News
14/09/2024 NEW Rescheduling of Grand Final Dates
The dates for the Grand Finals of the Tournament have been rescheduled to November 7-11, 2024. Team coordinators will provide more detailed information via email.
15/08/2024 Grand Final problems 2024
The full list of the problems of the Grand final is now published! The problems are divided into 2 blocks. The day, which each of the blocks will be played, will be announced no later than 3 days before the Grand final. Remember that you may refuse to solve any one problem in each block.
14/08/2024 Results of the Extramural Round 2024
We are excited to announce the results of the Extramural round of INST 2024. Congratulations to the teams that performed exceptionally well and are invited to the Grand Final in Yerevan, Armenia, from September 19 to 23, 2024:
- Paper Candy
- LEFTYscience
- Kiasu_NUS
- Rock Candy
- Atomic Avengers
- Team Brainder
- Tejaswi
- Serotonin Seekers
- Team Vanguard
- Nature's champions
- Six Shots Of Espresso*
*Winner of Qualifying round — Natural Sciences Tournament (CIS region).
Standby List:
- SSABRZ India
- SCIPS
- DODECAHEDRON
These teams will be invited in case of a withdrawal or inability to participate by one of the main listed teams.
We will send you more detailed information via email.
Congratulations to all participants, and we wish you the best of luck in the Final! If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us via email tournament@scitourn.com.
10/07/2024
The submission for the Extramural Round of INST 2024 has ended.
The results of the Extramural Round will be published on the first weekend of August 2024.
10/06/2024
We are pleased to announce that the deadlines for the Extramural round of INST 2024 have been extended to June 30, 2024.
10/03/2024
We are ready to start the Extramural round of INST 2024 Grand final!
Here is a simple instruction:
- Gather your team and find a coach.
- Solve 2 out of 3 problems of the Extramural round.
- Upload your solutions no later than May 12 or June 16.
- Find your team in the list of the invited teams to the Grand final INST 2024!
15/04/2022
You have been waiting for it so long, so here they are - the results of the Extramural round of INST2022! Congrats to everyone!
Now let's move on to not-so-good news: The organizing committee has been thinking for a long time and finally decided that it would be inappropriate to hold the Grand final this year. However, next year we are going to have an in-person Grand final 2023 and the teams that passed for the Grand final this year are invited to the next year's face-to-face stage without having to go through the Extramural round.
23/12/2021
We have great news!
The INST Reunion will happen in less than a week on December 28, 2021! We will meet ex-participants, jury, and members of the organizing committee. If you are still have not registered, please, press here to fill the form.
Also, here is the program of Reunion. The venue address will be sent to all registrated participants.
26/11/2021
We are ready to start the Extramural round of the XII INST Grand final!
Here is a simple instruction:
- Gather your team and find a coach.
- Solve 2 out of 3 problems of the Extramural round.
- Upload your solutions on the website no later than January 31 or March 1, 2022.
- Find your team in the list of the invited teams to the Grand final INST-2022!
The Grand final of the XII INST will be held as an online event in late April 2022. The exact dates will be announced later.
25/07/2021
The Grand final of XI INST is over! We would like to say thanks to everyone who took part in the tournament this year! And we want to congratulate our winners: team Benthos, Singapore! Winners will receive a certificate for LinguaLeo courses as a gift.
23/07/2021
We created a page for this year's Grand final, where all the information is collected (especially the results of the 1st qualifying day!).
23/07/2021
Due to some issues, the team ZC Cheops will not be able to participate in this year's Grand final, so here we publish the new distribution of the team for the first and the second qualifying days.
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22/07/2021
We are happy to start the Grand final of XI INST! Here is the distribution of teams during the Qualifying games. See you tomorrow and good luck!
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20/07/2021
We have some important information about the problems' submission. On Friday, July 23rd the block B will be played, and the solutions of this block must be sent to participants@scitourn.com 2 hours before the 1st cycle starts. On Saturday, July 24th, solutions of block A problems must be sent 2 hours prior to cycle 3, too. The same rule also applies for the Final game on July 25th.
12/07/2021
The tournament will take place soon, so we will publish the schedule. Looking forward to seeing you!
05/07/2021
Hey everyone! We publish the full set of problems right here. See you soon!
