Olympism365 Innovation Hub

Welcome to the Olympism365 Innovation Hub - a global community advancing new ideas and technologies to maximise the powerful impact of sport.

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About the Hub

The Olympism365 Innovation Hub is a collaboration between the International Olympic Committee, Beyond Sport and Women Win designed to support a diverse community of innovators leading new and impactful approaches to sport for sustainable development. The Hub will:​

  • ​Incubate cutting-edge innovations that maximise the positive impact of sport​
  • Facilitate knowledge-sharing and learning across the sports movement and social innovation
  • Support organisations and individuals around the world through a multimillion-dollar investment that will benefit thousands of people and communities by 2026
  • Broker partnerships and engage diverse sectors — in and out of sport — to foster new solutions and lasting development ​in sport for social change

What We Mean By Innovation

We believe innovation is delivered when a powerful idea that challenges the status quo, is tested, put into action, and developed to reach its full potential. Innovation is driven by bold creative culture and behaviours, data and insight, and intentional and diverse collaborations. Innovation overcomes barriers and meets unmet needs, and ultimately has the power to transform communities and systems across the world.

Funding opportunities

Tech365

Applications open 1 - 21 November 2024

This fund resources initiatives powered by emerging technologies that accelerate sport’s contribution to the achievement of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. This will include the creation of a networking and knowledge exchange collective, as well as provision of grants for emerging tech innovations in sport for social impact. This could include, but is not limited to, technologies that innovate education and training, governance, inclusion, community engagement, monitoring and evaluation, safeguarding, and fundraising. Registered and unregistered organisations, NGOs, sports clubs, start-ups, companies, research institutes, Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) and collectives are encouraged to apply.

Knowledge and Exchange Hub – Coming soon

The Olympism365 Innovation Hub will include a Knowledge and Exchange Hub to promote open-source knowledge and learning in partnership with the wider sport-for-development sector. This work will ensure innovators feel enabled to take their innovation to the next level, and create opportunities for the broader sport for development community to learn from insights, build capacity, and network across sectors to support innovative sector development towards creating lasting impact and change.

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