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Check here all the requirements, categories and procedures to submit your candidacy. The Award is an open call for talent that gives value to the territory through communication.
RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR THE 37TH PICA D’ESTATS AWARD
The Patronat de Turisme of the Diputació de Lleida and the Catalonia Journalists’ Association are promoting the Pica d’Estats Award for press, radio, television and digital media to recognise the best journalistic works dealing with any aspect related to tourism in the Pyrenees and Lands of Lleida.
The award is aimed at the authors of journalistic work published in any medium (written press, radio, television, digital media, etc.) and produced in any language in the period from 1 October 2025 to 30 September 2026. The works submitted for the award must promote tourism in the region by showcasing its tourist, scenic, socioeconomic, cultural or gastronomic assets. These works should contribute to the promotion of local tourist resources.
Participation in the 37th Pica d’Estats Award implies full acceptance of the following rules and regulations:
There are eight categories, each endowed with €6,000:
This category awards the best comprehensive journalistic report published in print and/or digital media. Both the quality of the text and the photographs are valued equally. The work must have a strong narrative that ties in with the visual images.
Only the quality of the journalistic text will be assessed. All works published in print and/or digital media are eligible.
Only the technical and artistic quality of photographs published in general interest or specialised media, whether in print and/or digital, will be assessed. Each submitted entry must consist of a selection of a maximum of 10 photographs.
Both radio programmes and podcasts are eligible, in recognition of new formats which are now on equal footing with traditional radio.
Programmes broadcast on television or via streaming platforms are eligible.
This category recognises works that bring the narrative to a wider audience through various channels and media, giving special attention to publications in digital environments. Particular value will be given to projects that have a coherent narrative, in which each channel adds something special to the overall story, and which combine diverse formats and languages. The fact that they have a joint communication strategy will be taken into account, with social media playing a significant role in dissemination and user experience.
This category is reserved for all works (regardless of type) published in the international media. All articles, radio and audiovisual items, reports, photographs and transmedia works published in international media must therefore be entered exclusively in this category.
This category is reserved for all items published in any media in the Lleida area (regardless of their type). All articles, radio and audiovisual works, reports, photographs and transmedia works published in local media in Lleida must therefore be entered exclusively in this category.
A single work may only be submitted in one category. However, in the categories of “Best photographic report”, “Best journal article” and “Best transmedia entry”, entries may be submitted even if they have already been submitted in the “Best journalistic report” category. This criterion is applied exclusively to these three categories to make it easier for authors to highlight a report as a whole or the quality of the writing, the photographs or the transmedia strategy. This criterion does not apply to the categories of “Best international press entry” and “Best work published in local media”.
The beneficiary of the award will be the author, regardless of the person, company or organisation submitting the entry. Any natural person over the age of 18 and/or legal entity may compete.
If the work has more than one author, they themselves must determine (in percentages) the amount each will receive should their work be the winner.
Works must be submitted between 1 October and 31 October 2026, inclusive. If the documentation submitted is incorrect or incomplete, the person who has submitted the entry will be asked to correct or complete the documentation within ten business days.
Submissions must be accompanied by the registration form available at this link, correctly completed, in which the author(s) must be clearly identified and a photocopy of each person’s ID card included.
Prizes will be paid to the authors of the winning entries, irrespective of who submitted the entry.
To submit a work, the following information or documentation must be provided:
The Patronat de Turisme of the Diputació de Lleida and the Catalonia Journalists’ Association, as promoters of the Pica d’Estats Award, may not accept for consideration any entries that do not comply with the rules. In this case, cancellation of registration will be communicated to the person who submitted the entry, and the work will not be forwarded to the jury for consideration.
The jury will consist of at least seven members:
At the 36th edition of the Pica d’Estats Award, the jury was presided over by Laura Alcalde, president of the Lleida branch of the Catalonia Journalists’ Association, by delegation of the Association’s dean, Joan Maria Morros. Other members were Josep Cuní, Pepa Fernández, Lluís Foix, Mariano Palacín, Mònica Terribas, Francesc Canosa, Anna Sàez, Francesc Guillaumet and Josep Cabasés. The director of the Patronat de Turisme, Juli Alegre, acted as secretary.
