Partners

Three bodies from the Council of Europe have supported PRIX EUROPA since it was founded in 1987:
o Parliamentary Assembly
o Congress of Local and Regional Authorities
o Directorate IV: Education, Culture and Heritage, Youth and Sport

The Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of Europe donates the special prize for television entries from local or regional broadcasters or low-budget productions. In 2003, 2005 and 2007 the Council of Europe was the patron of the Radio Day of European Cultures.

The Council of Europe, the first organisation representing the whole continent, symbolises the commitment of Europe’s democratic states to certain shared values: human rights, democracy and the rule of law. A political organisation with 47 member states, it provides an ideal forum for political co-operation, defending the aspirations and concerns of 800 million Europeans. The Golden Patronage for PRIX EUROPA has been carried by the Council of Europe since 2006.

Partner Details
Council of Europe
F-67075 Strasbourg Cedex
infopoint(at)coe.int
http://www.coe.int

The European Parliament joined PRIX EUROPA in 1988 and has been one of its constant supporters since. The European Parliament also awards a special prize for television productions from local or regional broadcasters or low-budget productions

The European Parliament represents the citizens of the European Union. It agrees the Union’s budget and ensures the democratic control of its institutions. The Parliament participates in formulating Union legislation, which is now of crucial importance in all sectors of economic, social and cultural life.

Partner Details
European Parliament
Directorate General of Information and Public Relations
Audiovisual Division
L-2929 Luxembourg
http://www.europarl.eu.int

The European Commission is involved in PRIX EUROPA since 1988. As a cultural organisation the competition advances the idea of the European civil society and promotes Europe’s integration.

The European Commission embodies and upholds the general interests of the European Union and acts as a driving force in the integration process. It proposes directions to take and implements the measures decided on by the Council and Parliament.
The Commission enhances the European identity in all European media by promoting their development, production and distribution.

Partner Details
European Commission
B-1049 Brussels
http://www.europa.eu.int

The European Cultural Foundation (ECF) founded PRIX EUROPA in 1987 with the Council of Europe and has provided the Presidency and the Secretariat of the competition since 1990.

The European Cultural Foundation (ECF) is an independent non-profit organisation that promotes cultural cooperation in Europe. It is an operating foundation which initiates and manages its own projects and programmes and awards grants.
The Foundation acts as an advocate for culture in the European integration process.

Partner Details
European Cultural Foundation
General Secretariat
Jan van Goyenkade 5
NL-1075 HN Amsterdam
eurocult(at)eurocult.org
http://www.eurocult.org

The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has been a patron of PRIX EUROPA since 1997 and a partner in several Cultural Radio Conferences and the Radio Day of European Cultures. Since 2001 the EBU actively supports the Internet category and organises the world music opening concerts of PRIX EUROPA which are broadcast over the EBU's Euroradio network.

Founded in February 1950, the European Broadcasting Union is the largest professional association of national broadcasters in the world with 71 active members in 52 countries of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East and 46 associate members in 29 countries further afield. Activities include operation of the Eurovision and Euroradio networks, coordination of news and sports programming, promotion of technical standardisation, legal advice, and the defence of public service broadcasting.

Partner Details
European Broadcasting Union - EBU
17A, Ancienne Route
CH-1218 Grand-Saconnex
ebu(at)ebu.ch
http://www.ebu.ch

The EATC (European Alliance for Television and Culture) was created in 1987 to stimulate the development of audio-visual culture in Europe, by encouraging new authors towards careers in television fiction. The EATC actually groups the following broadcasters: ARD, FT2, NPB, RUV, SSR-Idée Suisse, TVE, YLE, ZDF, as well as the City and Canton of Geneva and EBU.

Every year the PRIX GENEVE-EUROPE for the Best Fiction Script is awarded to a new talent for a fiction script written and already produced. In addition, the EATC members can each year send a new or aspiring scriptwriter to two special scriptwriting workshops held by experienced fiction professionals. The EATC has joined the PRIX EUROPA Alliance 2005.

Partner Details
EATC
Ancienne Route 17A
CH-1218 Grand Saconnex

The city of Berlin, Germany’s old and new capital, has been supporting and encouraging PRIX EUROPA since 1988. Being located at the crossroads between East and West, North and South and due to its specific history, Berlin is aware of the urgent need for intercultural communication in a growing Europe, the important role of the media and the significance of culture in the process of European unification.

Berlin became the permanent host for PRIX EUROPA in 1996.

