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The Adolf-Grimme-Institute is one of Germany’s most well known research and service institutions studying media culture and quality, media education and communications policy. The institute’s functions lie in observing, analysing, and evaluating the media branches and their development – whether television, radio, multimedia or the Internet – in opening up new possibilities for the use of the media, and in transferring competence and knowledge between social groups.

Fields of activity of the Adolf-Grimme-Institute are:

• the Adolf Grimme Prize, Germany’s most prestigious award for quality television;
• the Grimme Online Award for websites of outstanding public quality and new forms of online journalism;
• Grimme Education, with pilot projects and services related to education via the media, media literacy, communication of sustainability issues, new forms and models of knowledge transfer.

The Adolf-Grimme-Institute is a member of the German Round Table for the UN Decade, of scientific advisory boards of the projects “balance[f]” and “Sustainable view on films”; it collaborates in the annual Summer University in Santiago de Chile and participates in several events and projects on sustainable communication.

Associates of the Adolf-Grimme-Institute GmbH are the German Association for Adult Education, the WDR and the ZDF (two major public broadcasting stations), the North- Rhine Westphalian Broadcasting Authority, NRW Medien GmbH, and the town of Marl.

Contact:
Adolf-Grimme-Institute
Adolf-Grimme-Institut
Eduard-Weitsch-Weg 25
45768 Marl, Germany
phone + 49 2365 91890
fax + 49 2365 918989

Person to contact: Friedrich Hagedorn
hagedorn@grimme-institut.de

http://www.grimme-institut.de