Inspire > Aspire - Exploring Olympic and Paralympic Values

Inspire > Aspire builds on the success of the Learning for Life Values Poster Award, supported by the John Templeton Foundation, which has reached over 60,000 secondary school students between the ages of 12 and 15 in the last five years. The new project, focusing on Olympic and Paralympic Values in the run-up to London2012, is a powerful character and values initiative that uses the same successfully tested methods of school engagement, a structured poster template and an awards scheme to recognize excellent work at national prize ceremonies. The project has already been awarded the prestigious Inspire Mark by the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (LOCOG) in recognition of the way in which it enables students to apply Olympic and Paralympic values directly to their own lives. We have sought to highlight and incorporate values promoted by the Foundation. Using our extensive existing contacts and the London2012 GetSet network of which we are now a part, we will engage schools and education authorities directly to recruit students. Individual students attaining the required standard will receive certificates in the form of virtual medals (gold, silver, bronze)and national prize ceremonies will be held during the period of the grant in London, Manchester, Cardiff Glasgow and Belfast. We will produce a magazine in 2011, 2012 and 2013 and a book from students' inspirational Olympians and Paralympians for Christmas 2011. This will highlight the inspirations and aspirations of young people in the run-up to the Games. The best posters will be uploaded onto a new website and we will encourage international collaboration between students in different countries through joint work on electronic posters, with special international prizes. After the Games we plan to run the project for a further year with a focus on Inspirational Figures from the Games and produce a book contributing to the Olympic legacy. See pilot site: www.inspire-aspire.org.uk

Grant Amount:

$485,333

Start Date:

October 2010

End Date:

August 2013

Grant ID:

21072