International Philosophy Olympiad

The International Philosophy Olympiad was founded through an initiative by Ivan Kolev from Sofia University in Bulgaria.

In the first stage, every bundesland (state) sends the best two or three participants of the Landeswettbewerb to the philosophical akademie.

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.

Since 2014, Jan Čížek from Palacký University has been the main organizer of the Czech philosophical competition.

After that, the final competition begins, which consists of four different parts: The two best students represent the country at the IPO.

In Germany, there are three stages: 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.

The first, school-level round is based on testing knowledge in history of philosophy (thus emphasizing the relevance of the curricula and maturity criteria).

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.

Then the training program is held for a couple of weeks, to orient students to systematic philosophy and argumentation.

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.

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.

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.

David Schrader and William McBride had been discussing ways to reanimate the US philosophy community to re-enter the IPO competitions.

In order to participate in IPO Vienna 2011, Murphy chose two of his best philosophy students who also studied Spanish at D-E.

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.

Currently, the selection process for IPO in Italy happens through the "Campionati (Ex Olimpiadi) di Filosofia" which are a ministerially recognized competition.

In the end, the top 2 students of section B (with English as chosen language), in the national phase, are those who will represent Italy at the IPO.

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