XIV INTERNATIONAL PHILOSOPHY OLYMPIAD
Universita della Calabria
Cosenza, May 14-18 2006

SCHEDULE

• Saturday 13th
  • Arrival and registration of IPO participants (Hotel)
  • 8 pm: dinner with Italian students and teachers
• Sunday, 14th
  • (until 5 pm): Arrival and registration of IPO participants (Hotel). 9 am: trip to the museum and the wreck of ancient Sibaris
  • 1 pm: supper in a local restaurant
  • 6 pm: opening of IPO in Cosenza's agora: welcoming, introduction of all delegations, olympic torchlight comes from Warsaw to Cosenza...
  • 8.30 pm: Dinner (Hotel).
  • 9.30 pm: Meeting of heads of IPO Delegations (Hotel).
• Monday, 15th
  • 8 am: Breakfast (Hotel)
    Students
    
  • 9 am-1 pm: Essay-writing (University of Calabria);
  • 2 pm: Lunch (University Refectory);
  • 3 pm: sightseeing tour in Rende city.
    Teachers
    
  • 9 am-1 pm: sightseeing tour in Rende city ;
  • 1 pm: Lunch (local restaurant);
  • 3 pm: Beginning of essays evaluation (University of Calabria)

  • 8.30 pm: Supper;
• Tuesday, 16th
  • 9 am: Rounde table on Magna Graecia culture (University)
  • 1 pm: supper
  • 4 pm: Discussion on the theme "Teaching philosophy around the world" (University)
  • 4 pm: students meet as "communities of inquiry" on the agora (Cosenza) to discuss topics about "citizenship"
  • 8 pm: dinner
• Wednesday, 17th
  • 8 am: Magna Graecia trip (Cosenza-Reggio Calabria.-Taormina);
  • 11 am: Arrival in Taormina and visit;
  • 1 pm: packed lunch;
  • 4 pm: Arrival in Reggio Calabria (special ice cream on the seafront; visit of the museum);
  • 8 pm: dinner in a local restaurant and coming back to Cosenza.
• Thursday, 18th
  • 8 am: Breakfast (Hotel);
  • 10 am: Closing ceremony;
  • 1 pm: Lunch;
  • From 3 pm: Meeting of heads of IPO Delegations-Free time-Departures.
• Friday, 19th
  • Departures of IPO participants.