Prix Europa

PRIX EUROPA is open to broadcasting and producing organisations alike and is therefore accessible to media professionals from all parts of Europe. It has grown into the continent’s largest competition for television, radio and the emerging media, but has no commercial interest. The pan-European event is attended by well over 1,000 delegates from more than 40 countries. Adjudication for the PRIX EUROPA awards is transparent and democratic, carried out by open jury groups. The competition is held in three media and 9 categories. The  awards are worth €6,000 and the official PRIX EUROPA TROPHY to each of the winners.

PRIX EUROPA was initiated in 1987 by the Council of Europe and the European Cultural Foundation. The competition amalgamated with Prix Futura Berlin in 1997. The Dutch Prix Iris joined PRIX EUROPA in 2000, followed by the Prix Genève-Europe in 2005.

PRIX EUROPA enjoys the Patronage of the Council of Europe, to which PRIX EUROPA awarded  the Golden Patronage for 20 years of continuous support in 2006. The European Broadcasting Union EBU/UER approved PRIX EUROPA from the start and in 2002 joined the Alliance of its supporters.

Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg RBB, home of the PRIX EUROPA Festival Office, has been hosting the week-long festival in Berlin and Potsdam since 1997 in cooperation with the Länder Berlin and Brandenburg, the Medienanstalt Berlin-Brandenburg and the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg. Festival Director is Susanne Hoffmann. The European Cultural Foundation in Amsterdam provides the Secretariat of PRIX EUROPA.

The PRIX EUROPA Alliance 2009 consists of 24 organisations and bodies and is presided over by its President Dr. Gottfried Langenstein, ARTE President, together with the two Vice-Presidents Doris Pack, Member of the European Parliament and Frank-Dieter Freiling, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen.