Registration

The 10th ICMC

The ICMC aims to be an undergraduate-level mathematics competition for all undergrads across Europe. Each year we run a two-round individual competition. Round One, held on the second to last Sunday of November, includes 6 problems over 3 hours. The top 100 competitors are then invited to participate in Round Two, held on the last Sunday of February, which features 5 harder problems over 4 hours. Since 2017, we have seen more than 2000 students from 40 universities across 9 European countries compete.

Round One

  • Date: Sunday 22 Nov 2026
  • Start Time: Between 11:30 and 14:00, UTC time (exact time depends on your university)
  • Venue: Your university
  • Format: 6 problems in 3 hours

Please read the Contestants' Guide before the contest.

Round Two

Top 100 contestants qualify from Round One.

  • Date: Sunday 28 Feb 2027
  • Time: 10:00–14:00, UTC time
  • Venue: Imperial College London, or a university near you
  • Format: 5 problems in 4 hours

Team Competition

  • Date: Sunday 28 Feb 2027, 15:30–18:00
  • Time: 15:30–18:00
  • Venue: Imperial College London

Registration for the Team Competition will be open closer to the event. For more information, see the Team Competition page.

How to register

This year, all registrations will take place on our new ICMC Portal. You can fill out your contestant details at any time, but to complete your registration you will need to select a venue created by an organiser from your institution. If no venue has been created for your institution yet, you can register as a contestant and enable venue notifications so that when a new venue is created for your institution you will be notified via email.

You can see a list of partner universities below. If your university is not listed, encourage your mathematics department or society to become a partner, which they can do by contacting us before the 15th of November.

If your university has not been partnered by the 12th of November, you have the option of making invigilating arrangements yourself. Should you choose to do this, your invigilator must be an academic staff member. Contact us to find out more.

Partner universities

Partner universities will be listed soon.

Eligibility

To be eligible for the competition, you must:

  • be a current bachelor's or master's student,
  • be enrolled at an institution located in Europe (for our purposes this includes Turkey and the areas of Russia observing Kaliningrad Time or Moscow Time), and
  • have participated at most four times previously.

All students are welcome to participate regardless of their area of study.

Learn more

For more information, see our FAQs. If you have any further enquiries, please contact us at enquiries@icmathscomp.org.