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The '''International Association of Physics Students (IAPS)''' is a non-profit [[Organization:Umbrella organization|umbrella organization]] for physics students associations. Its official seat is in Mulhouse, {{wipe|France}} in the headquarters of the [[Organization:European Physical Society|European Physical Society]]. It was founded in 1987 in Debrecen, Hungary.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.iaps.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Made-In-Hungary.pdf |title= History of IAPS (Made in Hungary)|author=Jim Grozier |date=2010 |publisher=European Physical Society |accessdate=2017-01-06 }}</ref>

== Introduction ==
IAPS is an association of physics students and student societies from around the globe, working to promote peaceful collaboration amongst its members. These are represented by national and local committees, who meet regularly to ensure the relevance of activities.
Since 1987, IAPS has worked continuously to support friendly relations and collaboration between physics students. The group supports its members in their academic and professional work by discussing and acting on scientific, social and cultural issues. IAPS is a recognised non-governmental organisation run entirely by students from around the world.

IAPS runs an annual [[Physics:International Conference of Physics Students|International Conference of Physics Students]] (ICPS), one of the biggest student organized conferences in the world. IAPS also organizes visits to global research institutions such as [[Organization:CERN|CERN]] or [[Organization:Culham Centre for Fusion Energy|Culham Centre for Fusion Energy]], international physics competitions, summer schools, exchange programmes and multinational meetings.

On a daily basis, IAPS is run by an Executive Committee, which is elected at the Annual General Meeting (AGM), held during the ICPS with the participation of all member societies. Most of the activities are run through the help of student volunteers, whose collaboration is necessary to ensure that all activities are offered at prices that allow participation from countries with weaker economies.

Throughout its existence, IAPS has been accumulating a number of partnerships with several international organizations. Between the most long-standing collaborators stand the [[Organization:European Physical Society|European Physical Society]] (EPS) and the [[Organization:International Union of Pure and Applied Physics|International Union of Pure and Applied Physics]] (IUPAP). IAPS continuously pursues collaborative partnership efforts with other organizations to have a positive impact in the global scientific community.<ref name="IAPS_2014_15">{{Citation | title= IAPS Official Website | publisher=International Association of Physics Students| url=http://www.iaps.info | date=2015-11-01}}</ref>

== Structure ==
IAPS is run by an Executive Committee, which is elected at the Annual General Meeting (AGM). IAPS members may be national physics student organisations, called National Committees (NC), physics student association localised at one university or city, called Local Committees (LC) and individual members (IM) if none of the before are present where one studies. In a broad sense, all the members of NCs and LCs, as well as IMs, are members of IAPS. Membership costs are calculated for each applicant based on the type of committee and the [[Finance:GDP|GDP]] of applicant countries.

=== Executive committee ===
The IAPS Executive Committee (EC) is currently composed of 9 students, elected by representatives of the member societies. The 2022/23 EC is composed of:<ref>{{Citation|title=IAPS EC|publisher=International Association of Physics Students|url=http://www.iaps.info/what-is-iaps/executive-committee|accessdate=2017-01-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161217045521/http://www.iaps.info/what-is-iaps/executive-committee|archive-date=2016-12-17|url-status=dead}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
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! Title !! Name !! Nationality !! Affiliation 
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| President || Cyrus Walther || {{GER}} ||Technical University of Dortmund
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| Vice President & Events Manager|| Niloofar Jokar || {{IRN}} ||[[Organization:Isfahan University of Technology|Isfahan University of Technology]]
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| Treasurer || Mario Gaimann || {{GER}} ||[[Organization:University of Stuttgart|University of Stuttgart]]
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| Secretary & Data Protection Officer || Thibault Fredon  || {{FRA}}||[[Organization:Massachusetts Institute of Technology|Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]
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| Membership and Advocacy Manager || Marisol Castellanos  || {{GTM}}||Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala
|-
| Outreach Manager || Anna Christoforidou || {{GRC}} ||[[Organization:National and Kapodistrian University of Athens|National and Kapodistrian University of Athens]]
|-
| PR Manager || Dimitris Gkavakos || {{GRC}}||[[Organization:National and Kapodistrian University of Athens|National and Kapodistrian University of Athens]]
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| IT Manager || Roberto Ciccareli || {{ITA}}||[[Organization:University of Turin|University of Turin]]
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| Recruitment Manager || Gabriel Maynard || {{CRI}} ||[[Organization:University of Costa Rica|Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala]]
|-
|}

