The article emphasizes the need of Olympic education as the program related to health, environment, intercultural awareness and young people’s social behaviour in school curriculum. More widely, a demand is to link the school to the local community and its institutions by emphasizing the humanistic and ethical dimensions of Olympism. Concrete programs of Olympic education that were created by separate Olympic Games Organizing Committees are being represented in this article. These programs go with their aims such as initiating a strong volunteering movement that would cover all the facets of young people social life, promoting Olympic ideal, encouraging to explore other cultures, etc. The great part of this paper represents a survey that reveals problems of implementation of Olympic education programs within the Olympic Movement and stages proposals for solving them. The results of research proved that Olympic education is accepted as necessary in most countries that implemented such programs. Olympic education programs are growing into an important activity with a strong impact on a range of permanent aspects of global education. The school should draw upon this wealth of knowledge, experience and representations that students of all ages bring from their life, their family, the environment in which they live, which should be combined with those included in the curriculum. Although Olympic education programs contribute to changes that improve school’s efficiency, many of these programs cannot be integrated into educational system. This is due to a series of problems arising during their implementation in the educational process. Finding ways of integrating the innovations offered by Olympic education programs in education will require mobilization and allowance their inclusion in school system of each country. If this is not guaranteed, then Olympic education programs will be implemented outside the framework of national educational institutions, on a limited scale and remain without proper recognition on the sidelines of the curriculum.

The importance of Olympic Education had grown consistently since the concept was first mentioned in International Olympic Academy’s session in 1970s. What is more, the establishment and development of National Olympic Academies is still growing worldwide. Lithuanian National Olympic Academy as one of the leaders among the 143 National Olympic Academies, in twenty years of existence has reached a lot of goals, yet more are to be reached in the future. The aim of the work was to analyze the system of Olympic Education in Lithuania by presenting its background, current situation and potential development. Lithuania can be characterized as an active member of the Olympic Movement. Since the establishment of the National Olympic Committee in 1924 and re-establishment in 1988, Lithuanian athletes have proudly represented the country in International sport events, NOC has been working to ensure best conditions for athletes, also cooperated with NOA towards organization of conferences, seminars and lectures in order to ensure the overall development and spread of Olympism and Olympic Movement in the country. Olympic Education program for formal education institutions was created in the year 2000 and is one of the successful projects that are being implemented in Lithuania. 82 schools are voluntarily participating in Children and Youth Olympic Education project. The existence of the project was extended until 2015 by the organizing institutions. Formal education institutions actively involve themselves into Olympic Education and care to spread Olympic ideals to the pupils. In the future number of schools involved should grow up to 200 and sport schools, summer training camps could become a part of the project. As a part of project management theory internal evaluation is implemented by schools, external evaluation should be established for further improvements.