29/06/2021
We have great news! The 3 of 5 problems of the second block are already published on our website. We will publish the rest 2 problems of the second block soon. Good luck!
13/06/2021
Hey everyone! The first block of problems has arrived, the next one will be published soon. Keep in touch!
10/06/2021
Hey, guys, we have very important news for you!
The Grand Final of INST 2021 will be held as an ONLINE event due to the epidemiology situation. Travels are still dangerous, and we don't want our participants to be endangered. The tournament dates are still July 19-26, 2021.
All of the Grand Final problems will be published on our website soon. Also, the Team coordinator will contact you to confirm your participation in the Grand Final.
12/04/2021
Finally, we are pleased to announce that the dates of the tournament have been determined: the Grand final of INST will be held from the 19th to the 25th of July 2021!
As we all know, travel is challenging now. Therefore, in early June, we announced whether the tournament would be held offline or online.
We are looking forward to seeing you all at the Grand final finally!
05/03/2021
Dear friends, I regret to inform you that the Online round is canceled due to the lack of participating teams in the Online round. Most of the teams decided to participate only in the Grand final. From our side, we would like to hold an enthralling competition for both participants and jury members. That is why we have decided to cancel the Online round on the 6th of March so that not take your time and effort.
We are extremely sorry for the inconvenience and hope for your understanding.
At the end of March - beginning of April, we expect to announce the plausible dates of the Grand final and hope to see all of you there.
25/02/2021
Less than two weeks left before the Online round! Here is the official program of the Online round, which will take place on March 6, 2021.
10/02/2021
Hey, guys! The problems of the Online round are just here. So if you have participated in the Extramural round, then you have to solve only 2 more problems, and you're in! Hope to see you on the 6th of March!
05/02/2021
We are happy to announce that the Online round of XI INST will be held on March 6, 2021. It’ll be a 1-day online tournament. Teams will prepare solutions of 4 out of 5 presented problems, which we will publish within a week.
The details will be sent to the captains soon.
All of the teams will get small prizes from winners and us will get certificates as usual.
If you’d like to participate in the Online round but haven’t participated in the Extramural round, email us via participants@scitourn.com
By the way, we still hope to hold the Grand final of XI INST later this year. Stay safe!
22/11/2020
Dear friends, we are sorry for such a long waiting. Finally, here we publish the final ranking of the teams for both waves and TOP3 teams of this year's Extramural round. All of these teams are invited to the Grand final of the XI INST, which we highly hope to hold next year (details later). Congratulations to everyone, and looking forward to seeing you in 2021!
All the teams will get scores with the jury's comments within a week via e-mail.
17/11/2020
Dear friends, due to some technical problems the results of the Extramural round will be published later. We’ll do our best to publish them this week. Sorry for the inconvenience!
08/11/2020
Dear friends,
During the whole this time, we've done our best to hold the offline tournament in February 2021. Unfortunately, as you can see, the epidemiologic situation is still not quite easy. We want all of the participants, jury members, and organizers to have a chance to join us at the Grand final. That's why we announce that the Grand final of XI INST won't take place in February 2021. We'll do our best to hold it during 2021 and inform you about new dates as soon as possible. However, we'll hold some kind of online event in February, so stay tuned, and we'll give the details soon!
And of course, next week we'll announce the results of the Extramural round!
01/11/2020
Dear participants and coaches, your teams can submit solutions today until 23:59 (GMT +3).
14/10/2020
Hey, guys! Here we publish the results of the first wave of the INST 2021 Extramural round. Congratulations to the selected teams, and I hope to see you at the Grand final of INST in 2021! After the end of the Extramural round, we will choose the 3 best teams of the two waves as winners and award them with certificates.
The rest of the teams are now on the standby list until the second wave. All the teams will get scores with the jury's comments soon via e-mail.
Hope to announce the venue and other details of the Grand final soon! Stay safe and healthy!
04/10/2020
Dear friends! We have made redesigned Personal account and hope that now it has become more convenient.
If you have any problems with registration, creating your team, or uploading your solutions, please, contact us via participants@scitourn.com.
01/10/2020
The 1st wave of the Extramural round has ended! The results will be announced within 2 weeks. Keep in touch!