===National Committees<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=http://www.iaps.info/members/list-of-iaps-members|title=List of {IAPS} Members|date=2013-11-16|work={iaps}|access-date=2017-09-03|language=en-US}}</ref>===
{| class="wikitable"
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! Member Nation !! Organisation
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| {{AUT}} || [http://physik.htu.tugraz.at/ Basisgruppe Physik der TU Graz]
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| {{BIH}} || Asocijacija studenta fizike BiH
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| {{CRO}} || [http://www.fizika.org/ Studentska sekcija Hrvatskog fizikalnog društva]
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| {{CZE}}
| [https://fykos.org/en Czech Association of Physics Students] 
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| {{CUB}} || Sección Joven Sociedad Cubana de Física
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| {{DEN}}
| [http://fsid.dk/ Fysikstuderende i Danmark (FSID)]
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| {{FIN}} || [http://sfmo.fi/ Suomen Fysiikanopiskelijat ry]
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| {{FRA}}
| [https://www.sfpnet.fr/le-reseau-jeunes-sfp Le Réseau Jeunes SPF], Société Française de Physique
|-
| {{GEO}}
|საქართველოს ფიზიკის სტუდენტთა ასოციაცია (GAPS)
|-
| {{GER}} || [https://www.dpg-physik.de/vereinigungen/fachuebergreifend/ak/akjdpg/ Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft]
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| {{GRE}} || Hellenic Association of Physics Students
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| {{HND}} || Asociación Hondureña de Estudiantes de Física
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| {{HUN}} || [http://en.mafihe.hu/ Magyar Fizikushallgatók Egyesülete (Mafihe)]
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| {{IND}}
| Association of Indian Physics Students (AIPS)
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| {{ITA}} || [http://ai-sf.it/ Associazione Italiana Studenti di Fisica (AISF)]
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| {{MKD}} || [https://mdsfmk.wordpress.com/ Македонско друштво на студенти физичари]
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| {{MEX}} || [http://www.scj.org.mx Sociedad Científica Juvenil]
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| {{MAR}}
|الجمعية المغربية للفيزياء (MAP)
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| {{MNE}} || Crnogorska asocijacija studenata fizike
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| {{NLD}} || [http://www.verenigingspin.nl/ Studenten Physica in Nederland (SPIN)]
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| {{NOR}} || [http://www.noffo.no/ Norske Fysikkstudenters Forening Trodheim]
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| {{POL}}
|[http://pssf.edu.pl/ Polskie Stowarzyszenie Studentów Fizyki (PSSF)]
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| {{POR}} || [https://web.archive.org/web/20141218183841/http://physis.org.pt/ Physis – Associação Portuguesa de Estudantes de Física]
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| {{SRB}} || Asocijacija studenata fizike Srbije
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| {{ESP}}
|[https://medium.com/asociación-española-de-estudiantes-de-f%C3%ADsica Asociación Española de Estudiantes de Física (AEEF)]
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| {{CHE}}
| [https://www.young-physicists.ch/ Young Physicists Forum (YPF)]
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| {{TUN}} || Physicist Community FST
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| {{UK}} and {{IRE}} || [http://www.iop.org/activity/university-student-network/ University Student Network (USN)], Institute of Physics
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| {{US}} || [http://www.spsnational.org/ Society of Physics Students (SPS)], American Institute of Physics
|}

