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:
Country | Name of contact person | Name of the organization | Country | Name of contact person | Name of the organization |
Algeria | Karima Sayah | Al AWAEL school of education and learning | Netherlands | Willem van der Vegt | Stichting Informatica Olympiade |
Australia | Graeme Buckie | CSIRO – Digital Careers | New Zealand | Tim Bell | Canterbury University |
Austria | Gerald Futschek | Austrian Computer Society, Vienna |
North Macedonia | Mile Jovanov | Computer Society of Macedonia |
Belarus | (suspended) | (suspended) | Pakistan | Marios Omar Choudary | Kangourou Sans Frontières – Pakistan |
Belgium | Sébastien Combéfis | Computer Science and IT in Education ASBL | Philippines | Rechilda Villame | Asian MathSci League, Inc. (AMSLI), in partnership with National Olympiad in Informatics – Philippines (NOI.PH) |
Bulgaria | Emil Kelevedjiev | Union of Bulgarian Mathematicians (UBM) | Poland | Maciej M. Sysło | Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | Haris Gavranovic | Bosnian Science Center | Portugal | Pedro Ribeiro | University of Porto (Computer Science Department, Faculty of Science) |
China | Yuqin Jiang | Beijing Bebras Culture Communication Co. Ltd. | Romania | Irinuca-Gabriela Vaduva | ECDL ROMANIA under the authority of The Association for Information Technology and Communications of Romania |
Canada | Troy Vasiga | Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing (CEMC), Waterloo |
Russian Federation | (suspended) | (suspended) |
Croatia | Lidija Kralj | NGO "Suradnici u učenju" (Partners in Learning) | Serbia | Milan Rajković | Informacione tehnologije – Udruženje profesora Srbije - (IT-UPS) |
Cyprus | Panicos Masouras | Cyprus Computer Society | Singapore | Henry Ong | Singapore International Math Contests Centre (SIMCC) |
Czechia | Jiří Vaníček | University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice | Slovakia | Monika Tomcsányiová | Comenius-University |
Egypt | Eslam Mohamed Wageed | Arab Academy for Science, Technology Maritime Transport – AAST Regional Informatics Center | Slovenia | Andrej Brodnik | ACM Slovenija |
Estonia | Ahto Truu | University of Tartu, Tartu | South Africa | Chanelle Booysen | Institute for IT professionals South Africa (IITPSA) |
Finland | Heikki Hyyrö | Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences, Tampere University |
South Korea | Kim Dong Yoon | The Korea Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers |
France | Mathias Hiron | France-IOI, Paris | Spain | Javier Bilbao | University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) |
Germany | Wolfgang Pohl | BWINF, Bonn | Sweden | Arnold Pears | KTH Royal Institute of Technology |
Hungary | Zsuzsa Pluhár | Faculty of Informatics, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest |
Switzerland | Nora A. Escherle | SVIA-SSIE-SSII, Schweizerische Vereinigung für Informatik in der Ausbildung |
Iceland | Arnheidur Gudmundsdottir | Sky – Skyrslutaeknifelag Islands (The Icelandic Computer Society) | Taiwan | Greg Lee | National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei City |
Indonesia | Inggriani Liem | TOKI | Thailand | Nopporn Chotikakamthorn | Faculty of Information Technology, King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang |
India | Vipul Shah | ACM India | Türkiye | Yasemin Gülbahar | Ankara University |
Iran | Hamed Mohebbi | Fatemi Cultural Institute | UK | Chris Roffey | University of Oxford, Hertford College, Oxford, and Raspberry Pi Foundation |
Ireland | Gillian Harty | ICS Foundation | Ukraine | Rostyslav Shpakovich | Physics and Mathematics Lyceum, Lviv |
Italy | Mattia Monga | The University of Milan, Milan | USA | Eljakim Schrijvers | USA Bebras Challenge |
Japan | Seiichi Tani | The Japanese Committee for the IOI, Tokyo | Uruguay | Emiliano Pereiro | Plan Ceibal |
Latvia | Ilze Nīlandere | VISMA | Uzbekistan | Alisher Ikramov | Competencies Development Center Ltd (CDC) |
Lithuania | Valentina Dagienė | Vilnius University, Vilnius | Vietnam | Le Anh Vinh | Bebras Vietnam |
