International Philosophy Olympiad

The logo of the International Philosophy Olympiad.

The International Philosophy Olympiad (IPO) is an annual philosophy competition for high school students from around the world, one of the International Science Olympiads. It is organized under the auspices of the International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP) and supported by UNESCO.

History

The International Philosophy Olympiad was founded through an initiative by Ivan Kolev from Sofia University in Bulgaria. ^[1] The idea was to help replace the Marxist–Leninist subjects taught in schools throughout Eastern Europe between 1947 and 1990. The first Olympiad was held in 1993 in Smolyan, Bulgaria, with three participating countries: Bulgaria, Romania (led by Elena Florina Otet), and Turkey (led by Nuran Direk). The second edition of the Olympiad, in 1994 in Petrich, Bulgaria, two additional countries joined: Poland (led by Władysław Krajewski) and Germany (led by Gerd Gerhardt). ^[2] Together with Hungary (led by Katalin Havas) these countries founded the IPO. ^[3] The IPO received welcome by UNESCO. ^[4] Since 2001 the International Philosophy Olympiads have been organized under the auspices of International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP) and with the recognition and support of UNESCO.

In 2009 the number of participating countries rose from under 30 to about 40. The IPO 2020 originally scheduled to be held in Lisbon had to be cancelled because of measures against the COVID-19 pandemic. An electronic IPO (e-IPO) is organized by Slovenia. ^[5]

Regulations

Objectives

According to the regulations, the objectives of the IPO are the following:

• to promote philosophical education at the secondary school level and increase the interest of high school pupils in philosophy;
• to encourage the development of national, regional, and local contests in philosophy among pre-university students worldwide;
• to contribute to the development of critical, inquisitive and creative thinking;
• to promote philosophical reflection on science, art, and social life;
• to cultivate the capacity for ethical reflection on the problems of the modern world; and,
• by encouraging intellectual exchanges and securing opportunities for personal contacts between young people from different countries, to promote the culture of peace. ^[3]

Administration

The IPO is run by the following bodies: the International Committee, consisting of the delegation leaders having already organized an IPO, the Steering Board, consisting of members from the FISP, UNESCO and the International Committee, the National Organizing Committee, and the International Jury, consisting of all delegation leaders and teachers. ^[3]

Competition

Students competing in the Olympiad are given four hours to write a philosophical essay on one of four topics given. The topics are provided in the four official languages of the IPO – English, Spanish, French, and German – and the student must choose to write in a language other than his/her own; that is, a native French speaker would not be allowed to write in French.

There are five criteria of evaluation.

1. Relevance to the topic
2. Philosophical understanding of the topic
3. Coherence
4. Power of argumentation
5. Originality

Evaluation proceeds in three stages:

1. International Jury composed of teachers from different delegations form groups of about 4–5 to read certain number of the essays. Each member of a group reads the same 5-6 essays, then compares notes with other members of the same group and gives his mark/score on a scale of 10. Those above average score of 7.0 from being thus read make it to the next level. No teacher is allowed to read the essay of a student from his/her own country.
2. About four members of the International Jury then individually reads those essays which are according to the criteria below:
   1. Those getting average 7.0 or above in previous stage
   2. Those having a difference in marking by two jury members of more than 3.0 point
3. Those finally making a new average of 7.0 or above are recommended by the international jury to the steering board with five members from the FISP and the international committee. Each person in this board reads each essay individually. The steering board then decides the medals and honorable mentions to be given. They need not accept the ranking of essays as given by the international jury. ^[6]

National selection processes

According to the regulations, the selection of the candidates participating for a particular country are chosen through a selection process which should be organized or be under the auspices of a national philosophical organization member of the FISP. ^[3] The precise structure of the national competition varies from country to country.

Austria

Austria first took part in the IPO in 2005. Since then they have two stages. In the first stage, every bundesland (state) sends the best two or three participants of the Landeswettbewerb to the philosophical akademie. There the second stage takes place and in this Bundeswettbewerb the two best will be sent to the IPO. The first Austrian participant were part of the German delegation in 2004.

Czech Republic

The Czech Republic's philosophical competition for high school students was established by Tomáš Nejeschleba at the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, Palacký University in Olomouc in 2011. ^[7] Since 2012, the competition, called Nebojme se myslet, ^[8] consists of two stages. In the first stage, students write an essay on one of four topics in Czech. The criteria are the same as in the IPO: relevance to the topic, philosophical understanding of the topic, coherence, power of argumentation, originality. The twenty best essays are qualified for the second stage in which students write a short essay in one of the four official IPO languages. The two best students qualify for the IPO. Since 2014, Jan Čížek from Palacký University has been the main organizer of the Czech philosophical competition. He is also the leader of the Czech delegation at the IPO.

