Diverse Democracy Media Award

Program description

To recognize and promote exemplary information and reporting with a focus on civic participation and political involvement, the Diverse Democracy Alliance has been awarding the Diverse Democracy Media Prize since 2020. The prize is endowed with 2,000 euros and is awarded annually. It is awarded for individual reports, articles, books, series of articles, film or radio contributions.

The prize is awarded to journalists who address current issues of democratic participation in a factual, comprehensive, objective and comprehensible manner, research them carefully and bring them to the attention of a broad public. When selecting the award winners, the Alliance for Diverse Democracy makes sure that the contributions are not influenced by clients, advertising customers, publishers, political parties and other social groups, authorities and business. Facts and circumstances must be presented in an unbiased manner.

You can apply with one or more entries (up to three on different topics) in German which can be proven to have been published in a medium within the required period of time (max. 2 years before the end of the application period). The type of contribution (film, television, radio, print, book, internet, multimedia) as well as the genre, department or length of the contribution are irrelevant.

Institution

Alliance Diverse Democracy

The Alliance Diverse Democracy is a voluntary association of forward thinkers from administration, politics, business and civil society who are active at the federal, state and local levels.

Goals:

1. We want to contribute to a better constructive interaction of representative, direct democratic and dialogue-oriented participation.
2. We advocate greater transparency in decision-making processes and opportunities for participation.
3. We want to improve the quality of dialogue-oriented participation procedures for citizens and find concrete solutions for their implementation in practice.
4. We want to contribute to the development of participation competencies in politics and administration as well as in civil society.
5. We want inclusive and broad participation of all population groups in order to counteract the social division of our democracy.

Responsible for the network coordination and contact is the Berlin Institute for Participation in sponsorship of the German Environmental Foundation. The German Environmental Foundation is a foundation under civil law with legal capacity.

Deadline

The prize is awarded annually, provided there are suitable applications. The application period is from January 1 to March 31 of each year.

Topic

Inclusion, Participation, political education

Funding criteria

An application is possible with one or more contributions (up to three) on different topics. Series of contributions with several contributions on the same topic can also be submitted.A maximum of three submissions per applicant is permitted.

In addition to individuals, teams and editorial teams can also apply if they have worked together on the corresponding contribution. In this case, all co-applicants must be entered in the corresponding field of the application form (with their consent). Subsequent additions or deletions are not possible.

Entries may be submitted if they were first published or first broadcast no more than two years before the end of the application period.

• Print articles
• Series of articles
• Online contributions
• Book publication
• Radio contributions
• Television contributions

Expenses for (commercial)

Entrepreneurial salary/stipend/award money or similar, Öffentlichkeitswirksamkeit

Application type

Online form

Application procedure/documents

For formal reasons, only applications submitted using the official onlineonly be considered if they are submitted using the official online application forms. An upload link will be provided with the confirmation of receipt of the application. If this is not possible for technical reasons, the data can also be submitted by post.

The original contributions (print) are required in digital form as unprotected PDF files for evaluation. Television and radio contributions will only be accepted in certain formats. It is requested that a broadcast script (original sound) be submitted for each contribution. In the case of a book contribution, three publisher's copies must be submitted by post.

Further information can be found in the conditions of participation in the section "Formal application instructions".

The postal address for sending the documents is:
Medienpreis Vielfältige Demokratie
c/o Berlin Institut für Partizipation
Greifswalder Straße 4
10405 Berlin

Jury/Decision-making body

The Berlin Institute for Participation, as coordinator of the Alliance for Diverse Democracy, will nominate three entries from all the applications received. The final winner will be chosen from among the nominees. Each member of the Alliance has one vote.

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Funded by

Funding for the media award is made possible by sponsors (listed on the website).

Funding area

Germany