1st BAUHAUS4EU Photography Contest: Capture the “Stories of Belonging and Resilience”
Have you ever looked at your university as a living environment? How does it feel, what is the story behind the campus walls? Take part in our B4EU photo contest for students and become the visual storyteller of our Alliance!
We are invitingall students from the ten BAUHAUS4EU universities to unveil their talents and inner perceptions of their study surroundings through photography. We challenge you to look beyond surface aesthetics, carefully observe, capture and reveal the often-invisible forces that bind people together: spaces, moments, and relationships. The topic of the 1st BAUHAUS4EU Photography Contest is “Inclusive Grounds: Stories of Belonging and Resilience” and focuses on how the campuses reflect our Alliance’s shared mission of resilience, sustainability, inclusivity, and beauty.
This is more than a contest – it is a way to reflect on and share the special atmosphere that makes us part of our university life and Alliance. By depicting the poetry of everyday life through the lenses of beauty, resilience and inclusion, students become the designers of the evolving learning spaces throughout Europe - one photograph at a time.
Details:
ELIGIBILITY: The contest is open to students across all disciplines - from architecture and design to social sciences, economics, and technology, who are enrolled in one of the following partner universities for the academic year 2025–2026: Université Lumière Lyon 2 (ULL2), Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (BUW), University of Economics in Katowice (UEKat), University of Bergamo (UniBg), Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco (IPCB), University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy (UACEG), Polytechnic University of Tirana (POLIS), University of Macedonia (UoM), or Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH).
Submission runs from Oct 20 to Nov 14, 2025.
JURY: The jury comprises professionals from each of our ten BAUHAUS4EU universities, who will review the entries and select the winning photographs and stories.
PRIZES: The three grand-prize winners will have their work displayed on BAUHAUS4EU website and social media and two of them will be financed for participation in our 2nd BAUHAUS4EU Forum in Katowice, Poland. Winners are to be announced on December 8, 2025.
