Photo Competition 

The European University Sports Association (EUSA), in cooperation with its Student Commission (EUSA STC) has been organising an annual Photo Competition since 2009, where participants and others involved in EUSA sports events are encouraged to take photos and capture the right moment to reveal the true nature of the university spirit. 

2016 Photo Competition top 10 final photos

 

Submition of unique photos related to EUSA events, namely the European Universities Games and European Universities Championships, has brought different winners of this competition since 2009 until 2023. 

All copy-rights are transferred to EUSA with submission and tagging of the photos. The winning photos have been published in the EUSA magazines. 

All  the photos candidates in these contest should not show any sort of drugs, alcohol, political propaganda, national symbols, sexually suggestive content or violence.

Photo Competition poster 2017

The selection process involves the Student Commission and other EUSA commissions selecting the finalists and the winner will be selected after the voting which also includes the public Facebook voting. The public part of the photo competition voting will is usually run on the EUSA Facebook page. All votes received by the announced deadline will be counted and taken into account for the prize draws.

During the last year's season of the European Universities Championships, European University Sports Association (EUSA) was collecting entries for the #MyEUSA photo competition. Out of the entries, photos from each of the 22 sports featured in the 2023 EUSA sports calendar have been selected, and the put through a final voting.

The voting has been done through Facebook voting, where the greater public could have placed one or more votes the chosen photos, selected from the big pool of photos, all taken during the 16 sports events taking place both in summer and in winter. 

The last winning photo of  the 2023 #myeusa competition!  was  created by Paolo De Maria, photographer of the European Universities Winter Championships in Val di Zoldo, Italy.

The photo was made during the Alpine Skiing Championship in Val di Zoldo, capturing Simon Nantschev from University of Applied Sciences Munich (GER), also winner of the bronze medal in Giant Slalom race in the men category.