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2012 IGU Olympiad
Cologne
"Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city and it is located on both sides of the Rhine River."
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The 2012 iGeo Invitation Dear Colleagues, On behalf of the Geographical Society of Germany (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geographie – DGFG) and the Institute for Geography of the University of Cologne, it is our pleasure to invite your country to send a team to the 9th International Geography Olympiad (iGeo). This will be held in Cologne, Germany, from 21 August to 27 August 2012, under the auspices of the International Geographical Union Olympiad Task Force. The venue will be the Institute for Geography in the heart of the city of Cologne beside the Rhine River. As always the iGeo competition contains three elements: a written response test, a multimedia test and a fieldwork test. The official language of the iGeo is English. Questions will be presented in English and students must answer in English. Extra facilities will be provided for non-native English speakers. For further information on the tests, see the attached Guidelines for Tests A country’s team will be made up of four secondary school students between 16 and 19 years of age (inclusive) on 30 June 2012. Students must be selected through a national geography competition. They will be accompanied by two adults who are involved in geographical education in their country, and who are able to speak and write English. Please also refer to the iGeo website for the statutes under which the iGeo operates (http://www.geoolympiad.org/ and click the column ‘What is GeoOlympiad?’). Countries are responsible for their own travel, visas and insurance. In addition, a contribution of € 275 per person (for each student and leader) is payable as a contribution to local expenses (EURO/€ currency converter http://www.xe.com/ucc/). Details of the iGeo programme are still being finalized, and will be forwarded later. However, for your planning purposes, the first function is Registration and an International Board Meeting at 16.00 Tuesday 21 August. The last function coincides with the Opening Ceremony of the International Geographical Congress which begins at 16.00 Sunday 26 August. As well as the tests, the programme includes geographical poster presentations and an intercultural function with a new concept. Details of these will be sent to participating countries. Alsotwo excursions will be arranged, to the Ruhr and Rhine Regions. An optional post-iGeo tour at your own cost may possibly be arranged if enough countries are interested. Please return the attached application form by 21 January 2012 at the latest. Countries which took part in the 2008 or 2010 Olympiads will be automatically accepted for the 2012 iGeo if they apply by 21 January 2012. Other countries will be allocated available places in order of the date of receipt of their application. If you haven’t received an emailed acknowledgement of the receipt of your application within seven days of emailing or faxing it (longer if posting it), please email to check that it has been received. If you need a formal written invitation to the 2012 iGeo, please email us the name, position and address of the person to whom the letter should be sent. Please send the application form, and any queries about the Cologne Olympiad, to us. If you have general queries about the Olympiad, for instance about eligibility, those should go to the Secretariat. Please email them to Kath Berg at admin@rgsq.org.au. If you believe that this email is better directed to another person, please forward it to them. If you would like to be taken off the email list, please let Kath Berg (admin@rgsq.org.au) know, and preferably give her a contact in your country to whom future communications should be emailed instead. For some countries there is already more than one contact person on our email list. We look forward to welcoming you to the iGeo in Cologne in 2012. This is an excellent opportunity to showcase the geographical skills and understandings of your country’s geography students, as well a reward for student excellence. Yours sincerely Dr Dorothea Wiktorin Phone +49-221-470-2591
General iGeo contact:
2008 TunisIf you want to know what IGEO is have a look at the IGEO video made by Werner Wallert of the 2008 IGEO in Tunis.
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