• What is GeoOlympiad?

What is the International

Geography Olympiad?

Thousands of students all over the world participate enthusiastically in National Geography Olympiads or competitions. The best of them compete in the International Geography Olympiad (iGeo). iGeo is a competition for the best 16 to 19 year old geography students from National Geography Olympiads. It is organised every other year. The competition consists of three parts: a written test, a multimedia test and a substantial field work exercise.

The International Geography Olympiad is organised by the International Geographical Union (IGU) Olympiad Task Force. The Task Force members are: Henk Ankoné, co-chair (The Netherlands), Joop van der Schee, co-chair (The Netherlands), Kathryn Berg (Australia), Wieslaw Kosakowski (Poland) and Zouhaier Hlaoui (Tunisia).

The next International Geography Olympiad will be held in Carthage, Tunisia, from 7 to 12 August 2008 in conjunction with the IGU World Congress.

This site has been created with the intent of providing you a variety of information about the International Geography Olympiad. The name of the International Geography Olympiad was previously International Geography Competition. We’ll do our best to keep this site fresh with descriptions of new activities. Please tell us if we are adequately serving your information needs. Just send us an e-mail message.

For more information please send an email to: j.vanderschee@ond.vu.nl or to h.ankone@slo.nl

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