Credit: STATEC
Luxembourg's statistics agency, STATEC, has announced that the registration for the Luxembourgish national phase for the European Statistics Competition (ESC) 2022-2023 is now open until 16 December 2022.
The sixth edition of this competition, which aims to promote young people's curiosity for statistics, brings together students from nineteen European countries.
Last year, Luxembourg participated for the first time with 268 students representing 102 teams. In Luxembourg, this competition, which is an initiative of the statistical office of the European Union, Eurostat, is organised by STATEC and the Luxembourg Science Centre.
The ESC is a competition in which teams of secondary school students challenge each other by solving statistical exercises, hunting for information and producing analyses. The aim is to promote statistical literacy among students, while encouraging teachers to use new teaching materials based on official statistics.
The competition is divided into two phases:
- the national phase, in which students compete against their peers in their own country;
- the European phase, where finalists represent their country at the European level and are asked to produce short, creative videos on a statistical topic.
Teamwork to solve statistical exercises
All students in the last four years of secondary school in Luxembourg can participate. The national phase of the competition will take place between 20 October 2022 and 19 February 2023 and consists of two parts:
- an online questionnaire with statistical exercises
- a photo competition on the theme of the future, organised in collaboration with the Luxembourg Science Centre
The top three teams in each age category (14-16 and 16-18 years old) will have the opportunity to win prizes. The top four teams (two per age category) will then have the opportunity to participate in the European phase of the competition, which will start in March 2023.
