INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC ACADEMY 7th JOINT - IOA

In May 2004, the Seventh School Olympic Games of Serbia’s pupils
took place with approximately 6500 participants in thirteen sports.
3. Project description
Olympic Games of Serbia’s pupils is a carefully planned system of
school sports competitions, regulated in detail and with shared
responsibilities in all segments of realisation, defined by competition
categories and rules, horizontally and vertically linked on the territory
of Serbia and promoted in the country as well as abroad. The goal of
this competition system is promotion of physical and sports activities
of school population as an introduction to a healthy way of life, but
also as a support to the Serbia’s sports system. Therefore, the research
of school Olympic games imposes itself as a necessity and a national
research study, starting from the analysis of organisation of school
Olympic games system in Serbia, mass participation, prospects of
achieved results, organisational and financial problems, educational
impact, tends to build a functional whole including a sports system
and a system of talent identification in the Republic of Serbia. The
subject of this research is also the analysis of influences from the
surroundings of sports and education system important for the future
affirmative realisation of the idea of Olympic spirit and sports within
the school population of the Republic of Serbia.
4. Objectives
The objective of this project is to establish the degree of realising
Olympic and sports values within the school youth population in
Serbia.
School Olympic Youth Games are not sufficiently present in
media, but on the other hand they are related to other activities such as
reconstruction of school objects and providing infrastructure for
performing teaching in physical education and school sports.
Therefore, the objective of this project is interdisciplinary study of
complex impact of school Olympic games on pupils, school and sports
system in Serbia.
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