PRIX EUROPA – The European Broadcasting Festival – is the Europe's largest annual tri-medial festival and competition. The event takes place in the third week of October in Berlin, Germany.
PRIX EUROPA awards the best European Television, Radio and Online productions each year with the aim of publishing them throughout Europe and supporting their continental distribution and use. The festival calls on all media professionals and their commitment to quality to compete against each other with their best productions.
In 2016 PRIX EUROPA will be staged for the 30th time. The festival is hosted by the German broadcaster Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB).
Since its founding in 1987, PRIX EUROPA has grown into Europe’s largest festival for Television, Radio, and the Online Media, due to the strong partners who have supported the competition since its inception. Set up by the Council of Europe and the European Cultural Foundation in 1987 it now has the backing of 30 partners - including institutions like the European Parliament, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the European Alliance for Television and Culture, the Land Berlin, the Land Brandenburg, the Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB), the Medienanstalt Berlin-Brandenburg, the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, and the following European broadcasters:
ARTE, BBC Radio, Danish Broadcasting Company, Dutch Public Service Broadcaster, France Télévisions, Magyar Televízió, Norsk rikskringkasting, Österreichischer Rundfunk, Radio Télévision Belge Francophone, Raidió Teilifís Éireann, Radio Russia, SRG SSR, Sveriges Radio, Sveriges Television, Sveriges Utbildningsradion, Telewizja Polska S.A., Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroeporganisatie, Yleisradio, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen, Česká televize, Deutschlandradio