Estonia

In Estonia, the selection process, which was initiated by philosopher Leo Luks, consists of two stages. In the first stage, students write an essay at home in their mother tongue. This means that Russian for the country's Russian minority is also accepted. The national jury (5 members) chooses the 10 best essays for the next stage. In the second round (4 days long), finalists first spend two days together where they participate in different lectures and workshops. After that, the final competition begins, which consists of four different parts:

1. 4-hour essay in foreign language, as it is in IPO (maximum 50 points ^[9] )
2. Test of informal logic (10 points)
3. Test of central philosophical notions and theories (10 points)
4. Oral 1 to 1 debate on philosophical issue (10 points)

The two best students represent the country at the IPO.

Germany

In Germany, there are three stages:

1. The best two or three essays of a class (written in German) are sent to the jury (until December, 6th); the good essays will be honoured by a certificate.
2. The best 26 essay-writers are invited to Münster for four days in February, where they write again an essay (in English or French) and hear and discuss two philosophy lectures.
3. The two best essay-writers in Münster represent the country at the IPO in May.

Hungary

The IPO selection procedure in Hungary is closely related to and based on the National Students Competition in philosophy, which is embedded in a wide range of National high-school competitions organized under the auspices of the Ministry of Education. All the competitions (mathematics, etc.) are organized in 3 levels, over January - April. The competitions in philosophy involve 11th and mainly 12th grade students, altogether approx. 300 students nationwide. The first, school-level round is based on testing knowledge in history of philosophy (thus emphasizing the relevance of the curricula and maturity criteria). Students with sufficient score are eligible to enter the 2nd round. The second round is about writing an essay, students are free to select one topic out of four. The best papers are selected by a jury of Academics, which consists of Faculty staff members invited by the ME, who will invite the students to the finals, i.e. an oral examination. Hungarian is the only official language all through the national competition levels. The IPO Selection invites the best 30 students after the 2nd round. Under the supervision of the Hungarian Philosophical Society, a new Jury are being invited who will propose the 4 quotations, and they should evaluate all the papers. Students will take part at the IPO selection where all the IPO rules and regulations are respected: essay-writing, bi-lingual dictionary, timing, evaluation criteria, languages, etc. Usually approx. 15 students take part at the IPO selection and the authors of best 2 papers are proposed to participate at the IPO. Students receive assistance from their teachers to participate at the competitions, however the Philosophical Youth Camps and the „Philosophical tea-house” movement (inspired by IPO colleagues in Turkey) may also help students to gain and deepen their interest in philosophy.

India

The Indian team does not participate anymore. ^[10] The Olympiad was non-funded and thus a totally voluntary effort for both the teachers and students. The selection process, which was organized by Kedar Soni, was in two stages:

1. Abhinav Philosopher - objective and subjective tasks online to primarily gauge students logical and verbal reasoning. Held around beginning of December by Abhinav Vidyalay. (school which coordinates the process) Top 20% are selected to the next stage.
2. Indian Philosophy Olympiad - Essay round similar in format to the IPO competition. It is held online around January in a time-bound manner.

The two best from the stage 2 represent the country, provided they can fund themselves. Then the training program is held for a couple of weeks, to orient students to systematic philosophy and argumentation. It runs for about 12 hours a day and students need to be accommodated at the venue. Those clearing stage 1 are also invited in order to prepare them for next IPO. After the program, until the IPO, students meet 2-3 times weekly for about 3–4 hours in an online lecture room (video + whiteboard) to discuss essay topics and their arguments.

According to Kedar Soni, the IPO's internal politicking has caused him to discontinue organising India's IPO selection. ^[11]

Norway

In 2005, the first year of Norway participating in the IPO, Thor Steinar Grødal just picked his two best philosophy students at Foss high school, in 2006 he and Olav Birkeland picked one each as Foss High School and Oslo Handelsgymnasium were the only ones in Oslo and possibly in the whole of Norway that offered a philosophy course for high school students. Since 2007 a new subject 'history&philosophy' (5 lessons per week in 2nd and 3rd grade) has been introduced to many high schools in Norway, and the selection process for IPO has been tied up to the Baltic Sea Philosophy Essay Competition. 100 Norwegian students from 14 schools participated in this competition in November 2011. In 2012 there was for the first time a 2nd round in Oslo March 23–24 for the 10 best Norwegian participants. These ten went to IPO Oslo 2012 on the extended quota of the host country.

