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20 October 2021

The European Statistics Competition (ESC) 2022 is on! Secondary school students from 19 countries will compete, first at national and then at European level, in the fifth edition of this statistical literacy contest.

Teamwork to solve statistical problems

The ESC is a school-based competition in which teams of secondary school students compete against each other by solving statistical problems, searching for data and producing statistical analyses. The aim is to promote statistical literacy among students, while encouraging teachers to use new educational materials based on official statistics.

As the competition reflects the different curricula across Europe, it is split into two phases:

  1. The national phase, during which students compete against their peers in their own country using questions corresponding to their studies; and
  2. a European phase, where the finalists represent their countries at European level and produce short videos on a statistical topic.

Over 11 000 students from 16 European countries participated last year

Over 11 000 students from 16 countries joined the fourth edition of the competition, which ran in the school year 2020-2021. Using official statistics, contestants in the European finals had to present a video about the challenge of misinformation in the society and the role official statistics can have to tackle this problem. In spite of the extra challenges brought by the COVID-19 pandemic, the students produced some really amazing videos. The two winning teams were announced on 31 May.

Iceland, Liechtenstein and Luxembourg join the contest this year

The fifth edition of the ESC is now ongoing in 19 countries. 16 countries participated also in previous editions of the competition: Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia and Spain. Three other countries are new to the competition: Iceland, Liechtenstein and Luxembourg.

Teachers and students from those 19 countries can start building their teams and join the contest.

Please also keep an eye out for the public choice award which will take place in many countries. You will be asked to help choose the best videos!

How to take part

Registration for the national phase is open (soon) in many countries. Please go to the European Statistics Competition homepage at https://esc2022.eu/ for more information.

 

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