The 2nd International Citizen Media Award intends to honor tremendous work in the field of citizen media and its products that have been created by private, non-commercial producers.

Patronised by Werner Jostmeier (Member of the State Parliament of Northrhine-Westphalia and Member of the Executive Board of the European People’s Party), the award distinguishes the dedication of citizens of all countries and their audiovisual products and their reporting concerning locally, regionally, globally and socially relevant topics.

Categories

An expert jury awards the prizes in the following categories:

• Video (individual product, short movie, movie in a television broadcast, video podcast, etc.)
• Audio (individual product, radio spot in a radio broadcast, podcast, etc.)

Topic

The topic for the 2012 award is:

Civic Involvement and
Solidarity between the Generations