Euroscience is pleased to announce that the Euroscience Medal Awards, now including the two new awards for PR and TV, have been given to:

Young Journalists and Lifetime Journalism:

Dr. Alison Abbott (Senior Award)
Dr. Bettina Gartner (Junior Award)
Ms. Angela Saini (Junior Award)

Popular R&D/Science TV journalism

Teknopolis weekly television programme – Elhuyar Fundazioa

Hybrids in the UK - 3sat German TV

Media relations

LHC first beam - accelerating science, CERN

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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 were presented annually; in the autumn of 2009 in Hannover and in July 2010 at the Euroscience Open Forum Torino.

The judging panels:

Young Journalists and Lifetime Journalism

These awards are given 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

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.

To read more please visit:
http://www.eurosciencestiftung.de/