New CIVIS Online Prize

BERLIN - With the CIVIS Online Prize, the European CIVIS Media Prize is offering an additional award for journalistically-prepared webpages on the theme of integration and cultural diversity. Innovative multi-media offers of high journalistic quality are being sought which handle the theme in convincing fashion and are particularly suitable for the promotion of peaceful coexistence in the European immigration society. The new online prize is part of the renowned European CIVIS Media Prize for integration and cultural diversity and will be open to entries from all over Europe of autumn 2009. The prize is endowed with 5,000 Euro.

The CIVIS Online Prize will honour journalistic forms which are processed graphically and with a multi-media approach for the Web. The accessibility of the webpages is decisive. All creative forms will be permitted. The webpages must be accessible in German or English.

All suppliers are qualified to take part in the European CIVIS Online Prize who are based in the European Union and Switzerland. The prizes will be presented to official representatives or the persons responsible.

An independent international jury of leading journalists as well as online experts will decide on the Internet offers taking part in the competition and select the prize-winners. The process of law is excluded.

CIVIS - Europe’s Media Prize for integration and cultural diversity is organized by the ARD, represented by WDR, together with the Freudenberg Stiftung. Media partners, among others, include ZDF, ARTE, Phoenix, ORF and SRG SSR idée suisse as well as 3Sat and RTV Slovenia. The German Savings Bank Finance Group, the European Parliament, the Integration Commissioner of the German Federal Government, the WDR mediagroup and BAVARIA FILM are partners.

civismedia.eu CIVIS Medienstiftung Breite Strasse 48-50 50667 Köln/ Germany Tel: +49-227-587-0 info@civismedia.eu

Source: CIVIS medien stiftung

CIVIS Medienstiftung, Breite Strasse 48-50, 50667 Köln/Germany, Tel: +49-227-587-0, info at civismedia.eu