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This is the last call for entries!

The EUROPRIX Multimedia Awards are open for entries until July 30 2010!
Use this opportunity and register your project today!

This year’s Special Awards:
- Innovative multimedia concept
- Special Award for the project with the best business potential
- Special Award for the most creative design.

Take the chance to submit your project for free to the EUROPRIX Multimedia Awards at: www.europrix.org

Due to the large amount of enthusiastic requests from young digital media whiz-kids across Europe, you still have the fantastic opportunity to enter the continent's premier multimedia award! But get a move on!

If you want to associate yourself with the best of the best in European multimedia, you have until July 30 to enter! All you have to do is to click on this web-link: www.europrix.org/en_register.html, complete the registration process and you could fulfil all your hopes and dreams of recognition and success.

The digital media scene is increasingly competitive. Companies are begging for new ideas, fresh content and sparkling technical innovations.

Get to the head of the pack by entering the EUROPRIX Multimedia Awards today!

EUROPRIX is now open for all unfinished brilliant projects, smart new ideas & sketches of exciting visions with digital technologies. Please send your concept, a 1 page summary of your idea as well as the signed release form (download here) to office@europrix.org.

EUROPRIX TV, a unique collaboration between the Chew TV Network, the world’s first Web TV Network run by and for young people, and the EUROPRIX Multimedia Awards is online to promote the next generation of digital media producers from 38 countries across Europe.
Join in!

Enter your creative projects!
If you have an interesting concept, please register for the EUROPRIX Special Award: Innovative Multimedia Concept here!

Have a look at the new EUROPRIX Special Awards here. Plenty of opportunities for young designers to enter their outstanding work! The registration will start in April.

The registration for the EUROPRIX 2010 will start in April. The Festival will take place in Graz, Austria. Lots of creativity and innovation for you! Ulterior details to come soon!

Overall Winner:

Swords & Soldiers
Joost van Dongen, Ronimo Games, NL
www.ronimo-games.com


Category Winner Online Web / Projects:
Donkeypedia
Joost van Eeden, Donkeypedia Foundation, NL
www.donkeypedia.nl


Category Mobile Applications:
showtime!
Kathrin Probst, Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences, AT
video


Category Games:
Swords & Soldiers
Joost van Dongen, Ronimo Games, NL
www.ronimo-games.com


Category Interactive Computer Graphics:
vuvox
Eyal Richter, Shenkar College, ISR
http://vuvoxproject.com/

Category Content Tools & Interface Design:
Flow-er
Eran Ayalon, Shenkar college, ISR
www.eran-ayalon.com


Category Interactive Installations:
akustisch - sound producing multitouch gestures
Balz Rittmeyer, Zurich University of Art and Design, CH
http://akustisch.digitalaspekte.ch/index.php?id=95


Category Digital Video & Animations:
deconstruct - a stereoscopic experiment
Tina Braun, University of applied sciences Mainz, GER
http://tinabraun.de



Special Award for the project with the best business potential:
Moogo.com
Ideakone Ltd, FI

Special Jury Mention for a game with a high level of interactive storytelling:
The Adventures of Tinger
David Scharf, GER

Watch it live here, brought to you by Telekom Austria Group.

http://www.ivs.tv/projects/europrix09/

Have a look at the EUROPRIX Festival programme and join Europe's top talents in Graz!

After three days of searching for the latest innovations in multimedia and some hot sizzling debates, the Jury have selected the brilliant EUROPRIX 09 nominees.
A detailed showcase will follow in the next days!

Category Online / Web Projects:
The Cordless Show. The Online Music Show
Dominic Dadson, London Metropolitan University, UK
www.cordless-show.com

Donkeypedia
Joost van Eeden, Donkeypedia Foundation, NL
www.donkeypedia.nl

mite. Sleek time tracking for teams & freelancers
Yolk - Sebastian Munz & Julia Soergel GbR, GER
http://mite.yo.lk/

Category Mobile Applications:
toBed – interactive bedtime stories for iPhone and iPod touch
Marc-André Weibezahn, HAWK University of Applied Science and Art, GER
www.weibezahn.com

showtime!
Kathrin Probst, Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences, AT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWqKUd49yOM

MobileDoc
Gerald Madlmayr, FH OÖ Studienbetriebs GmbH / Mobile Computing, AT
http://symbianresources.com/projects/mobiledoc.php


Category Games:
Swords & Soldiers
Joost van Dongen, Ronimo Games, NL
www.ronimo-games.com

Monospace
Daniel Lutz, Zurich Academy of the Arts, CH
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=302367044&mt=8

Underwater Mayhem 2
Robert Träffe, Powerhouse, SWE
http://svenorvar.wordpress.com/about/

Category Interactive Computer Graphics:
vuvox
Eyal Richter, Shenkar College, ISR
http://vuvoxproject.com/

