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Youth Innovation Project Library

Looking for inspiration? Our Youth Leaders have designed and completed over 580 projects around the world, involving everything from sports to advocacy to art. Explore the project profiles to see how young people are transforming the world to be more inclusive, one community at a time.

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All-Star Day

All-Star Day is a Lithuanian youth-led project that used sport and workshops to expand the Special Olympics Youth Leaders program into new communities and schools.
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Become Special Star Athlete

Become Special Star Athlete is a Slovak youth-led initiative that supports Special Olympics athletes through consistent Unified coaching, building confidence and sustainability through weekly inclusive training sessions.
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Once Unified. Always Unified

Once Unified. Always Unified. is a youth-led, multi-month inclusion campaign in Greece that used sports, art, education, and public outreach to build empathy and unify communities around disability awareness.
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Hats Off for Inclusion

Desire and Tanatswa are spreading the message of inclusion in schools across Zimbabwe through their 'Hats Off for Inclusion' campaign!
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Sport Festival Competition for Parents and Daughters

Sport Festival Competition for Parents and Daughters is a youth-led event in Madagascar that promotes inclusion and gender equity by inviting parents and daughters with intellectual disabilities to compete together and celebrate the power of sport.
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Educating Future Generations

Educating Future Generations is a regional outreach project in Turkmenistan that brought inclusive activities and leadership training to five regions, helping hundreds of youth connect, learn, and grow together.
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Podcast Project

The Austria Podcast Project is a youth-led effort to make Special Olympics stories more accessible by creating an inclusive podcast that features interviews with athletes and leaders from across the country.
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Our Sanctuary

Our Sanctuary is a student-led fitness challenge that replaced a planned safe space with a wellness initiative, building inclusion, confidence, and friendships through affirmations, movement, and peer support.
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Cultivating the Next Unified Generation

Cultivating the Next Unified Generation is a youth-led podcast and digital media project spotlighting stories of inclusion from Special Olympics Youth Ambassadors across the U.S.
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Let’s Go Together and Discover Nature

Let’s Go Together and Discover Nature is a Greek youth-led project using hiking, survival skills, and team games to foster inclusion, confidence, and environmental awareness among youth with and without intellectual disabilities.
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Special News

Special News is a youth-led media project in Italy that uses digital interviews to spotlight the voices of people with intellectual disabilities and raise awareness about inclusion through storytelling.
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Inclusive Dance Challenge

A student-led series of inclusive dance competitions that brought together youth of all abilities across Hungary to connect through choreography, teamwork, and celebration.
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