Indicator history

The public service broadcasting provides informational, educational, cultural and entertainment programming in order to meet also the needs of minorities. The Swedish Educational Broadcasting Company (Utbildningsradion, UR) is responsible to produce educational and general knowledge programmes for pre-schools, primary and secondary schools and sixth form colleges or high schools. This is the only company in Sweden operating in multimedia – with production of television and radio programmes, websites, books and other publishing products. An important feature of UR is the production of programmes for ethnic minorities.

One of the good practices that encompass UR’s work is the provision of programs for children and youth from national minority groups and immigrant backgrounds. Besides programs in the national minority languages, they also send programs in Arabic, Somali, Turkish and south Kurdish.

The UR has also provided the capacity building for national minority languages by making accessible a website where the public can acquire some skills in the national minority languages. On the website, there is also general information about the national minorities.[1]