Appointment to the IOC Olympic Education Commission

Stephan Wassong, Head of the Institute for Sport History and Director of the Olympic Studies Centre (OSC), has been appointed to the IOC Olympic Education Commission.

The IOC President in consultation with the IOC Executive Committee appoints members to IOC Commissions. An important area of activity of IOC Commissions is advising the IOC Session and the IOC Executive Committee in the implementation of the different recommendations of the Olympic Agenda 2020. Stephan Wassong values the future tasks in the IOC Commission as challenging and possibly defining for the further development of the profile of the OSC at the German Sport University Cologne.

The Olympic Agenda, which was adopted on the 127th IOC Session in Monaco in December 2014, deals with the future-oriented direction of the Olympic Movement and the Olympic Games. It entails 40 recommendations for reform, which are separated into five main themes:  1. The Uniqueness of the Olympic Games, 2. Athletes at the Heart of the Olympic Movement, 3. Olympism in Action: keep Olympism alive 365 days a year, 4. IOC’s Role: Unity in Diversity und 5. IOC Structure and Organisation. For the successive realization of the Olympic Agenda, the IOC made alignments to the profile of some IOC Commissions in terms of their specialization and members. Therefore, the IOC Olympic Education Commission emerged from the former Commission for Culture and Olympic Education but is now an independent IOC Commission. It is intended that the separation of the former large IOC Commission into the Olympic Education Commission und the Olympic Heritage Commission leads to a profiling of the areas of education and culture within and through Olympic sport. Further information on the topics of the IOC Commissions and the Olympic Agenda 2020 can be found on www.olympic.org.