Anticipation is building for this year’s EOA Congress, which will take place from 24 to 28 September at the premises of the International Olympic Academy (IOA) in Ancient Olympia. The hosts, the Hellenic Olympic Academy (HOA) and the co-host IOA, are eagerly preparing for the event. In April, EOA President Manfred Laemmer met with HOA […]
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The 17th International Session for NOAs and NOCs Delegates of the International Olympic Academy took place in Ancient Olympia, Greece, from 13-20 May 2024. The theme was “The athlete in society” and brought the NOAs a lively exchange on the role of the athlete in the Olympic Movement and as facilitators for Olympic Education. The
The first SOPROS conference held on April 8th, 2024 in Cologne marked a milestone for the Erasmus+ project, focusing on athletes’ social protection. The event convened stakeholders from politics, sports, and academia to present various approaches and deliberate on the future need for a holistic approach of athletes’ social protection in Europe. The SOPROS project
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The Albanian Olympic Academy has started the 2024 Olympic year with full vigour. In collaboration with the Albanian National Olympic Committee, they launched in February a project to promote the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. The project aims to familiarise pupils in Albania with the Olympic Movement by educating them about the ideas and
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The Olympic Committee of Israel marked International Women’s Day at a joint conference with the Ministry of Sports held at Intel Israel. During the event significant women from various disciplines participated in the presence of the NOC President Yael Arad and the CEO Gili Lustig, alongside 150 female athletes, coaches, managers, directors and partners from
The EOA is pleased to announce that the Georgian Olympic Academy was accepted as the 35th member in March 2024. The NOA of Georgia is already a familiar name to EOA members thanks to its attendance at the Second Conference for European NOAs in Baku in 2015 and its involvement in many IOA Sessions. The
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As a result of collaboration between the Hungarian Olympic Committee (MOB) and the Hungarian University of Sports Science (TF) the Olympic Values School Programme (Olympic Values Education Programme – OVEP) has been launched in Hungary. In a first round of 14 sessions, a total of 336 teachers will be trained, enabling more than 200 schools
From 30th January to 3rd February, the international training course “Tools and methodologies for Olympic value education” took place in Vilnius, Lithuania. The participants, aged between 22 and 30, came from 20 different countries and thus reflected the cultural diversity of Europe. Throughout the intensive five-day program, the training aimed to develop a network of
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The BESST project team published a report as part of its task to develop a single definition of abuse and harassment and unifying speech and debate on the subject throughout Europe by considering current documents and academic literature on the topic. You can download the report below: Summary European citizens’ engagement in physical activities and
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On January 23/24, just under 200 days before the start of the Olympic Games, the EOA Executive Board met in the French capital at the invitation of the National Olympic Academy of France (ANOF). In the Maison du Sport Français, they discussed and set the schedule of activities for the next two years. Among other
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