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Italian Statistics Olympics 2026

Italian Statistics Olympics 2026

For the 2025/26 school year, Istat and SIS (Società Italiana di Statistica) organise the 16th edition of the Italian Statistics Olympics.

The Olympics are aimed to encourage students to approach statistical reasoning, to arouse their interest in data analysis and probability, to enable them to better understand the meaning of the quantitative information they receive every day.

The initiative is open to upper secondary school students (classes 1-4).

Registrations for schools and students opened on 21 October 2025 and closed on 30 November.

The individual are held over four days: from 12 to 15 January 2026, as stated in the Rules.

Below is the schedule divided by regions:

12 January 2026 (schools in Piemonte, Valle d’Aosta, Lombardia, Trentino-Alto Adige and Friuli-Venezia Giulia);
13 January 2026 (schools in Veneto and Emilia-Romagna);
14 January 2026 (schools in Liguria, Toscana, Umbria, Marche, Lazio, Molise and Campania);
15 January 2026 (schools in Abruzzo, Puglia, Basilicata, Calabria, Sardegna and Sicilia).

Should the number of enrolled students exceed a certain threshold, the tests could be extended to 16 January 2026.

In that case, prompt notification would be given to the schools once registrations have closed.

Individual tests consist of a set of multiple choice questions, administered online, on statistics topics as set forth in the Competition Rules.

The assignments of the previous editions, with solutions and comments, are available in the Competitions pages of past years: 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 (Italian only).

Assignments – 2026 edition (Italian only)

Further information is available in the Competition announcement and in the Rules, adopted by resolution of the Istat President. The top 3 ranked students in the individual tests for each year of study (I, II, III, IV) are inserted in the “Albo nazionale delle Eccellenze” (National Register of Excellences) by the Ministry of Education according to the provision of the appropriate Ministerial Decree.

Also for this edition, the Italian Statistics Olympics are the national phase of the European Statistics Competition(ESC 2026). The Olympics winners (team phase) are admitted to the European competition organized by Eurostat in collaboration with the National Statistical Institutes (here the European rules).

Winners

Italian videos shortlisted for the 2026 European Statistics Competition

On 1 June, Eurostat published the 24 finalist videos for the European Statistics Competition (ESC) (12 in the 14–16 age group and 12 in the 16–18 age group). Three Italian teams are among the finalists:

OUTLIERS from the Liceo Scientifico A. Romita in Campobasso (14–16 age group)
BLUESHRIMP from the E. Fermi – G. Giorgi Scientific, Technical and Vocational Hub in Lucca (16–18 age group)
FERMISTAT from the E. Fermi Institute in Montesarchio (BN) (16–18 age group)

The awards ceremony will take place on 25 June in Sofia (Bulgaria): in addition to the two winners, the other 4+4 finalist teams per category will be announced.

A total of 74 teams took part in the team phase of the ninth edition of ESC, with 29,000 students participating in the respective national rounds. Once again this year, Italian students were the most numerous among those from the 22 participating European countries (4,800).

For information: olimpiadi-statistica@istat.it

Tutorial

Guide to the web platform for the Italian Statistics Olympics 2026

This video offers a practical and detailed overview of how to access the tests on the dedicated platform

Watch the video on YouTube (Italian only) 01:39 minutes

Launch video

Launch video for the European Statistics Competition 2026

Every year, more than 20,000 students from all over Europe form teams to compete in the analysis and creative presentation of statistics

Watch the video on YouTube 01:02 minutes

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