Malaysia | Khairul Anwar M. Zaki | Beaver Informatics Malaysia Secretariat |
Provisional members:
Country | Name of contact person | Name of the organization | Country | Name of contact person | Name of the organization |
Argentina | Mariela Reiman | CHICOS.NET | Niger | Ibrahim Abdoulahi | AlgoBot-Niger |
Azerbaijan | Adil Aliyev | OzunOyren | Montenegro | Jelena Milojkovic | NGO Tinker |
Brazil | Cristina Diaz | UPMAT Brasil Educacional Ltda. | Morocco | Anas Abou El Kalam | Moroccan Assoc. of Digital Trust (Am@N) – Moroccan Olympiads of Informatics |
Cambodia | Ich Khuy | Noble Education Co. Ltd. | Norway | Brit Helle Aarskog | Bebras Norge |
Colombia | Carolina Portela | Fedesoft – Colombian Federation of the Software and Related Information Technologies Industry | Palestine State | Mousa Alrefaya | Palestine Polytechnic University |
Cuba | Tomás Orlando Junco Vázquez | Universidad de las Ciencias Informáticas (UCI) | Paraguay | Francoise Lhouthé Bogarin | OMAPA (Multidisciplinary Organization for Teachers and Students Support) |
Dominican Republic | Roberto Abreu | Sociedad Dominicana de Computacion |
Peru | Juan Gutiérrez | Department of Computer Science of the University of Engineering and Technology (UTEC) and Generación Tec SAC |
El Salvador | Humberto Alfonso Sermeño Villalta | Programa Jóvenes Talento de El Salvador | Puerto Rico | Edwin Flórez-Gómez | OMPR (Olimpiadas Matemáticas de Puerto Rico) |
Israel | David Ginat | Tel-Aviv University | Saudi Arabia | Sultan Albarakati | King Abdulaziz Foundation for Giftedness and Creativity (Mawhiba) |
Jamaica | Marvin G. Hall | Halls of Learning | Senegal | Seydy Ibrahima LY | Association des enseignants et formateurs en TIC (ASEFTIC) in IEARN Senegal | Kazakhstan | Syria | Mahmoud Elias | Commission of Distinction and Creativity (CDC) |
Laos | Phoukhaoka Sacklokham | Ministry of Education and Sports |
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.
Members of the Bebras Board - Chris Roffey, Raspberry Pi Foundation, UK - Christian Datzko, Wirtschaftsgymnasium and Wirtschaftsmittelschule Basel, Switzerland - Eslam Mohamed Wageed, Egypt - Sébastien Combéfis, Computer Science and IT in Education ASBL, Belgium - Valentina Dagienė, Vilnius university, Lithuania (Bebras ambassador) - Vipul Shah, Tata Consultancy Services, India - Zsuzsa Pluhár, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary |
Additional committees:
Task Handling Committee: Convener - Zsuzsa Pluhár (Hungary) - Alisher Ikramov (Uzbekistan) - Chris Roffey (United Kingdom) - Christian Datzko (Hungary) - Jiří Vaníček (Czechia) - Judith Lin (Taiwan) - Kris Coolsaet (Belgium) - Špela Cerar (Slovenia) - Lidija Kralj (Croatia) |
Technical Comittee: Convener - Chris Roffey (United Kingdom) - Ahto Truu (Estonia) - Bronius Skūpas (Lithuania) - Christian Datzko (Hungary) - Graeme Buckie (Australia) - Jonatan Pipping (Sweden) - Kim Dong Yoon (South Korea) - Mathias Hiron (France) - Mattia Monga (Italy) |
Membership Committee: Convener - Vipul Shah (India) - Eljakim Schrijvers (Netherlands) - Susanne Datzko (Switzerland) - Wolfgang Pohl (Germany) |
Awards Committee (ad-hoc): Convener - Christian Datzko (Hungary) - Ahto Truu (Estonia) - Lidija Kralj (Croatia) - Valentina Dagienė (Lithuania) |
Task Repository Commitee (ad-hoc): Convener - Zsuzsa Pluhár (Hungary) - Christian Datzko (Hungary) - Eljakim Schrijvers (Netherlands) - Jinbao Zhang (China) - Jonatan Pipping (Sweden) - Susanne Datzko (Switzerland) - Špela Cerar (Slovenia) - Taina Lehtimäki (Ireland) - Tom Naughton (Ireland) |
Interactive Tasks Committee (ad-hoc): Convener - Chris Roffey (United Kingdom) - Bronius Skūpas (Lithuania) - Darija Dasovič (Croatia) - Daumilas Ardickas (Lithuania) - Yasemin Gülbahar (Türkiye) - Jelena Milojkovic (Montenegro) - Jonatan Pipping (Sweden) - Justina Daukšaitė (USA) - Maciej Sysło (Poland) - Mathias Hiron (France) - Rostyslav Shpakovich (Ukraine) - Susanne Datzko (Switzerland) - Tomas Šiaulys (Lithuania) |
More information in the Bebras Community Statutes, V. 1.1, 2022