Switzerland

The selection process was initiated in 2005 by Jonas Pfister, and 2006 was the first year Switzerland participated in the IPO. The selection process is organized by the association SwissPhilO, the president of which is Lara Gafner, a former IPO participant for Switzerland. From 2005 to 2012, the selection process consisted of two stages, a first round and a second round. Since 2013 the selection process consists of three stages. At the first stage, students write an essay at school or at home. Out of these, the authors of the best essays are invited to a second round, a semi-final, where they participate in workshops and write a second essay. Again, the authors of the best essays qualify for the next round, the national final, where the students again participate in workshops and write another essay. A jury of five members selects the two best who will represent the country at the IPO. ^[12]

United States

The United States participated in IPO competitions four times until 2003. In 2001, the IPO was hosted by the US in Philadelphia. From 2003 until 2011, however, the US did not participate. At the 2009 December conference meeting of the American Philosophical Association (APA), Eastern Division teacher Joseph A. Murphy met with APA executive director, David Schrader, and told him about the curriculum for a course 'A History of Western Philosophy' taught in Spanish for American high school students in their last two years before university. Over the next year, the course was approved by the Curriculum Committee at Dwight-Englewood School (D-E). David Schrader and William McBride had been discussing ways to reanimate the US philosophy community to re-enter the IPO competitions. Adding Spanish as an official IPO language was seen to be a possible key to doing this. Spanish was added to English, French and German on a trial basis before IPO Vienna 2011. In order to participate in IPO Vienna 2011, Murphy chose two of his best philosophy students who also studied Spanish at D-E. Together they formed the 2011 US Delegation with the blessing of APA. Since then, there has been a national competition for high school students called the American Philosophy Olympiad, in which high school students from around the nation submit philosophy essays in either Spanish, French, or German in response to a given prompt. The two top essays are chosen, and those two students represent the United States at the IPO.

Overview of competitions

Each year, the IPO is held in a different city around the world. The table below gives an overview of each competition since the inaugural competition in 1993. ^{[13] [14]}

No.	Year	City	Country	Theme	Dates		Participating countries
1	1993	Smolyan	Bulgaria		May		3
2	1994	Petrich	Bulgaria		May		5
3	1995	Stara Zagora	Bulgaria		May		5
4	1996	Istanbul	Turkey		May		6
5	1997	Warsaw	Poland		May		7
6	1998	Braşov	Romania		April		8
7	1999	Budapest	Hungary		May		11
8	2000	Münster	Germany		May		11
9	2001	Philadelphia	United States		May		15
10	2002	Tokyo	Japan		May 12	May 16	15
11	2003	Buenos Aires	Argentina		May 7	May 10	18
12	2004	Seoul	South Korea		May 19	May 23	17
13	2005	Warsaw	Poland		May 19	May 23	18
14	2006	Cosenza	Italy		May 13	May 18	15
15	2007	Antalya	Turkey		May 18	May 21	22
16	2008	Iaşi	Romania		May 18	May 22	23
17	2009	Helsinki	Finland		May 22	May 26	22
18	2010	Athens	Greece		May 20	May 24	23
19	2011	Vienna	Austria	Power and Powerlessness of Philosophy	May 26	May 29	28
20	2012	Oslo	Norway	Limits of Freedom	May 16	May 20	39
21	2013	Odense	Denmark	Kierkegaard Today	May 16	May 20	37
22	2014	Vilnius	Lithuania	Emmanuel Levinas: Infinity and the Face of the Other	May 15	May 16	40
23	2015	Tartu	Estonia	Disagreement	May 14	May 18	40
24	2016	Ghent	Belgium	War and Peace	May 12	May 15	44
25	2017	Rotterdam	Netherlands	Tolerance	May 25	May 28	45
26	2018	Bar	Montenegro	Environment	May 23	May 28	50
27	2019	Rome	Italy	Cultural Heritage and Citizenship	May 16	May 19	50
28	2020	Ljubliana	Slovenia	Global Solidarity	May 28	May 31	organized as online competition (eIPO) [15]
29	2021	Ljubliana	Slovenia	Utopie	May 27	May 30	organized as online competition (eIPO) [15]
30	2022	Lisbon	Portugal	Identity and Person	May 26	May 29	Originally planned for 2020 and then cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic and reported to 2022 [a] [16]
31	2023	Olympia	Greece	A Life in Fair Competition	May 11	May 14
32	2024	Helsinki	Finland	A changing World	May 16	May 19	52
33	2025	Bari	Italy	Unknown at this time	May -	May -

