Welcome to the official website of the European Mathematical Cup.

The European Mathematical Cup (abbr. EMC) is a high school mathematics competition organised by the Croatian association Young Gifted Mathematicians Marin Getaldić  (www.mnm.hr) in cooperation with various wonderful professors, university students and other people who help us organise the competition internationally.

If you are interested in joining as a local organiser, don’t hesitate to contact us. If you are interested in participating, please check the Local organisers this year page to find local organisers near you; if there aren’t any, please try to find some and let them contact us.

The EMC usually takes place in the middle of December, and we try to arrange for all contestants to participate in the competition in their hometown. After the competition, the local organisers evaluate the solutions, while the Central Jury checks their work and ensures uniformity of marking across the world. After receiving temporary results, students can appeal through their local organiser. The official results are published on the website as soon as possible after all of the papers have been graded.

The EMC is primarily intended for high school students, but we do also welcome exceptional elementary school students who wish to compete. The competition is divided into two categories: Junior (students younger than 17 on the day of the competition and who have never participated in the IMO) and Senior (other eligable students). A student who satisfies the criteria to compete in the Junior category can choose to compete in the Senior category instead.

The duration of the competition for both categories is 4 hours. Within that time, the students attempt to solve 4 problems, one from each of the following areas: algebra, combinatorics, geometry and number theory. We attempt to sort the problems by difficulty. Modelled on the rules of other international competitions such as the IMO, the only instruments permitted in the competition are writing and drawing instruments. The use of formulas, calculators, artificial intelligence, and other instruments or tools is prohibited. In terms of required knowledge, the problems are similar to the IMO problems, albeit the problems of the Junior category are usually more elementary and require less knowledge.

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