The initial goal of the Radio Station Workshop is the meeting, socialization and sincere dialogue between teenage refugees and students of the University of the Aegean of Rhodes. Its central axis is the exchange of ideas and practices that promote cohesion and encourage cross-cultural dialogue through the radio.

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The young participants overcome their linguistic differences and through the common language of music they communicate about topics of their concern and interest. They afterwards share the outcomes to the community of Rhodes through radio broadcasting. Moreover, the youngsters are collaborating with teenage refugees from the Radio Mariestad of Sweden for the creation of a Radio Station.

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The Radio Station Workshop ran under the guidance of Kostas Korres and Richardos Papadimitriou, members of the Ani-Mate & Meet the Other team, in collaboration with a mixed group of nine teenagers. The workshop took place during May 2017 and for two weeks in the History and Social Studies Laboratory of the University of the Aegean. It was guided as well by Hala Akari, director of the Syrian Association of Sweden and director of Radio Mariestad.

The young participants prepared each week the topics and chose the music for the radio broadcastings that presented once in the radio station of the University of the Aegean and once in the local Radio Lichnari.