Euro - Asia Silk Highway Olympiad

 

 

1)The contest is open to all the European and Asian countries, to competitors from other continents as well, provided they accept the present regulations and take an active part in organizing it;

2) The starting point is the theme: “ The European Literary Circle on Silk Road”- Rediscovering the old Silk Road through  Education, Science and Culture, in an international project meant to materialize the modern silk highway. To put the concept into practice, we will start from the initiative of the Magic Pencil (http://ponteuxin.tripod.com), able to create the    creative instruments necessary to this construction , and from the latest technologies developed on the Internet, including promoting the site – http://www.silkhighway.eu- which is being created;

3)The first project initiated will belong to education and science, the goal of the organizers being that of developing the education on this old but always new itinerary. In cooperation with the Romanian Mathematical Society   and other partners and sponsors, we will start a competition for traveling the Silk Highway with the use of Mathematics, this is why we launch the present regulation

 

 

Regulation

Regarding the organization of the Olympics “Euro-Asia  Silk Highway”

 

1)The contest is open to all young people with special  skills for performance in Mathematics, schoolchildren of 15-17 years old, each participating country appointing a team of 12members:

2) The Romanian society of Mathematic Sciences will constitute an international jury made up of 12 persons, 3 persons for each stage of the competition, who will elaborate the themes, rules and subjects of the competition, as annexes to the present regulation;

3)  There will be  four obligatory stages : Europe, Middle East, Central Asia and Caucasus, Asia. In order to pass from one stage to another, the competitors will have to solve the sets of problems given by the jury, the subjects being sent at the same time through the Internet to  the competitors from all the countries involved. The teams will also be monitored by professors from other countries as well.

4) The route of the competition starts from Rome (Italy) and ends at Shanghai(China). In Shanghai, in cooperation with Shanghai Cultural Development Foundation (SHCDF), there will be organized  the Silk Festival and 3 prizes will be awarded to the teams on the first places. The prizes will consist in ensuring free travel for the members of the winning teams to Shanghai and other prizes decided by the organizers. All the participating teams will be invited to the Festival, but they will have to pay for their travel expenses.

5)In organizing the contest, the organizers will strictly  obey the five values of the European Literary Circle: Creativity, Intelligence, Personality, Novelty, Faith.