BISC 2027 is ready to come alive in Bangkok, Thailand, from 16 to 17 January 2027, uniting students from six countries for two exciting days of competition, creativity and connection!
BISC 2027 features a diverse range of activities across four arenas – the Sports Arena, Creative Arena, Knowledge Arena, and Gaming Arena – spanning athletics, arts, innovation, debate, digital gaming, and academic challenges. Students compete not only to demonstrate excellence in their chosen fields, but also to build cross-cultural friendships and promote healthy, constructive competition.
The convention aligns with several United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, particularly:
- Health and Wellbeing (SDG 3)
- Quality Education (SDG 4)
- Partnerships and Collaborations (SDG 17)
This strengthens BISC’s role as a platform for global awareness, student agency, and responsibility.
The event format continues to evolve, becoming more inclusive and future-focused with each edition. BISC 2027 introduces a Funfair consisting of shared recreational activities where competition gives way to play, allowing participants from six countries to have fun and forge new friendships.
BISC Global Village – a showcase that has featured in previous BISC events – has now been formalised as a judged Creative Arena competition for BISC 2027. Building on the successful introduction of the innovative format of SparkTank Challenge @ BISC last year, student representation has been increased for BISC 2027.
Together, let us make BISC 2027 in Thailand a transformative and globally connected experience – one that celebrates creativity, knowledge, physical excellence, and digital innovation under the theme Play. Create. Connect.
“Play. Create. Connect”
The 2027 theme, “Play. Create. Connect.”, frames the BISC experience through three actions that students will take across the two days in Bangkok. Play brings together the Sports and Gaming Arenas and the new Funfair, encouraging participation, resilience, and sportsmanship. Create covers what students make across the Creative and Knowledge Arenas: a robot, a film, a business pitch, a smart city, a debate case, a solution nobody else found. Connect extends beyond the competition, bringing students representing six countries together through shared experiences, cultures, and friendships.
The theme seeks to balance competition with collaboration. The contest is where BISC begins, and the collaborative elements carry it further: the SparkTank Challenge pairs students from different nations in a single team, the Global Debate rewards those who listen as closely as they argue, and the Global Village asks each country to explain itself to the other five.
It highlights the value of teamwork, dialogue, cultural exchange, and learning across differences, while also connecting its three actions to the Sustainable Development Goals it supports: Play with health and wellbeing (SDG 3), Create with quality education (SDG 4), and Connect with partnerships for the goals (SDG 17).
By bringing students together through play, creativity, and connection, BISC 2027 becomes a platform where knowledge, skills, and values intersect, and where every participant can measure the event by what they did and by whom they came to know.
Key Objectives
- Cultivating Multicultural Bonds
Bring together students from diverse countries and backgrounds to interact, perform, and collaborate. Promote cross-cultural understanding, empathy, tolerance, and unity as students engage in both competition and cultural exchange.
- Empowering Future Innovators and Creators
Through Creative Arena events, empower students to showcase artistic expression, entrepreneurial ideas, and innovative solutions. Encourage exploration of science, technology, and design, while fostering creativity and imagination.
- Advancing Knowledge and Critical Inquiry
Through the Knowledge Arena, spotlight academic excellence, debate, and intellectual pursuits. Strengthen students’ ability to think critically, analyse complex issues, and engage in informed dialogue, preparing them to contribute meaningfully to global challenges.
- Fostering Sporting Excellence
Celebrate sports as a vehicle for building resilience, teamwork, leadership, and physical wellbeing. Inspire students to strive for excellence, discipline, and sportsmanship while promoting a healthy spirit of competition.
- Aligning with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Ensure that BISC remains aligned with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, particularly those focused on health and wellbeing (SDG 3), quality education (SDG 4), and partnerships for the goals (SDG 17), while embedding sustainability into both competition design and student outputs.