Joint International Session for Directors of NOAs, members and staff of NOCs and IFs

This biannual Session aims to bring together Senior Administrators from Organisations engaged in creating Olympic Education programmes and involved in educational and social activities aiming to promote the Olympic Movement.

The IOA's role is to coordinate and assist the NOAs in their work, and this Session provides a Forum for the exchange of ideas and educational programmes and the presentation of the activities of the NOAs, NOCs and IFs in different countries.

Participation

• National Olympic Academies may register two (2) representatives
• National Olympic Committees may register one (1) representative
• International Olympic Sport Federations may register two (2) representatives

Short Papers or Presentations

Representatives are invited to prepare speeches on the special topic of the Session, to be presented at the IOA.

Special Topics of the Joint International Session for Directors of NOAs, Members and Staff of NOCs and IFs

Up until the year 1991, separate Sessions were held for the Directors of NOAs, and the members and staff of NOCs and IFs. From 1992, the Sessions have been held jointly.

International Sessions for Directors of NOAs 1986-1990

• The contribution of Olympic Education to general education
• a) Relation between NOCs, the IOC and the IOA
  b) Role and activities of a NOA
• a) Coordination of activities of the NOAs with the IOA and the NOCs
  b) Possibilities and ways of involving past participants of the IOA Sessions in the activities of the NOAs.

International Session for Members and Staff of NOCs and IFs 1978-1991

• The role of the NOCs
• The role of the NOCs in the propagation of the Olympic Idea
• Olympism facing Violence and Fair Play
• Olympism and present reality
• Olympic Education
• Olympic Education through the NOCs and IFs
• The Olympic Movement and some of its aspects

Joint International Session for Directors of NOAs, Members and Staff of NOCs and Ifs 1992-to date

• Exploration of the most effective ways for the collaboration of NOCs, NOAs and IFs for the propagation of Olympic Education
• Olympic Educational programmes and ways of teaching the Olympic Idea among the Youth: Elaboration, structure and contents of a universal Olympic programme which will take into consideration all the different cultural particularities of the major cultural zones of the world
• The activities of a National Olympic Academy within the framework of National Education systems

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