Awards

Each year, the German Society of Pedagogy and Information (Gesellschaft für Pädagogik und Information e.V., or GPI), a scientific community focused on multimedia, educational technology and media didactics, bestows the Comenius EduMedia award for IKT-based educational media in Europe. With its Comenius awards, GPI supports IKT-based educational materials that have distinguished themselves pedagogically, in terms of content and design.

The prestigious “RIP” (“Reconnu d’intérêt pédagogique”) is awarded by the French Ministry for Education. The purpose of this award is to help teachers choose learning materials from the range available in the field of educational multimedia. This logo certifies software as having made a positive contribution to education. Just which packages and multimedia projects should bear the logo is debated by teaching staff and experts, and a multimedia committee makes the final decision based on the arguments.

The German GIGA-Maus seal is known as a reliable wayfinder for parents, children and teachers when buying software as well as selecting family-appropriate Internet offers. Recipients are programs and online sites for children and the whole family: Learning programs, creative programs, children’s and family Internet content, as well as games for TV and consoles.

The pedagogically-oriented interactive Pädi award is given to German multimedia products for children and young adults. Online and offline projects are considered, and the winners are selected by a process that seeks to recognize “pedagogically valuable” products involving children, young adults, parents, teachers and experts.

The Pädi award as well as the measures associated with it (Pädi seal of approval, info brochures, etc) are significant contributors to making the multimedia market more transparent for parents and teachers, giving them valuable orientation in their tasks. The children and young adults reap the most benefit, assured of receiving appropriate and high-quality multimedia products.