The Objectives of IPO are :

• to promote philosophical education at secondary school level and increase the interest of high-school pupils in philosophy;

• to contribute to the development of critical, inquisitive and creative thinking;

• to promote philosophical reflection on science, art and social life;

• to cultivate the capacity for ethical reflection on the problems of the modern world; and

• by encouraging intellectual exchanges and securing opportunities for personal contacts between young people from different countries, to promote the culture of peace.