The Olympism365 Innovation Hub is a collaboration between the International Olympic Committee, Beyond Sport and Women Win designed to support a diverse community of innovators leading new and impactful approaches to sport for sustainable development.
The Need
As the world faces complex and intersecting challenges, scalable solutions are required to drive critical social and environmental change. Sport has the potential to provide a unique and significant contribution across multiple sectors to help address these challenges. We need to learn from successful innovation using sport for social impact, significantly scale what works, and create a bold culture of innovation in and through sport.
Vision
A world where sport makes radical, innovative and significant contributions to the Sustainable Development Goals.
Mission
Catalyse an ecosystem that incubates innovation in and through sport for sustainable development.
How do we define innovation?
We believe innovation is delivered when a powerful idea that challenges the status quo, is tested, put into action, and developed to reach its full potential. Innovation is driven by bold creative culture and behaviours, data and insight, and intentional and diverse collaborations. Innovation overcomes barriers and meets unmet needs, and ultimately has the power to transform communities and systems across the world.
Be part of the Olympism365 Innovation Hub
The Olympism365 Innovation Hub creates a community at the intersection of sport, technology and social impact to further sport as a force for good through pioneering ideas and lasting solutions. The Hub does this by:
- Incubating cutting-edge innovations that maximize the positive impact of sport
- Facilitating knowledge-sharing and learning across the sports movement and social innovation
- Supporting organizations and individuals around the world through a multimillion-dollar investment that will benefit thousands of people and communities by 2026
- Brokering partnerships and engaging diverse sectors — in and out of sport — to foster new solutions and lasting development in sport for social change.
Funding opportunities are available through Grassroots365, Enterprise365, Collective365 and Tech365.
