20/05/2024

Registration is open for the 7th IMPA Journalism Award.

The IMPA Journalism Prize will reach its 7th edition in 2024. The competition will offer R$ 36,000 to the top three winners in the two categories: "Mathematics" and "Science Communication". Registration will be open until June 2Tuesdays.

After four entirely remote editions, this year's awards ceremony will take place on September 7th at the National Mathematics Festival , an event organized by IMPA (Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics) aimed at disseminating mathematics to the general public, in Rio de Janeiro. With the theme "Mathematics is Innovation," FestMat aims to show how science is behind technological advancements, as well as to bring the discipline closer to children and adults alike.

Held since 2018, the IMPA Journalism Prize aims to encourage the publication of journalistic reports on Mathematics, Science and Technology in Brazil and to recognize outstanding work that brings these topics closer to society.

The prizes will be identical in both categories: R $ 10,000 for 1st place, R $ 5,000 for Mondays place, and R $ 3,000 for Tuesdays place. Honorable mentions will also be awarded in each category.

Journalists with reports published or broadcast between July 1, 2023, and June 23, 2024 , are eligible to compete for the award . Reports already submitted to a previous edition of the award are not eligible. Submissions from all media outlets are accepted – newspapers, magazines, blogs, television, radio, or other.

In the "Mathematics" category, you can submit articles that address research, the teaching of the subject, the impact of knowledge olympiads, the use of mathematics in the development of new technologies, such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, among others. Reports for the "Science Communication" category can cover scientific and technological advances in all areas of knowledge.

According to the regulations, each journalist may submit a maximum of three reports or series. The main judging criteria are: journalistic relevance of the topic, originality, depth, clarity, and quality of execution of the story. Click here to access the regulations.

Since its first edition, nearly 900 journalistic works have been submitted to the IMPA Journalism Prize . In total, 63 works from media outlets such as TV Globo, GloboNews, Folha de S.Paulo, Estado de S. Paulo, O Globo, Revista Piauí, Veja, Revista Superinteressante, Revista Galileu, among others, have been awarded. Nearly R$ 190,000 in prizes have been distributed over the last 6 years.

In 2023, first place in the "Mathematics" category went to the report "The Primacy of Cousins ," by journalist Bruno Vaiano, published in Superinteressante magazine, and"The Return of Ubirajara ," by Bernardo Esteves, from Revista Piauí magazine, was chosen as the best publication in the Science Communication category. Learn about the winners from previous editions.