Awarded annually, the prize recognises and celebrates achievements that contribute to supporting and strengthening European integration. The Jean Monnet Prize for European Integration aims at honouring Jean Monnet’s memory and life achievements. It does so by rewarding talented individuals or groups having contributed to supporting or strengthening European Integration through a project they designed and implemented. The Prize aims […]
Horizon: Innovation Procurement Strategy Award
Expected Impact Public and private procurement represent an untapped potential to stimulate the demand for innovation. The public and private sectors could offer new opportunities for suppliers, and provide better, more efficient services. Therefore, innovation procurement would boost transforming research into innovative solutions targeted at societal needs, and support innovative companies to commercialise their ideas. […]
HORIZON Prize: Facing Societal Challenges Award
Expected Impact Public and private procurement represent an untapped potential to stimulate the demand for innovation. The public and private sectors could offer new opportunities for suppliers, and provide better, more efficient services. Therefore, innovation procurement would boost transforming research into innovative solutions targeted at societal needs, and support innovative companies to commercialise their ideas. […]
José Ramón Patterson, Carmen Vela and Rafael Latorre, winners of the Salvador de Madariaga European Journalism Award
On May 9, the former TVE correspondent in Brussels, José Ramón Patterson, Cadena Ser journalist Carmen Vela and El Mundo journalist Rafael Latorre were awarded the 27th edition of the Salvador de Madariaga European Journalism Prize in the categories of television, radio and written press, respectively. The jury decided to award the prize in the […]
Parliament launches the Daphne Caruana Galizia journalism prize
The European Parliament has launched a journalism prize in tribute to Daphne Caruana Galizia, a Maltese investigative journalist murdered in 2017. The Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism, launched on 16 October 2020, the third anniversary of her death, will reward outstanding journalism reflecting EU values. “The Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize will recognise the essential […]
Global Junior Challenge Award
This international competition rewards projects using modern technologies in an innovative and inclusive way, to provide an innovative and quality education during the Covid-19 pandemic. It aims to encourage young people and their teachers to use new technologies; exchange experiences and emulates successful initiatives. The final event will take place in Rome, on 20-22 October […]
Youth4Regions competition for student journalists and young journalists
The Commission launches today the 5th edition of the Youth4Regions competition for student journalists and young journalists. Participants from EU Member States, neighbouring countries and candidate countries will be eligible to apply. Thirty-three candidates will be selected to participate in the Youth4Regions programme. The winners will meet in Brussels during the European Week of Regions […]
Lorenzo Natali Media Prize
Launched by the European Commission, the Lorenzo Natali Media Prize rewards outstanding contributions made by journalists from all over the world, reporting on issues such as but not limited to, fighting poverty and inequalities, sustainable developments, human rights, democracy, gender equality, environment and climate change, health, technology and digital, etc.. The Prize was created by the European Commission’s […]
Spanish team wins Farming by Satellite Prize 2020
Graniot, a team from Spain, has won this year’s 1st Farming by Satellite Prize. The winning team developed a web application that uses European satellite technologies to help agronomists and farmers monitor crops, reduce water waste and avoid poor fertilisation practices. The Farming by Satellite Prize promotes the use of GNSS and Earth observation in Europe and […]