Perhaps courses, lecture series and trainings can be started in the name of the Grimeton World Heritage Site?
In short, we want to become a key player and stage for this exciting field of knowledge, both during the anniversary and in the future.
MESSAGE:
Communication technology yesterday, today and tomorrow
100 years of communication
Our common emblem for products, events and activities
We at Grimeton World Heritage Site have developed an emblem for the anniversary year and have a coordinating role. All events, products and activities created during the centenary year and linked to one of the three themes of the centenary – Communication, World Heritage or Technology – will be gathered on a special events page under the heading “100 years of communication”.
Every actor and event that can be linked to the Jubilee program will be allowed to use the emblem, which will also serve as a seal of quality.
Do you have ideas and products?
Read more and submit via the form below.
How to use the symbol
Read the Guidelines for the anniversary logo here before using it.
Download the the symbol here (format AI, EPS, jpg, png). Use on all your activities and in communications that are part of the celebrations.
Come in good company – these are already in!
All those involved in creating content for the anniversary are presented here. All activities and events are posted on a dedicated page on the website and in each municipality’s events calendar.
Alsgårds Lantbruk
Art Inside Out
Bar Luna
Bridge Club Albrekts
Byaregårdens Brewery
Campus Varberg / Alexanderson Institute
Change Music Festival
Chalmers Onsala Space Observatory
Swedish Cycling Promotion
Daniel Sjöberg, Professor of Theoretical Electrical Engineering LTU
Drottning Blanka / Sound and Image School
Energy and Environmental Center Varberg (EMC)
EuCAP
Europe Direct Halland
Factor10
Fridas in Kärradal
Mrs. Ländevik’s Pralines
Grönstedts Cognac
GrannkonstG
Restaurant Grappa
Great Little Britain
Grimeton Local History Association
Grimeton Lantmän
Halland 4H
HF25
Film Resource Center / Region Halland
Folkuniversitetet
Hallands Bridgeförbund
Halland Tech Week
Halland’s Food Guild
Halland’s Authors’ Society
Happy Homes
Himledalen Parish – Radio Choir
Himledalen Parish – Radio Waves
Himledalen Parish – Staffan Choir
Jenny Ammilon / Heaven & Earth
Josephine & the River Boys
Restaurant Joel’s Pier
Café Kvittra
Chamber Physics Ensemble
Karin Dahlberg Soprano & Catharina Löfqvist
Kaprifolet Coffee
Kite-Kalle
Blocks in Varberg / Brickscale
School of Arts in Varberg
Royal Institute of Technology
Love Park
Federation of Swedish Farmers Himledalen
Federation of Swedish Farmers Youth Halland
LullysNails
Light Steps / Hanna Arnell
M-Art / Martina Sjögren
Martin Servera
Metafora
Restaurant Monark
Music Hallandia
Myhre Co
Swedish Society for Nature Conservation
Restaurant Nami
Chatty!
Recordia
Region Halland
Restaurant Spiseriet
Ride Giro Himledalen
Room for Dance
Rydholm’s Ladies’ Fashion House
Science Safari
Adult Education Association
SIA-Glass
Skrivsand Communication
The Society Varberg
Sparbank Foundation Kronan
Sparbank Foundation Varberg
Swedish National Committee for Radio Science SNRV
Technical Museum in Stockholm
Restaurant Black Eagle House
Simone Jørgensen aka Miss Malley Maggie
Telia Company
UF Book Expedition
Varberg Energy
Varberg Film Club
Varberg Municipality
Varberg Coast Hotel
Varberg Lucia
Varberg Scout Corps
Varbergs Stadshotell Asia Spa
Varberg TechArena
Varberg Wood
Vitec Entry Event
Friends of Alexander Association / SK6SAQ
Västerport’s Kitchen
The Infamous Westcoast Barbershop
Warberg Antique Peter Börjesson
West Coast Gaming
Åkulla Beech Forests
Åkulla Outdoor Resort
Åkulla Ski Alliance
Öxnamossa Farm
If you would also like to be involved, please submit your ideas in the form below.
Tell us how you want to be involved?
It is sufficient that the event, activity or products you offer can be matched to 1 of these 3 themes, to be part of the joint anniversary program during the period “December 2024 – December 2025” and that they live up to the values of the World Heritage Grimeton Radio Station.
Submit ideas via the questionnaire now,
and the Jubilee team will process your contribution
and get back to you shortly.
Thank you for your commitment!
Joining forces to make the site a world heritage site with global reach
We want to link the centenary to the ongoing development of the World Heritage Site. In particular, our idea is that the anniversary initiative can be a way to strengthen cooperation between different actors. Nor does the joint effort have the anniversary itself as its ultimate goal. On the contrary, the idea is to create a series of long-term partnerships in the run-up to and during the anniversary.
Since 2023, there is a common development strategy for the Foundation’s trustees with the aim of achieving
sustainable site development
around the World Heritage Site by working together with others in the tourism industry in and around the World Heritage Site. This will make the site an obvious and vibrant asset for those who visit, live and work in Halland.
The anniversary year will therefore be the starting point for the development work that is then expected to take place endlessly.
We want to invite you to join us in the celebrations, and we want you and many others to use the World Heritage Site to develop your own activities, your offers or anything else you see that the World Heritage Site can offer.
We are simply for those who want to communicate the Grimeton World Heritage Site and develop its potential.
Ernst Alexanderson on the power of cooperation
The great hero of the World Heritage site’s history, engineer Ernst Alexanderson, whose revolutionary inventions led to the creation of the Grimeton Radio Station a century ago, was quick to stress the importance of cooperation for success.
“Inventing is one of the creative arts. But unlike the painter or composer, the inventor cannot work alone. He is rarely a businessman, just as the businessman is rarely an inventor. Their different ways of thinking can be a source of misunderstanding, but they can learn to work together amicably and industry needs the services of both.”
Ernst Alexandersson, engineer
Our society also needs collaboration. We hope you will join us in creating a sustainable and shared future in and around the World Heritage Site. So think about how you want to contribute – and check your ideas against the three themes.
Project manager for the 100th anniversary
Lena Bager
Project manager 100 years of communication
Communications Officer Grimeton World Heritage Site / Press Contact
kommunikation@grimeton.org
Telephone 0768-08 89 25
You are welcome to contact us!
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