Deadline- 30 September 2013
Participants around 28 EU member States are invited to participate in EU Health Prize for Journalists hosted by European Commission. The aim of this program is to raise awareness of issues related to health care and patient rights.
Prizes-
- 1st prize: € 6,500
- 2nd prize: € 4,000
- 3rd prize: € 2,500
Areas covered-
- cross-border healthcare
- rare diseases
- health workforce
- patient safety and hospital acquired infections
- organ donation and transplantation
- chronic diseases: cancer, cardiovascular diseases and/or diabetes
- vaccination (flu vaccination and/or childhood vaccination)
- prudent use of antibiotics
- ageing and dementias
- pharmaceuticals
- active and healthy ageing
- health determinants: tobacco, alcohol and/or nutrition & physical activity.
Eligibility & Criteria-
- Participants to the competition must be nationals or residents of one of the 28 EU Member States (including Croatia) and professional journalists (authors must be registered journalists, or submitted articles must be published in a journalistic style in reputable publications)
- Participants must be aged 18 or older
- Each participant may submit up to 2 articles. Articles may have been published either individually or in a series of articles
- Each article must be submitted individually using a fully completed online submission form
- All articles must have been originally published within the European Union in either a periodical print or online media outlet
- Each article must have been published between 01 August 2012 and 30 September 2013. Participants may be asked to provide proof that the article has been published
- Articles must be written in one of the official languages of the EU
- Articles must be at least 3,000 characters in length (without spaces) but shall not exceed 20,000 characters
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