idw – Informationsdienst Wissenschaft
Nachrichten, Termine, Experten
Nachrichten, Termine, Experten
The idw scientific information service publishes some 20,000 press releases from all fields of science every year. In this regard, idw maintains a high quality standard. In order to promote the standard, idw has been staging its own annual prize contest since 2009.
All press offices connected with idw are eligible to take part in the idw Award for Scientific Communication by entering one of their press releases from the previous year. About 70 press offices from Germany and other countries enter the contest every year. An independent expert jury selects the best three articles from all of the entries. Award-winning press releases are scientifically relevant articles of high professional quality and outstanding news value (relevance and originality).
The winning entry is awarded €2,000 in prize money, plus a plaque for public display to publicise the success on a permanent basis. The second prize carries €1,000 in prize money, the third €500. The awards are presented at an official ceremony in conjunction with the annual general meeting of idw.
Incidentally, the award is not granted to the author of the press release, but to the entire press office instead – since a good press release is often the result of successful teamwork. The prize money is destined for further quality assurance and the improvement of quality standards in communication.
A jury of independent experts appointed by idw then select as prize winners the three contributions they consider the best from all of the entries submitted on time and in the proper form. A new jury is selected each year. It consists of several journalists and one scientist with extensive media experience. Jurors from previous years included mathematician Prof. Günter Ziegler, winner of the DFG Communicator Award, as well as Marco Finetti, member of the idw Board of Directors (press spokesman of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG, German Research Foundation) and journalists Dr. Norbert Lossau (Die Welt), Joachim Müller-Jung (FAZ) and Dr. Tanjev Schultz (Süddeutsche Zeitung).
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