Media awards

Television Prize for Adult Education

The ‘Television Prize for Adult Education’ is awarded to Austrian productions or co-productions that are of particular value to adult education in terms of content and form (artistic design and television-appropriate presentation).

The ‘Television Prize for Adult Education’ is awarded in four categories:

  • Discussion programmes and talk formats
  • documentaries
  • Television film, series, fiction, docu-fiction, edutainment
  • Broadcast formats, programme series

At the request of the jury, the award-sponsoring associations created a ‘Jury Prize’ for the first time in 1996, which is awarded in addition to the four category prizes. This jury prize has been called the Axel Corti Prize since it was awarded in 1997.

Following discussions with the former ORF directors Johannes Kunz and Wolfgang Lorenz and in agreement with the ORF public relations department, the award ceremony has been organised in a new, more attractive form since 1994, which is technically far more complex, so that the support of the ORF is required.

The prize is awarded by KEBÖ.

Further informations can be found here: https://www.medienpreise.at/fernsehpreis/

Radio Prize for Adult Education

The ‘Radio Prize for Adult Education’ is intended to recognise the high educational value of many outstanding radio programmes and to give a medium that is often underestimated by the public the attention it deserves. It is also intended to promote the cultural technique of ‘listening skills’.

The Adult Education Radio Prize comprises five categories:

  • Culture: Programmes with primarily literary and/or musical content.
  • Documentation, information: Programmes such as features, reports, magazines.
  • Conversations, debates: Interviews, talk formats, dialogues and phone-in programmes.
  • Education, science - Eduard Ploier Prize*: Programmes on education and science or about educational events.
  • Programme series and main topics

*The prize for the education category is named the ‘Eduard Ploier Prize’ after the late former adult educator and long-time ORF curator Eduard Ploier.


The prize is awarded by KEBÖ.

Further informations at https://www.medienpreise.at/radiopreis/