The International Biology Olympiad (IBO), is a competition of mind and  an annual event for the world's best biology students at secondary school. The aims of the IBO are to promote a career in science for talented students and to stress the importance of biology in our current society. The IBO is also a celebration of international relationships amongst our youth and stimulates contact between students and teachers from many countries in a friendly environment. The IBO2005's official languages are English and Russian. To provide equal opportunities for all participants, the tests will be translated prior to the testing days. This will be done by each country's own team leaders and jurors.
Find both theoretical and practical tasks from the 13th International Biology Olympiad (Latvia 2002)on the official webpage of the 13th IBO. Both html and PDF formats are available.
IBO 2005
I have been under pressure to update this page too, as many people who visit "Biology Olympiads"  send questions to me to be answered. Although I have replayed to many of them, but, I think that the easiest choice is to activate this forgotten blog. There are some news in Iran. Now we have made our Biology team, comprising 4 competitors (2 boys+2 girls). They are prepared to participate in the IBO 2005 in Beijing. I am still in darkness how many countries will participate, but for sure the number of teams will be maximum. China is a different IBO organizer, as most of Gold medalist often have been Chinese competitors. See IBO 2005 webpage>>

More than 20,000 Iranian students from all over the country will participate in a competition for enter the second round of Iranian Biology Olympiad tomorrow morning. The competition will be started at 09:00 am in all cities, towns and many villages across the country. I think the competition is going to be a little bit exhausted, as only high ranking students have been eligible to participate. This will be a contest for gifted students of Iran.
Dr. Jan Stoklasa the main author of the first International Biology Olympiad passed away. He was one of dedicated persons working with IBO. Let's commemorate him. We have not forgotten his kind smile he often carried.

tsunami

We are still in obscure regarding our IBO colleague at the beginning of The New Year 2005, particularly our dear colleagues in tsunami affected countries. We have received no news from their side, except for a short preliminary message from Dr. Agus Dana Permana our colleague in Indonesia. This message is perhaps can activate our colleages to report about the effect of disaster. Thank to Dr. Soucup for the contribution to the relief, done on behalf of IBO Coordinating Center.