26/09/2020
Check out the video about the Grand final of X INST! Many thanks to Ilya Mongilev and Egor Baranovskiy, our videomakers, and Pavel Terno and his band for the music.
09/09/2020
Dear participants! Here we publish an approach to the evaluation of your solutions to the Extramural round problems. You can also find this document in the section Important documents and videos.
10/08/2020
We are happy to inform you that there are some pleasant changes in the Extramural round of the INST2021!
We left the procedure of the Extramural round the same. Traditionally, the selection of the best teams to the Grand Final will be based on the results of the Extramural round. But also, this year, we will select the winners and prize-winners of the Extramural round (for 2 waves together) and award these teams with certificates.
So hurry up and participate! Don't forget the 1st deadline is September 30.
12/04/2020
We are ready to start the Extramural round of the XI INST Grand final!
Here is a simple instruction.
- Gather your team and find a coach.
- Solve 2 out of 3 problems of the Extramural round.
- Upload your solutions no later than September 30 or November 1.
- Find your team in the list of the invited teams to the Grand final INST-2021!
15/02/2020
Here you may find the photos of our participants, jury members, organizers, and viewers taken by Artem, Karolina, and Paulina. Don't forget to share those photos on social media and mention us!
14/02/2020
Dear friends, we congratulate you on the end of the Grand final of the X INST!
We are happy to announce that:
1) the team "NS. United" (Novosibirsk State University, Russia) became the winner of the Tournament,
2) the team "Zewailians" (Zewail city for science and technology, Egypt) took second place,
3) the team "SPS.NUS" (National University of Singapore, Singapore) got the bronze medals.
The scores of all stages for all teams and the results of the Individual Championship are published here.
The Geropharm company distinguished the teams "NS. United" and "Audax Viator" for the solution of the problem 6, "Cell spheroids."
Looking forward to seeing you next year!
08/02/2020
Dear participants, the results of the two first qualifying cycles are published!
07/02/2020
Dear participants, here are the teams' briefing presentation and the results of the captains' competition.
04/02/2020
Dear participants, please pay attention to the distribution of the problems of the Grand final. Unit X will be played on the 8th of February, and Unit Y will be played on the 10th of February.
24/01/2020
Dear participants, we would like to announce that the deadline for the questions to our Scientific council regarding the Grand final problems is the 30th of January!
15/01/2020
Here you can find some answers to participants’ questions regarding the problems of the Grand final.
14/01/2020
- Dear participants and jury members! Please, pay attention that corrected version of the problems is published (misprint in the problem ?6 is corrected). Please, use the corrected version of the list of problems.
- Now we publish the official program of the Grand final of X INST.
05/01/2020
The Rules&Regulations of the Grand final may be found here.
05/01/2020
The full list of the problems of the Grand final is now published! The problems are divided into 2 units (please, pay attention to the order). The day, which each of the units will be played, will be announced no later than 3 days before the Grand final. Remember that you may refuse to solve any one problem in each unit.
31/12/2019
Happy New year, dear friends!
We wish you joy, victories, and changes for the better incoming 2020! Let there be discoveries and exciting adventures!
15/12/2019
The first six problems of the Grand final of the X INST are published here. The second part of the list of problems and the final distribution of the problems in units will be published later.
09/12/2019
Dear participants and Jury members! Here we publish the official schedule of our tournament (the detailed one will be published in January 2020). Please, pay attention that the day of arrival is the 6th of February, 2020, and the day of departure is the 12th of February, 2020. Looking forward to seeing you soon!
28/11/2019
Here we publish the final ranking of the teams, which are invited for participation in the Grand final of the X INST. The teams, which are mentioned in a standby list, will be invited for participation after any of the higher-ranked teams will have refused to participate. Detailed scores will be sent to the team captains no later than December 6. If you have any questions, please contact the Organizing Committee via e-mail participants@scitourn.com.
15/11/2019
Dear participants! The Extramural round of the X INST has finished. The list of the teams, which are invited to the Grand final, will be published no later than November 29, 2019.
14/11/2019
Dear participants! We kindly ask to upload your solutions before the deadline November 15, 2019, 23:59 (GTM+3) otherwise the solutions may not be accepted. Thank you for understanding!