Overview of Awards

Year	Location	Gold medal	Silver medal	Bronze medal	Honourable mention
1993	Bulgaria
1994	Petrich, Bulgaria
1995	Stara Zagora, Bulgaria
1996	Istanbul, Turkey
1997	Warsaw, Poland
1998	Braşov, Romania
1999	Budapest, Hungary
2000	Münster, Germany	Ognyan Kassabov   BGR	Gianluca Rossi   ITA	Boris Popivanov   BGR
2001	Philadelphia, EE. UU.	Ute Scholl   DEU	Laura Lapierre   VEN	Felix von Lehmden   DEU
2002	Tokyo, Japan	Silvia Crupano   ITA	Vasilescu Ion Gheorghe   ROU	Akse Pettersson   FIN
2003	Buenos Aires, Argentina	Torsten Schoeneberg   DEU	Sergio Barberis   ARG	Gabriel Abelof   ARG	Sarah Helduser   DEU Mete Tuczu   TUR Hyun Lee   ROK Francesco D'Acunto   ITA Wojciech Orowiecki   POL Andrei Poamă   ROU Sezen Kayhan   TUR
2004	Seoul, ROK	Leopold Hess   POL	Joanna Kusiak   POL Lukas Steinacher   AUT Mert Bahadir Reisoglu   TUR	Seungwon Chang   ROK Matija Lavrinc   SVN Germán Díaz   ARG Valeriya T. Vitkova   BGR Elena Bellodi   ITA David Kovacs   HUN Andreea Elena Simion   ROU
2005	Warsaw, Poland	Mikolaj Ratajczak   POL Tomasz Przezdziecki   POL Alexandru Marcoci   ROU	Marta Sznajder   POL Antti Saarilahti   FIN Nora Labo   ROU	David Himler   AUT Patricio Kingston   ARG Woo Chan Lee   ROK Jutta Obertegger   ITA Jae Won Choi   ROK	Roberta Di Nanni   ITA Agnieszka Kurzemska   POL Marcin Kotowski   POL
2006	Cosenza, Italy	Efe Murat Balikcioglu   TUR	Mateusz Chaberski   POL	Saila Kakko   FIN	Johann Alexander   DEU Santiago Auat   ARG Stefano Burzo   ITA Margherita Busti   ITA Anna Drozdowicz   POL Florin-Radu Gogianu   ROU Carmen Kautto   FIN Conrad Krausche    CHE Maximilian Huber   AUT Sara Musi   ITA Shapira Shiri   ISR Andras Schuller   HUN Joseph Steinlechner   AUT Daniel Thoms   DEU Peter Ujma   HUN Christian Danielov Vatchkov   BGR
2007	Antalya, Turkey	Zeynep Pamuk   TUR	Daria Cybulska   POL Stefan Stefanovic   SRB	Alexander Johann   DEU Martin Hergouth   SVN Soh Hyun-Min   ROK	Elena Alexandra Corbu   ROU Matthias Hoernes   AUT Milena Alexandrova Alexandrova   BGR Filip Taterka   POL Clara Kropivsek   SVN Corina Cristine Lefter   ROU Heidi Meriste   EST Luca Vegetti   ITA Bernát Iváncsics   HUN Christoph Schachenhofer   AUT Nanako Kurioka   Japan
2008	Iași, Romania	Jan Seidel   DEU Sergiu Matei Lucaci   ROU Maria Alexandra Baneu   ROU	Conrad Krausche    CHE Heta Nuutinen   FIN Andrea Beghini   ITA Michal Godziszewski   POL	Arina Cristina Baibarac   ROU Helene Sorgner   AUT Denis Tramonte   ITA Tal Yankovitz   ISR Kristina Kashfullina   RUS	Perczel János   HUN Vallari Sawant   IND Adrian Cristian Ardelean   ROU Toth Olivér István   HUN Maria Ciurchea   ROU Antoine Vuille    CHE Yuval David Hananel   ISR Illia Gorbachev   RUS Lukas Paltanavicius   LTU Dalius Petrulionis   LTU Sebastian Köthe   DEU
2009	Helsinki, Finland	Sarri Nironen   FIN	Eliza Tymianska   POL Petar Penev   BGR	Kristina Kashfullina   RUS Luiza Pasca   ROU	Hyun-Kyu Kim  ROK Ayse Dilek Izek   TUR Pietari Kupiainen   FIN Patrick Mujunen   FIN
2010	Athens, Greece	Aljaž Jelenko   SVN	Kacper Kowalczyk   POL Jaehyun Yoo   ROK	Tibor Backhausz   HUN Valeriu Alexandru Cuc   ROU Josef Piras   ITA	Erik Ramberg   NOR Ignas Rubikas   LTU Anita Ignatova   BGR Anna Smertina   EST Alessio Rocca   ITA Paul Kuuse   EST Tae Heun Kim   ROK Tapani Pulkkinen   FIN Platias Nikolaos   GRC Henning Rognlien   NOR Irina Horodinca   ROU Murel Leuenberger    CHE Chitra Adkar   IND Nikolina Budan   CRO Firat Akova   TUR Karoliina Juulia Pulkkinen   FIN [17]
