Anyone who is at least 18 years old and either enrolled as a student or employed at the University of Oldenburg at the time of the competition is permitted to enter.

The conditions of participation apply.

Phase 1- Upload photos

• The photos submitted should not be older than one year. Each participant can submit one photo per category. The photos must be submitted by Wednesday, 22.05.2024, 23:59 via the registration form by indicating a title.

Phase 2 jury evaluation

• The photos will be presented to an independent jury in anonymised form. They will determine the best photos based on the relevance, quality and creativity of the content. Three pictures per category will be honoured. Further images will be selected for the exhibition. The authors of the award-winning photos will be informed by email.

Phase 3- Award ceremony and exhibition

• The award ceremony will take place on 26 June 2024 at the „Schlaues Haus” Oldenburg. The pictures will then be presented there for seven weeks in an exhibition.

Photos can be submitted in three categories:

• Connected: Mobility connects.

• Traffic: Challenges of mobility.

• On the move: Mobile in everyday life.

All photos must relate to the respective category of the competition. The photos submitted should not be older than one year.

The content of the submitted photos must not violate any relevant legal or official regulations or offend common decency (i.e. in particular they must not contain any content that is harmful to minors, pornographic, racist, glorifies violence, incites hatred or is offensive). The organiser is entitled to exclude such photos from the competition.

Number

Participants can submit one photo per category, i.e. a maximum of three entries in total.

Labelling the photos

A title must be provided for each photo (maximum 150 characters). The title must not contain any reference to the author of the photo in order to ensure anonymity.

The photo file must be labelled in such a way that the selected category and name are clearly visible. Example: Cat01_Maxi_Mustermann.jpg

Quality requirements

Whether smartphone or SLR, of course any camera may be used. Submitted entries should preferably have a page format of 4:3 and a long side with at least 3500 pixels. The photos must be uploaded in JPG format.

If you do not have a suitable camera, you can borrow one free of charge from the digital lab at the Innovation Campus. The contact person is Anna Behrenbeck (anna-katharina.behrenbeck@uol.de).

The conditions of participation apply.

Participants warrant that they will only submit photos that they have taken themselves and that no third-party rights of use exist for the photos submitted. Any use of artificial intelligence is contrary to the spirit of the competition and is completely prohibited (the only exception being functions that are integrated into unmodified production cameras).

Participants warrant that the photos submitted do not infringe any personal rights, rights to their own image or other rights of third parties. If one or more persons are recognisably depicted in a photo, the photos may only be submitted if these persons have given their consent to the creation of the photo, its submission to the competition and its publication. The University of Oldenburg, as the organiser, may request the submission of a written declaration of consent at any time.