17/10/2019
Congratulations to the 8 teams, which are invited to the Grand final of X INST in the first wave!
Other teams remain to compete with teams from the second wave. Those teams, which still haven’t applied, don't forget that the second wave will last until November, 15. So, we are still waiting for your great solutions!
30/09/2019
The first wave of the Extramural round of the INST2020 has finished. We will announce the teams, which made it through the extramural round successfully, after October 15. The teams, which haven’t had time to send their solutions, we have great news for you: the second wave will last until November 15. So do not miss this chance!
30/07/2019
In addition to the Extramural round, the Grand final (or as we called it Intramural round) of INST2020 can be accessed through the National rounds.
This year tournament includes two of it:
The first one is in Russia will be traditionally held at Saint Petersburg State University for any Russian-speaking team. The Extramural round deadline: September 9, 2019. The Grand final: November 13-19, 2019. More info here: ?????? ???????????? ????. The second one is in South Africa. It will be held at the University of the Free State for students of the UFS. The Extramural round deadline: August 28, 2019. The Grand final: September 25-27, 2019. More info here: MYST.
So, the teams-winners of the National rounds will be invited to the Grand final INST in Warsaw.
Also, we will be pleased if you assemble a National round in your country. All questions you can ask in participants@scitourn.com
16/07/2019
Have your idea of the problem? You can develop and offer it by filling the special form.
If your problem is accepted, many chemists, physicists, doctors, biologists, and engineers will be trying to solve it during upcoming Tournaments.
25/06/2019
We are happy to inform you that the Grand final of the X International Natural Sciences Tournament will be held in the University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, on February 7–12, 2020.
31/05/2019
The INST-2020 Extramural round problems are published! It's time to gather your team and start to solve our tasks! Please, note that the first wave of the Extramural round will last until September 30, 2019. Dates of the second wave will be announced soon.
09/02/2019
IX INST came to an end. Team "UFS" from South Africa became the winner of the Tournament, silver medals went to the team "How Do You Like That, Elon Musk?" from Russia, the team "Shock Wave", also from Russia, took the 3rd place. Congratulations!!!
The results of the Tournament are available.
The results of the Individual Championship are published.
30/01/2019
The brochure of the IX International Natural Sciences Tournament is available.
22/01/2019
Here the Rules and Regulations of the IX International Natural Sciences Tournament.
15/01/2019
Dear participants! The text of Problem #4 was slightly changed due to the corrections of the MelScience company. Please, use the new version of the Problems of IX INST, which is published here and on our main page.
12/01/2019
Here we publish the schedule of the IX International Natural Sciences Tournament. See you soon!
08/01/2019
The full pack of the IX INST Intramural round problems is published now.
02/01/2019
The tasks (part 1) of the Intramural round are published.
11/12/2018
Bank account details for the Participation fees
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03/12/2018
Dear friends!
Results of the Extramural round published on our website. We congratulate all the participants who are invited to the Intramural round of IX INST! See you in Tallinn!
17/11/2018
Here we publish the list of teams invited to the Intramural round in the 1st wave.
75% of teams were selected for participation in the Intramural round, the others will be on the waiting list until the end of the 2nd wave.
Don’t forget that the 2nd wave will last till November 21. We are waiting for your solutions!
31/10/2018
ATTENTION! A SECOND WAVE!
We hurry to inform you that the Extramural round of INST2019 is extended to November 21, 2018. According to the rating rules, 75% of the first wave teams will pass to the Intramural round, the others will be on the waiting list until the end of the second wave of the Extramural round. Moreover, the teams which will pass in the first wave will receive a special gift from INST. Thus, we have two deadlines: November 1, 2018 (regular) and November 21, 2018 (late). So, believe in yourself and try! We already believe in you!
27/09/2018
We are happy to announce that Intramural round of the IX International Natural Sciences Tournament will take place in Tallinn, Estonia on February 1–6, 2019.
31/05/2018
We are pleased to announce the beginning of the IX International Natural Sciences Tournament. Here you can find the problems of the extramural round.
05/02/2017
The Results of the intramural round are published.
02/01/2017
The task of the intramural round is published.
