Civis Media Prize

The CIVIS - Europe's Media Prize for Integration, formerly known as the CIVIS Media Prize for Integration and Cultural Diversity in Europe, or CIVIS Media Prize for short, was founded in 1987 by the Federal Government Commissioner for Foreigners' Issues together with ARD, under the responsibility of Westdeutscher Rundfunk and the Freudenberg Foundation. The CIVIS Media Prize is organised and implemented by the non-profit Civis Media Foundation.

Organiser
The CIVIS Media Prize is organised by the Association of ARD State Broadcasters in Germany, represented by Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), together with the Freudenberg Foundation. The Austrian Broadcasting Corporation, SRG SSR, Deutsche Welle, RTV Slovenija, Deutschlandradio, the Franco-German cultural channel Arte, 3sat, Phoenix and the European Broadcasting Union are media partners. The Federal Government Commissioner for Migration, Refugees and Integration, the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, the WDR mediagroup, the Collecting Society of Film and Television Producers and the Alliance of German Producers - Film & Television are co-operation partners. The European Parliament has assumed the patronage of the Civis Media Prize.

The CIVIS Media Prize is implemented by the non-profit Civis Media Foundation with the aim of raising awareness of integration and cultural diversity among radio and television programme makers and promoting an innovative and professional approach to developments in the European immigration society. The organisation aims to contribute to intercultural understanding and European integration through the work of the electronic media.

The chairman of the Board of Trustees of the CIVIS Media Foundation is the director general of Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Tom Buhrow. The members of the Board of Trustees, through their activities in civil society, aim to promote the foundation's objectives in the public sphere. The chair of the CIVIS Programme Advisory Board is Jona Teichmann, Head of Regional Radio Programmes.

Competition
The CIVIS Media Prize is awarded as a European television prize and as a radio prize for German-language programmes in the European Union and Switzerland. In addition, the Young CIVIS Media Prize has been awarded since 2004 to young journalists, as well as students and graduates of film and media schools who are no older than 32. The CIVIS Media Prize and the Young CIVIS Media Prize are endowed. The CIVIS Online Prize has been awarded since 2010. The prize honours journalistic internet content dealing with issues of integration and cultural diversity and presented in a web-friendly graphic and multimedia format. The CIVIS Online Prize is also endowed. Other prizes include the CIVIS Television Prize for magazine programmes and the CIVIS Cinema Prize.

In 2005 and 2006, the European Roma Television Prize was also awarded. In 2008, the CIVIS Media Prize for Integration and Cultural Diversity honoured radio and television reports on the integration of immigrants in companies and their everyday working lives for the first time with the CIVIS Business Prize.

All programme contributions meeting the entry conditions and submitted to the CIVIS Media Foundation within the competition period are eligible to compete for the CIVIS Media Prize.

The international CIVIS Media Prize and the Young CIVIS Media Prize are awarded in May each year. The award ceremony is broadcast on television and radio.