“Your instant abroad!”

“Your instant abroad!”. Photo contest for the 2025 International Study and Internship Fair.

Have you studied abroad for one or two semesters or completed an international internship? Or perhaps you are still abroad right now, or you have come to the University of Bonn for a semester as a visiting exchange student.

Whatever the specifics of your stay, your time abroad undoubtedly helped you grow as a person, tested your language skills and led you to explore culture from various angles. Share your most impressive photo from your stay abroad with us—the photo that best illustrates these aspects and could optimally inspire fellow students to pursue international opportunities as well.

Who is eligible to enter the contest?

All students enrolled at the University of Bonn.

Selection

The team at the University of Bonn International Office will choose three winners. The winning photos will be published on our website and social media accounts!

Prizes

First prize: €150 \ Second prize: €100 \ Third prize: €50

We look forward to receiving your photos!

Technical specifications

You have complete freedom as to photo format and alignment—you decide whether it is landscape or portrait.

Design

You may only submit photos that you have taken yourself (i.e. not ones taken by a professional photographer). Do not submit photos with captioning text or collages of multiple images, as these will not be considered. It would be great if a person was included in the photo (e.g. yourself).

Image data quality

Important: The photos you submit should be of the highest possible data quality in terms of resolution for publishing purposes. The preferred file size is 2.5–5.0 MB, but larger files may be accepted.

Please note: Images created with artificial intelligence are not permitted. If images have been edited with AI, please also send us the original file.

Submission deadline

You may upload your submission photos to Sciebo up until the deadline of May 05, 2025. Sciebo is the campus cloud solution which all matriculated University of Bonn students can access. Registering for a Sciebo account¹ is easy, using your Uni ID.

As soon as you have uploaded your photo, send an e-mail with the corresponding link and password for downloading as well as the signed declaration of consent as a PDF attachment to: auslandsstudium@uni-bonn.de

Please ensure to add your names as an extension to the file name (photos and declaration of consent) to ease the process.

Declaration of consent

We can only use your photo after you send us the declaration of consent form completed and signed.

Submitting the declaration of consent is a mandatory prerequisite for participating in the photo contest.