Clavilux 2000
Jonas Heuer, Hochschule für Gestaltung Schwäbisch Gmünd, GER
www.jonasheuer.de


Category Content Tools & Interface Design:
Moogo.com
Mikko Nurminen, Ideakone Ltd, FI
www.moogo.com

Flow-er
Eran Ayalon, Shenkar college, ISR
www.eran-ayalon.com

cmsbox
Christoph Wysseier, Cmsbox GmbH, CH
www.cmsbox.com


Category Interactive Installations:
akustisch – sound producing multitouch gestures
Balz Rittmeyer, Zurich University of Art and Design, CH
http://akustisch.digitalaspekte.ch/index.php?id=95

CRISTAL (Control of Remotely Interfaced Systems using Touch-based Actions in Living spaces)
Florian Perteneder, FH Hagenberg, AT
http://mi-lab.org/wp-content/data/CRISTAL-full-576p.wmv

Oz, the intelligent alarm clock
Thibault Perret, Gobelins, FR
www.projet-oz.net


Category Digital Video & Animations:
I am Olesya
Olesya Saitov, Holon Institute of Technology, ISR
http://www.hit.ac.il/web/default.asp

deconstruct – a stereoscopic experiment
Tina Braun, University of applied sciences Mainz, GER
http://tinabraun.de

The Forest
David Scharf, University of Applied Sciences Augsburg, GER
www.huesforalice.com

Knowing the creativity and content markets inside-out, the EUROPRIX Jury will storm into Salzburg this September with the mission to “find excellence and creativity in content”. The Jury represents eleven nationalities selected from the multimedia hubs scattered around Eastern and Western Europe. Have a look at the Jurors here.

Due to the large amount of enthusiastic requests from young digital media whiz-kids across Europe, you still have the fantastic opportunity to enter the continent's premier multimedia award! But get a move on! If you want to associate yourself with the best of the best in European multimedia, you have until July 31 to enter!

All you have to do is to click on this web-link: www.europrix.org/en_register.html, complete the registration process and you could fulfil all your hopes and dreams of recognition and success. The digital media scene is increasingly competitive. Companies are begging for new ideas, fresh content and sparkling technical innovations. Get to the head of the pack by entering the EUROPRIX Multimedia Awards.

Free registration for first-time participants!
Everybody is into the financial crisis. We want to meet the challenge and EURORPRIX helps those who don’t cry but create! First time entries in EUROPRIX 09 get a “crisis discount”: no registration fee for participants who participate in EUROPRIX for the first time!

Register your project now!
Deadline for entries is June 30, 2009.

The online registration for the EUROPRIX Awards will open on April 1st 2009.

Everybody is into the financial crisis. We want to meet the challenge and EURORPRIX helps those who don’t cry but create! First time entries in EUROPRIX 09 get a “crisis discount”: no registration fee for participants who participate in EUROPRIX for the first time!

The EUROPRIX Nominee Videos are now online. Check out the EUROPRIX Channels on Youtube or on Myspace!

Follow these links:
ORF: Steiermark Heute 
(German only)

Kleine Zeitung:
Junge Multimedia-Künstler präsentieren sich in Graz
(German only)

The Overall Winner comes from France: mü

The category winners of the EUROPRIX Multimedia Awards 2008 are:

- Online / Web Projects: Take this dance and forget my name

- Offline Projects / Interactive DVD: Auschwitz on stage - Peter Weiss: »The Investigation« in East and West Germany

- Mobile Applications: RoboVox: Your Voice

- Games: Ace of Mace (launch in January 2009)

- Interactive Computer Graphics: Tagtool

- Interactive TV: Kika and Bob

- Interactive Installations: mü

- Content Tools and Interface Design: Retype

- Digital Video & Animations: Gisela

Congratulations to the successful teams!

Don't miss the exciting European Multimedia Gala Night! Get to know all nominated projects, meet the creators and producers and find out who has won each category and who the overall EUROPRIX Winner is!

Register NOW online and reserve your seat at the Gala!

The Gala will take place on November 29, 2008 at 20.00, (doors open at 19.30)
at the

Seifenfabrik Graz
Angergasse 41 - 43
8010 Graz
www.seifenfabrik.info

or watch the Gala online, streamed live by the Telekom Austria!

Don't miss it!
Successful and highly interesting multimedia creators and business experts will share their expertise together with the 23 finalist teams of the EURORPIX Multimedia Awards. Come to the Kunsthaus Graz and discover multimedia innovation and creativity! In co-operation with the Medienkunstlabor all visitors will have the unique opportunity to experience the great multimedia works by the finest young talents Europe has to offer!

Please have a look at the Festival Program online!

Kunsthaus Graz & Medienkunstlabor, Lendkai 1, 8020 Graz, Austria