2011	Vienna, Austria	Nikolaj Møller   DNK	Chang Hyun Choi   ROK José Gusmão Rodrigues   PRT	Niklas Plaetzer   DEU Sakari Nuuttila   FIN Stavros Orfeas Zormbalas   GRC	Mustafa Ayçiçegi   TUR Tibor Backhausz   HUN Franziska Bahl   AUT Miguel de la Riva   DEU Cristina Costina Diamant   ROU Vanessa Gstrein   AUT Milana Kostic   SRB Jwa Seong Lee   ROK Luka Mikec   CRO Dominykas Milašius   LTU Patrick Mokre   AUT Junho Oh   CAN Thierry Schütz    CHE Barbara Šoda   CRO Marie Vestergaard-Thomsen   DNK [18]
2012	Oslo, Norway	Sarah Yoon   ROK Tadas Kriščiūnas   LTU	Jeff Granhøj   DNK Aleksi ROKpela   FIN Myrto Vlazaki   GRC Nishith Bharat Khandwala   IND	Niklas Plaetzer   DEU Abhinav Suresh Menon   IND Stian Follevaag Ersvær   NOR	Kasper Siim Viftrup   DNK Vaclav Masek Sánchez   GTM Guy Yassor   ISR Sun Young Hwang   ROK Justine Zepa   LVA Michail Sklaskis   LTU Djuro Ilic   MNE Sadaf Soloukey   NLD Lars Borge Hellesylt   NOR Diogo José Martins Lopes   PRT Corina Ezaru   ROU Darko Peric   SRB [19]
2013	Odense, Denmark	Róbert Palasik   HUN	Theo Anders   AUT Abhinav Menon   IND Hye Jin Lee   ROK	Petra Požgaj   HRV	Juan Nigri   ARG Esteban van Volcem   BEL Martin Kamenov Iliev   BGR Anton Thorell Steinø   DNK David Therkildsen   DNK Magnus Baunsgaard Kris   DNK Ida Mosegaard   DNK Märt Belkin   EST Neal Graham   DEU Jonathan Krude   DEU Maria Oikonomoy-Makrygianni   GRC Lauris Zvirbulis   LVA Misa Skalskis   LTU Dominika Pankow   POL José Forte   PRT Vraciu Cosmin Petru   ROU Denis Horvat   SVN Léonore Stangherlin    CHE Patrick Côté    CHE Estaban van Volcem   BEL Patric Coté    CHE Dominika Pankow   POL [20]
2014	Vilnius, Lithuania	Vulpe Dan Cristian   ROU Elina Karstie   FIN Jakob Gomolka   DEU Lukas Jonuška   LTU	Jacob Karlsson Lagerros   SWE Beatriz Santos   PRT Iván György Merkei   BGR Abhishek Dedhe   IND João Madeira   PRT Tadas Temčinas   LTU Radosław Jurczak   POL Chagajeg Soloukey Tbalvandany   NLD	Benedikt Zöchling   AUT Rafail Zoulis   GRC Maša Marić   HRV Justinas Mickus   LTU Janko Zeković   MNE Francisco Ríos Viñuela   ESP Bernt Johan Damslora   NOR Jani Patrakka   FIN	Federico Aguilar   GTM Chan Park   ROK Sophus Svarre Rosendahl   DNK Viviana de Santis   ITA Yuki Kanai   JPN Martin Molan   SVN Marta-Liisa Talvet   EST Rūta Karbauskaitė   LTU Vraciu Cosmin Petru  ROU [21]
2015	Tartu, Estonia	Iván György Merker   HUN Antti Autio   FIN	Chagajeg Soloukey Tbalvandany   NLD Eleftherios Chatzitheodorides   GRC David Gjorgoski   MKD Martin Molan   SVN Sandro Huber   AUT Neven Borak   SVN Abhishek Dedhe   IND Öznur Hancı   TUR	Ludovico Machet   ITA Dārta Paula Šveisberga   LVA Rosaria Caddeo   ITA Stanisław Jędrczak   POL Teodora Groza   ROU Anda Maria Zahiu   ROU	Ivona Janjic   SRB Antonina Jamrozik   POL Ana Paula Bellamy Orozco  GTM Augustė Saladytė   LTU Konstantin Krasimirov Tumanov   BGR Lara Gafner    CHE Helen Maria Raadnik   CHE Liisi Voll   EST Petar Soldo   HRV Niklas Uhmeier   DEU Fredrik Johnsson    CHE Zsolt Hegyesi   HUN Kyu Bo Shim   ROK Ragna Heyne   DEU Viachaslau Verashchahin   BLR Nadal Abril Lucia Molina   ARG Alžběta Vítková   CZE Audun Rugstad   NOR Deyan Kirilov Madzharski   BGR [22]
