Международная биологическая олимпиада для школьников

Biological olympiad for pre university students

The International Biology Olympiad (IBO) is a biological olympiad for pre university students under the age 20, and is one of the most well known International Science Olympiads. The first IBO was held in Czechoslovakia in 1990, and it has since been held annually. The competition have gradually expanded to include more than 75 participating countries across five continents. All participating countries send the four winners of their National Biology Olympiad to the IBO, usually accompanied by two adults who are members of the international jury, for the duration of the competition. To select these top four life science contestants for this international competition, all member countries host Biology Olympiad competitions in typically 3 5 consecutively more difficult national competition rounds. As a consequence, this leads to a trickle down effect, engaging more than 1 million students worldwide in life science each year. In 2020, during the COVID 19 pandemic, the IBO (host: Japan) was organized virtually and was rated "a great success" and "highly successful" in the history of IBO because of its exceptional way of operation and the unique international group based scientific project International Group Project 2020. In 2021, the COVID 19 pandemic forced the Portuguese IBO host to go virtual once again: the 2021 IBO was replaced by the IBO Challenge II, from July 18 to July 23.

In the face of the threat of the International Science Olympiads' cancellation due to the COVID 19 pandemic (the International Physics Olympiad was officially canceled), the IBO 2020 was the first in the International Science Olympiads that was claimed by the host (Japan) to be held entirely virtually with a guaranteed supervision to adapt to the pandemic. Every performance was evaluated by noble professors of Japan in life science. Altogether, 53 countries and 202 contestants participated in the International Group Project 2020. This project was described as "the first trial of a collaborative research opportunity in IBO's history."

Each year, the IBO is organised by a different country. No. Year City Country Date Participating countries 1 1990 Olomouc July 1–7 6 2 1991 Makhachkala July 1–7 9 3 1992 Poprad July 6–12 12 4 1993 Utrecht July 4–11 15 5 1994 Varna July 3–10 18 6 1995 Bangkok July 2–9 22 7 1996 Artek June 30–July 7 23 8 1997 Ashgabat July 13–20 28 9 1998 Kiel July 19–26 33 10 1999 Uppsala July 4–11 36 11 2000 Antalya July 9–16 38 12 2001 Brussels July 8–15 38 13 2002 Jurmala and Riga July 7–14 40 14 2003 Minsk July 8–16 41 15 2004 Brisbane July 11–18 40 16 2005 Beijing July 10–17 50 17 2006 Rio Cuarto July 9–16 48 18 2007 Saskatoon July 15–22 49 19 2008 Mumbai July 13–20 55 20 2009 Tsukuba July 12–19 56 21 2010 Changwon July 11–18 58 22 2011 Taipei July 10–17 58 23 2012 Singapore July 8–15 59 24 2013 Bern July 14–21 62 25 2014 Bali July 6–13 61 26 2015 Aarhus July 12–19 62 27 2016 Hanoi July 17–24 68 28 2017 Coventry July 23–30 64 29 2018 Tehran July 15–22 68 30 2019 Szeged July 14–21 72 31 2020 Nagasaki Due to the COVID 19 pandemic, replaced by a remotely conducted competition, the IBO Challenge 2020, The whole competition was operated from August 11–24. 47 in both competitions (+5 in only the International Group Project) 32 2021 Lisbon Due to the COVID 19 pandemic, replaced by a remotely conducted competition, the IBO Challenge II. The whole competition was operated from July 18–23. 72 33 2022 Yerevan July 10–18 62 34 2023 Al Ain July 3–11 76 35 2024 Astana July 7–14 36 2025 Quezon City July 13–20 37 2026 Vilnius July 12–19 38 2027 39 2028 40 2029