Deadline: 1 July 2024
The PRIX EUROPA awards the Best European Audio, Digital Media and Video Productions of the Year which show vision, creativity, craftsmanship and public responsibility, with the aim of publishing them throughout Europe and supporting their continental distribution and use.
Categories
- Audio Categories
- The PRIX EUROPA 2024 competition is open to excellent audio content – whether it originated in radio or podcast form or both – that qualifies for any of the following categories:
- Audio Documentary
- Two awards:
- PRIX EUROPA Best European Audio Documentary of the Year PRIX EUROPA
- Best European Audio Documentary Series of the Year Under the Patronage of BBC Audio
- Two awards:
- Audio Investigation
- Two awards:
- PRIX EUROPA Best European
- Audio Investigation of the Year PRIX EUROPA Best European Audio Investigation Series of the Year
- Two awards:
- Audio Fiction
- Two awards:
- PRIX EUROPA Best European Audio Fiction of the Year
- PRIX EUROPA Best European Audio Fiction Series of the Year
- Two awards:
- Audio Music
- Under the Patronage of the European Broadcasting Union EBU Music. Innovative Audio formats and concepts aimed at communicating music to audiences and delivering a meaningful listening experience. The focus is on how to open new doors for audiences to hearing, discovering music.
- One award: PRIX EUROPA Best European Audio Music Programme of the Year
- Under the Patronage of the European Broadcasting Union EBU Music. Innovative Audio formats and concepts aimed at communicating music to audiences and delivering a meaningful listening experience. The focus is on how to open new doors for audiences to hearing, discovering music.
- Audio Documentary
- The PRIX EUROPA 2024 competition is open to excellent audio content – whether it originated in radio or podcast form or both – that qualifies for any of the following categories:
- Digital Media Category
- The PRIX EUROPA 2024 competition is open to excellent online content. They accept the full range of online media projects: cross-platform projects, web-based, AI, AR or VR productions, apps, etc.
- All entries will be judged on their ideas, the way they have been executed, their quality, their commitment to public values and audience reach relative to genre. Prizes will be awarded to the projects which best explore and use the potential of Digital Media.
- Two awards:
- PRIX EUROPA Best European Online Media Project of the Year.
- PRIX EUROPA Best European Online Youth Project of the Year Online projects with a target audience up to 25 years.
- Two awards:
- Video Categories
- The PRIX EUROPA 2024 competition is open to excellent video content – whether it originated in broadcast or web form or both, is linear or non-linear television – that qualifies for any of the following categories:
- Video Documentary
- Two awards:
- PRIX EUROPA Best European Video Documentary of the Year
- PRIX EUROPA Best European Video Factual Series of the Year
- Two awards:
- Video Investigation
- One award: PRIX EUROPA Best European Video Investigation of the Year
- Video Fiction
- Three awards:
- PRIX EUROPA Best European Video Fiction of the Year
- PRIX EUROPA Best European Video Fiction Mini-Series of the Year (up to 6 episodes)
- PRIX EUROPA Best European Video Fiction Series of the Year
- Three awards:
- Video Documentary
- The PRIX EUROPA 2024 competition is open to excellent video content – whether it originated in broadcast or web form or both, is linear or non-linear television – that qualifies for any of the following categories:
Prize Information
- All prize winners will receive a TAURUS, the handcrafted PRIX EUROPA Trophy. This bronze sculpture from the foundry of the Dutch sculptor Anthon Hoornweg is called ‘Cabeza del Azote del Laberintico’. Each TAURUS is a unique, handcrafted piece of art.
- The Trophy will be handed over to the representative of each winning entry at the PRIX EUROPA 2024 Awards Ceremony.
What they are looking for?
- PRIX EUROPA is in 8 categories looking for entries which by the quality of their content and form equally convince audiences and professionals.
- The competition is open for audio, online or video entries that originated in broadcast or web form or both, are radio or podcast, linear or non-linear television, cross-platform projects, apps, or any other innovative digital media project.
- The submissions should bear the cultural imprint of their creators and their place of origin and strengthen dialogue in progressively polarised societies.
- PRIX EUROPA calls on public service media professionals to compete with their best and most innovative productions.
Eligibility Criteria
- The PRIX EUROPA 2024 competition is open to content which is funded/co-funded by public service media. Broadcasters and media production companies based in Europe who hold the festival rights for the entered production can submit.
- They explicitly encourage programme-makers from diverse backgrounds to submit their work.
- All entries to PRIX EUROPA 2024 must have been published after 1 July 2023.
All Digital Media entries must be available online from 1 July to 31 October 2024.
Submissions that have not yet been published are also eligible.
For more information, visit PRIX EUROPA.
