AICA – International Association for Environmental Communication - announced today the finalists of the 6th edition of the “AICA Prize” for environmental communications.
There are three yearly awards:
“Communicating with citizens improves the environment”
The main award; every year has its own theme: for 2009 it is “Communicating the Green Innovation”.
Finalists:
- Motel Connection, per the project “H.E.R.O.I.N. - Human Environmental Return of Output/Input Network”, cross-medial project throughout music, comics, videogame and ecologic commitment
- “Waterlife” project, website, documentary and community on Great Lakes preservation
“Communicating the Kyoto Protocol”
Special award dedicated to CO2 emissions cutting.
Finalists:
- Panos Pictures, per Tuvalu Island reportage
- Global Warming: Early Warning Signs, a map on climate change scenarios
Career Award (entitled to Mr. Beppe Comin, one of the pioneers of environmental communication in Italy)
Screening is over and the winner for 2009 is Dr. Joe Smith (Open University – BBC).
The award-giving ceremony is scheduled for the first part of December in Turin (Italy): winners, exact location and date will be given as soon as possible.
AICA is an association constituted on January 2003 in Alba (Italy).
It is a cultural project which aims at knowing, studying and promoting national and international environmental communication actions; sharing and comparing campaigns, studying the possible use of media in relation to environmental issues, defining new strategies and collaborating with existing projects.
The evaluation criteria rely on five aspects:
• professional or cultural interest in environmental communication issues;
• both visual and verbal language effectiveness;
• original and innovative use of means of communication;
• choice of communication methods that should not only inform, but manage to inflict real behaviour changes as well;
• ability to reach the most large target possible, promoting positive behaviour models in terms of environmental preservation.
AICA Prize is made with the cooperation of Amiat, E.R.I.C.A. soc. coop. and Municipality of Turin.
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