A compass to grow,
act and contribute.
Every human being who grows eventually asks an essential question:
Who am I, objectively?And, even more deeply:
What is my purpose?Human organisations are no exception to this same questioning. Every organisation that grows is eventually confronted with an essential question:
Who are we?And, even more deeply:
What are we truly seeking to accomplish?
Reviver of the modern Olympic Games, who saw sport as a powerful means of education, bringing nations together and building peace.
Founder of Rotary International, who for over a century has shown the strength of friendship, service and understanding among peoples.
Transferring to the world of sport the experience of international youth exchanges developed over several decades by Rotary International, turning it into an educational, human and existential adventure.
It will accompany OSE's development across time, generations and countries. As new young people, new families, new clubs, new sporting institutions, new associations and new partners join the adventure, it will serve as a common reference point. A shared point of reference. A compass.
Its ambition is not to confine OSE within a fixed definition. Its ambition is at once simpler and more demanding: To enable OSE to remain true to what gave it life.
The conviction that human beings are called not only to live, but to truly exist.
The conviction that sport can be a remarkable school of life.
The conviction that every person has a unique value to bring to the world.
Finally, the conviction that by helping each person become more fully themselves, it is possible to contribute, modestly but genuinely, to the growth of Humanity.
This is the purpose
of this Planetary Identity Card.
This is its intention.
This is its hope.