15th International Session for Educators of Higher Institutes of Physical Education
July 6, 2025
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6-11 July 2025
Main subject: “The future of Sport”
Special subject: “Esports within the Olympic Culture”
July 6 – Sunday
Arrival in Athens of the lecturers and the participants
Accommodation at the Candia Hotel (40, Theodorou Diligianni str. 10438 Athens, Tel. +30 210 5246112, Email: candia@candia-hotel.gr)
14.00 – 15.00 hrs Lunch at the hotel
20.00 - 21.00 hrs Dinner at the hotel
July 7 – Monday
07.00 - 08.00 hrs Breakfast at the hotel
08.30 hrs Departure by bus for Ancient Olympia
Arrival in Ancient Olympia at 13.30 hrs approximately
Accommodation at the International Olympic Academy
14.00 hrs Lunch
16.00 hrs Opening Ceremony of the works of the 15th International Session for Educators of Higher Institutes of Physical Education -Otto Szymiczek Conference hall
Olympic anthem
Presentation of the lecturers and the participants
Welcome Address by the President of the International Olympic Academy, Prof. Charilaos TSOLAKIS, Member of the Hellenic Olympic Committee, Professor at the School of Physical Education and Sport Science at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and Sports Director of Sport Excellence at the 1st Orthopaedic Clinic at Attikon General University Hospital
16.30 hrs Lecture by Andreas Karatsolis (GRE), Senior Lecturer, Director on the program Writing, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication, MIT, affiliate of the MIT Sports Lab, on the subject: “Data visualization and sports”
17.00 hrs Discussion with the lecturer
17.30 hrs Laying of wreaths at the stele of Pierre de COUBERTIN, renovator of the Olympic Games, and at the commemorative monument of John KETSEAS and Carl DIEM, pioneers of the International Olympic Academy
Commemorative photograph
20.00 hrs Dinner
July 8 – Tuesday
08.00 hrs Breakfast
08.30 hrs Guided tour to the archaeological site and the museum of Ancient Olympia
13.00 hrs Lunch
16.30 hrs Lecture by Assistant Professor Emmanouil Choustoulakis (GRE), Department of Sports Organization & Management, University of Peloponnese, on the subject: “AI and Education”
17.00 hrs Discussion with the lecturer
17.30 hrs Lecture by Dr Cem Abanazir (TUR), Lecturer, Manchester Metropolitan University, on the subject: “Esports’ Place within the Olympic Movement”
18.00 hrs Discussion with the lecturer
18.30 hrs Discussion in Working Groups (1)
20.30 hrs Dinner
July 9 – Wednesday
08.00 hrs Breakfast
09.00 hrs Lecture by Prof. Adam Toth, PhD (IRL), Associate Professor Neuroscience and Biomechanics, University of Limerick, on the subject: “Neurostimulation: The emergence of new performance enhancing technologies in traditional sport and esports”
09.30 hrs Discussion with the lecturer
10.00 hrs Lecture by Dr Raoni Perrucci Toledo Machado (BRA), Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Physical Education, Lavras Federal University, on the subject: “Cyberculture, Cyberspace and the Olympic Movement”
10.30 hrs Discussion with the lecturer
11.00 hrs Lecture by Dr Yoav Dubinsky, PhD (ISR), Senior Instructor of Sports Business Lundquist College of Business, University of Oregon, on the subject: “Esports Diplomacy and the New Era of the Olympic Movement”
11.30 hrs Discussion with the lecturer
12.00 hrs Short presentations by the participants (1)
13.00 hrs Lunch
16.30 hrs Discussion in Working Groups (2)
18.30 hrs Short presentations by the participants (2).
20.00 hrs Dinner
July 10 – Thursday
08.00 hrs Breakfast
09.00 hrs Lecture by Dr Rafael Mendoza González, Ph.D. (MEX), Department of General Pedagogy, University of Rome ‘Foro Italico’, on the subject: “The Tyranny of Quantification: Rethinking the Future of Olympic Sport”
09.30 hrs Discussion with the lecturer
10.00 hrs Break
10.30 hrs Discussion panel with all lecturers led by Prof. Jim PARRY (GBR), Sports Ethics Research Centre, Charles University, Prague, Czechia and Prof. Irena Martínková (CZE), Sports Ethics Research Centre, Charles University, Prague, Czechia
11.30 hrs Discussion in Working Groups (3)
Final elaboration of the conclusions from the Working Groups and submission of the final text to the IOA Secretariat by 13.00 hrs at the latest
13.00 hrs Lunch
17.00 hrs Presentation of the conclusions of the Working Groups
Closing Ceremony of the works of the 15th International Session for Educators 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, Prof. Charilaos TSOLAKIS
Olympic Anthem
20.00 hrs Dinner
July 11 – Friday
07.00 hrs Breakfast
08.00 hrs Departure for Athens International Airport
13.30 hrs Arrival at the AIA Eleftherios Venizelos
