As an organization officially recognized by the IOC, ISOH actively collaborates with a variety of Olympic Movement partners. While not an exhaustive list, ISOH delivers projects jointly with organizations listed below. These are natural ISOH partners given their shared values and the close connection among their areas of operation.
IPCC – INTERNATIONAL PIERRE DE COUBERTIN COMMITTEE
Website: www.coubertin.org
The IPCC’s mission is:
-To seek to make known the works of Pierre de Coubertin in their entirety, to identify the main lines of his thinking, and to ensure their dissemination throughout the world in order to contribute to human development and to finding solutions to current problems;
-To promote and foster the study of Pierre de Coubertin’s integral humanism and his pedagogical and social thinking in order to identify more specifically the moral, civic, cultural and pedagogical teaching resulting from these;
-To apply Pierre de Coubertin’s educational leitmotifs to present day in order to strengthen objective identification with Coubertin as the founder of the Olympic Movement and promoter of sport as a tool for character development, social change and transcultural respect;
-To work with those national and international organisations that have undertaken to disseminate the Olympic Spirit and further the legacy of Pierre de Coubertin;
-To ensure the international coordination of the activities of its members in their respective countries and of any Pierre de Coubertin national committees and schools that it has officially recognised.
PI – PANATHLON INTERNATIONAL
Website: panathlon-international.org
Panathlon International’s description and mission:
Panathlon International is a non-governmental, non-profit-making, non-denominational, non-political association, without sex or racial distinction, of all Panathlon Clubs.
Panathlon International is a service-club with ethical and cultural goals the main aim of which is to deepen, disseminate and defend sporting values as a means towards the development and advancement of the individual and solidarity between men and peoples. The word “Panathlon”, is of Greek origin: “PAN” means ALL and “ATHLON” SPORT: All sports. While its motto “Ludis Iungit” means “united by sport”.
The first club was created on 12 June 1951 in Venice and in 1960 on the initiative of several nations, Panathlon International was founded. In 1982 it received the title of “meritorious cultural association” and it was recognized by the International Olympic Committee.
Either directly or through its Clubs, Panathlon International:
- promulgates sport inspired by ethics, solidarity and fair play;
- promotes studies and research on topics concerning sport and its relations with society;
- collaborates with schools, universities and other cultural institutions;
- works towards the ideal of a healthy sporting education guaranteed for all;
- and supports the Olympic Movement in any activities consistent with Panathlon’s aims.
As a service club, it encourages and stimulates activities for the differently abled, supports solidarity initiatives, promotes and develops education programmes against violence and discourages doping.
Panathlon International is disseminated over 31 nations, on four continents with more than 260 clubs and about 9.000 members. Its current head office is in Rapallo (Genoa-Italy).
In order to create synergistic and continuous relations with the European Institutions, the representation of PI to the European Institutions was established, which is based in Brussels, and a similar one based in Lausanne (CH) with the task of continuing and increasing relations with the IOC and International Sports Federations.
CIFP – INTERNATIONAL FAIR PLAY COMMITTEE
Website: www.fairplayinternational.org
Since its foundation by UNESCO and a number of international sports governing bodies in Paris in 1963, the goal of the International Fair Play Committee is the worldwide defence and promotion of fair play.
The activity of CIFP is aimed at national and international organisations in the field of sports and education, and professional athletes with a special emphasis on children, adolescents and those in charge of training them, namely coaches and trainers.
The CIFP has an important educational role to play in supporting fair play, promoting a better understanding of fair play values and preventing adverse behaviour. In cooperation with various national governing bodies such as ministries, Olympic committees, sports federations, media and sports press associations the CIFP encourages and welcomes the establishment of national fair play committees.