31/12/2017
The Programme of the VIII International Natural Sciences Tournament is published.
30/12/2017
The list of the teams invited to INST - 2017
29/10/2017
The VIII International Natural Sciences Tournament is postponed to the date: from the 29th of January to 4th of February, 2018. The extramural round is prolonged to the 4th of December in this regard.
01/10/2017
The Results of the Extramural round
11/09/2017
The extramural round ends in 4 days. We are waiting for your solutions:)
30/08/2017
The extramural round is coming to the end.
The deadline is on the 15th of September. If you have questions, please, write to the participants@scitourn.com
Hurry up!
04/06/2017
INST 2017 Extramural round problems are published.
20/10/2016
Detailed scores and final teams' ratings are published.
18/10/2016
Personal Rating is available
16/10/2016
The results of our Tournament
The winner is the brilliant team "KiasuNUSPS" from Singapore. The silver medalist is the "Zenith" from Spain. Team "Nusantara" took the 3rd place. Congratulations!!!
The winner of open league - team "SiIBoUR - is invited for participating in the Russian league of INST to St. Petersburg.
15/10/2016
Results of two Qualifying Games
14/10/2016
14/10/2016
Criteria of estimation are available
13/10/2016
Qualifying Games. Day 1. Results. Teams' Raiting will be available tomorrow
12/10/2016
The Section Distribution is published
09/10/2016
We are ready to start the competition. You will play the problems:
- from the 'Block X' in the 'Qualyfying Games. Day 1';
- from the 'Block Y' in the 'Qualyfying Games. Day 2';
- from the 'Block Z' in the 'Grand Final'.
04/10/2016
The Program of the Tournament is published
03/10/2016
We are happy to announce that the team ”Hot Siberian Molecules” will join the Tournament on the winner’s rights of INST – 2015 (Russian league).
20/09/2016
Overall reveiew of the challenge and typical mistakes are presented by the members of the International Organizing Committee. Watch and bite on!
18/09/2016
Full pack of the intramural round problems has been revealed.
14/09/2016
Dear participants, please, pay you kind attention to Rules and Recommendations!
31/08/2016
List of Intramural Round's Participants
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News
30/08/2016
11/08/2016
We remind you that Participation fees have to be paid until August, 20 (the 1st wave) and August, 30 (the 2nd wave).
Attention: the fees should be transferred in euro according to the exchange rate.
25/07/2016
We are happy to anounce the results of the Second Wave of extramural round.
04/07/2016
Dear participants,
We remind you that the end of extramural round is on July, 10. Only the best teams will get opportunity to come to Novosibirsk to intramural round. So hurry up and send us your solutions.
20/06/2016
Bank account details for the Participation fees
Beneficiary name: Fond Turniry Junyh
Account number: 40703978500002001735
Bank of the beneficiary: Investment Bank Vesta (LCC), Moscow, Russia
ACCOUNT N DE43503200000105446397
SWIFT: VSTARUMM
Correspondent’ bank: VTB BANK (DEUTSCHLAND) AG,
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
SWIFT: OWHBDEFF
10/06/2016
Dear participants!
We are excited to publish the 1st wave’s results of the INST 2016. It is worth to notice that the teams had got the best of them and received high points. That is why we made a decision to invite all the teams of the 1st wave to intramural round.
31/05/2016
Dear participants,
We are glad to announce that it has been decided to extend the last date of receipt of applications for participation in INST2016 to July 10, 2016. It means that you’ve got one more chance to become a part of this great festival of science!
The results of the first wave will be available on June, 10.
The team, selected for the intramural round, is obligatory to pay the fee which covers accommodation and coffee-breaks throughout the tournament's days. Please, pay your attention that the participation fee is not refunded.
You can find detailed information on the website scitourn.com or by writing to participants@scitourn.com.
12/04/2016
Extramural round problems have been published
Download extramural round tasks, INST2016
01/03/2016
Dear colleagues!
We started preparation for INST 2016. The tournament will be held in English. We are looking forward to meet teams from India, Indonesia, Iran, Germany, Denmark, Belarus, Ukraine, Russia and other countries.
To participate in INST 2015 you should prepare solutions of the extramural round problems. Problems of the extramural round will be available at April, 2016.