What is the European Statistics Competition (ESC)?

Poster of the ESC

The ESC is a competition organized by Eurostat and volunteering National Statistical Institutes addressed to secondary education students with the purpose of encouraging students to get familiar with statistics and official statistical sources.

The competition is structured in two stages: national and European. The winners or finalists of the national stage of each country are eligible to take part in the European stage. It is necessary to take part in the national stage to be eligible to participate in the European stage.

The language of the national stage is the national language while the European stage is in English.

Detailed information about the national stages can be found in the national sites.

Detailed information about the European stage is available in the rules

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Previous edition of the ESC: ESC 2024-2025

Participant countries

Register and check the details of each national competition visiting the corresponding link (click on the flag)

Registration

The competition is open to secondary school students of participating countries. In order to participate in the ESC, you’ll have to register in the national stage of your country.

National stage

Registration will start in many cases by September and October 2025. Please visit your national site to get all the details.

European stage

The European stage of the European Statistics Competiton (ESC) is open to those teams having finished among the winners or finalists in their national stages of the ESC and have been proposed to participate in the European stage by their countries.

Please refer to the rules of the European stage to obtain detailed information.

Calendar

From September 2025
to April 2026

Established by each country
Last deadline: 6th May 2026

European stage

Registration + Assignment

5th June 2026.

Publication of winners

End of June 2026.

Award ceremony

Assignments

Participants will have to pass some assignments related to statistics in order to win the ESC (more information in the rules)

National stage

Assignments in the national stage might vary from country to country, so please visit your national site to get complete information about the national assignments.

European stage

The assignment consists of preparing a video, plus a making of document, where teams will reflect on a proposed question related to statistics.

Videos will be assessed by the jury, who will proclaim a winner.

The topic will be announced later.

Awards

There will be one winner per category. Each member (including the tutor) of each winner team will receive:

  • A gift card (400 €).
  • Promotional material from Eurostat.
  • A diploma.
  • A trophy.

There will also be trophies for the second and third team in each category.

The location and date of the awards ceremony will be announced later.

European  Statistics Competition 2025-2026

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