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!