Poetry Contest on a “Sense of Place”
2024-2025
In this Poetry Contest, we invited EU-CONEXUS students and staff to express in their own way what a sense of place* meant to them.
84 beautiful poems were submitted in which the authors shared the emotional connection or bond they had to a specific place, area or location and what made them so special and unique.
*“Sense of Place” refers to the emotional attachment and meaning people associate with a particular location, shaped by personal experiences and cultural significance.
Discover the three winning poems of this contest at EU-CONEXUS level
- Poem (untitled) by Daria Luciana Ciontu, student from Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest, Romania
- One with heart by Eleni Ntzoumani, student from Agricultural University of Athens, Greece
- Là où mon âme se souvient / Where my soul remembers by Noélie Marchisio, student from La Rochelle Université, France
Read the winning poems
The following poems are the local winners at each of EU-CONEXUS Partner University:
- Get back to myself by Maira Baldiviezo from Catholic University of Valencia, Spain
- Nuogas portretas / Nude portrait by Klaudija Audickaité from Klaipeda University, Lithuania
- Poem (untitled) by Antea Babic from University of Zadar, Croatia
- The Dunes by Ellen Harrison from South East Technological University, Ireland
- A place to belong by Hamza Masri from University of Rostock, Germany ex aequo with
- My favorite place by Simon Schmidt from University of Rostock, Germany
EU-CONEXUS Poetry contest winners
Congratulations to the lucky winners and to all the participants for your creativity and talent!
Daria Luciana Ciontu
Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest, Romania
For her poem “untitled”
“I am so grateful that my poem was one of the three to win and I am so happy that I entered this contest on the last minute (I was about to quit…) And I would like to clarify that my poem doesn’t have a title on one hand because I never thought I would be one of the winners so it wasn’t necessary to have a title from this point of view. But on the other hand, I wanted for the people to choose what to feel about while reading my poem. I didn’t want to make it about myself, but the things that connect us humans one with another. Thank you for helping me do that!”
Eleni Ntzoumani
Agricultural University of Athens, Greece
for her poem “One with heart”
“I am excited to hear that my poem One with Heart was recognized among the winning entries in the EU-CONEXUS Poetry Contest. It is a great honor to be part of such a meaningful project, and I truly appreciate the acknowledgment.”
Maira Baldiviezo
Catholic University of Valencia, Spain
For her poem “Get back to myself”
“Thank you so much! I feel honored by the mention. I enjoyed writing this poem so much, especially because it resonated deeply with me.”