2016	Ghent, Belgium	Ihsan Baris Gedizlioglu   TUR Eui Young Kim   ROK Jungho Choi   ROK	Hana Samaržija   HRV Teodora Groza   ROU Johanna U. Marstrander   NOR Drishtti Rawat   IND	Fabian Strobel   DEU Svit Komel   SVN Matthijs de Jong   NLD Sarp Çelikel   TUR Sara Pyykölä   FIN	Liwia Rogalewicz   POL Anna Morandini   AUT Tathagat Bhatia   IND Sonja Stiebahl   DEU Alexandre Eira   POR Uladzislau Voinich   BLR Ábrahám Horváth   HUN Jan Brändle    CHE Matija Pušnik   SVN Roberta Del Pezzo   ITA Andreea Ioana Aelenei   ROU Matthias Verlinden   BEL Emil Kotzev   BGR Lilja Valtonen   FIN Aistė Grušnytė   LTU Helo Liis Soodla   EST Tomoki Ishikawa   JPN Daan Van Cauwenberge   BEL Ruben Algoet   BEL Pavel Belkevich   BLR Polina Perova   RUS Frederico Cardoso   PRT Roberta Dell Pezzo   ITA [23]
2017	Rotterdam, Netherlands	Mor Divshi   ISR Nóra Schultz   HUN Milan Milenović   SRB	Mihnea Bâlici   ROU Hrvoje Kožić   HRV Rosalie Looijaard   NLD Victor Mordhorst   DNK Álvaro Salgado Carranza   ESP	Crista Erales   GTM Arth Gupta   IND Kaarel Hänni   EST Michal Karlubik   SVK Konstantinos-Marios Konstantinou   GRC	Karolina Bassa   POL Tathagat Bhatia   IND Edoardo Calvello   ITA Reinis Cirpons   LVA Franciszek Cudek   POL Simon Derudder   BEL Danilo Djukanovic   MNE Laura Evers   NLD Martina Fridl   SVN Amanda Häkkinen   FIN Leonie Hong   DEU Matthias Verlinden   BEL Boris Janevski   MKD Lóránt Kiss   HUN Carolien Krekt   NLD Isaias Moser    CHE Baoyi Ni   CHN Antonio Piltcher   BRA Arkadiy Saakyan   RUS Vasilen Vasilev   BGR Ajuna Soerjadi   NLD [24]
2018	Bar, Montenegro	Radka Pallová   CZE Amanda Häkkinen   FIN Michal Karlubik   SVK	Yastika Guru   IND Freja Værnskjold Dzougov   DNK Alvaro Lopes   PRT	Martina Fridl   SVN Yoshiyuki ISHIKAWA   JPN Sagnik Anupam   IND Mihail Larkov   RUS Daantje de Leur   NLD	Luis Anngel Meza-Chavarría   CRI Monique Murer   BRA Stefan Capmare   ROU Tzu Kit Chan   MYS Iulia Natalia Mitrache   ROU Gaeun KIM   ROK Martin Topić   SRB Meggy Michaud   FRA Tobias Heidenreich   DEU Terachet Rojrachsombat   THA Zhengyu Ging   CHN Maria Sara Fraser   SRB Paulina Kaczyńska   POL Javier Sanz González   ESP Paul Johannes Kalda   EST Thomas Valerio   ITA Valerija Baždar   MNE [25]
2019	Rome, Italy	Viktor Mršić   HRV Kseniia Korotenko   RUS	Yanying Lin   CHN Manya Bansal   IND Bendik Sparre Hovet   NOR Kenneth Martin   SVK	Noam Furman   ISR Rei Yatsuhashi   JPN Tuomas Ville Santeri Ansio   FIN Duarte Lourenço Marcos Correia Amaro   PRT Marija Brašanac   SRB Tomaž Žgeč   SVN Mehmet Tüfek   TUR [26]
2020	Ljubljana, Slovenia	Aybars Önder   TUR Wang Dingzheng   SGP	Jiayi Ren   SGP Faruk Šahat   BIH Luiz Felipe Horta   BRA Muhammad Amir Rafiq   MYS	Blaž Sušnik   SVN Dimitrios Kouvaras   GRC Rachel Börger   DEU Una Iza Grandovec   SVN Lyubomira Dimitrova   BGR Oskar Ban Brejc   SVN Deokhaeng Lee   KOR Thomas Delmas   FRA	Anastasios Tsirigotis   GRC Berkant Isaev   BGR Đorđije Petrović   MNE Elina Saarikoski   FIN Emanuel Krajnc   SVN Hana Ćatić   BIH Jean-Baptiste Bonneville   LUX Kristina Røstad Rosenvold   NOR Krištof Ocvirk   SVN Marcel Čarman   SVN Marton Vida   HUN Máté Héthelyi   HUN Matevž Rezman Tasič   SVN Paramott Bunnjaweht   THA Sara Novović   MNE Toma Gheorghe Tavares de Melo   BRA Younghoon Seo   KOR Yuto Koba   JPN [27]
2021	Ljubljana, Slovenia	Andrej Jovićević   SRB Luiz Felipe Horta   BRA	Jonathan Platzbecker   DEU Paul Gruber   AUT Rin Kuroda   JPN Seoyoung Choi   KOR	Yared Alemán   CRI Ozan Ölmez   TUR Alexandra Khovrak   UKR Blaž Sušnik   SVN Džonatans Miks Melgalvis   LVA Máté Héthelyi   HUN	Adian Roman   FIN Ajna Ćuhara   BIH Aleksandra Savova   BGR Alon Loewenstein   ISR Aslak Hellevik   NOR Aurelie Fraichard   ISR Dimitrios Kouvaras   GRC Eirini Livieratou   GRC En Hao Lim   SGP Frederik Albl   CZE Giovanni Maria D’Antonio   ITA Kantanat Pridaphatrakun   THA Karl Abiline   EST Lena Wöß   AUT Muhammad Amir Rafiq M. Rafee   MYS Nitya Rajan    CHE Pongsapak Waiwitlikhit   THA Rick Wierenga   NLD Salomé Pierre   FRA Sara Tadic   MNE Tibet Şahin   TUR Usraat Fahmidah   BGD Yeonwoo Sung   KOR Yuhua Gao    CHE [28]
