International Academic Competitions European Division

Quiz Tournaments for Students and Schools in Europe

2024-2025 Competition Season

International Academic Competitions organizes quiz tournaments through its European Division for primary and secondary school students throughout Europe. Students in Africa, the Middle East, the Caucasus, and Central Asia are also welcome to compete in any European Division tournaments. The European Division includes the International History Bee and Bowl (IHBB), which are two academic quiz competitions with a history focus (the Bee is for individual students, the Bowl is for teams). For individual students, there is also the International Geography Bee and the International Science Bee, while for school teams, we also offer the International Academic Bowl and the International Geography Bowl.

Founded in 2010, IAC organizes events for students in over 50 countries, including the annual European Championships, the biennial International History Olympiad (next held in July 2025) and the biennial International Geography Championships (next held in July 2026). Over 50,000 students around the world take part in IAC events each year and we invite your students and children to join them!

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Regional Tournaments

For the 2024-2025 school year, we will be running in-person History Bee and Bowl tournaments at approximately 11 sites throughout Europe, as well as two online tournaments. We will use three separate sets of questions; schools can thus attend up to three tournaments as long as the questions are different. We are also organizing regional tournaments now for the International Geography Bee (at which the students can qualify for the European Championships) and the Academic Bowl. Students can also qualify for the European Championships in the Science Bee and the Geography Bee by taking the Qualifying Exams in these subjects which are given during the lunch breaks at in-person History Bee and Bowl regional tournaments.

Championships Qualification

The top students and teams will also qualify for our 2025 International Academic Competitions European Championships in Vienna, Austria on May 30-June 1 as well as for the 2024 International Environmental Science Olympiad (to be held in Puerto Rico in December), the 2026 International Geography Championships, and the 2025 International History Olympiad (to be held in Paris from July 20-26). Qualification for all of these events can take place at any regional tournament.