Host Town Program
Inclusive together – Germany’s largest inclusion movement
Berlin is where the music will be played in June 2023, but the orchestra will come from all over the country. The Host Town Program (12 to 15 June 2023) is a unique project that will welcome international athletes to the 2023 Special Olympics World Games.
More than 200 Host Towns, more than 200 communal projects have been selected to welcome delegations from all over the world – from 6 to 300 members – to Germany. The largest communal inclusion project in Germany’s history will create a new sense of togetherness while opening up space for encounters far beyond the Special Olympics World Games Berlin 2023.
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Host Town Program: #InclusiveTogether
Host Towns and Delegation allocation by state
Baden-Württemberg
- Baden-Baden: SO Guatemala
- Landkreis Enzkreis: SO Bangladesh
- Freiburg im Breisgau: SO Algeria
- Heilbronn: SO Chile
- Ilvesheim & Ladenburg: SO Dominica
- Karlsruhe: SO Switzerland
- Klettgau: SO Liechtenstein
- Künzelsau: SO Iran
- Mannheim: SO Moldova
- Mosbach & Schwarzach: SO Mongolia
- Neckarsulm: SO Chile
- Pforzheim: SO Vietnam
- Landkreis Rems-Murr-Kreis with the cities Backnang, Winnenden und Waiblingen: SO Bermuda
- Rottenburg am Neckar: SO Belize
- Schwetzingen & Wiesloch: SO Jamaica
- Stuttgart: SO Great Britain
- Tübingen: SO Botswana
- Wilhelmsdorf: SO Faroe Islands
Bayern
- Landkreis Aschaffenburg & Alzenau: SO Paraguay
- Ansbach: SO Laos
- Landkreis Augsburg: SO Mali
- Bamberg: SO Bahrain
- Bayreuth: SO Romania
- Coburg & Landkreis Coburg: SO Togo
- Ebersberg: SO France
- Erlangen: SO Serbia
- Landkreis Freising: SO Kenya
- Fürth: SO Venezuela
- Garmisch-Partenkirchen: SO Thailand
- Landkreis Günzburg: SO Burkina Faso
- Hof: SO Cape Verde
- Ingolstadt: SO San Marino
- Kaufbeuren: SO Aruba
- Kempten (Allgäu): SO Iceland
- Landkreis Landsberg am Lech: SO Bolivia
- Landkreis München with the city Garching and the communities Ismaning and Unterföhring: SO New Zealand
- Landkreis München with the communities Oberhaching and Taufkirchen: SO Gibraltar
- Landkreis München with the communities Planegg and Gräfelfing: SO Papua New Guinea
- München: SO Canada
- Neuendettelsau: SO St. Maarten
- Nürnberg: SO Austria
- Oettingen in Bayern: SO Cambodia
- Olching: SO St. Kitts & Nevis
- Regensburg & Landkreis Kelheim: SO Czech Republic
- Rosenheim: SO Mauritius
- Straubing: SO El Salvador
- Weiden i. d. Oberpfalz & Landkreis Neustadt a.d. Waldnaab: SO Hungary
- Landkreis Weilheim-Schongau: SO Cuba
Berlin
- District Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf: SO Chinese-Taipei
- District Lichtenberg: SO Fiji
- District Marzahn-Hellersdorf: SO Marshall Islands
- District Mitte: SO Pakistan
- District Neukölln: SO Kuwait
- District Spandau: SO Nauru
- District Tempelhof-Schöneberg: SO Israel
- District Treptow-Köpenick: SO Ukraine
Brandenburg
- Bernau bei Berlin & Panketal: SO Malawi
- Brandenburg an der Havel: SO Malaysia
- Eberswalde: SO St. Vincent & Grenadines
- Fürstenwalde/Spree: SO Bhutan & SO Lesotho
- Kleinmachnow & Teltow: SO Samoa
- Potsdam: SO Australia
- Rathenow: SO Timor Leste
