Share your images and videos to support excellence and promote the contribution of ARCHER2 to outstanding research. The winner of the competition will be awarded £250. The winning image or video, along with a selection of other entries, will also be featured on the ARCHER2 website and in EPCC and ARCHER2 publications. Credit will be given to the entrant in all cases.
Key Details
- Competition Opens: 22 July 2024
- Submission Deadline: extended to 17 September 2024
- Judging: September/October 2024
- Prizes:
- Best image : £150
- Best video : £150
- Best early career researcher submission : £150
- Overall winner, selected from the above three winners : additional £100
What are we looking for?
The ARCHER2 Image Competition is an event for all users of ARCHER2 to share their images or videos of “ARCHER2 Enabling Research”
We are looking for entries that will demonstrate the contribution of ARCHER2 to research.
Entries might include (but are not limited to):
- images generated from calculations that used ARCHER2
- photographs of equipment and/or researchers working on projects which use ARCHER2 for computation
- images generated from data processed using ARCHER2
- images demonstrating the contribution of ARCHER2 to research
- videos or animations generated from data processed using ARCHER2
- images or videos showing the impact of research carried out on ARCHER2
- infographic (still, video, cartoon, diagram) showing how ARCHER2 has contributed to your research or knowledge, or how it is part of your research process
Images don’t need to have been generated in the last few months - any images from any time in the ARCHER2 services, including photos relating to your work, and images or videos that have been post-processed.
Take a look at the gallery of entries from 2023
Submission details
Please complete the ARCHER2 Image Competition 2024 submission form and then save and send in your entry by email to image@archer.ac.uk, attaching your image and/or including the url where we can download your video (note, it is not possible for us to download your video from YouTube - please use a fileshare site such as OneDrive, Dropbox, GoogleDrive to share your files with us). If submitting a video, please also include one still image from the video for use as a cover image.
The submission form is a PDF form which is editable in ADOBE Acrobat Reader and also in many of the common alternative PDF viewers - if you experience any issues with the form, please let us know by emailing us.
- Please include a caption for the entry and submit a jargon-free extended caption (maximum 150 words) putting the use of ARCHER/ARCHER2 into context. The caption must be comprehensible to the lay reader and will be taken into consideration by the judges when making their decision.
- A maximum of five entries per person can be submitted. Images should be a minimum of 5MB and maximum of 25MB and in a digital format a minimum of 300dpi (for example jpg). Winners will be required to submit their winning image in a high-resolution format. Images can be downsized for submission but winners will be required to provide a high-resolution version of their submitted image. Images that are nominated for a prize in any other major photo competition are not eligible.
- Please read our terms and conditions before entering.
Deadline
Submission deadline: 2 September 2024
Any queries should be directed to image@archer.ac.uk
By entering this competition you are deemed to accept these competition rules and the terms and conditions.
Winners will be chosen and announced in September/October 2024.
Judging panel
Judges will be from chosen from members of ARCHER2 CSE team, ARCHER2 users and other invited contributors.