Welcome
To The International Pierre de Coubertin Committee (CIPC)
We would like to welcome the readers to the International Pierre de Coubertin Committee website which has been completely renovated and updated in 2019.
The content of our website provides a comprehensive overview on Baron Pierre de Coubertin who ist the founder of the Olympic Movement. It also gives basic knowledge about Coubertin as an educator who promoted progress through sport as a valuable tool for character development, social change and transcultural respect. In addition, the website provides useful information on how Coubertin`s ideas could be put into practice in contemporary educational initiatives.
Our new, dynamic website is replacing the original one. We wish to offer to our readers and researchers constant updates on our activities and those developed by our members around the world. This website will be evolving constantly and we welcome comments and suggestions from the readers.
Thank you for visiting our website and enjoy the content.
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Pierre de
Coubertin
Founder of the Olympic Movement
Pierre de Coubertin has become known as the founder of the Olympic Movement and restorer of the modern Olympic Games. He was born on 1st January 1863 in Paris and passed away on 2nd September 1937 in Geneva.
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Pierre Coubertin`s
IOC Presidency 1896 - 1925
Pierre de Coubertin became president of the International Olympic Committee after the 1896 Athens Olympic Games and remained in this office until 1925.
The International Pierre de Coubertin Committee (CIPC) was founded in 1975 to ensure Pierre de Coubertin’s ideals of excellence, fairness, participation and peace remain part of the overall philosophy of the Olympic Games.
Beyond the
Olympics
Pierre de Coubertin can be regarded as a progressive-mined educator, who believed in and promoted the power of sport as a tool for character development and transnational understanding. He never tired of developing initiatives in this field that went beyond the governance of the Olympic Games and the organization of Olympic congresses.
Our Academic Activities:
Diagoras
– International Academic Journal on Olympic Studies
The second volume of Diagoras was already edited with this new partnership.
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Knowledge Transfer
Following Coubertin’s idea of peace and friendship among nations the organisation of a first international Youth Forum was grounded with the aim to provide the young generation with an understanding of Coubertin’s Olympic idea and to let the values of friendship, fairness, respect, and the joy of effort be experienced across borders.
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Projects
Projects to come…
Development of an Archival Infrastructure
Book on the History of the CIPC
Directory of the CIPC
Lecture Series on Pierre de Coubertin and the Meaning of his Olympic Idea Today
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Our Mission
Our Organization
It was in Lausanne, the Olympic capital, that the initiative was taken to create an international committee to preserve, analyse and disseminate the works and thoughts of Pierre de Coubertin. The Comité Internationale Pierre de Coubertin (CIPC) was founded on 19th January 1974; it emerged out of the Comité Français Pierre de Coubertin.
