Show your winter Hungary!

The National Union of Students in Hungary invites you to join the photo and video competition organized by the Stipendium Hungaricum Mentor Network.

The competition is open to non-Hungarian citizen foreign higher education students studying in Hungary under the Stipendium Hungaricum Scholarship Programme for higher education students involved in the Stipendium Hungarcium Mentor Programme.

Topic: “My winter Hungary”

The goal of the competition is to allow foreign students studying in Hungary under the Stipendium Hungaricum Scholarship Programme to show what Hungary means to them through photographs and videos.

The Photography Competition is for applicants to demonstrate through their photos what Hungary means to them. This can be a snapshot, landscape, image of a landmark or their favorite spot in Hungary, a wintery scene that captures your heart.

The purpose of the Video Competition is for applicants to show through their video submissions what Hungary means to them and how it feels to be here in the wintertime.

Entries for the competition shall consist of no more than 3 photographs or 1 video of no more than 20 minutes, which serve the purpose of the competition, thus presenting the entrant’s relationship to Hungary.

Submission deadline: 11:59 p.m. on the 28^th of February 2025

Application process:

1. Make photo or video in this topic: “My winter Hungary”!
2. Fill in the application form!
3. Upload your photo(s) or video to any platform where the judges can view the submissions (it doesn’t have to be public)!

Terms and Conditions of Participation in the Photography Competition

1. The photographs entered the competition must comply with the objective stated in the competition announcement. In terms of the accepted types of photographs, the Competition Organiser shall accept portraits, group photographs, selfies and still lifes.
2. Entrants may submit no less than 1 and no more than 3 photographs – taken in Hungary – and their accompanying short description.
3. The photographs entered the Competition must be min. 3 MB, max. 15 MB in size (in JPG format) and related to the aims and subjects defined in the competition announcement.

Terms and Conditions of Participation in the Video Competition

1. The video entered the competition must comply with the objective stated in the competition announcement.
2. Entrants may submit a video – recorded in Hungary – and its accompanying short description, when necessary (e.g. when the video includes no introduction either via text or narration).
3. The submission shall include no less than 2-minutes of videos and no more than 20 minutes in length, in a resolution of no less than 1920 x 1080 50fps.

The submitted photographs and videos will be judged by a 5-member jury and based on its own set of criteria, it will present the prizes to the top three entrants of the various categories

Prizes are awarded at the end of March. The Competition Organizer will inform the winning entrants of the exact time and manner of the presentation of the prizes after the conclusion of the Competition.

Call for application and participation conditions:

https://hook.hu/hu/cms/jovokep-program/shmh-foto-video-palyazat

Application:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdsH0fDRSH5MaR00ktGTKiz-wudZ2zkSCPaaEXvH6j7sAbBog/viewform

Apply now and capture the magic of winter in Hungary!