Partner Details
Land Berlin
Senatskanzlei
D-10173 Berlin
http://www.berlin.de

Since 1996 Land Brandenburg has been involved in PRIX EUROPA, it being one of the significant international media events in the region Berlin-Brandenburg.

Potsdam, Brandenburg’s capital, city has a long media tradition. Since the 1920s numerous international feature films ("The Pianist" or "Around the World in 80 days") have been produced in the studios of Potsdam-Babelsberg.

Land Brandenburg

Partner Details
Ministerium für Wirtschaft des Landes Brandenburg
D-14460 Potsdam
http://www.brandenburg.de

The Medienanstalt Berlin-Brandenburg (MABB) has been an active supporter of PRIX EUROPA for many years. It joined the Steering Committee in 2001 and is particularly committed to strengthening the Internet categories of PRIX EUROPA.

The MABB is an independent authority under public law, the only media authority in Germany representing two Länder (states). The MABB is responsible for licensing and monitoring private radio and TV stations, and decides which channel broadcasts on which frequency.
It also advises private stations, sees to the further development of the regional broadcasting infrastructure, and represents the interests of Berlin and Brandenburg in national and international broadcasting organisations.

Medienanstalt Berlin-Brandenburg

Partner Details
Medienanstalt Berlin-Brandenburg
Kleine Präsidentenstraße 1
D-10178 Berlin
mail(at)mabb.de
http://www.mabb.de

The Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg GmbH has supported the festive prize-giving Ceremony in Potsdam-Babelsberg since 1997, attracting a crowd of international media representatives to Brandenburg.
The Medienboard is a public limited company, founded by the Länder of Berlin and Brandenburg and funds media projects in the following categories: Script Development, Project Development, Production, Distribution and Other/Misc.
Medienboard’s location office, the Berlin Brandenburg Film Commission (BBFC), provides information on locations, permits, unions, facilities, etc. in close cooperation with the Länder Berlin and Brandenburg.

Partner Details
Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg GmbH
August-Bebel-Straße 26-53
D-14482 Potsdam
epresse(at)medienboard.de
http://www.medienboard.de

ARTE, the European cultural television channel joined PRIX EUROPA in 1992 as the first television station and has dedicated a number of evening programmes to the competition.
Capitalising on its diversity, ARTE provides in-depth information, while combining and comparing the traditions and mentalities of various peoples. ARTE is both a mirror and a component of European culture.
The European TV channel ARTE forms an integral part of the historic process of political, economic and cultural unification in Europe and is a pioneering figure in cultural development.

Partner Details
ARTE G.E.I.E.
2a, rue de la Fonderie
F- 67080 Strasbourg Cedex
http://www.arte-tv.com

France Télévision is a French Public Broadcasting group which owns five free to air television channels:
1. France 2 - a nationwide all audience channel
2. France 3 - a regional network with a nationwide general interest programme, along with 13 regional stations and 24 news bureaus
3. France 4 - a musical and cultural entertainment channel
4. France 5 - is an educational and documentary channel
5. R.F.O. - a network operating 9 television and radio stations in the French overseas territories. Through "France ô" a cable and satellite programme, it promotes the cultural diversities of the French society.

In 2005, the France Télévisions group had a budget of € 2,727 Million and a staff of 11,400. Its channels aired over 60,500 hours of programmes and accounted for an audience share of 40.6%
France Télévisions is also a partner in specialist channels Euronews, Planète Thalassa, Ma Planète, Gulli and Mezzo. Gulli is dedicated especially to a young audience.

France Télévisions holds several subsidiaries whose activities range from feature film production over advertising to distribution. The group is a major shareholder of the international francophone channel TV5, Canal France International - CFI and the German/French channel arte.

Partner Details
FranceTélévisions
7, esplanade Henri de France
F-75907 Paris Cedex 15
http://www.francetelevisions.fr/

Magyar Televízió is the national public service television company of Hungary with two channels. MTV’s primary mission is the fulfilment of its public service remit as laid down in the Act of the Hungarian Parliament on Radio and Television Broadcasting of 1996. MTV’s slogan “Bringing you quality” reflects our aspiration to serve the Hungarian public not only by honouring the quantitative requirements of the Act, but also to remind us of the way this goal is to be achieved.

In 2008 MTV joined the PRIX EUROPA Alliance as a partner. Playing an ambitious role in the development of an ever-growing and highly prestigious European festival will not only inspire our film-makers, but also provides an excellent forum for international networking.