===Local Committees<ref name=":0" />===
{| class="wikitable"
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! Member Nation !! Organisation
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| [[Place:Ankara|Ankara]], {{TUR}} || [https://metuphys.com/metu-physics-society/ ODTÜ Fizik Topluluğu (OFT)]
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| Antwerp, {{BEL}} || [https://www.winak.be/ Wiskunde, Informatica en Natuurkunde kring (WINAK)]
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| Baguio, {{PHL}} || UP Physics Sphere
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| Ben Srour, {{flag|Algeria}} || رائد في مجال تعليم (AAMP)
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| [[Place:Bucharest|Bucharest]], {{ROM}} || [https://asfub.wordpress.com/ Asociația Studenților Fizicieni a Universității București (ASF-UB)]
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|  San Pedro Montes de Oca, {{CRI}} || Asociación de Estudiantes de Física y Meteorología (AEFISYMET)
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| [[Organization:Farhangian University|Farhangian University]], {{IRN}} || Farhangian Association of Physics Students
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| [[Place:Guatemala City|Guatemala City]], {{GTM}} || Asociación de Estudiantes de Física y Matemática (AEFM)
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| [[Place:Isfahan|Isfahan]], {{IRN}} || [https://physics.iut.ac.ir/en (IUT) دانشگاه صنعتی اصفهان]
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| [[Place:Kathmandu|Kathmandu]], {{NPL}} || [http://www.sxpc.ga/ St. Xavier's Physics Council]
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| Kharkiv, {{UKR}} || [http://ilt.kharkov.ua/bvi/smu/index.html Рада молодих вчених і спеціалістів, ФТІНТ ім. Б.І. Вєркіна НАН України]
|-
| Limbe, {{CMR}} || [http://www.aims-cameroon.org/ African Institute for Mathematical Sciences Cameroon (AIMS Cameroon)]
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| Msida, {{MLT}} || [http://www.scubed.org.mt S Cubed – the Science Students' Society]
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| Manila City, {{PHL}} || The Polytechnic University of the Philippines Physics Society (PUP Physics Society)
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| Nanyang Technological University, {{flag|Singapore}} ||  Odyssey Club
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| [[Place:Quito|Quito]], {{ECU}} || The Optical Society – Universidad San Francisco de Quito Capítulo Estudiantil (OSA-USFQ Capítulo Estudiantil)
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| Saint Petersburg, {{RUS}} || Сообщество студентов-физиков Политехнического университета (PCPS)
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| [[Place:Santo Domingo|Santo Domingo]], {{DOM}} || [https://www.instagram.com/aef_uasd/ Asociación de Estudiantes de Física de la Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo] (AEF-UASD)
|}

===Individual Members<ref name=":0" />===
Students of physics or related subjects who do not have access to an NC or LC may join as IMs. Only IAPS members may attend IAPS events such as ICPS. Currently IAPS has around 150 individual members.

===Honorary Members===
The following people were elected Honorary Fellows by an IAPS AGM:
* Sir Arnold Wolfendale
* Sir [[Biography:Joseph Rotblat|Joseph Rotblat]] (Nobel Laureate), died in 2005
* Patroklosz Budai (2005)
* Tamás Fülöp (2005)
* Ákos Horváth (2005)
* Péter Lévai (2005)
* Péter Ván (2005)
* Jim Grozier (2008)

==Programs==

[[File:ICPS 2014 Group Picture.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Group picture at the International Conference of Physics Students 2014, held in Heidelberg, Germany.]]

===International Conference of Physics Students===
ICPS [[Physics:International Conference of Physics Students|International Conference of Physics Students]] is the International Conference of Physics Students, which is the main event of IAPS, organized yearly by one of its member committees. The purpose of the conference is to create an opportunity for physics students from all around the world to come together, to talk about science and life, to practice presenting their research and, all in all, to have a great time.

The first ICPS was organized by students of the Eötvös Loránd University, in Budapest, Hungary in the year 1986. The event had less than fifty participants, but since then, the conference has grown considerably, nowadays bringing together more than four hundred students.

The one week of the conference has its fair share of scientific, social and touristic programs. One gets a chance to listen to and give lectures on various topics in physics, to check out the laboratories of the host city, to make friends with physics students from all around the world, to get a little glimpse of the foreign cultures that gather here, and to see another part of the world.

The following were venues of the ICPS conferences:

