If you finished your doctoral degree and your colleagues made the most beautiful, original and individual doctoral hat for you, now is the time to take it out of the rack and win 50, 40 or 30 €! Take a nice and individual picture of your hat and send it to us.

The Graduate Academy Photo Contest can will be held as an online version. Online voting will be conducted in early June. The winning hats will be announced in the middle of June.

Please send your picture and this formdocx,?12?kb?¡¤?de to: judith.malsam@uni-jena.de. Deadline is 10 May 2026.

What pictures can you send?
Digital manipulation is allowed. Resolution: at least 1.340 x 754 Pixel, 300 dpi. Please submit photos in digital format as a jpg-file by email (max. file size: 10 MB). The pictures should be in landscape format. We take care of the printing and exhibition of your picture. If you have any questions, please kindly contact Judith Malsam (judith.malsam@uni-jena.de).

Legal Notice
By entering this competition, you grant the Friedrich Schiller University Jena a non-exclusive, irrevocable, free licence to use your photograph. This licence includes the publication of photos on posters, flyers, brochures, the GA homepage and further materials of the Graduate Academy. Picture sources will not be mentioned.