In order to select the winners, the jury will give credit to the entries that best showcase the Pyrenees and the Lands of Lleida, presenting original features and promoting the diversity of lifestyles and options for tourism in the area.
The jury may name joint winners in a particular category if it deems it appropriate. In this case, the prize money will be shared equally by the authors of the winning entries. The jury may declare a category void if it considers that the entries submitted are not of sufficient quality.
The jury reserves the right to reassign entries submitted to a different category, if it deems it appropriate.
The jury will meet during February 2027 and, once it has reached a verdict, will inform the winners of each category. The jury’s decision will be final.
The awards ceremony will take place in May 2027. The Patronat de Turisme of the Diputació de Lleida and the Catalonia Journalists’ Association will decide where the event is to take place.
In compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) and Organic Law 3/2018, of 5 December 2018, on the protection of personal data and guarantee of digital rights, we hereby inform you that the data controller is the Catalonia Journalists’ Association, with NIF Q-5856081-D, with registered address at Rambla de Catalunya, 10, principal 2a, 08007 Barcelona.
Your personal data will be incorporated into information systems belonging to the Catalonia Journalists’ Association, in order to manage your participation in the awards. This is on the basis of your consent, given when you registered. These data will be stored for the period legally required, with appropriate measures in accordance with the law, and, after the legally established time period has elapsed, will be duly destroyed.
Your data will not be disclosed to third parties, except in cases where this is necessary to comply with legal obligations or for the awarding of prizes.
The data will be retained for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes described and to meet applicable legal obligations. When they are no longer needed for the purposes of the award scheme and the legally established period has expired, your data will be deleted from our files and systems.
We inform you that no personal data are transferred internationally and no processing involving automated individual decision-making, such as profiling, is carried out.
You may at any time exercise your rights of access, rectification, erasure, opposition, withdrawal of consent, restriction of processing and portability by sending a written notification by post to the address of the Catalonia Journalists’ Association, or by email to contacte@periodistes.cat. If necessary, you may also contact the Catalan Data Protection Authority (www.apdcat.gencat.cat).
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Participants declare that they are the only, exclusive authors of the entries submitted, that their work is original and does not infringe the rights of any third parties, and they therefore hold all rights for these works.
Consequently, they accept full responsibility for any claim that may arise in connection with said rights and undertake to hold the Patronat de Turisme of the Diputació de Lleida and the Catalonia Journalists’ Association harmless against any claim that third parties may make arising from the use of the entries submitted.
Participants grant the organisers the right to reproduce, distribute, publicly communicate and make available to the public the submitted works, should they be winners in their category. In this case, the organisation may reproduce the winning entries in any material for communication or dissemination of its activities, whether in physical or digital format, exhibitions, website and profiles on social media controlled by the organisation, always for institutional, informative or promotional purposes on a non-commercial, non-lucrative basis.
The rights granted are non-exclusive, not subject to geographical or temporal limitations, and will not give rise to any remuneration additional to the amount of the prize. The organisation undertakes to respect the rights of the authors, especially their moral rights, and will in all cases acknowledge the authorship of the works in any publication in which they appear.
Specific conditions for the best photographic report award
USE AND AUTHORSHIP OF IMAGES. Participants declare that they are the sole and exclusive authors of the entries submitted, that they are original and do not infringe the rights of third parties, and that they therefore have full rights to them. Participants grant the organisers the right to reproduce, distribute, publicly communicate and make available to the public the images submitted. The organisation may therefore reproduce the works in any material for communication or dissemination of its activities in physical or digital format, exhibitions, website and profiles on social media controlled by the organisation. The main objective is to hold an annual exhibition of the photographs submitted by participants. The rights granted are non-exclusive, not subject to geographical or temporal limitations, and will not give rise to any remuneration additional to the amount of the prize. The organisation undertakes to respect the rights of the authors, especially their moral rights, and will in all cases acknowledge the authorship of the works in any publication in which they appear.
In case of doubt, the interpretation and implementation of these rules and regulations will be the responsibility of the Patronat de Turisme of the Diputació de Lleida and the Catalonia Journalists’ Association.
Any issues not specified in the rules will be decided by the jury.