INTERNATIONAL PHILOSOPHY OLYMPIAD IPO is an international competition in writting philosophy essays. The objectives of the IPO are: - to promote philosophical education at the secondary school level and increase the interest of high school pupils in philosophy; - to encourage the development of national, regional, and local contests in philosophy among pre-university students worldwide; - to contribute to the development of critical, inquisitive and creative thinking; - to promote philosophical reflection on science, art, and social life; - to cultivate the capacity for ethical reflection on the problems of the modern world; and, - by encouraging intellectual exchanges and securing opportunities for personal contacts between young people from different countries, to promote the culture of peace. Serbia paticipated two times on IPO. First participation was in 2007, when Stefan Stefanović from Gimnazija "Bora Stanković" (Niš) won silver medal in Turkey. Four years later first national qualification was organized by Miloš jeremić, philosophy teacher in Požarevačka gimnazija (Grammar School Požarevac).

2011 - FIRST NATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS FOR IPO POŽAREVAČKA GIMNAZIJA Winners: 1. Bogdan Pantić, Gimnazija Ćuprija 2. Milana Kostić, Zrenjaninska gimnazija Topics: 1. The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it. (Karl Marx) 2. Every man is born as many men, and dies as a single one. (Martin Heidegger) 3. The age of biogenetics / cyberspace is the age of philosophy in the sense again that we are confronted more and more often with philosophical problems at an everyday level. It is not that you withdraw from daily life into a world of philosophical contemplation. On the contrary, you cannot find your way around daily life itself without answering certain philosophical questions. It is a unique time when everyone is, in a way, forced to be some kind of philosopher. (Slavoj Zizek) 4. We criticize a thinker more sharply when he proposes a tenet that is disagreeable to us; and yet it would be more reasonable to do this when we find his tenet agreeable. (Friedrich Nietzsche)