2022	Lisbon, Portugal	Giulia Pession   ITA Tobias Willée   GER	Aleksandro Savova   BUL Nemes Lavinia   LUX Antoni Antoszek   POL	Patrick Seyfried   GER Ilana Raizler Gandin   BRA Sigve Wiedswang   NOR Jonatan Toporowski   POL Nate Triyananont   THA	Aino Satu Kujari   FIN Ana Ribeiro   POR Ana Wakabayashi   BRA Andrei-Nicolae Radu   ROM Andrija Iljukic   SER Carl Scandelius   UK Daniels Danilov   LAT Ellen Roper   EST Efraim Dahlén   HUN Giovanni D'Antonio   ITA Ivaylo Iliev Hristov   BUL Joost Ouweneel   NLD Josef Skolks   CZE Junichiro Ikeda   JAP Manyasiri Chotbun   THA Maria Barroso   POR María Díaz Ussía   SPA Maria-D Gheorghe   ROM Maša Kilibarda   MNE Md Emil Hafiznizam   MYS Mojca Ravnik   SLO Nahye Lee   SKO Noah Rosenbaum    SWI Nuno Espírito Santo   POR Oleksandra Khovrak   UKR Paul Kaspar Nurk   EST Pedro Silva   POR Pir Servan Tutsi   TUR Rita Brauna   LAT Sebastián A-Vargas   CRI Shiraz Medjahed   FRA Viktoria Knoll   AUT [29]
2023	Olympia, Greece	Dimitrije Golubovic   SER Pietari Kaaro   FIN	Marta Drelijowska   POL Kenza Oughlane   NLD Oskar Wienecke   GER	Bogdan Dannen   BUL Judah Kang   SIN Imyeongwoo Kang   KOR Fabian Gydelund Møller   DEN Ivan Petrić   CRO Edwin Brattselius Thunfors   SWE Jesko Veenema   GER Inka Poikolainen   FIN	Alberts Roze   LAT Bui Gia Khanh Pham   VIE Charles De Belloy De Saint Liénard   USA Demosthenes Tserikis   GRE Dimitrios Karavasilis    GRE Ellen Marigold Roper   EST Fernando Jose Mendez-Castellanos   CRI Gabriella Vida Troen   ISR Genta Takasu   JAP Ivaylo Hristov   BUL Jia Xin Teng   MY Joseph Beritzki   FRA Marie Necsa   LUX Matus Lehocky   BRA Mia Schwarcz   AUT Mircea Balas   ROM Muhsin Emir Karabag   TUR Olga Kerameos   GRE Róza Mária Zolnai    HUN Siim Laane   EST Stavros Soropoulos   GRE Teodora Tikveshanska   MKD Yannis Müller    SWI Yejoon Lee   KOR [30]
2024	Helsinki, Finland	Jesko Veenema  GER Xu Ziyang   CHN	Bernardo Guimarães Ferreira   BRA Thew Sean Schoen   MY Ventsislav Deyanov Velev   BUL	Eetu Nikula   FIN Harshit Gupta   UAE Nutchayathoch Jeinthanuttkanont   THA Otto Kapanen   FIN Paweł Szlachciński   POL	Aklan Larion   HUN Akseli Pöllänen   FIN Alexandra González Bermúdez   CRI Aslan Kamadan   FIN Ayesha Malik   IND Danilo Janković   MNE Dominyka Mauliūtė   LIT Edoardo Grandicelli   ITA Eeshan Sharma   UAE Elias Mäkelä   FIN Faris Rastoder   BIH Gabriella Vida Troen   ISR Georgios Kagiampakis   GRE Hannibal Hilden Otte   DEN Hermanni Somersalmi   FIN Ilai Norani   ISR Inka Poikolainen   POL Isabella Malou Holmgren   DEN Katherina Strutzenberger   AUT Lana Fontana   CRO Laura Stevens   FRA Leonhard Hasler   LIE Matej Kasaić   CRO Mats Jung   LUX Menno Blommers   NLD Miroslava Baricová   SVK Nguyen Doan Duc Vinh   VIE Onni Ojajärvi   FIN Otto Birkoff   SWE Petróczi Kíra Anna   HUN Sarthak Kamalkishor Dhole   IND Sehwan Park   KOR Seungwon Spencer Park   KOR Siravit Sriboonjareanchai   THA Violeta Albinarrate   ARG Xia Yujia   CHN Yelyzaveta Khodieieva   UKR [31] Sacha Pierluigi   FRA (IPO Logo Contest) [32]
2025	Bari, Italy	Not available	Not available	Not available	Not available

