The Bebras Community is an association of organizations which are involved with informatics and educational activities in this area.
The members of the Bebras Community are organizations responsible for running a national Bebras Challenge in their country. A member organization of the Bebras Community is referred to as National Bebras Organizer (NBO). There may be only one NBO per country.
The Bebras Community requires an NBO (among other duties mentioned later on)
- to have expertise in the area of informatics education, nationally or internationally;
- to annually organise a national Bebras Challenge in its country;
- to promote the national Bebras Challenge and provide the resources necessary to make the challenge available to as many young people in the country as possible;
- to make visible to the public that their national activities are part of the international activities of the Bebras Community, and to provide a website that can be used by the Bebras Community to point to the NBOs national activities;
- to provide a contact person and contact data for permanent liaisons with the Bebras Community; and
- to annually report about its activities to the Bebras Community.
The International Bebras Committee (IBC) is composed of NBO representatives. During the International Bebras Workshop, all NBO delegates are considered IBC members. For all IBC actions to be taken in between the workshops, each NBO nominates one representative as a voting member of the IBC.
The IBC is the main decision body of the Bebras Community. Among its duties are
- to decide about NBO membership, including suspension and dismissal;
- to decide about changes to the statutes, including appendices;
- to decide about guidelines for the work of the Bebras Community;
- to elect members of other Bebras Community bodies, as well as office-bearers.
Full members of IBC:
Australia | Allira Crowe | CSIRO – Digital Careers | Lithuania | Valentina Dagienė | Vilnius University, Vilnius |
Austria | Gerald Futschek |
Austrian Computer Society, Vienna |
Malaysia | Khairul Anwar M. Zaki | Beaver Informatics Malaysia Secretariat |
Azerbaijan | Adil Aliyev | ACM chapter Azerbaijan | Netherlands | Eljakim Schrijvers | Stichting Informatica Olympiade, Etten |
Belarus | Iryna Kirynovich | Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics | New Zealand | Margot Phillipps | Logic Plus |
Belgium | Sébastien Combéfis | ECAM, Brussels | North Macedonia | Bojan Kostadinov | Computer Society of Macedonia |
Bulgaria | Emil Kelevedjiev | Union of Bulgarian Mathematicians (UBM) | Pakistan | Alla Ditta Raza Choudary | Kangourou Sans Frontières – Pakistan |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | Haris Gavranovic | Bosnian Science Center | Poland | Maciej M. Sysło | Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń |
China | Bo Wang | Beijing Bebras Culture Communication Co. Ltd. | Portugal | Pedro Ribeiro | University of Porto (Computer Science Department, Faculty of Science) |
Canada | Troy Vasiga |
Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing (CEMC), Waterloo |
Romania | Raluca Constantinescu | ECDL ROMANIA under the authority of The Association for Information Technology and Communications of Romania |
Croatia | Lidija Kralj | NGO "Suradnici u učenju" (Partners in Learning) | Russian Federation | Sergej Pozdniakov | Saint Petersburg State University |
Cyprus | Panicos Masouras | Cyprus Computer Society | Serbia | Milan Rajković | Informacione tehnologije – Udruženje profesora Srbije- (IT-UPS) |
Czechia | Jiří Vaníček | University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice | Singapore | Henry Ong | Singapore International Math Contests Centre (SIMCC) |
Egypt | Eslam Mohamed Wageed | Arab Academy for Science, Technology Maritime Transport – AAST Regional Informatics Center | Slovakia | Peter Tomcsányi | Comenius-University, Bratislava |
Estonia | Ahto Truu | University of Tartu, Tartu | Slovenia | Andrej Brodnik | ACM Slovenija |
Finland | Heikki Hyyrö |
Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences, Tampere University |
South Africa | Pieter Waker | South African Computer Olympiad Trust |
France | Mathias Hiron | France-IOI, Paris | South Korea | Kim Dong Yoon | The Korea Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers |
Germany | Wolfgang Pohl | BWINF, Bonn | Spain | Javier Bilbao | University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) |
Hungary | Zsuzsa Pluhár |
Faculty of Informatics, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest |
Sweden | Arnold Pears | KTH Royal Institute of Technology |
Iceland | Arnheidur Gudmundsdottir | Sky – Skyrslutaeknifelag Islands (The Icelandic Computer Society) | Switzerland | Nora A. Escherle | SVIA-SSIE-SSII, Schweizerische Vereinigung für Informatik in der Ausbildung |
Indonesia | Inggriani Liem | TOKI | Taiwan | Greg Lee | National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei City |
India | Vipul Shah | ACM India | Thailand | Bundit Thanasopon | Faculty of Information Technology, King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang |
Iran | Hamed Mohebbi | Fatemi Cultural Institute | Turkey | Yasemin Gülbahar | Ankara University |
Ireland | Gillian Harty | ICS Foundation | UK | Chris Roffey | University of Oxford (and Hertford College, Oxford) |
Italy | Mattia Monga | The University of Milan, Milan | Ukraine | Rostyslav Shpakovich | Physics and Mathematics Lyceum, Lviv |
Japan | Seiichi Tani | The Japanese Committee for the IOI, Tokyo | USA | Eljakim Schrijvers | USA Bebras Challenge |
Latvia | Laura Briviba | VISMA | Vietnam | Le Anh Vinh | Bebras Vietnam |
Provisional members:
Algeria | Al AWAEL school of education and learning | Norway | Bebras Norge |
Cambodia | Noble Education Co. Ltd. | State of Palestine | Palestine Polytechnic University |
Dominican Republic |
Sociedad Dominicana de Computacion |
Philippines | Asian MathSci League, Inc. (AMSLI) |
El Salvador | Programa Jóvenes Talento de El Salvador | Saudi Arabia | King Abdulaziz Foundation for Giftedness and Creativity (Mawhiba) |
Israel | Davidson institute of Science Education | Syria | Commission of Distinction and Creativity (CDC) |
Kazakhstan | Republican Scientific and Practical centre Daryn of the Ministry of Education and Science of Republic of Kazakhstan | Uruguay | Plan Ceibal |
Marocco | Moroccan Assoc. of Digital Trust (Am@N) – Moroccan Olympiads of Informatics | Uzbekistan | Competencies Development Center Ltd (CDC) |
Niger | AlgoBot-Niger |
The Bebras Board is the executive body of the Bebras Community. It is responsible for all ongoing business of the Bebras Community. Among the duties of the Bebras Board are:
- to deal with membership issues such as receiving applications, checking with NBOs for satisfaction of NBO requirements, suggesting suspensions or dismissals of membership to the IBC;
- to find hosts for upcoming International Bebras Workshops;
- to support workshop hosts;
- to manage financial issues as being related to the international operations of the Bebras Community;
- to prepare proposals for changes to the statutes;
- to report to the IBC with at least one written summary of all activities per year.
Chair Valentina Dagienė, Vilnius university, Lithuania
Members Wolfgang Pohl, BWINF, Germany
Sébastien Combéfis, ECAM, Belgium
Peter Tomcsányi, Comenius University, Slovakia
Chris Roffey, University of Oxford, UK
Ahto Truu, University of Tartu, Estonia
Bronius Skūpas, Vilnius Lyceum, Lithuania
More information in the Bebras Community Statutes, V. 1.0, 2020 (download).