The slide show above presents the winners (Gold, Silver and Bronze) of all categories of the BESA 2012 awards.

Th BESA competition which gives awards to the best schoolbooks in Europe is co-organised by the Frankfurt Book Fair, the IARTEM (the International Association for Research on Textbooks and Educational Media) and the EEPG (European Educational Publishers’ Group).

Prize ceremony 2012:

The BESA awards 2012 were handed over at the prize ceremony 10th of October 2012 at 4 p.m. at the  Frankfurt Book Fair

Who can participate?

Participation is open to all European educational publishers and other providers of education materials and media.

Why should you participate?

• it is a marketing tool for high quality schoolbooks and educational materials
• the winners of the Gold prizes will receive an original work of art
• the winners of the Gold, Silver and Bronze awards in each of the four categories will receive a diploma (in two copies)
• all participating titles will be evaluated by an international jury of outstanding experts on textbooks and education
• each participating title will receive written feedback where the jury describes the strengths and weaknesses of each title
• the evaluations of the three best titles in each of the four categories will be publicly available on the award  web site for a whole year
• all participating titles will be displayed during and after the ceremony where the prizes will be announced during the Frankfurt Book Fair 2012
• all awarded schoolbooks will be presented in a special section of (www.schoolbookawards.org) with pictures of the covers of each book

Who are the organisers of the Best European Schoolbook Awards?

This competition is co-organised by three international organisations with special interest in education and schoolbooks;

1. The Frankfurt Book Fair which is well known as the biggest book fair worldwide and which is giving high priority to educational publishing in the coming years;

2. The IARTEM (International Association for Research on Textbooks and Educational Media) is a non-profit organisation independent of any institutional or commercal interest. It is a community of researchers worldwide with the aim to promote research on and understanding of textbooks and educational media. In view of the fact that seven members of the Best European Schoolbook Awards jury are members of IARTEM it should be stressed that IARTEM sustains the importance of assessing the quality of textbooks, and will do her utmost to base the assessment on research;

3. The EEPG (European Educational Publishers' Group) was founded in 1991 as an association of educational publishers in Europe, at the moment with 20 publishers as members from 20 European countries.  The competition is not limited to members fo the EEPG, but it is open to all educational publishers in Europe.

Please click on the logos in the top right corner to find out more about the co-organisers of the Best European Schoolbook Awards.