Dear competitors,
Dear colleagues.
Distinguished guests
The idea of an IBO edition in Portugal started in July the 7th 2014 in Bali when Tomáš Soukup first approached and asked me: “What about an IBO in Lisbon?” And as I have answered “I would love that” I got his full support for the rest of the week…
For the past 7 years we have made great efforts to create, plan and organise a wonderful IBO where students could meet and live in a wonderful environment at the Military College, in Lisbon
A school founded in 1803, with marvellous accommodation facilities…
A campus with sports facilities for both outdoors…
…and indoors
With multiple relaxing and performance rooms…
which include its own Natural History Museum
And a motto that perfectly fits the IBO Spirit:
“ONE for ALL, all for ONE”
But competitors would have also been challenged with diversified practical exams in the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon
Where they would perform practical exams on Microbiology and Microbial Ecology; Cellular Biology and Plant Biotechnology; Animal Physiology and Marine Biotechnology and Animal Anatomy, Biosystematics and Ecology and two theoretical exams
But Delegates would also be staying on a very comfortable hotel in central Lisbon (EPIC SANA, https://www.lisboa.epic.sanahotels.com/en)
And we would have all shared relaxing moments in several venues during our sightseeing tours and visits to:
Sintra
Cascais
…and Lisboa (Lisbon)
Visits to the Lisbon Oceanarium (https://www.oceanario.pt/en)
And visits to the Pavilion of Knowledge – Ciência Viva (https://www.pavconhecimento.pt/en)
Dinoparque – An outdoor museum with giant dinosaurs (https://www.dinoparque.pt/en/)
…and bottlenose dolphin observation
Among other surprises…
But…unfortunately, a small virus particle was spread Worldwide and changed our lives tremendously, destroying all our plans…
…while showing the World the importance of biologists in understanding its mechanisms, testing samples, sequencing its nuclei acids and helping finding vaccines and new drugs.
(BIOLOGISTS WORK FOR “ALL LIFE”)
Consequently we had to cancel our face-to-face IBO in Lisbon and adapt it to an
IBO Challenge II
