This year’s 10 scholarship holders!
In the 40th year of the Åke Blomström Award, almost 40 entries from 14 countries were received. The international ÅBA-jury listened to and carefully reviewed all of them.
Congratulations to the candidates who have been awarded a scholarship to attend the
Åke Blomström Masterclass @ PRIX EUROPA 2026 in Berlin:
Aoife O'Neill, Ireland
Elisa Longo, Italy
Indrė Krivickaitė, Lithuania
Jamie Reinert, Luxembourg
Leo Rehnfeldt, Sweden
Mees Warmerdam, Netherlands
Michał Matus, Poland
Ronja Morgenthaler, Germany
Victorie Kralko, Czech Republic
+ Alicja Głów, Poland (she could not attend in 2025)
ÅBA-Masterclass Masters
Meet this year’s Masters who will be supporting our scholarship holders here in Berlin :
Erin Anderson, USA
Franziska Sophie Dorau, Austria
Saška Rakef, Slovenia
Xavier Yvon, France
Call for submissions
10 scholarships to the Åke Blomström Masterclass @ PRIX EUROPA 2026
Apply now and send your application by 13 July.
Grant available for a two-day training event for Europe’s audio talent by Europe’s best audio documentary makers. Apply now for a scholarship to the Åke Blomström Masterclass delivered at the start of this year’s PRIX EUROPA (10 & 11 October 2026) in Berlin.
During the two-day Masterclass you will have the unique opportunity to learn from European award winning documentary makers, to glean their secrets and get their advice. If you have gathered your first steps in documentary audio, this is your chance to pitch your ideas and projects and become part of a network of future feature makers all around Europe. All participants will receive an Åke Blomström Masterclass Certificate.
To be eligible for one of ten scholarships, submit
a max. 5-minute edited audio production demonstrating the creative use of audio (with English translation as pdf or subtitle video)
a CV,
a covering letter outlining why you wish to attend the Åke Blomström Masterclass
a sketch (max. 1 page) of a documentary project in audio that you might like to pitch there.
The scholarship includes a travel allowance of 500 euros. Please send your application by 13 July 2026 to audio@prixeuropa.eu.
On 17 August we will publish the winners here and at PRIX EUROPA website and you’ll find out if your application was successful.
Good luck!
Agnieszka Czyżewska-Jacquemet (Project Coordinator)
Wolfgang Schiller (Chair Åke Blomström Award)