This year Spain boasts an award at this year’s Megalizzi – Niedzielski prize thanks to Irene Barahona, a promising young journalist. A recognition to young journalists named in memory of the two journalists killed in 2018 in the terrorist attacks in Strasbourg, Antonio Megalizzi and Bartek Pedro Orent-Niedzielski. Awarded by the European Commission, the prize […]
Meet the 2021 Nobel Prize Laureates
We look back at the Nobel Prize winners in 2021. In this 2021 edition, we have six Europeans among the winners: Germany’s Klaus Hasselmann and Italy’s Giorgio Parisi in Physics; Germany’s Benjamin List and Britain’s David W.C. MacMillan in Chemistry; Russia’s Dmitry Muratov who has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize; and the Netherlands’ Guido […]
Jean Monnet Prize for European Integration
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 […]