Olympic Education is tasked by both Olympism (Olympic Movement's
underlying philosophy) and the United Nations to educate on human
rights. This study explores how present this call is in contemporary
European Olympic Education. National Olympic Education programmes from
twelve countries are examined and compared: Armenia, Austria, Belarus,
Croatia, Hungary, Israel, Germany, Lithuania, Portugal, Russia,
Slovenia, and Spain. Responses by individuals with NOAs' leadership
positions to a semi-standardized research questionnaire as well as
written information by NOAs on implemented national Olympic Education
programmes, collected during February-May 2021, are subjected to a
content analysis. Results indicate that human rights are explicitly and
implicitly included as an educational theme in contemporary Olympic
Education programmes. Parallels between human rights education and
Olympic Education can be drawn.