Partner Details:
MTV - Hungarian Television
Szabadság tér 17.
1054 Budapest
Hungary
http://www.mtv.hu

As donor and patron of the PRIX EUROPA IRIS for multicultural television programmes, the Netherlands Programme Service (NPS) has been a partner of PRIX EUROPA since 2000.

The NPS is one of the Netherland’s public broadcasting organisations. NPS has the specific programme mission to allocate a considerable part of its broadcasting time to topics dealing with the multicultural society. NPS therefore supports the PRIX EUROPA IRIS, the European media award for multicultural TV programmes.

Partner Details
NPS Television
P.O. Box 29000
NL - 1202 MA Hilversum
Erik.Hogenboom(at)nps.nl
http://www.omroep.nl/nps/tv/00/prix/

The NRK (the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation) is Norway's major broadcasting institution with fifteen radio channels and three TV channels with an approx. 100% coverage. The NRK headquarters are situated in the capital Oslo and Trondheim. NRK also comprises 15 regional offices whose journalists produce radio and TV programmes for their regional broadcasts and for the national networks, as well as the Internet. NRK Regional Offices, cooperating in seven groups, produce regional TV news. There are NRK offices in 50 different places in Norway in addition to 10 correspondents abroad.

NRK Sámi Radio is a special division, producing programmes for the Sámi population

Partner Details
Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation
N-0340 OSLO
Norway
+47 23 04 70 00
http://www.nrk.no

Radio Österreich 1 joined PRIX EUROPA in 2001 furthering its efforts to promote quality radio. It sponsors the PRIX EUROPA RADIO ÖSTERREICH 1 in the Radio Documentary category.

With a daily reach of 8.2 percent , Radio Österreich 1 (Ö1) is one of the most successful cultural radio channels in Europe. Its focus is on information, music and high-quality word programmes and it has proved that quality cultural programme can draw listeners.

Partner Details
Österreichischer Rundfunk ORF
Radio Österreich 1
Argentinierstrasse 30a
A-1040 Wien
http://oe1.orf.at

A young partner of PRIX EUROPA is Radio France. Since 2004 it is a member in the Steering Committee and sponsors the radio drama prize PRIX EUROPA RADIO FRANCE.

Radio France is a public service corporation, ranking first among French radio broadcasters. It was founded in 1975 and has since successfully drawn audiences for cultural programmes: every day, 14,5 million listeners tune in.

With more than 51 FM radio stations (France Inter, France Info, the France BLEU network, France Musiques, France Culture, Le Mouv’, the FIP network and La CityRadio), with a number of programmes digitally broadcast by cable or satellite, two orchestras, a choir, and a choir school, Radio France is an acknowledged leader in cultural matters in France..

Partner Details
Radio France
116 avenue du président Kennedy
F-75220 Paris cedex 16
http://www.radiofrance.com

RTÉ, as Ireland’s Public Service Broadcaster, is a not-for-profit organisation owned by the Irish people. It is committed to providing its services to all people of the country on a free-to-air and universal coverage basis and is Ireland’s cross-media leader.

RTÉ operates two complementary television channels and four radio channels. RTÉ also publishes Ireland’s best-selling magazine, the RTÉ Guide, and operates Ireland’s leading teletext service RTÉ Aertel. RTÉ.ie is Ireland’s most popular media website providing up-to-date news, current affairs and entertainment information. Five performing groups are also supported by RTÉ.

RTÉ output has been the proud recipient of several PRIX EUROPA awards in the past and we look forward to striving to achieve further recognition by our peers in the future.

Partner Details
RTÉ
Donnybrook
Dublin 4
Ireland
p. + 353 1 208 3111
info(at)rte.ie
http://www.rte.ie

In 1988, a year after the founding of PRIX EUROPA, the Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB, then still called Sender Freies Berlin - SFB) took over the operational management of the competition. In 1997 the travelling competition found its permanent address at the RBB, ultimately agreeing to be the permanent host of the competition week.

RBB has been the common public broadcaster of the Länder Berlin and Brandenburg since 1 May 2003. It was formed when the two public broadcasters Sender Freies Berlin (SFB) and the Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg (ORB) amalgamated. The RBB is a member of the ARD, the association of public broadcasters in Germany, and is located in Berlin and Potsdam with regional studios in Frankfurt (Oder), Cottbus, Prenzlau and Perleberg.

The RBB runs seven radio stations: radioBerlin, Antenne Brandenburg, Fritz, infoRadio, radioEins, kulturRadio and radioMultikulti.

