Abstrakt
Interest in science has been continually declining during last decades, especially among the students of all ages. On the top of it, we can experience a general worrying trend in last ten years that less top quality students apply for science university programmes and want to become a scientist.
Emerging issue, how to attract young generation to the nontrivial objective word of science is recognized not only by academy, but also by political representations. One way how to overcome n generally experienced decline is to offer students innovative educational methodologies, where they could experience science subjects (namely chemistry, biology, physics) as scientists themselves by observing and testing.
This approach can show high school students (and in some extent students of primary education) that science can be rewarding, thrilling, challenging, interesting and also funny. There are several international competitions and occasions to meet other young people interested in science and to deepen their enthusiasm.
Together with subject Olympiads (e.g. Mathematics, Biology, Physics and Chemistry Olympiads) European Union Science Olympiad (EUSO) was recently established as a European enterprise.
The philosophy behind EUSO is that the tasks should be interdisciplinary (covering topics and techniques in a triangle between biology, chemistry and physics), complex and should encourage the team work [1] [2]. The 9th EUSO took place in Czech Republic in April 2011.
Each country (out of 20 participating ones) could bring two teams composed typically from one chemist, one biologist and one expert in physics. Our article focuses on the biological tasks as examples, which were formulated to follow the Inquiry Based Science Education (IBSE) rules.