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The EUROPRIX Multimedia
Multimedia
Multimedia is media and content that uses a combination of different content forms. The term can be used as a noun or as an adjective describing a medium as having multiple content forms. The term is used in contrast to media which use only rudimentary computer display such as text-only, or...

 Awards are Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

’s contest for young professionals and students who work on innovative projects in the field of e-contents and design - using whichever multimedia channel or platform. Projects can be submitted in 9 categories and one special award.

Festival

The EUROPRIX Multimedia Festival showcases and promotes young professionals and top students and honours them for their outstanding achievements. Over three days, this event frames the platform for social networking, exchange of ideas, experiences and business contacts between the multimedia newcomers, instructors, the European IT-industry and IT-media editors and journalists.

Projects

The EUROPRIX winning projects are the best of young multimedia contents and design in Europe. The projects and products are the top selection from all entries to the Top Talent
Skill
A skill is the learned capacity to carry out pre-determined results often with the minimum outlay of time, energy, or both. Skills can often be divided into domain-general and domain-specific skills...

 Award. They show that the new developments are not isolated, but that from the Baltic
Baltic Sea
The Baltic Sea is a brackish mediterranean sea located in Northern Europe, from 53°N to 66°N latitude and from 20°E to 26°E longitude. It is bounded by the Scandinavian Peninsula, the mainland of Europe, and the Danish islands. It drains into the Kattegat by way of the Øresund, the Great Belt and...

 to the Mediterranean, from small towns to the European metro centres, young media designers have taken charge of the technologies to create new applications and contents that work in the real world.

History of EUROPRIX

The EUROPRIX was started by the Austrian presidency in 1998 as a EU member states initiative, supported by the European Commission DG Enterprise and Information Society, governments of other countries in the European Union and private industry. It takes place in the city of Salzburg
Salzburg
-Population development:In 1935, the population significantly increased when Salzburg absorbed adjacent municipalities. After World War II, numerous refugees found a new home in the city. New residential space was created for American soldiers of the postwar Occupation, and could be used for...

 (Salzburgerland).

Its main activity was the organisation of the pan-European Multimedia Content Award. The contest and related activities are organised by the contest office in Salzburg and its partner organisations in majors regions in Europe, in association with leading professional multimedia associations.

Over the last 11 years EUROPRIX has established a platform for the development of new media industries in Europe and professional networking of producers and designers. EUROPRIX today is not a one-time event: It is a strategic project to develop the fast-moving multimedia markets in Europe.

Upon the EUROPRIX Multimedia Awards (formerly Top Talent Awards), its activities include the EADIM - European Academy for Digital Media, EUROPRIX Summer Schools and the Academic Network. The number of related activities are organised by the EUROPRIX Partners in 26 European Countries.

Winners 2006

Winner in the Category Broadband/Online

SRG SSR Timeline (CH) – Andrey Laurent, Swiss Info/Swiss Radio International

Winner in the Category Offline/Interactive DVD

Sonorama, south Benin (FRA) – Francois-Romain Dumont, Cosmonote

Winner in the Category Mobile Contents

CabBoots (GER) – Martin Frey, Berlin University of the Arts

Winner in the Category Games

The Tulse Luper Journey (NL) – Christiaan de Rooij, Submarine

Winner in the Category Interactive Computer Graphics

Neighbours (HUN) – Adrienn Székács, Moholy-Nagy University of Art & Design Budapest

Winner in the Category Interactive Installations & Interactive TV

Outerspace
OuterSpace
OuterSpace is an underground hip hop duo from North Philadelphia. Originally a trio consisting of three Puerto Rican friends that then took the artist names Planetary, Jedeye and Crypt the Warchild...

 (GER) – Markus Lerner, Berlin University of the Arts

Winner in the Category Digital Video & Animations

Tadam (FRA) – Jonathan DaCosta, Gobelins, l’école de l’image

Winner in the Category Content Tools & Interface Design

recreating movement (GER) – Martin Hilpoltsteiner, FH Würzburg

Winner of the Content Fusion Award

TheUnseenVideo (GER) – Daniel Scheibel, FH Augsburg

Winner of the Thesis Award

“Concept, Design and Implementation of an Interactive Hypervideo Application on a Smart Phone“ (BUL) – Nina Valkanova, TU Darmstadt

Overall Winner of the Top Talent Award 2006

Outerspace
OuterSpace
OuterSpace is an underground hip hop duo from North Philadelphia. Originally a trio consisting of three Puerto Rican friends that then took the artist names Planetary, Jedeye and Crypt the Warchild...

 (GER) – Markus Lerner, Berlin University of the Arts

Winners 2004

Overall winner 2004 / Category Winner CROSS MEDIA
DVD-MAXI Edelweiss Müller Juicy Panic

Category Winner BROADBAND/ONLINE
SOMEDAY ON THE MISTY ISLAND

Category Winner OFFLINE/DVD
261001

Category Winner MOBILE CONTENTS
Mobile Learning Engine

Category Winner GAMES PLATFORMS
Kick Ass Kung-Fu

Category Winner INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHIC VIDEO & FILM
iInteractive Projection System

Category CONTENT TOOLS AND INTERFACE DESIGN
Bridging the Island of the Colourblind. Adam Montandon, Neil Harbisson
Neil Harbisson
Neil Harbisson is a Catalan raised, Northern Ireland born artist, musician and performer best known for his self-extended ability to hear colours. In 2004 he became the first person in the world to wear an eyeborg. The inclusion of the eyeborg on his passport photo has been claimed by some to be...



Category INTERACTIVE TV
The Green Scheme

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