Earth day images competitors now open

To rejoice Earth Day 2026, our Sustainability Team, in partnership with Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU), is inviting college students to participate in a images competitors exploring our altering planet and the tales behind local weather motion.

Earth Day 2026 is centred on the worldwide theme “Our Power, Our Planet,” highlighting the collective energy all of us have to guard the surroundings and drive constructive change. As a college, we’re dedicated to advancing environmental and social fairness via our Sustainability Strategy and Energy Strategy.

Competition particulars

To mark the event, we’re inviting college students and employees from the University of Liverpool and XJTLU to submit digital pictures on the theme “Stories of Sustainability.” Selected pictures will likely be displayed on campus in Liverpool and at XJTLU in China.

Photography has a singular means to seize moments, views and tales in regards to the world round us. Entries may:

• Capture the impacts of local weather change
• Celebrate nature and biodiversity
• Highlight options and innovation
• Document analysis in motion
• Showcase on a regular basis selections that assist a extra sustainable future

The competitors goals to encourage inventive views from throughout the University group and encourage reflection on the position all of us play in shaping a more healthy planet.

Winning pictures will likely be featured in an outside exhibition in Abercromby Square throughout Earth Week, in addition to at XJTLU, culminating on Earth Day on Tuesday, 22 April. Staff, college students and guests will have the ability to expertise these visible tales on campus as a part of the celebrations of the 2 universities. Selected pictures will even be shared throughout the digital channels of the schools.

Prizes will likely be awarded for 1st, 2nd and third place. In Liverpool, entrants will have the ability to win the next prizes, with equal prizes additionally out there for XJTLU entrants:

• 1st prize: Bird field and Bird Box digicam package
• 2nd prize: LEGO Botanicals Bonsai Tree
• third prize: Grow your personal kitchen backyard package and a bottle of Sea of Change prosecco

How to enter

To enter, please e-mail your {photograph} to sustainability@liverpool.ac.uk with:

• The title of your picture
• A brief description explaining the story behind your {photograph} (this can be used alongside the picture within the exhibition show)
• Your title and phone particulars
• Your establishment (UoL or XJTLU)

Please retain a high-resolution model of your picture in case your {photograph} is chosen for exhibition or publication.

Submission deadline: Wednesday, 15 April 2026. Winners will likely be introduced shortly afterwards.

The competitors is open to all University of Liverpool and XJTLU employees and college students.

We sit up for seeing your inventive interpretations of “Stories of Sustainability.”

Terms and Conditions

• Entrants could submit as much as three pictures.
• The theme of the competitors is “Stories of Sustainability.”
• The competitors closes Friday 11 April 2026.
• Entries have to be emailed to sustainability@liverpool.ac.uk and embrace the title of the work, photographer’s title and phone particulars.
• Images have to be submitted as JPEG information no bigger than 2MB. Please guarantee they’re saved on the highest attainable decision and high quality.
• All entries have to be the unique work of the entrant. Entrants should maintain copyright and acquire permission from anybody featured within the {photograph} (or their mother or father/guardian if underneath 16).
• Entrants should not have breached any legal guidelines when taking their pictures.
• The University of Liverpool and XJTLU reserve the suitable to request authentic picture information for verification.
• Entrants retain copyright of their pictures. By getting into the competitors, entrants grant the University of Liverpool and XJTLU a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and exhibit the images in print, on-line or different media. No charges will likely be payable for such makes use of.
• While each effort will likely be made to credit score photographers, this can’t be assured in all makes use of.
• Prize winners will likely be required to supply their title and tackle to obtain prizes.
• By getting into the competitors, entrants conform to be sure by these phrases and situations.
• Images deemed inappropriate or in breach of those guidelines will likely be disqualified. This consists of pictures which can be offensive, beforehand revealed, copyrighted by one other celebration, or opposite to the spirit of the competitors.
• The University of Liverpool Sustainability Team reserves the suitable to amend these guidelines if vital.

Contact

For any questions in regards to the competitors, please contact the Sustainability Team at
sustainability@liverpool.ac.uk