SRG: "Pacte Multitmédia" prize awarded for the first time

 On Thursday, the SRG and its partners presented the «Pacte Multimédia» award for the first time to promote innovation in the field of new communication technologies. From among approximately 100 multimedia projects submitted from all of Switzerland’s language regions, the jury—composed of prominent figures from the fields of information technology, education, and media—selected the winners. The three grand prizes, each worth 20,000 francs, went to Olivier Crochat and his team for the interactive web agenda Mixin.com, to Thomas Lehmann for the online game Reverse/Foreward, and to Dominik Petko and Thomas Moser for the virtual photo album Schweiz.ch – suissr.ch – svizzr.ch. Richard Charrier, Pierre-Yves Borgeaud, and Laeticia Dosch, as well as Gianluca Giuliani and Danila Nussio, each received 10,000 Swiss francs as a recognition award.The ’Pacte Multimédia’ award and the internet platform Pactemultimedia.ch are components of the Pacte Multimédia, signed in the spring of 2007, a partnership between SRG, the State Secretariat for Education and Research (SBF), the Federal Office for Vocational Education and Training (BBT), and the Swiss Conference of Cantonal Directors of Education (EDK). According to Thursday’s press release, the goal of this partnership is to work together to promote innovation, scientific research in the media sector, and education.