Writers opportunities

EuroPAWS has announced opportunities for writers across Europe in 2002.

EuroPAWS (European Public Awareness of Science) is offering opportunities for the development and recognition of new ideas for television drama drawing on the world of science and technology.

EuroPAWS will offer development grants of €3,000 (Euros) to selected writers to take forward promising new proposals for a television single drama, drama series or serial. Ideas should be suitable for an international audience.

The deadline for grant submissions is 14 June 2002.

In addition to script development grants there will be awards for the most promising scripts developed from the grants, and two of the developed ideas will have 15 minute extracts performed as dramatised presentations at the Awards evening.

There will also be two MIDAS Prizes for the best dramas based on factual science stories transmitted in Europe between 1950 and 1999. scientists will award all EuroPAWS grants and prizes.

Five partners including European groupings of scientists and the EURO-MEI section of UNI run the project.

EuroPAWS events are being planned for the Paris Science Television Festival in the Eiffel Tower, in September, for a Festival in Milan in October and for the EuroPAWS Awards evening in November in London.

For more information contact Jim Wilson [email protected] at the EURO-MEI section of UNI.