Innovation

In collaboration with leading innovators, the IOC is helping to seed and share innovations on the use of sport as an enabler for sustainable development.

Working with our collaborators, we are:

On target for 250 organisations to be supported to innovate the use of sport to contribute to sustainable development by 2025.

Programmes

Innovation hub

The Olympism365 Innovation Hub, in collaboration with Beyond Sport and Women Win, seeds, supports and generates insight on innovative and new approaches to use sport to contribute to sustainable development. These efforts include:

Co-funding 50 innovative projects through a multimillion-dollar investment
Facilitating networking and knowledge exchange between sports and social innovation leaders
Generating insight and evidence to strengthen future design, policy frameworks and investment in of the intersection of innovation, new technologies and sport for sustainable development.

Sustained Insight and Impact initiative

The IOC, the French Development Agency (AFD) and the Paris 2024 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games are collaborating to extend the social legacy left by Paris 2024 at international level.

Launched at the end of 2023, this initiative is continuing funding and support for the most innovative and impactful sport for development projects currently supported by Paris 2024 and the AFD in Africa, as part of the “Impact 2024 International” programme.

IOC Young Leaders Programme

The IOC Young Leaders programme, launched in 2016, empowers young talents to leverage the power of sport to make a positive difference in their communities.

Young Leaders are supported through a four-year capacity-building curriculum and yearly seed funding to kick start, sustain and scale their projects.

Learn more about the programme and its bi-yearly application process.

Collaborators

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Olympism365

Olympism365 is the IOC’s strategy aimed at strengthening the role of sport as an important enabler for the Sustainable Development Goals, which is the focus of Recommendation 10 of Olympic Agenda 2020+5.