International Philosophy Olympiad

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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.

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]

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]

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]

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.

Evaluation proceeds in three stages:

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 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.

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.

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:

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. 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.

The Olympiad is non-funded and thus a totally voluntary effort for both the teachers and students. The selection process, which is organized by Kedar Soni, is 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.^[10]

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.

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.^[11]

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.

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.^[12][13]

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)[14]
29	2021	Ljubliana	Slovenia	Utopie	May 27	May 30	organized as online competition (eIPO)[14]
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][15]
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 -

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[16]
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 [17]
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 [18]
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 [19]
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 [20]
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 [21]
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 [22]
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 [23]
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 [24]
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 [25]
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 [26]
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 [27]
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 [28]
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 [29]
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 [30] Sacha Pierluigi  FRA (IPO Logo Contest)[31]
2025	Bari, Italy	Not available	Not available	Not available	Not available

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