Euroscience media awards – closing date 30 June 2009

27 April 2009 AlphaGalileo Foundation

Euroscience is pleased to announce that its existing journalism awards will, from 2009, be expanded to include awards for popular television and research media relations. Original sponsors, Euroscience Stiftung have been joined by Johnson and Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development, Europe, and the AlphaGalileo Foundation to provide an opportunity for everyone involved in securing more and better media coverage for European research to showcase their work. The journalistic awards have the support of the European Union of Science Journalists Associations.

The awards will be presented annually; in the autumn of 2009 in Hannover and in July 2010 at the Euroscience Open Forum Torino.

The awards are:

The Euroscience Stiftung Young Journalists Award
The Euroscience Stiftung Lifetime Journalism Award
The Johnson and Johnson Award for R&D/Science TV journalism Award
The AlphaGalileo Award for Research Public Relations Award

The closing date for the competitive awards - television and public relations - is 30 June 2009.

The judging panels will be:

Young Journalists and Lifetime Journalism
These awards will be made by the Board of Euroscience Stiftung with advice from EUSJA

Popular R&D/Science TV journalism
Derek Nelson, AlphaGalileo Foundation, ex-BBC producer and former ESA media consultant
Carl Johan Sundberg, Euroscience and Karolinska Institutet
Philippe Bijvoet, VRT - The Flemish Radio- and Television Network
Frederik Wittock, Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research Europe
Barbara Gallavotti, Italian TV journalist

Media relations
Antonio Marín Ruiz, GDESCO, Spain
Tom MIller, Imperial College
Andreas Archut, Press Office, University of Bonn
Peter Green, AlphaGalileo Foundation
Tina Zethraeus, Vetenskapsrådet

Applications for the TV and media relations awards must be made via the web site http://www.eurosciencemediaawards.org/

Awards will be worth €5,000 each apart from the Young Journalist category where the sponsors reserve the right to award one award of €5,000 or two awards of €2,500.

Additional sponsors of new or existing awards will be welcome in future years.

http://www.eurosciencemediaawards.org/