- Rüdersdorf bei Berlin: SO Mozambique
Bremen
- Bremen & Bremerhaven: SO USA
Hamburg
- Hamburg: SO Guadeloupe
Hessen
- Baunatal: SO Djibouti
- Darmstadt: SO Nicaragua
- Einhardstadt Seligenstadt: SO Trinidad & Tobago
- Frankfurt am Main: SO Bharat
- Fulda: SO Argentina
- Gießen: SO Cote D'Ivoire
- Hanau: SO Macau
- Landkreis Hersfeld-Rotenburg: SO Kyrgyz Republic
- Idstein, Hünstetten, Niedernhausen & Waldems: SO Yemen
- Kassel: SO Slovenia
- Kelkheim (Taunus): SO Zambia
- Langen: SO Antigua + Barbuda
- Marburg: SO UAE
- Neu-Isenburg: SO Guyana
- Pfungstadt: SO Namibia
- Landkreis Vogelsbergkreis: SO Curacao
- Landkreis Werra-Meißner-Kreis: SO Kazakhstan
- Wetzlar: SO Costa Rica
- Wiesbaden: SO Indonesia
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
- Barth: SO Croatia
- Neubrandenburg: SO Peru
- Rostock: SO Dominican Republic
- Stralsund: SO Tȕrkiye
Niedersachsen
- Braunschweig: SO Morocco
- Buchholz in der Nordheide: SO Georgia Republic
- Celle & Nienhagen: SO Nigeria
- Landkreis Gifhorn: SO Uzbekistan
- Göttingen: SO South Africa
- Hannover: SO Italy
- Gemeinschaftsbewerbung Landkreis Helmstedt, Helmstedt, Landkreis Börde (Sachsen-Anhalt) & Haldensleben (Sachsen-Anhalt): SO Singapore
- Hameln: SO Slovakia
- Hildesheim: SO Liberia
- Langenhagen: SO Poland
- Lingen: SO Barbados
- Meppen: SO St. Lucia
- Oldenburg & Hatten: SO North Macedonia
- Landkreis Osnabrück: SO Turkmenistan
- Papenburg: SO Bahamas
- Rotenburg (Wümme) & Sottrum: SO Portugal
- Verden (Aller): SO Armenia
- Walsrode: SO Montenegro
- Wolfsburg: SO Tunisia
Nordrhein-Westfalen
- Bielefeld: SO Ireland
- Bochum: SO Finland
- Bonn: SO China
- Brühl: SO DRC
- Dinslaken: SO Maldives
- Dormagen: SO Guinea Bissau
- Dortmund: SO Palestine
- Duisburg: SO Saudi Arabia
- Düsseldorf: SO Korea
- Essen: SO Egypt
- Gangelt: SO Spain
- Gelsenkirchen: SO Seychelles
- Gütersloh: SO Estonia
- Hamm: SO Denmark
- Heiligenhaus: SO Mauritania
- Herne: SO Iraq
- Jülich: SO Lebanon
- Kalletal & Lemgo: SO Luxembourg
- Köln: SO Belgium
- Krefeld: SO Cayman Islands
- Langenfeld & Monheim am Rhein: SO Serendib
- Lüdenscheid: SO Mexiko
- Meschede: SO Burundi
- Mönchengladbach: SO Nippon
- Münster: SO Netherlands
- Nordwalde & Landkreis Steinfurt: SO Colombia
- Oberhausen: SO Oman
- Olsberg: SO Andorra
- Paderborn, Bad Lippspringe & Bad Wünnenberg: SO Uruguay
- Ratingen: SO Myanmar
- Rhein-Kreis Neuss & city of Neuss: SO Senegal
- Rhein-Sieg-Kreis with the city Bornheim: SO Guinea
- Rhein-Sieg-Kreis with the cities Siegburg & Lohmar: SO Brazil
- Rhein-Sieg-Kreis with the cities Troisdorf & Hennef: SO Uganda
- StädteRegion Aachen: SO Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Velbert: SO Jordan
- Verl: SO Honduras
- Warendorf: SO Isle of Man
- Winterberg: SO Hong Kong
Rheinland-Pfalz
- Bad Dürkheim: SO Pilipinas
- Bitburg, Verbandsgemeinde Bitburger Land & Verbandsgemeinde Prüm: SO Azerbaijan
- Koblenz & Landkreis Mayen-Koblenz: SO Ecuador
- Ludwigshafen am Rhein: SO Eswatini
- Mendig: SO South Sudan
- Neuwied: SO Palau
- Pirmasens: SO Uganda
- Speyer: SO Rwanda
- Trier: SO Panama
Saarland
- Perl: SO Haiti
- Saarbrücken: SO Benin
- Sankt Wendel: SO Zimbabwe
- Spiesen-Elversberg: SO Congo and SO Hellas
Sachsen
