Swiss Diabetes Foundation: Media Prize 2011 announced
The Swiss Diabetes Foundation has announced its media award for the second time. The call for entries is open to all professional media practitioners in Switzerland who published an article (in print or online) on the topic of diabetes mellitus in 2010.
The content must cover topics relating to general information about diabetes, timely detection, appropriate treatment, training or prevention of diabetes. Scientific publications in medical journals, public reports and the like are not eligible. The prize money is CHF 5,000. The prize will be awarded on November 12, 2011, during the 2nd Swiss-German Diabetics Day in Basel.
The purpose of the Swiss Diabetes Foundation is to promote and support scientific research into diabetes mellitus and related medical and socio-medical examinations, to provide general information about diabetes, its timely detection and appropriate treatment, and in particular to provide training for diabetes sufferers. The foundation writes this in a press release on Presseportal.ch.
Written submissions must be sent to the Secretariat of the Swiss Diabetes Foundation, keyword: Media Prize, Rütistrasse 3a, 5400 Baden, including original publication and CV, by March 31, 2011. The jury, which consists of five experts, will notify the winner in writing by the end of June 2011.
