The International Biology Olympiad e.V. (IBO) is an association that organizes a yearly Biology competition for secondary school students, who are winners of their respective National Biology Olympiad.

Their skills in tackling biological problems, and dealing with biological experiments are tested. Interest in biology, inventiveness, creativity and perseverance are necessary.
In bringing together gifted students, the IBO competition tries to challenge and stimulate these students to expand their talents and to promote their career as scientists.
A very important point is gathering young people from over the world in an open, friendly and peaceful mind.

Every participating country sends four students. They are accompanied by two team leaders who represent the country.

 

Rules & Syllabus 
In July 2016 the IBO gained its legal structure as a non-profit association (under the German law). It's called International Biology Olympiad e.V. (e.V. is short for ‘eingetragener Verein’ which translates as 'Registered Association'). The Articles of this Association were fine-tuned for fitting German Law requirements; the definitive text, approved by the 2017 Annual General Meeting, should be available here in August2017.
The IBO Operational Guidelines are the regulations of the competition. 
•    IBO e.V.: Articles of Association
•    IBO competition: Operational Guidelines (includes the IBO competition syllabus)
 Last but not least:
•    Guidelines for the Host Country
Designing a reliable IBO Theory examination (PDF) 
Contact 

 

How to get in touch with the IBO 
Global e-mail address: contact [at] ibo-info.org

 

IBO Office
•    Dr. Sebastian Opitz    opitz@ipn.uni-kiel.de 
Head of the IBO office,
Leibniz Institut for Science and Mathematics Education (IPN) at the University of Kiel - Biology Education 
Olshausenstr. 62 - 24118 Kiel - Germany 
Tel.: +49 431 880 5117 Fax.: +49 431 880 2717
 
IBO Coordinating Centre
•    Dr. Lenka Libusová    contact[at]ibo-info.org
     Department of Cell Biology, Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Science
     Viničná 7, 128 43 Praha 2 - Czech Republic
 
Steering Committee 2016-2020
•    Chairman : Dr. Poonpipope Kasemsap (Thailand)  agrppk[at]nontri.ku.ac.th
Dept. of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture - Kasetsart University
Bangkok 10900 - Thailand      Tel +662-579 4371 - Fax +662-538 3356
•    Vice-chairman : Mr. Gérard Cobut (Belgium)  gerard.cobut[at]naturalsciences.be
•    Treasurer : Dr. Dennis Kappei (Germany)  dennis.kappei[at]nus.edu.sg
•    Secretary : Dr. Jose Matos (Portugal)  jose.matos[at]ordembiologos.pt
•    Regular members : Dr. Ryoichi Matsuda (Japan)  cmatsuda[at]mail.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp, Dr. Alexander Rubtsov (Russia)  am.rubtsov.bio.msu[at]gmail.com
•    IBO Coordinating Centre: Dr. Lenka Libusová (Czech Republic)  lenka.libusova[at]natur.cuni.cz, replacing Dr. Tomáš Soukup (Czech Republic)
Country Coordinators List
All country coordinators are listed in the address list  (protected document: use password )

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Webmaster
Mr. Gérard Cobut    gerard.cobut [at] naturalsciences.be 
     Museum of Natural Sciences, Head of Exhibition Development
     Rue Vautier 29 - 1000 Bruxelles - Belgium
     Tel +32 2 627 42 44 - Fax +32 2 646 44 33
 

About:

(IBO): http://ibo2017.org

(ICHO): https://icho2017.sc.mahidol.ac.th/

(IPHO): ipho.org/syllabus.html   /  http://ipho.org/statutes.html