Olympic Values Education Programme recognised among leading global education innovations
The International Olympic Committee (IOC)’s Olympic Values Education Programme (OVEP) has been selected for the HundrED Global Collection 2027, recognising its meaningful impact and potential for even wider adoption.
Key Facts
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OVEP has been selected for the HundrED Global Collection 2027, which highlights 100 of the most impactful and scalable global education innovations.
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The programme has been implemented in 139 countries and reached more than 60 million young people worldwide.
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Inclusion in HundrED’s prestigious list provides an opportunity to amplify OVEP’s impact even further and expand the use of sport and the Olympic values to support education.
Through its annual Global Collection, HundrED identifies 100 of the brightest education innovations from around the world that demonstrate impact and scalability. For the 2027 edition, OVEP was selected from more than 800 submissions, following a review involving more than 200 education experts.
The recognition reflects OVEP’s continued growth as a flexible, values-based education programme that can be adapted to different cultures, communities and education systems. Through sport, OVEP gives young people opportunities to experience the Olympic values in practice while developing transferable skills fit for the modern world such as teamwork, resilience and decision-making.
OVEP initiatives have now been implemented in 139 countries across five continents, including 35 new countries in 2026. In Senegal, ahead of the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games more than one million young people have been reached through the OVEP-based Brevet Olympique Civique et Sportif (BOCS) programme.
Inclusion in the Global Collection provides an opportunity to share OVEP with even more educators and organisations looking to support young people with values-based education.
“We are hugely proud to see OVEP included in this prestigious list of the world’s most impactful and scalable education innovations,” said Olympic Foundation for Culture and Heritage Interim Director Yasmin Meichtry.
OVEP is helping put the IOC’s ‘Fit for the Future’ goal of transforming lives through sport and the Olympic values into practice. By helping young people develop skills they can use in education, work and everyday life, the programme shows how excellence, respect and friendship can make a lasting difference beyond the field of play.
It is not the first time OVEP has received international recognition for its approach. In 2024, the programme won the Nurturing Values and Ethics category at the QS Reimagine Education Awards, known as the “Oscars of Education”. Selected from more than 1,300 applications from more than 90 countries, OVEP was recognised for its innovation, scalability and global reach.
The HundrED Global Collection 2027 report features more details on each of the 100 selected innovations.
About the Olympic Values Education Programme
OVEP consists of a series of free and accessible teaching resources developed by the IOC and made available by the Olympic Foundation for Culture and Heritage. Using the context of Olympic sport and the Fundamental Principles of Olympism to complement school curricula, the programme has been implemented in 139 countries and reached more than 60 million young people worldwide.