3rd World Olympic Summer School 2024

The Hellenic Cultural and Educational Club for UNESCO, in association with the National Olympic Academy and professional educators and sport coaches, organizes 23 June – 30 July 2024 the 3rd World Olympic Summer School 2024 under the auspices of the International Olympic Academy. The School is also supported by the UNESCO Chair in Intercultural Policy for an Active Citizenship and Solidarity, University of Macedonia, Greece. The World Olympic Summer School aims to raise awareness relating to the Olympic Values and to prepare the next generation of the Olympic Values Ambassadors. In the World Olympic Summer School are welcome to participate students between 10 – 16 years old from all around the world. Teachers can also participate in the Summer School. The official languages of the Symposium are English and Greek. Focusing on Respect, one of the three core Olympic Values, the students will learn the importance of respecting themselves, the others, the world tangible and intangible cultural heritage and the planet (the R-Project). Through the program designed by the National Olympic Academy (ΕΘΝ.Ο.Α.) students will be informed about the necessity of protecting the cultural heritage which on the one hand is achieved by providing cultural education from an early age and on the other hand by the permanent maintenance of the monuments by the competent bodies. They will come into contact (virtual) with the cultural treasures of the Peloponnese through which a retrospective will be made combined with important historical events. In the Environmental Workshop, young men and women will have the opportunity to present the basic principles of environmental education, their positions on the environmental problem and participate in the creation of the “Youth Environmental Guide Book”. At the same time, they will get to know the main plants from the local flora, which they will try to depict on the one side of the “Discus for the Environment” and take with them as their personal creation. The World Olympic Summer School will be hosted in the International Olympic Academy.