PRIX EUROPA 2015
REGULATIONS RADIO
PREAMBLE
PRIX EUROPA - The European Broadcasting Festival – is the programme-makers’ festival
among the media festivals.
Looking for the best television, radio and online productions from Europe, it invites
programme-makers and editors to find the winner within their genre.
These unique juries assess and evaluate all competition entries in a public debate and then
vote for the best.
This makes PRIX EUROPA a first-class training platform, a multinational market place
as well as a forum reliably highlighting the latest media trends and championing quality
broadcasting for all Europeans.
1. WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
PRIX EUROPA is looking for the best of radio – Made in Europe.
PRIX EUROPA is looking for radio entries, which by the quality of their content and form
equally convince audiences and professionals.
The programmes should bear the cultural imprint of their place of origin, yet also reach
people of other cultures, thus making them suitable to be broadcast outside of the country in
which they were produced.
2. WHO MAY ENTER
PRIX EUROPA RADIO is open to all radio organisations, production companies and
independent producers based in Europe, given they hold the festival rights for the entered
production.
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3. CATEGORIES
The PRIX EUROPA 2015 RADIO competition will be held in four categories.
The submitter decides the category in which the production should compete.
* Radio Documentary Category
This category is looking for Feature productions that use the possibilities of sound to the
fullest extent.
* Radio Current Affairs Category
This category is looking for journalistic research programmes focusing on in-depth
information and investigative journalism. Programmes that follow up key contemporary
matters not afraid to tackle controversial issues and vouch for demanding and responsible
journalism. Entries will be welcome from all journalistic departments within radio.
Minimum length 10 minutes.
* Radio Fiction Category
- Single radio drama programmes and
- episodes from series and serials.
* Radio Music Category
This category stands for innovation of programmes about music.
It is looking for new ways of communicating music to audiences in the fields of classical,
jazz, folk and world music.
The entries will be judged on their ideas, the way they have been executed and how they
connect with the listener.
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4. NUMBER AND LENGTH OF ENTRIES
Radio Documentary Category
Each submitter has 100 minutes of presentation time at his/her disposal which can be spread
over up to 2 entries.
If only 1 production is entered, it may be up to 60 minutes long.
Radio Current Affairs Category
Each submitter can enter up to 2 entries. Minimum length 10 minutes.
Radio Fiction Category
Each submitter has 100 minutes of presentation time at his/her disposal which can be spread
over up to 2 entries.
If only 1 production is entered, it may be up to 60 minutes long.
If more than 1 production is entered, 1 entry has to be an episode or programme from a series
or serial.
Radio Music Category
Each channel has 60 minutes of presentation time at its disposal for 1 entry.
5. ELIGIBLE PERIOD
All radio entries to PRIX EUROPA 2015 must have been produced after 1 January 2014.
Programmes that have not yet been broadcast are also eligible.
6. PRESENTATIONS
All entered programmes will be available free of charge to all participants and the reporting
media in the Programme Library during the festival week:
17–24 October 2015.
In all competition categories, only the programmes nominated by the Festival Office will be
competing for the PRIX EUROPA Awards.
7. ADJUDICATION
In all the competition categories at PRIX EUROPA the adjudication lies in the hands of an
open Jury Group which undertakes to examine all the entries together, to discuss them in
public and then to assess them using a points system.
Each Jury Group will be a professional forum of programme-makers.
Each final candidate organisation will be obliged to send a Jury Member to present its
entry and to take part in the adjudication as a member of the Jury Group.
Irrespectively of having submitted a programme into the competition, all radio organisations,
production companies and independent producers are invited to send Jury Members to serve
in each Jury Group.
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In addition, Observers may participate in all sessions of all Jury Groups. Observers may take
part in the discussions but not in the adjudication.
8. AWARDS 2015
Radio Documentary
* PRIX EUROPA
Best European Radio Documentary of the Year
Radio Current Affairs
* PRIX EUROPA
Best European Radio Investigation of the Year
Radio Fiction
* PRIX EUROPA
Best European Radio Drama of the Year
* PRIX EUROPA
Best European Radio Fiction Series or Serial of the Year
Radio Music
* PRIX EUROPA
Best European Radio Music Programme of the Year
9. ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE PRIZE WINNERS
On Friday, 23 October 2015 all prize winners will be officially announced during the Awards
Ceremony.
10. PRIZE MONEY & TROPHY
Each prize amounts to €6,000.
The prize money will be paid by the Organisers to the person/s (authors, directors,
dramaturges, sound engineers etc.) named by the entering organisations.
The PRIX EUROPA TROPHY will be handed over to the representative of each winning
entry at the Awards Ceremony on Friday, 23 October 2015.
The Festival Organisers expect the prize winners to attend the Awards Ceremony in person or to send a representative.
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11. DEADLINES
Submission:
By 1 July 2015 the PRIX EUROPA Festival Office in Berlin must have received:
a) submission forms, duly completed online at www.prixeuropa.eu
b) audio files of each registered production, uploaded to the server (details of where and how
to upload are detailed during the online registration process)
c) the bilingual script (English and the original language corresponding page by page)
the link for uploading a .pdf document will be provided during the registration process
d) Obligatory for Radio Fiction series/serials:
summary of the background and storyline of the complete series, please mail to
[email protected])
e) Obligatory for Radio Music entries:
summary of the concept, background, public value and acceptance of the productions
please mail to [email protected])
Pre-Selection:
By 31 August 2015 each submitter will be informed about the results of the pre-selection.
Selected Programmes:
By 23 September 2015 the submitters of the selected programmes must send in the following:
a) Radio Documentary: 100 copies of the bilingual script (English and the original language corresponding page by page)
b) Radio Current Affairs: 40 copies of the bilingual script (English and the original language corresponding page by page)
c) Radio Fiction: 80 copies of the bilingual script (English and the original language corresponding page by page)
d) Radio Music: 40 copies of the bilingual script (English and the original language corresponding page by page)
e) All Radio categories: Personal registration form, duly completed (online) of the Jury
Member who will represent the submitting organisation in the Jury Group
f) photographs of authors/directors and press material for use free of charge,
please mail to: [email protected])
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Please send material (delivery paid) to the following address:
Postal:
by courier:
PRIX EUROPA / RBB
14046 Berlin, Germany
PRIX EUROPA / RBB
Kaiserdamm 80/81, 3. Etage
14057 Berlin, Germany
Do not forget to visibly attach the pro-forma invoice and mark the envelope clearly:
For festival use only. No commercial value.
All costs for transport of the documents are covered by the entering organisation. This also
applies to customs duties and costs induced by the insurance of a freight.
12. THE SMALL PRINT
If a submission wins the submitter will mention PRIX EUROPA in all subsequent
promotional and press material.
Productions entered for the competition may not include any commercial advertising.
Commercial breaks have to be edited out to insure continuous listening.
A co-production will be regarded as the entry of whichever organisation submits it.
All co-production partners must be named on the registration form. It will be presumed by
the Organiser that the other co-producers have agreed to the programme being entered.
The Organiser shall have the right to release excerpts of up to 5 minutes from any entry for
radio reports free of charge on PRIX EUROPA 2015 or for use on the Internet.
All graphic material sent in by the submitters will be released free of charge for use in all
publications on PRIX EUROPA 2015 (press, printed material, Internet).
The Organiser will keep the audio files of all entries in Berlin for its archives.
These rules are issued in English.
Any entry failing to comply with these rules may be disqualified by the Organiser or the
relevant Jury Group.
The registration of an entry for the PRIX EUROPA 2015 competition implies full
acceptance of these rules.
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