OSE is not...
| ✕ | A tourist trip |
| ✕ | A sports training camp |
| ✕ | A simple exchange year |
Why does OSE exist?
OSE exists to give young athletes the chance to live a modern rite-of-passage experience through a sporting season abroad, so that they may become ambassadors of Olympism.
Leaving one's usual environment
Discovering another culture and a new world
Adapting, sharing, living with a family, joining a club, a school
Learning to cope alone, taking initiative
Facing oneself, self-improvement, confidence and maturity
| ✕ | A tourist trip |
| ✕ | A sports training camp |
| ✕ | A simple exchange year |
A sportingAn experience that invites young people to take a step forward in their personal development and helps them become more fully themselves.
It provides the setting in which the sought-after transformative experience can take place. A sporting season abroad can become far more than a sporting or cultural exchange:
An existential experience.
OSE's mission is simple:
This mission sums up the programme's ambition.
Representing the values of Olympism
Being confident and at peace
Through every sporting season spent abroad, OSE seeks to offer young people a modern rite-of-passage experience that helps them grow, discover themselves, open up to others and find their rightful place in the world.