INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC ACADEMY 7th JOINT - IOA

• Promoting education at schools
• Educating people through the mass media and the internet
• Educating athletes, especially Olympians and elite athletes
• Using Olympians and elite athletes as role models
• Using Olympic Games, World Championships and other major
competitions to promote basic ideals
• Making people aware of the benefits of sports (physical, mental,
social, intellectual, moral, spiritual, emotional etc.)
• Encouraging exchanges among NOAs
Question 3: Discuss the current problems facing NOAs in
promoting Olympic Education and culture and how the NOC in
your country can assist actively to work on these problems?
Problems
• Inadequate funding
• Lack of government support (for instance providing funds,
access to educational curricula)
• Lack of trained personnel of NOAs
• Conflict of priorities of interests between NOCs and NOAs
• Lack of adequate media coverage of Olympic ideals
• Lack of specific regulation concerning the NOAs’ subsidization
from the NOCs
Required support of NOC
• Provide required infrastructure and financial support including
annual budget to NOAs
• Define specific responsibilities and activities
• Elaborate a special image of the NOAs as key actors of Olympic
values
• Ensure that Olympic Solidarity’s funding for promotion of
Olympic ideals is earmarked to NOAs
• NOCs should get more involved in NOAs – NOAs should
ensure representation in the NOCs’ Executive Board
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