Researchers’ Grant Programme, 2008 Edition

The Researchers’ Grant programme for 2008 has three (3) precise objectives and they are as follows:

• * Encourage young researchers to undertake research with a humanities or social sciences perspective on the Olympic phenomenon. The main fields of research include:
  – Universality of Olympic values and multiculturalism
  – From the first-class athlete to the balanced human being. The issues for the high-level athlete to successfully integrate into society.
  – The various aspects of the Olympic Games Legacy: a long journey from the birth of the project to the post-Games period.
  – Sport and political organisations– future challenges.
  – Youth, perception of and relations with Olympism.
• * Promote consultation of the IOC’s written and audiovisual patrimony
• * Encourage exchanges of information and networking of young researchers

The application for the programme is open to all:

• current postgraduate students (master’s and doctoral candidates),
• university professors who have completed their doctorate or equivalent terminal degree in the last five years and currently hold an academic appointment.

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