InScience, the Dutch International Science Film Festival, is the initiator of the European Academy of Science Film together with ten European film festivals. The purpose of the Academy is to strengthen the position of the European science film. This year, the Academy awards the prize for best European Science Film for the first time.

The Academy Award is part of the European Academy of Science Film (EURASF). All participating festivals nominate a film from their official competition program. InScience has nominated the film Jheronimus Bosch, Touched By The Devil from the Dutxh director Pieter van Huystee. The Academy will award the prize this year for the first time at the International Film Festival Academia Film Olomouc (AFO) on Saturday April 29th in the Czech Republic.

The European Academy of Science Film is also promoting a European network of film makers, producers, festival organizers and science communicators, exchanges of knowledge between academy members, cooperation with organizations at national and international level and shows science via film to a broad audience.