AILO 2025/6 Registration Now Open
Registration for AILO 2025/6 is now open. It is open to all secondary schools students on the island. Sign up so you can access free workshops from October to December and receive monthly sample puzzles. The preliminary round of AILO takes place in your own school in January and the final will place in Dublin City University in March. This year students will compete to represent Ireland at the International Linguistics Olympiad in Bucharest, Romania in late July 2026. You can read the AILO Brochure 2025/6 for more details.
About AILO
AILO challenges secondary school students to test their minds against the world’s most fascinating problems in logic, language and linguistics. New training materials and the brochure have been produced thanks to funding from the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport under the Cooperation with Northern Ireland scheme. AILO selects the
Irish team for the International Linguistics Olympiad which will be held in Romania in July 2026. Students may only take part in one national linguistics olympiad in a calendar year.
Linguistics Module
AILO also has a free linguistics Transition Year (TY) module. The module, funded by Post-Primary
Languages Ireland (PPLI) and designed by ADAPT researchers, AILO and AILO teachers, is
designed as teacher-led online resources, hosted on https://ailo.adaptcentre.ie/tylinguisticsmodule/.
The module introduces areas such as sociolinguistics and syntax and links to a related AILO puzzle. To
register your interest in the module and be eligible for participation certificates, please go to
https://ailo.adaptcentre.ie/tylinguisticsmodule/. Please note, all secondary school students and
teachers may use these materials in their classes.
Timeline
Oct – Dec Sample puzzles available at https://ailo.adaptcentre.ie/puzzles/
September Free Linguistics Module https://ailo.adaptcentre.ie/ty-linguistics-module/
Oct – Dec Free workshops
23rd Jan Registration https://ailo.adaptcentre.ie/enter/ for AILO 2026 closes
Week 26th Jan Preliminary Round takes place in your own school via online submission form
March Top 100 qualify for National Final in Dublin City University
July Top four represent Ireland at the International Olympiad in Romania
