The works entered for this Award must have the following characteristics:

• Works in print format: be accompanied by an original copy of the medium in which they were published.
• Works broadcast on the Radio: be recorded on CD or USB memory stick together with the full programme of the broadcast, indicating radio station and date broadcast.
• Works broadcast on Television: be recorded on a DVD or USB memory stick together with the full programme of the broadcast indicating channel and the date they went on air.
• Works posted on the Internet: be copied onto a CD Rom or USB memory stick and incorporated into the complete web page that disseminated the work.

Eligible for this award are media communications professionals who have published, broadcast or disseminated journalistic works signed in their own name or pseudonym and produced individually or in a team, in any of the formats indicated above between 1 January 2011 and 31 May 2012.

Each candidate may submit a maximum of two pieces of work.

The works may be submitted in the official languages of any of the European Union countries although the sending of a copy in Spanish is obligatory.

The Prize is a total cash prize of 16,000 euros and the following four categories are established:

• Print mediums: a cash prize of 4.000 euros.
• Radio: a cash prize of 4.000 euros.
• TV: a cash prize of 4.000 euros.
• Internet: a cash prize of 4.000 euros.

Should the Jury so decide, it may establish any Special Mentions it considers appropriate for the works submitted, but these Special Mentions will not be eligible for any cash prizes.

The Prizes in each of the four categories will be single and indivisible ones, although they may be awarded to a piece of work produced in a team or in collaboration, as well as for various pieces of work linked to one and the same programme or article.

Any of the communications professionals who win one or more of the cash prizes of the Award may designate, in a bona fide way, an organisation –like for example the media company where they do their journalism work– so that it can be the direct beneficiary of the cash prize of the Award. The above shall be without prejudice to the fact that for the purposes of the public announcement of the award the professional or professionals shall be acknowledged as the winner or winners of the Award.

The jury for the 6th Edition of the TECNALIA Journalism Award for Communicating Technological Research and Innovation 2012 will be presided over by José Ángel Sánchez-Asiaín, Chairman of the COTEC Foundation, and will be made up of people with recognised prestige in the world of technological research and innovation and the mass media.

The jury’s decision in the 6th TECNALIA Journalism Award shall be by simple majority. In the event of a tie, the person who is the Chairman of the jury shall have the casting vote.

The Jury’s decision shall be final and no appeal may be lodged against it.
The decision will be announced by 31 December, 2012.
The Prizes will be given in the course of a ceremony organised for this purpose in which the Jury’s decision will be announced.

The deadline for submitting the works shall be 10 September, 2012.

The works must be sent by recorded delivery post or delivered in person to:

TECNALIA Corporación Tecnológica
Parque Tecnológico de Bizkaia
C/ Geldo, Edificio 700
48160 Derio (Bizkaia)
Basque Country (Spain)
Telphone + 34 94 404 14 44

The following must be expressly stated on the envelope or package dispatched: “Premio de Periodismo a la Divulgación de la Investigación e Innovación Tecnológica TECNALIA” (TECNALIA Journalism Award for Communicating Technological Research and Innovation).

The participants will need to provide:

• Name and ID of the author or authors.
• Address, telephone number and contact e-mail address.
• Brief CV.
• The work will need to be submitted as indicated in the section dealing with “Characteristics of the works submitted” in these Rules.

The entry of candidates entails full acceptance of these rules and the Jury’s decision. The works submitted will not be returned.

TECNALIA reserves the right to spread the works submitted and will indicate the name(s) of the author(s), medium and date published, broadcast or disseminated as well as the status of the works selected by TECNALIA, for a maximum of six months, but in no case will this involve any economic exploitation of the works.
The ownership of the works shall be held by the author(s) or the medium in which the work was disseminated.