{"id":1339,"date":"2025-04-03T11:50:33","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T09:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/2025\/04\/03\/ull-acoge-fase-nacional-olimpiada-biologia-54-participantes\/"},"modified":"2025-04-03T11:50:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T09:50:33","slug":"ull-acoge-fase-nacional-olimpiada-biologia-54-participantes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/en\/2025\/04\/03\/ull-acoge-fase-nacional-olimpiada-biologia-54-participantes\/","title":{"rendered":"The ULL hosts the national phase of the Biology Olympiad for the first time, with 54 participants from all over Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p3\">The Biology Section of the Faculty of Sciences at the University of La Laguna will host the national phase of the competition from this afternoon, Thursday, April 3, until Sunday, April 6. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/en\/portal2\/agenda\/evento\/xx-olimpiada-espanola-de-biologia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s2\">Biology Olympiad<\/span><\/a>, which celebrates its twentieth edition in 2025. It involves the 2nd year Baccalaureate students who have won in the different local phases, so that this meeting will bring together 54 young people from the seventeen autonomous communities, Ceuta and Melilla.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Today, April 3, is dedicated to the reception and registration of participants, but the actual tests will begin tomorrow, Friday, April 4, after an opening ceremony that will be attended by the rector of the University of La Laguna, Francisco Garcia; the dean of the Faculty of Sciences, Mar\u00eda del Mar Afonso; and the president of the Spanish Biology Olympiad, Consuelo S\u00e1nchez.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">During the morning session, these students will have to complete two theoretical exams with questions corresponding to the Biology syllabus for Baccalaureate, and in the afternoon they will take a guided tour of the Anaga Rural Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">On Saturday the 4th, four practical tests will be administered on genetics, biochemistry, animal biology, and plant biology. These will be graded by the staff responsible for the laboratories at the University of La Laguna in these subjects. Afterwards, participants will receive information about potential internships in CSIC laboratories and will take a guided tour of the historic center of San Crist\u00f3bal de La Laguna.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">The four people who get the best scores on these tests will receive the Gold Medal and, in addition to financial compensation subsidized by the Ministry of Education, Vocational Training and Sports, will represent Spain at the International Olympiad to be held in the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">The next three highest-scoring students will be awarded Silver Medals and will form the national team participating in the Ibero-American Olympiad, to be held in Colombia. Finally, those who rank between eighth and twelfth place will receive the Bronze Medal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Students who are part of the teams participating in the two international olympiads will receive a week of preparation that will take place at a Galician university to be designated, a stay that will also be paid for by the Ministry.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biology Department of the Faculty of Sciences at the University of La Laguna will host, starting in the afternoon\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":1340,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,177,20,59,10,333],"tags":[750,751],"class_list":["post-1339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-destacado","category-facultad-de-ciencias-facultades-y-escuelas","category-facultades-y-escuelas","category-institucion","category-portada-ull","category-ull","tag-olimpiada-de-biologia","tag-seccion-de-biologia"],"acf":[],"primary_category":null,"featured_image_thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/10\/XX-Olimpiada-Espanola-de-Biologia_Banner-eventos-300x148.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}