Luxembourg's statistical institute STATEC has announced that the Grand Duchy is participating for the first time in the European Statistics Competition (ESC).
The fifth edition of this statistical literacy competition brings together secondary school students from nineteen countries. Last year, more than 11,000 students from sixteen countries participated in the competition.
The ESC is a school-based competition in which teams of 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: the national phase, during which students compete against their peers in their own country using questions corresponding to their studies, and a European phase, where the finalists represent their countries at the European level and produce short videos on a statistical topic.
All pupils of the last four years of secondary education in Luxembourg can participate. The national phase of the competition, which will take place between 20 October 2021 and 20 February 2022, consists of two parts: a web questionnaire on statistics and a photo competition on the theme of coincidence, organised in collaboration with the Science Center Luxembourg.
The top two teams in each age category (14-16 and 16-18 year olds) will then have the opportunity to participate in the European phase of the competition, which starts in March 2022.
Registration for the Luxembourg national phase is now open until 15 December 2021. Further information is available at esc2022.eu and at www.statec.lu.