Notes

1. The 28th IPO was originally scheduled to be held from May 21 to 24, 2020. ^[16]

References

1. Moufida Goucha, Philosophie. Une école de la liberté, Paris: UNESCO, 2007, p. 89.
2. Ivan Kolev (2016), International Philosophy Olympiad. In: Peters M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory. Springer, Singapore, p. 1159.
3. "Olympiad".
4. UNESCO, “Conclusions of the International Study Days: Philosophy and Democracy in the World”, 15–16 February 1995.
5. http://www.philosophy-olympiad.org/
6. "International Philosophy Olympiad » Statute".
7. Hruška, Tomáš. "Katedra filozofie".^{[ permanent dead link ‍]}
8. "Projekt - Nebojme se myslet".
9. https://www.teaduskool.ut.ee/sites/default/files/teaduskool/olympiaad/eesti/fio_2020_21_juhend_uus.pdf ^{[ bare URL PDF ]}
10. "Why am I shutting down the Indian Philosophy Olympiad?".
11. "Why am I shutting down the Indian Philosophy Olympiad?".
12. "Philosophy".
13. "History". International Philosophy Olympiad. Archived from the original on March 27, 2020. Retrieved March 27, 2020.
14. "International Philosophy Olympiad 2019". ipo2019.sfi.it. Archived from the original on December 3, 2019. Retrieved March 27, 2020.
15. http://eipo2020.com
16. "IPO 2020". 2020 International Philosophy Olympiad. Archived from the original on March 27, 2020. Retrieved March 27, 2020.
17. IPO 2010 webpage
18. IPO 2011 webpage with list of awards
19. IPO 2012 webpage with list of awards and essays
20. IPO 2013 webpage ^{[ permanent dead link ‍]}
21. IPO 2014 webpage
22. IPO 2015 webpage
23. IPO 2016 Webpage
24. IPO 2017 webpage
25. IPO 2018 webpage
26. IPO 2019 webpage
27. eIPO 2020 webpage
28. eIPO 2021 webpage
29. "IPO 2022 webpage". Archived from the original on June 25, 2022. Retrieved May 30, 2022.
30. "IPO 2023 webpage with list of awards". Archived from the original on February 6, 2024. Retrieved February 6, 2024.
31. IPO 2024 webpage
32. "IPO Logo Contest - International Philosophy Olympiad".

Further reading

• Jonas Pfister, "Les Olympiades de philosophie dans l'enseignement" (2009), Diotime. Revue internationale de didactique de la philosophie, 41 (07/2009). Online
• Juha Savolainen, Pekka Elo, Satu Honkala, Rebecca Cingi (Hrsg.) (2010), IPO Helsinki Finland 2009, Publications of The Finnish National Commission for UNESCO no 85, 2010.
• Moris Polanco (2015), Cómo escribir un ensayo de filosofía: Con especial referencia a la Olimpiada Internacional de Filosofía. Create Space. Independent Publishing Platform.
• Ivan Kolev (2016), International Philosophy Olympiad. In: Peters M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory. Springer, Singapore, 1158–1164.
• Frank Murphy (2017), "International Philosophy Olympiad: A Writing Challenge for Young Philosophers. With an Appendix: How To Write a Philosophy Essay. A Guide for IPO Contestants", Journal of Didactics of Philosophy, Vol. 1, 2017, 49–66.

External links

• Official website
• German Competition
• Austrian Competition
• Swiss Competition