the Prix Italia and the Rose d'Or in Montreux. In 2017, it gave prizes for the best of television in festivals at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival, the Prix Italia, and the Plural+ Festival. Every three years, the SIGNIS European region co-organized a European Television Festival of Religious Programmes with the WACC Europe, hosted by different national public broadcasters. The 2017 edition took place in Paris in June. In November 2003, SIGNIS held its first workshop for Catholic radio stations in East and South Africa in Cape Town, South Africa. This aimed to encourage networking and collective strategic planning to enable Catholic radio stations on the continent to better face the challenges and opportunities arising in their regions. SIGNIS was asked by these radio stations to concentrate its efforts within the existing ecclesiastical regional structures in Africa. Efforts were to be directed at strengthening local capacities within these existing structures rather than creating separate structures for networking radios in Africa to avoid duplication and unnecessary competition with existing Church structures. At the 2005 SIGNIS World Congress in Lyon, for the first time, a selected international panel of national and international Catholic radio networks as well as some major international Catholic radio stations from all around the world came together in a Consultative Seminar for Catholic radio networks. International SIGNIS TV desk seminars of Catholic TV producers The seminar is open to Catholic television stations, channels, institutions, producers, and production centres. The aim is to build a network and to share capacities, enable co-productions, and build a professional community. The first secretary general of SIGNIS, Robert Molhant, did initiate the TV seminars in 2003 with the first meeting in Cape Town. 2003: Cape Town (South Africa): In conjunction with the Sithengi television market and the SIGNIS Board meeting. 2004: Strasbourg (France): In conjunction with the SIGNIS Board meeting. 2005: Prague (Czech Republic) 2005: Lyon (France): In conjunction with the SIGNIS World Congress. 2006: Madrid (Spain): In conjunction with the World Congress of Catholic Television, an initiative of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications (Vatican). 2007: Bucharest (Romania): In conjunction with the International Festival on Children's Rights, an initiative of both SIGNIS Romania and UNICEF. 2008: Buenos Aires (Argentina) 2009: Chiang Mai (Thailand): In conjunction with the SIGNIS World Congress. 2010: Luxembourg 2011: Costa Rica: With the theme: "New Media, New audiences and the challenges faced by Catholic producers". 2013: Nairobi (Kenya): With