The Anniversary Concept

Dec 2024 – Dec 2025

An anniversary where 100 stakeholders engaged to celebrate Grimeton Radio Station’s 100th anniversary together.

When Grimeton Radio Station was to celebrate its 100th anniversary, a concept and framework were created, inviting other stakeholders to participate, develop, and create something, big or small, that could become part of the anniversary celebration. This resulted in exciting, knowledge-rich, and unexpected activities, products, and stories both in Grimeton and elsewhere – leaving a lasting impression for the future.

Who contributed to the anniversary program?

Companies
Associations
Public organizations
Schools
Congregations

What did the program include?

Activities and events on the theme of Communication, World Heritage, or Technology
Products related to Communication, World Heritage, or Technology

What period did the anniversary year cover?

The celebration started in December 2024 and continued throughout 2025.

Anniversary Concept (PDF)

All anniversary activities

Three themes characterized the anniversary!

The arrangements, products, and stories were linked to one of the anniversary’s three themes. Communication. World Heritage. Technology.

Communication

The foundation for today’s wireless communication can be found at the Grimeton World Heritage site. The rapid development in the field of communication is absolutely 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 to tell how communication has simplified our lives, but also about the risks associated with communication. We also want to tell about communication heroes who have worked here at the radio station.

Do you have a story or idea that fits this context? It could be anything from an SMS love-bombing campaign at your company, to dance performances or throat lozenges that make you speak well. Or perhaps you communicate our shared World Heritage in another exciting and creative way. It is almost only imagination that limits how we can collectively tell about this theme that has affected, affects, and most likely always will affect humanity.

MESSAGE:
Communication in the service of humanity

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 with World Heritage also focuses on promoting peace through education, science, culture, and now also communication.

Naturally, we take primary responsibility for telling the story of the World Heritage site. We already do this today, for
example, through guided tours, exhibitions, and activities.

But do you have an anniversary initiative related to education, science, and culture that can contribute to a more peaceful and sustainable world? Perhaps a campaign against cyberbullying? Or why not an exciting theater performance or peace concert, with good, locally produced food and drink during the intermission?

Not least, 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, in the past and today. Perhaps the radio station’s history of apple orchards in Radiobyn can inspire you to make the best juice 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 communicate it as often as we get the opportunity.

But what does the technological future look like in the field of communication? And what is already happening in this area today? Here we may need help from both researchers and technology companies to shed light on this.

Perhaps you have exciting technological solutions that you want to talk about and spread during the anniversary year? We are naturally also interested in the risks and downsides of technological development that we face. Can you help us here? If so, you are warmly welcome to lecture on today’s and tomorrow’s technological development in the field of communication, here with us, or on other stages in Halland. Perhaps courses, lecture series, and training programs could be started in the name of the Grimeton World Heritage site?

In short, we want to become a natural player and stage for this exciting field of knowledge, both during the anniversary and in the future.

MESSAGE:
Communication technology yesterday, today and tomorrow

The anniversary became a collective effort to develop the site through the engagement of many

We wanted to link the 100th anniversary to the ongoing development of the World Heritage site. Our idea was, not least, that the anniversary initiative could be a way to strengthen collaboration between different stakeholders. The joint initiative also did not have the anniversary itself as its ultimate goal. On the contrary, the idea was to create a series of long-term collaborations.

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. Through it, we want to make the site a natural and vibrant asset for those who visit, live, and work in Halland. The anniversary year therefore became a starting point for the development work that is then expected to continue indefinitely.