RBB produces the regional television channel rbb Fernsehen, with its own teletext service rbbText, and holds a 7,0 percent share of the ARD channel, Erstes Deutsches Fernsehen. It also produces programmes for 3Sat, arte, KI.KA and Phoenix and is shareholder to the ARD foreign studios in Washington, Paris, London, Brussels, Mexico City and Beijing. The responsibility for the Warsaw studio of the ARD lies completely in the hands of the RBB.<

Partner Details
Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg

Standort Berlin
D - 14046 Berlin

Standort Potsdam
Marlene-Dietrich-Allee 20
- 14482 Potsdam

http://www.rbb-online.de/

With 18 radio stations and 8 television channels, as well as complementary websites and teletext services, SRG SSR is the largest electronic media organisation in Switzerland. Its radio stations lead their respective markets in all four language regions – as do the television channels at prime time. SRG SSR services successfully hold their own against a variety of competing foreign broadcasters with much more financial muscle. They are politically and financially independent.
SRG SSR media inform, entertain and also have an educational function. They distribute their services to everyone, round the clock, via all available means. What is more, they do so on the same terms everywhere.

SRG SSR is in a position to offer the same breadth and quality of service in all regions of Switzerland. As such, it helps to promote mutual understanding, cohesion and exchange between the different parts of the country – and in doing so, it plays a key role in social and cultural integration. Joining the PRIX EUROPA Alliance means extending this commitment to a European level.

Partner Details:
SRG SSR idée suisse
Generaldirektion
Belpstrasse 48
CH-3000 Bern 14
info(at)srgssrideesuisse.ch
www.srgssrideesuisse.ch

 UR (The Swedish Educational Broadcasting Company) has played the principal role in Swedish educational media for many years. UR is situated in Stockholm with three Regional Offices producing radio programmes.
Media educationalists work in eight different places in Sweden.

UR, SVT and SR are the three broadcasters which make up Swedish Public Service. UR is unique in its multimedia capacity, operating with tv, radio and web as well as with books and other printed material.

UR broadcast a total of 1776 hours of television in SVT channels including the Knowledge Channel which UR run in cooperation with SVT. UR broadcast 456 hours of radio via the four SR channels.

Partner Details
Swedish Educational Broadcasting Service, UR
N – 113 95 Stockholm
Sweden
Tel. + 46 8 784 40 00
http://www.ur.se

TVP reaches virtually every home in Poland. Channel 1 is viewed by 90 percent of Poles, and 87 percent watch Channel 2. TVP programmes are very highly rated by viewers. Asked which programmes bring them pleasure and satisfaction, which ones they wait for, try not to miss, and which they want to watch in the future, in nine out of ten cases Telewizja Polska programmes get the highest ratings. For over 90 percent of Poles, TVP's programmes are the most frequent source of information about national issues.
A new channel, TVP Culture, will allow viewers to experience culture in its various forms seven days a week.

Telewizja Polska has been running the largest television and film production company in Poland for years.

Since the role of public television is to promote and support culture, TVP also co-organises many cultural events. In 2005 TVP joined PRIX EUROPA.

Partner Details
Telewizja Polska - TVP S.A.
ul. Woronicza 17
PL-00-999 Warszawa
http://www.tvp.pl

YLE (The Finnish Broadcasting Company) is Finland's national media company engaged in full public service television and radio broadcasting. The YLE operation is financed principally by television fee paid by citizens. YLE operates five national television and five national radio channels complemented by different services and 25 regional radio stations. Services also provided by YLE include internet, broadband and mobile service as well as teletext.

Partner Details
YLE
Radiokatu 5
FIN-00024 Helsinki
http://www.yle.fi

Since the amalgamation of PRIX EUROPA and Prix Futura Berlin in 1997, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) has been a partner of the competition. In 2001, ZDF accepted the vice-chairmanship on the Steering Committee of PRIX EUROPA.

ZDF, was set up in 1961 as Germany’s second public service network. Broadcast started on April 1, 1963. Besides the Mainz headquarters, ZDF maintains 17 domestic and 19 foreign bureaus. ZDF is also a partner in 3sat, ARTE, Kinderkanal, Phoenix and German TV. The free digital bouquet ZDF.vision comprises 11 TV channels plus a growing number of additional services.

Partner Details
ZDF
D-55100 Mainz
borenberg.g(at)zdf.de
http://www.zdf.de/ZDFde/inhalt/31/0,1872,2007487,00.html