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HUAWEI’S EXCLUSIVE PHOTOGRAPHY BRAND XMAGE AWARDS 2025

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Application Deadline:  15 September, 2025

LOCATION: China

XMAGE is Huawei’s exclusive photography brand and initiative. It crafts powerful visual experiences based on advanced software, device, and chip technologies, cloud capabilities, and a distinct aesthetic vision, showcasing the power of image.

ELIGIBILITY:

XMAGE is the Huawei platform for smartphone photographic excellence, the window through which we celebrate amazing photos & videos captured on Huawei devices from around the world. It empowers mobile photographers to craft and share breathtaking visuals that demonstrate artistry from different perspectives, uniting us all in celebrating the power of image.

Entry is FREE

Any Huawei phone user from around the world can participate. However, submissions that have won an award in any contest or have been published in a public periodical will not be accepted for submission.

Submissions are to be made on the official XMAGE Awards website (https://consumer.huawei.com/en/campaign/xmage/) and other sub-arenas such as HUAWEI Community, My HUAWEI. To submit your work on the XMAGE Awards website, you are required to log in with your HUAWEI ID and authorize us to use your HUAWEI ID to uniquely identify you so that you can upload, view, and manage your submissions. We will collect your HUAWEI ID, user name, and profile picture.

Submissions shall also be made on Instagram. Upload your work with the hashtag #HUAWEIXMAGE and follow @huaweixmageawards to participate. You must set your profile page to “Public” and allow non-followers to send you direct messages during the Campaign for the Organizer being able to contact you. When your work is featured on our channel or shortlisted, we kindly request you to provide us with your Instagram username. This will allow us to properly credit you in our post.

All submissions to the XMAGE Awards must be created with Huawei phones. There are no restrictions on when you take the photos/videos or which model of Huawei phone you use.

Each participant can upload a maximum of 30 works, which can consist of a photo, a group of photos, or videos. Works not approved will not be counted.

BENEFIT:

XMAGE 100 – Grand Prize Winner (3)

XMAGE creation fund of USD 10,000

An electronic certificate

XMAGE 100 (97)

XMAGE creation fund of USD 1,500

An electronic certificate

The aforementioned creation funds are pre-tax amounts.

The organizer has the right to modify the number of winners.

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FACULTY OF SCIENCE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA EXCELLENCE MASTER FELLOWSHIPS

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Application Deadline: 28 February, 2026 

LOCATION: Switzerland

The Masters of the Faculty of Science constitute an ideal training base for an academic but also a professional development, opening on careers in industry, teaching, administration in sciences, communication and media… The programs Master’s degrees are either entirely in English or in English and French (see the descriptions of each program).

ELIGIBILITY:

The Faculty of Science, with the support of external partners, has established an Excellence Fellowship program open to outstanding and highly motivated students who wish to pursue a Master of Science degree in one of the disciplines covered by the Faculty1. Candidate selection is based on excellence.

Regardless of your home university, whether you have passed or are doing a brilliant bachelor’s degree, and that you are one of the best in your year2, this program is for you! You must meet the admission criteria of the Master of your choice3 and be selected on the basis of the application file for an Excellence Fellowship.

For the application to be considered, each student has to fulfill the enrollment procedure as described on the Admissions office website.

if you are a student at the UNIGE: a scan of your UNIGE card

if you are not yet a student at the UNIGE, the mail entitled “UNIGE-Candidature: Dépôt de votre dossier” that you received after registering for the master’s program (proof that you have begun the registration process) is required.

The application (in English or French) must include the following documents in the form of a SINGLE pdf file:

A scan of your national identity card or passport.

A Curriculum Vitae (2 pages maximum).

The transcript of exams passed during the bachelor’s education, with all grades.

A motivation letter in which you describe your specific scientific interests and your motivation to pursue a Master of Science program at the University of Geneva.

Letters of reference from two professors attesting to your aptitude for this program.

Any other pertinent information, like results of the GRE (General requirement examination), of TOEFL or other language tests.

BENEFIT:

The Excellence Fellowship consists of a grant amounting to CHF 10’000 to CHF 15’000/year (no teaching duties); it is awarded for one year and extended for the regular duration of the chosen Master’s program (three or four semesters) provided the applicant is academically successful at the end of his/her first semester of studies.

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