TOC Education Programme Celebrates 16th Anniversary with Participation of Nearly 4000 Students
OLİ, the Turkish Olympic Committee (TOC) Sports Culture and Olympic Education Project, which has instilled a love of sport in children all over Turkey since 2006, started the 2022-2023 academic year with presentations to nearly four thousand students in Izmir and Mardin.
The TOC focuses its activities on national athletes and young people and contributes to their physical and mental development through sport. The TOC started the new academic year with presentations organised in the west and east of the country with OLİ, which has instilled a sports culture in more than two million children and young people across the country.
The presentation content of OLİ, which was created with expert educators and sports scientists, was updated this year according to the changing and developing interests of children. The curriculum aims to best explain the universal and timeless benefits of sport to children in an engaging and imaginative way.
On 20-22 September in Izmir and on 27-29 September in Mardin, OLİ provided an enjoyable learning process to more than 2500 and 1850 students with cartoons, competitions, and Oli, the project mascot. Subjects included Olympic sports and athletes, Olympic values, love of sport, benefits of sport, healthy nutrition, environmental awareness, and Fair-Play.
Following the presentations in Izmir and Mardin, Seyit Bilal Porsun, TOC Executive Board Member and Chairman of the OLI Commission said: “We are proud to have reached our 16th year in this journey which we started in 2006 with the vision of a society integrated with the Olympic values. We are proud to have introduced more than two million children to sports culture in this process. We have had thousands of students who have become athletes, and good sports spectators, and made sport an integral part of their lives. This year, we will continue to instill sports culture in children in every corner of our country with the same goals and excitement.”
