www.olympic.org - Site Officiel du Mouvement Olympique

The Olympic Studies Centre (OSC) has regularly organised symposiums on various aspects of Olympism at the Olympic Museum.

In collaboration with the International Chair in Olympism

The Legacy of the Olympic Games - 14 to 16 November 2002

This Symposium dealt with various aspects of the impact of the Olympic Games on the host country and city: environment and town planning, economics and tourism, education, sporting, political, cultural and social aspects. This topical theme brought together 200 participants, including some 60 speakers.

• Conclusions - Legacy of the Olympic Games

Volunteers, globalisation and the Olympic Movement - 1999

Three main themes on the programme of this Symposium: Volunteers as a social phenomenon, Olympic Volunteers and Experience of major sports events.

• Conclusions - Volunteers and the Olympic Movement

Television and the Olympic Games - 1998

In collaboration with the IOC Radio and Television Commission.

More than 20 conferences to analyse the growing importance of TV in the Olympic Games, through three main themes: The First 50 years; Broadcasting the Olympic Games Today; and Future Prospects.

Olympic Villages - 1996

Olympic Villages, which represent a very special place within the Olympic Movement, were at the core of conferences of the Symposium on Olympic Villages - One Hundred Years of Urban Planning and Shared Experiences.

• Conclusions - Olympic Villages

Olympic Ceremonies - 1995

Olympic Ceremonies - Historical Continuity and Cultural Exchanges was the first Symposium organised by the International Chair in Olympism, and covered this major theme of Olympism through four main sessions dedicated to Olympic Ceremonies and Rites; Olympic Ceremonies in History; Modern Olympic Ceremonies; and A Television Spectacle.

• Conclusions - Olympic Ceremonies

11th World Congress of the International Association for Sports Information (IASI) - 2001

Organised in collaboration with the Institute of Sport Sciences and Physical Education (University of Lausanne), this Congress on "Sport Information in the Third Millennium" dealt with five major themes: sports information management, sports information and Olympism, new technologies and sports information, geographical development of sports information and economical and legal aspects of sports information.

• Selected proceedings

Other conferences whose selected texts are online:

Architecture and Olympism, the future for host cities - May 2001

Architecture and international sporting events, future planning and development - June 2002

Conferences organised by the International Union of Architects and the IOC

• Selection of conferences on Architecture