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The Olympic Studies Centre (OSC) is looking to award research grants to encourage advanced humanities or social sciences research by experienced researchers in Olympism 365 – development through sport and sport’s contribution to the SDGs.

For established researchers who are conducting Olympic-related research under a humanities or social sciences perspective, the OSC is offering the Advanced Olympic Research Grant Programme for the following research areas:

  1. Research on the contribution of community sport and sport for development projects, programmes and policies towards the achievement of the following Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) prioritised in the IOC’s Olympism 365 strategy:
  • Sport, education and livelihoods (related to SDGs 4 and 8)
  • Sport, equality and inclusive communities (related to SDGs 5 and 10)
  • Sport, health and active communities (related to SDGs 4 and 11)
  • Sport, peace and safe communities (related to SDG 16)
  1. We encourage proposals that:
  • Examine the impact of COVID-19, climate change and/or the growing cost of living crisis on the contribution of sport to the above-mentioned areas
  • Focus on emerging economies and developing countries and/or
  • Compare sport-based approaches with other types of interventions (e.g. youth work, Information, Communication and Technology-based interventions, etc.)
  1. Analysis of the strength of policy, procedures and institutional capacity in particular national/regional community sport systems or sport for development initiatives with national or regional scale in the following areas: 
  • Safeguarding and prevention of harm and abuse in sport
  • Equitable, inclusive and accessible approaches as a prerequisite for strengthening the role of sport as an enabler of sustainable development
  • Environmental sustainability
  • Blending sport with cultural, art and educational approaches.

We encourage proposals that focus on emerging economies and developing countries.

  1. Safe sport in humanitarian crises - Investigation of the role that safe sport can play in humanitarian crises and in supporting the needs of young people affected by displacement (refugees, asylum seekers, internally displaced people and host communities), as part of a holistic response to forced displacement. Particular focus on the role of safe sport supporting protection, mental health and psychosocial well-being, social inclusion and social cohesion, as well as the factors that enable and inhibit the contribution of sport. (For more information, please refer to the “Sport for protection Toolkit: People in Forced Displacement Settings” created by UNHCR, the IOC and Terre des hommes). 
  2. Sports values-based education initiatives addressed to at-risk young people – Analysis of existing initiatives in regions and/or countries, and assessment of their impact. 

Find out more about the programme and application process.

Application deadline: 30 January 2023.