98.3 Radio, the radio station of the University of Navarra, has joined the association de Radios Universitarias de España (ARU), whose constituent assembly was recently held at the Complutense University of Madrid. The group, which brings together 26 radio stations, is the first to bring together professionals working in Spanish university radio stations to promote cooperation and interaction between them.

Its purpose is to support the study in the field of communication and audiovisual media and promote university, cultural and scientific-technological topics through radio products or programs. In addition, the association de Radios Universitarias de España will promote the training of its associates through the organization of workshops, seminars or courses.

Spanish university radio stations are conceived as media at the service of society and the university community. Among their objectives are the broadcasting of general and service information, the scientific knowledge dissemination , as well as the professional improvement of professors and students in radio communication techniques.

The association is the result of several years of work of the university radio stations, which after several meetings, signed an inter-university agreement and agreed on the creation of this association. The ARU is organized into several commissions: institutional relations, international and mobility, advisory, training and consultancy service, communication and content and exchange, the latter chaired by 98.3 Radio.

"The essence of university radio is the vocation to disseminate the scientific knowledge generated at the university and in the field of radio itself could not be different. The ARU will make it possible to bring together the exchange experiences of more than twenty radio stations that, although very different, share a vocation to serve the university community and society," said Iñaki de Lorenzo, director of 98.3 Radio.