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9th INTERNATIONAL SESSION FOR EDUCATORS AND OFFICIALS OF HIGHER INSTITUTES OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION PDF Print E-mail


9th INTERNATIONAL SESSION FOR EDUCATORS AND OFFICIALS OF HIGHER INSTITUTES OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION

2 – 9 June 2011

PROGRAMME

Main subject:   “OLYMPISM”
Special subject:  “HOW CAN SPORTING TRADITION OF DIFFERENT CULTURES ENRICH OLYMPIC EDUCATION” 

Note:  Any change in the programme will be announced in due time.


June 2 - Thursday 
Arrival in Athens of the lecturers and participants.

Accommodation of the lecturers and participants at the GOLDEN AGE hotel (Address: 57 Michalakopoulou Avenue
11528, Athens Tel.: (+30) 2107240861-9, Fax: (+30) 2107213965

June 3 – Friday
  
 08.00 hrs  Departure by coaches for Ancient Olympia.
 
    Arrival at Ancient Olympia at 13.00 hrs approximately.
  
    Accommodation at the International Olympic Academy.

    Lunch.
   
17.00 hrs Opening Ceremony of the works of the 9th International Session for Educators and Officials of Higher Institutes of Physical Education (Main Lecture Hall “D. Vikelas”).
 
    Olympic Anthem.

Address by the President of the International Olympic Academy, Μr Isidoros KOUVELOS (GRE), Secretary General of the International Committee for the Mediterranean Games and President of the National Olympic Academy of Greece.

Presentation of the lecturers and the participants.

18.00 hrs Lecture by Prof. Dr Kostas GEORGIADIS (GRE), University of Peloponnese, Honorary Dean of the International Olympic Academy, on the subject: “Master’s Degree Programme: Olympic Studies, Olympic Education, Organisation and Management of Olympic Events”.

Laying of wreaths at the stele of Pierre de COUBERTIN, renovator of the Modern Olympic Games, and at the commemorative monument of John KETSEAS and Carl DIEM, pioneers of the International Olympic Academy.

    Commemorative photograph.

    Evening free.

June 4 – Saturday

08.30 hrs Guided visit to the archaeological site and the Museum of Ancient Olympia.

16.30 hrs          Lecture by Associate Professor Evangelos ALBANIDIS (GRE), Associate Professor, Democritus University of Thrace, Department of Physical Education and Sport Science, on the subject: “Olympic Games outside Olympia in the Ancient Greek world: the example of Macedonia”.

17.00 hrs  Discussion.

17.30 hrs Lecture by Dr Dikaia CHATZIEFSTATHIOU (GRE), Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Department of Sport Science, Tourism and Leisure, Canterbury Christ Church University, Kent, Great Britain, and Representative for ‘Young Protagonists of Olympism’ of the International Pierre de Coubertin Committee, on the subject: “Beyond Olympic Education: Olympism and Value Legacies of the Olympic and Paralympic Games”

18.00 hrs  Discussion.

18.30 hrs  Group discussion (1).

21.00 hrs  Film projection.

June 5 – Sunday

08.30 hrs  Lecture by Dr Roberto Maluf de MESQUITA (BRA), Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul State, on the subject: “How can sporting tradition of different cultures enrich the Olympic Movement”.

09.00 hrs  Discussion.

09.30 hrs     Lecture by Dr Małgorzata BRONIKOWSKA (POL), Department of Olympism and Ethnology of Sport, The Eugeniusz Piasecki University School of Physical Education, Poznań, Poland, on the subject: “Do local sporting traditions promote international understanding”?

10.00 hrs  Discussion.

11.00 hrs  Short presentations by the participants (1).

12.00 hrs  Group discussion (2).

16.30 hrs  Group discussion (3).

18.30 hrs  Sport activities.

   Evening free.

June 6 – Monday

08.30 hrs Lecture by Dr Ju-Ho CHANG (KOR), Honorary President of the Korean Olympic Academy, President of ‘Sport for All Korea Association’, President of the ‘Korea Sports Masters Association’, on the subject: “Olympism and Sport for All”.

09.00 hrs   Discussion.

10.00 hrs  Short presentations by the participants (2).

11.30 hrs  Group discussions (4).

16.30 hrs  Short presentations by the participants (3).

17.30 hrs Final elaboration of the conclusions from the discussion groups and submission of the final text to the I.O.A. Secretariat by 18.30 hrs.

21.00 hrs  Film projection.
 
June 7 – Tuesday

09.30 hrs  Presentation of the Conclusions of the discussion groups.

Closing Ceremony of the works of the 9th International Session for Educators and Officials of Higher Institutes of Physical Education.
   
    Presentation of participation diplomas.

    Address on behalf of the participants.

    Address on behalf of the lecturers.

Address and closing of the works of the Session by the President of the International Olympic Academy, Mr Isidoros KOUVELOS (GRE), Secretary General of the International Committee for the Mediterranean Games, President of the National Olympic Academy of Greece.

    Olympic Anthem.

    Evening free.

June 8 - Wednesday
                                                
08.30 hrs  Departure for Athens.

Arrival in Athens at approximately 13.30 hrs and accommodation at the METROPOLITAN hotel (Address: 385, Syggrou Aven., 175 64 Athens, Tel.: +30 210 9471000, Fax: +30 210 9471010).

June 9 - Thursday

Departure from Athens.