Help us show off the varied activities within energy and process engineering by entering your photos and videos in the EPT Photography competition.

Submit your photos and/or videos to EPT Photo Competition (MS form)

The competition is open to all staff and students affiliated with NTNU – Department of Energy and Process Engineering (EPT). Enter your photo or video, and get a chance at winning the following prizes:

Best photo: 

• 1st prize: Gift card of 3000 NOK Midtbykortet
• 2nd prize: Gift card of 2000 NOK Midtbykortet
• 3rd prize: Gift card of 500 NOK Midtbykortet  

Best video:

• 1st prize: Gift card of 500 NOK Midtbykortet

We except a wide range of entries, but they must be related to science. Please send us your eye-catching images and videos that relate to research or education at EPT. If you’ve captured something amazing, beautiful, fascinating, amusing or all of these things, we would like to see it. Make no assumptions about the photograph or video we are seeking, because the winning entries could be of a: microscopic feature, laboratory, project team, computer simulation, lecture hall, engineers out in the field etc.

The winning photographs will feature on the Department and University websites, blog, electronic screens, posters, social media and more. And who knows, maybe this years winner’s will receive some press coverage for their photos and videos?

A high proportion of the entries will be used throughout the Department website and stored in NTNU’s photo archive FotoWare, giving acknowledgements wherever they are used.

The panel of judges: Nicholas Worth, Professor and Head of the Thermo Fluids Research Group, one representative from the Sustainable Energy Systems Research Group, one representative from the Processes and Power Researc Group, one representative from the Industrial Ecology Programme, and Maren Agdestein, Communications Advisor

Good luck!

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The Competition rules are as follows:

1. The deadline for entries is: Monday 10th of June, 2024
2. Competitors must be either fully employed by EPT (e.g. not prof II) or a student enrolled at EPT on the deadline for entry.
3. Each contestant must send no more than three entries to the competition
4. Photos/videos must be submitted by filling out this form: EPT Photo Competition
5. The entrant must comply to the following: "I have checked with my manager/supervisor/head of study programme __________________ that I have permission to enter the attached photograph(s)/video(s) in the competition and hereby give NTNU - Department of Energy and Process Engineering the right to publish the photograph(s)/videos(s) on its website and elsewhere in NTNU context free of charge. I as a photographer retain the copyright in accordance with the Norwegian Copyright Act, but the photo / video will be published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). Any people identified on the photograph/video have given their written consent via NTNU’s consent form, I also include their names here: ___________________."
6. The entrant must also provide: 
   • A title of the photo
   • A description of the photograph/video, noting whether the photograph is a composite of several images or has been enhanced in any way. We’re not looking for a long description here, 1-3 sentences should be enough.
   • Any due acknowledgements (such as people who helped out etc)
   • If the photo/video identify people, you must include their names and make sure that they fill out NTNU’s consent form
7. Ideally the photos should be in JPEG format with the highest available resolution. But if your photo is available only as web quality image then please still enter.

Questions about the NTNU EPT Photography Competition? Please contact Maren Agdestein, communications advisor at maren.agdestein@ntnu.no.

The NTNU EPT Photography Competition is very much inspired by the 2021 photography competition at University of Cambridge, Department of Engineering. The text above is adapted from their competition terms, published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.