- Auerbach/Vogtland: SO Cyprus
- Chemnitz: SO Lithuania
- Dresden: SO Puerto Rico
- Leipzig: SO Libya
- Wurzen: SO Gambia
Sachsen-Anhalt
- Arendsee (Altmark): SO Syria
- Landkreis Börde, Landkreis Helmstedt (Niedersachsen), Stadt Helmstedt (Niedersachsen) & Haldensleben: SO Singapore
- Landkreis Burgenlandkreis: SO Bonaire
- Halberstadt: SO Cameroon & SO Madagascar
- Halle (Saale): SO Suriname
- Quedlinburg: SO Tanzania
- Sangerhausen & Landkreis Mansfeld-Südharz: SO Albania
- Thale: SO Ghana
Schleswig-Holstein
- Kiel: SO Bulgaria
- Lübeck: SO Sweden
- Norderstedt: SO Norway
- Schleswig: SO Qatar
- Landkreis Stormarn: SO Tajikistan
Thüringen
- Altenburg & Rositz: SO Kosovo
- Bad Blankenburg, Saalfeld & Rudolstadt: SO Sudan
- Erfurt: SO Monaco
- Gera: SO Malta
- Gotha: SO Somalia
- Jena: SO Latvia
- Weimar: SO Equatorial Guinea
A celebration for everyone
The whole of Germany will play a role in hosting the largest inclusive sporting event in the world. The Host Towns will organize a four-day stay, from 12 - 15 June, that will highlight what their individual community has to offer. This could include a welcome party on the town hall square, joint sports activities, or excursions to places of interest; whatever special experiences the town would like to share with the visiting delegation.
The whole of Germany will play a role in hosting the largest inclusive sporting event in the world. The Host Towns will organize a four-day stay, from 12 - 15 June, that will highlight what their individual community has to offer. This could include a welcome party on the town hall square, joint sports activities, or excursions to places of interest; whatever special experiences the town would like to share with the visiting delegation.
Sustainably inclusive
The Host Towns will also encourage greater participation and recognition of people with disabilities. First and foremost, local concepts for the inclusive projects were key to the selection of Host Towns. Because even after the Games in Berlin, the fire of inclusion should not be extinguished. The sustainable networks and partnerships that have been created between local players should last well beyond the Games. With the long-term goal of making people with intellectual disabilities more visible in sports and society. And where it counts: in their home country.
The Host Towns will also encourage greater participation and recognition of people with disabilities. First and foremost, local concepts for the inclusive projects were key to the selection of Host Towns. Because even after the Games in Berlin, the fire of inclusion should not be extinguished. The sustainable networks and partnerships that have been created between local players should last well beyond the Games. With the long-term goal of making people with intellectual disabilities more visible in sports and society. And where it counts: in their home country.
I am very much looking forward to meeting people from other countries and cultures. At the same time, I also want to show my home country to our guests from all over the world.
Stefanie Wiegel
athlete spokeswoman for Special Olympics NRW/Germany
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