{| class="wikitable"
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! Year !! Location
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| 2022 || Puebla, {{MEX}} (online)
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| 2021 || [[Place:Copenhagen|Copenhagen]], {{DEN}} (online)
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| 2020 || Not held due to COVID-19 pandemic
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| 2019 || Cologne, {{GER}}
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| 2018 || [[Place:Helsinki|Helsinki]], {{FIN}}
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| 2017 || [[Place:Turin|Turin]], {{ITA}}
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| 2016 || {{MLT}}
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| 2015 || [[Place:Zagreb|Zagreb]], {{CRO}}
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| 2014 || Heidelberg, {{GER}}
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| 2013 || [[Place:Edinburgh|Edinburgh]], {{UK}}
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| 2012 || Utrecht, {{NLD}}
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| 2011 || [[Place:Budapest|Budapest]], {{HUN}}
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| 2010 || [[Place:Graz|Graz]], {{AUT}}
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| 2009 || Split, {{CRO}}
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| 2008 || Kraków, {{POL}}
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| 2007 || [[Place:London|London]], {{UK}}
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| 2006 || [[Place:Bucharest|Bucharest]], {{ROM}}
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| 2005 || [[Place:Coimbra|Coimbra]], {{POR}}
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| 2004 || Novi Sad, {{SCG}}
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| 2003 || Odense, {{DEN}}
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| 2002 || [[Place:Budapest|Budapest]], {{HUN}}
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| 2001 || [[Place:Dublin|Dublin]], {{IRE}}
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| 2000 || Zadar, {{CRO}}
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| 1999 || [[Place:Helsinki|Helsinki]], {{FIN}}
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| 1998 || [[Place:Coimbra|Coimbra]], {{POR}}
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| 1997 || [[Place:Vienna|Vienna]], {{AUT}}
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| 1996 || Szeged, {{HUN}}
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| 1995 || [[Place:Copenhagen|Copenhagen]], {{DEN}}
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| 1994 || Saint Petersburg, {{RUS}}
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| 1993 || Bodrum, {{TUR}}
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| 1992 || [[Place:Lisbon|Lisbon]], {{POR}}
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| 1991 || [[Place:Vienna|Vienna]], {{AUT}}
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| 1990 || [[Place:Amsterdam|Amsterdam]], {{NLD}}
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| 1989 || Freiburg, {{FRG}}
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| 1988 || [[Place:Prague|Prague]], {{CZS}}
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| 1987 || Debrecen, {{HUN}}
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| 1986 || [[Place:Budapest|Budapest]], {{HUN}}
|}
In addition, IAPS organizers a number of other events. In 2018, IAPS associated with the [[Organization:International Students of History Association|International Students of History Association (ISHA)]] in a Series of Conferences named HyPe (HistorY and Physics Experience), that took place in Bologna, Italy.

=== Excursions ===
Since its foundation, IAPS has organised several trips to international research facilities, either directly or through its member societies.

==== iaps2CERN ====
IAPS yearly organises annual tours to [[Organization:CERN|CERN]], in Geneva (Switzerland). The highly successful iaps2CERN programme usually has approximately 40 participants, representing up to 20 different nationalities. The tour usually comprises visits of the CERN exhibitions, some of the experiments currently accessible and also a visit of the United Nations offices in Geneva.

== International Physics Competitions ==
PLANCKS is an annual international physics contest for bachelor and master students. It is usually a three day event and can include in addition to the competition itself scientific program like a symposium and excursions, as well as social events and the award ceremony. PLANCKS is arranged by different IAPS member committees.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.iaps.info/plancks/what-is-plancks/|title = What is PLANCKS {{pipe}} {iaps}}}</ref>

In May 2014, the A-Eskwadraat student association held the first PLANCKS edition in Utrecht.
Since then, it took place every year at varying places:<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.iaps.info/plancks/previous-plancks/|title = Previous PLANCKSs {{pipe}} {iaps}}}</ref>

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! Year !! Location !! Winning country
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| 2023 || Milan, {{ITA}}  || {{ITA}}
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| 2022 || [[Place:Munich|Munich]], {{GER}}  || {{UK}} and {{IRL}}
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| 2021 || Porto, {{POR}} (online) || {{UK}} and {{IRL}}
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| 2020 || [[Place:London|London]], {{UK}} (online) || {{UK}} and {{IRL}}
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| 2019 || Odense, {{DEN}}) || {{GER}}
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| 2018 || [[Place:Zagreb|Zagreb]], {{CRO}} || {{NED}}
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| 2017 || [[Place:Graz|Graz]], {{AUT}} || {{ESP}}
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| 2016 || [[Place:Bucharest|Bucharest]], {{ROM}} || {{CZE}}
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| 2015 || Leiden, {{NED}} || {{NED}}
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| 2014 || Utrecht, {{NED}} || {{NED}}
|}

IAPS also support other physics competitions, such as the Ortvay competition (organised by the Hungarian NC) and the International Physics Tournament.<ref name="IAPS_2014_15" />

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://iaps.info Official IAPS Website]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110303012716/http://www.iaps.info/organization/members/ List of IAPS members]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140826120654/http://www.iaps.info/what-is-iaps/executive-committee IAPS Executive Committee]


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