About

 In 2019, the Enlightener Prize introduced a new category for educational online projects called the Enlightener Digital Prize.
The competition is open to Russian-language educational online projects that follow an open and free content distribution policy.
The Enlightener Digital Prize accepts submissions of educational online projects in Russian that have been released on specialized platforms like YouTube, Vimeo, SoundCloud, iTunes Podcasts, Telegram, Medium, as well as secondary platforms like IGTV, Facebook Watch, VK, etc., provided they adhere to an open and free content distribution policy.

The winner of the Enlightener Digital Prize will be announced at a special ceremony and awarded a monetary prize of 700,000 rubles. Additionally, the creators of the best projects in the categories of Text, Video, and Sound will each receive 100,000 rubles.
Applications must be submitted using a form available in the appropriate section of the Prize’s website.
Since 2021, the prize in this category is no longer being awarded.

Panel of Judges

2020

Anna Kachkaeva
Chairwoman of the Panel of Judges, journalist, director of the Center for Digital Culture and Media Literacy, and professor in the Department of Media at the Higher School of Economics

Irina Prokhorova
Literary historian, Editor-in-Chief of the New Literature Review publishing house, and co-founder of Mikhail Prokhorov’s Charity Foundation

Karen Shainyan
Author and host of the “Straight Talk with Gay People” show, co-founder of the History of Future studio, and journalist.

2019

Anna Kachkaeva
Chairwoman of the Panel of Judges, journalist, director of the Center for Digital Culture and Media Literacy, and professor in the Department of Media at the Higher School of Economics

Anton Skulachev
Philologist, Chairman of the Guild of Philologists, and teacher of literature at Gymnasium 1514 in Moscow

Karen Shainyan
Co-founder of the History of Future studio, journalist, and co-author of the projects 1968.Digital and Project 1917: Free History.