Photography Contest 2025

Exchange students at Leibniz University Hannover (exchange incomings) and students of Leibniz University Hannover who have spent a study-related stay abroad (outgoings) are eligible to participate. The stays must have started in summer semester 2024, winter semester 2024/25 or summer semester 2025. Participation in the photo competition is not limited to specific programmes.

The following must be submitted:

• a maximum of 3 photographs in landscape format per participating person (colour or b/w) digitally in a resolution of at least 8 million pixels as jpeg, png or tif (caption: ‘Last_first_name_number’)
• a Word document with:
  • a short textual explanation of the image including a concise title for each image (related to the theme of the photo competition) of approx. ¼ of a DIN A4 page (Arial, font size 11, justified, automatic hyphenation, normal margins, line spacing: 1.15)
  • personal details: Name, address, details of the duration and place of study (both the name of the home institution and the host institution), as well as the field of study
  • an experience report on the stay abroad of approx. ½ of a DIN A4 page (Arial. Font size 11, justified, automatic hyphenation, normal margins, line spacing: 1.15), should include information on: studies at the host university, life in the host country, e.g. everyday life, leisure time, personal highlights and a summary. A reference to the theme of the photo competition should be taken into account.
• The signed legal declaration on the use of photos and the signed declaration on data protection regulations.

Exchange students at Leibniz University Hannover (exchange incomings) and students of Leibniz University Hannover who have spent a study-related stay abroad (outgoings) are eligible to participate. The stays must have started in summer semester 2024, winter semester 2024/25 or summer semester 2025. Participation in the photo competition is not restricted to specific programmes.

Participation is only possible up to and including 31 May 2025. The International Office reserves the right to extend the photo competition if necessary.

The International Office reserves the right to change the course of the photo competition at any time, even without observing deadlines, or to terminate it prematurely in whole or in part if the proper organisation of the competition cannot be guaranteed for technical or legal reasons.

Entries for this year's photo competition can be submitted until 31.05.2025!

• a maximum of 3 photographs in landscape format per participating person (colour or b/w) digitally in a resolution of at least 8 million pixels as jpeg, png or tif (caption: ‘Last_first_name_number’)
• a Word document with:
  • a short textual explanation of the image including a concise title for each image (related to the theme of the photo competition) of approx. ¼ of a DIN A4 page (Arial, font size 11, justified, automatic hyphenation, normal margins, line spacing: 1.15)
  • personal details: Name, address, details of the duration and place of study (both the name of the home institution and the host institution), as well as the field of study
  • an experience report on the stay abroad of approx. ½ of a DIN A4 page (Arial. Font size 11, justified, automatic hyphenation, normal margins, line spacing: 1.15), should include information on: studies at the host university, life in the host country, e.g. everyday life, leisure time, personal highlights and a summary. A reference to the theme of the photo competition should be taken into account.
• The signed legal declaration on the use of photos and the signed declaration on data protection regulations.

Please upload your own folder (labelled: last name_first name) with the following contents by 31 May 2025 here:
https://seafile.cloud.uni-hannover.de/u/d/5909a41d61e64e3ea601/

We require the signed consent forms for the use of photos in the original by post to:

Ms Anne Höch
Leibniz Universität Hannover
Hochschulbüro für Internationales
Welfengarten 1A
30167 Hannover

In exceptional cases, the declarations of consent can also be uploaded digitally to Seafile. Please contact Anne Höch in this case!

All photos uploaded to Seafile in accordance with the conditions of participation will be viewed by an internal jury in the University Office for International Affairs. The winner will be determined by the following criteria: Statement of the photo, story behind the photo, realisation of the theme, description, connection to LUH/study abroad. If participants are placed in the top 12 of the competition with more than one photo, they will still only receive a prize for the highest placed photo.
The prize winners will be notified by e-mail. The prize notification must be confirmed by a reply to the e-mail address (anne.hoech@zuv.uni-hannover.de) within the specified period (14 days). Proof of student status at Leibniz University Hannover must also be provided to the International Office by submitting a current certificate of enrolment.
If no confirmation is received within the specified period, the entitlement to the prize will lapse and the following participants will move up accordingly.  
The data collected from participants as part of the prize processing is used exclusively for the actual processing of the prize and will not be used for the purpose of further customer advertising.
The prize awarded as part of the competition cannot be exchanged. The prize cannot be transferred to third parties.

The twelve best photographs will be selected by a jury and published in a calendar. Participants agree to the free publication of their entries in Leibniz Universität Hannover media. In addition, if people are depicted in the photographs, it must be ensured that they also agree to the publication of the images. The responsibility for the photographs lies with the persons who submitted them.

Participants must hold the exclusive rights of use to the images and be able to prove this to the International Office upon request. If other persons are depicted in the photo, by taking part in the competition the participants assure that they have informed the persons depicted of their data protection rights and that they have agreed to the publication of the images.

Participants grant the University Office for International Affairs the right to use the photo free of charge, transferable and sub-licensable, without restriction in terms of content, time or territory, from the time of uploading. In particular, but not limited to this, participants agree to the reproduction, distribution and further public accessibility of the photo uploaded by them as part of their participation in the competition in the annual photo calendar and to publish the data for the external presentation of Hannover as a study location and Leibniz University Hannover, as well as the study abroad programme, on its websites and their subpages, as well as on the social media channels of the International Office (www.facebook.com/InternationalOfficeLUH/, www.instagram.com/internationalofficeluh), as well as in print products to promote the study abroad programme.

Participants agree to these conditions of participation by uploading the above-mentioned data via Seafile as part of this competition.

The competition is organised by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover, represented by the Executive Board, which is represented by the President, who is represented by the Managing Director of the International Office, Welfengarten 1A, 30167 Hannover, Germany.

University Office for International Affairs
Welfengarten 1A,
30167 Hannover, Germany

If participants provide false information about their photo, they may be excluded from participating in the competition, in particular from the prize draw. Any kind of manipulation of the competition will lead to immediate exclusion. If the excluded participant is a person who has already been drawn for a prize, the prize may be subsequently cancelled and reclaimed by the International Office.
Photos and subtitles with offensive language as well as photos and subtitles with discriminatory, racist or youth-endangering content or which have a negative reference to persons or companies or which are otherwise unlawful or immoral will be excluded.

With the exception of the following restrictions, the International Office is not liable for damages resulting from participation in the photo competition.
Liability for gross negligence or wilful intent on the part of the International Office remains unaffected. Liability for personal injury is governed by the statutory provisions.
The recipient of the information provided is the International Office. All questions, comments or complaints about the photo competition should be addressed directly to the International Office.

The International Office reserves the right to amend these conditions of participation for justified reasons. The conditions of participation and the entire legal relationship between the participants and the International Office are subject exclusively to the law of the Federal Republic of Germany. Should individual provisions of these Conditions of Participation be or become invalid in whole or in part, this shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions. The invalid provisions shall be replaced by the relevant statutory provisions.
Legal recourse is excluded.
Hannover, 28.04.2025