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The winners of the
EUROSCIENCE MEDIA AWARDS 2010
The winners of the 2010 Euroscience Media Awards are:
Euroscience–Stiftung Senior Science Writer Award
Giovanni Caprara
Corriere della Sera, Italia
Euroscience-Stiftung Junior Science Writer Award
Alessia Maccaferri
Il Sole 24 Ore, Italia
Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development – Europe Popular Science TV Award
Beagle – In het kielzog van Darwin/On the future of Species
VPRO, Nederland
AlphaGalileo Foundation Ltd Research Public Relations Award
‘Distribution is All’
ITER Office of Communication, France
The awards was presented on 6 July at 12.30 during ESOF2010 in Turin.
Giovanni Caprara has been awarded the Euroscience–Stiftung Senior Science Writer Award 2010 for being continuously committed to high quality science and research policy journalism. He is the prime voice of scientists in several countries to transfer their research results to international audiences.
Euroscience–Stiftung Junior Science Writer Award acknowledges Alessia Maccaferri’s most impressive achievements in science journalism, especially her role as journalist and editor for Il Sole 24 Ore fostering communication between science and the public.
The Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical R & D popular science TV Award has been won by The Dutch television and webcast series ‘Beagle – In het kielzog van Darwin/On the future of Species’, which combined action from a ship following the track of Darwin’s famous voyage with background on current environment issues.
AlphaGalileo Foundation’s Research Public Relations Award has gone to ITER for its work across a range of social media to bring their challenging science to the widest possible audience.
Euroscience Media Awards 2009
Euroscience is pleased to announce that the Euroscience Media Awards, now including the two new awards for PR and TV, have been given to:
- Dr. Alison Abbott (Senior Award)
The Euroscience Stiftung Young Journalists Award
- Dr. Bettina Gartner
- Ms. Angela Saini
The AlphaGalileo Award for Research Public Relations Award
- Teknopolis weekly television programme – Elhuyar Fundazioa
- Hybrids in the UK - 3sat German TV
The AlphaGalileo Award for Research Public Relations Award
- LHC first beam - accelerating science, CERN
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 in the autumn of 2009 in Hannover and will be presented in July 2010 at the Euroscience Open Forum Torino.
The judging panels for 2009 were:
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
- 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
The awards are 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 and see ancient awardees, please visit:
http://www.eurosciencestiftung.de/
Gallery
 Dr. Carl Johan Sundberg, Vice President of Euroscience. James Gillies, Head of Communication and CERN's spokesman. Volker Schirp, News Service Manager, Alphagalileo. |  Technopolis - Elhuyar Fundazioa |
 Professor Raimund Vogels and Dr. Adelheid Wessler Volkswagen Stiftung |  Dr. Wilhelm Krull Euroscience Stiftung Volkswagen Stiftung |
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 Peter Green, Managing Director of Alphagalileo and Member of the Euroscience Governing Board |  The Certificate |
 Musicians from the school of Music and Theatre in Hannover (above and to the right) |  |
