SchoolYards4Sport –
Revitalize the schoolyards as valuable sporting resources for the community

The purpose of the SchoolYards4Sport project is to study, create, test anddisseminate a strategic administrative mechanism managed by municipalities and designed to stimulate local partnerships between sportsorganisations and schools in order to co-govern, take care and regenerate the schoolyards, as valuable commons to expand and improvethe supply of recreational sport practices, in a capillary way and through replicable and sustainable financing scheme.

Start date: 01/07/2022 End date: 31/12/2024

Project ID: 101049089

EU Grant: 80.000,00 EUR

Programme: Erasmus+

Key Action: KA 2

Action Type: Cooperation Partnerships (Sport)

Project Partners:

• L’orma Societa Sportiva Dilettantistica Responsabilita Limitata [IT] (Coordinator)
• NGO Nest Berlin e.V. [DE]
• Deporte para la educacion y la salud [ES]
• Panepistimio Thessalias [GR]
• Federation des Associations des Capitales et Villes Europeennes du Sport [BE]
• Conselho Nacional de Associações de Profissionais de Educação Física e Desporto [PT]

Project TOPICS:

• Partnerships between sports organizations and schools
• Sports
• Sustainability

TARGET GROUPS:

Schools, sport organizations and municipalities and children

Project OBJECTIVES:

• Transform the unused or under–used potential of schools’ outdoor spaces into valuable community resources to support new forms of physical activity and grassroots sport opportunities
• Contribute actively to refurbish/reconstruct/replace/maintain (out)dated school external areas and/or provide new roofed areas for polyvalent sporting destination
• Improve quantity but also quality of both physical education curricula and community grassroots sport supply, by focusing on multifunctional outdoor venues

ABSTRACT:

There is a growing mismatch between individual demand for sport and the supply of facilities that adequately meet it. The public offer of sports spaces is designed in a reductive way, based mainly on traditional sports infrastructures that are monopolized by the usual sports practices. The driving principles of the project are: transform the unused or underused potential of schoolyards into valuable community resources to support new forms of PA and grassroots sport opportunities; contribute to refurbish/upgrade/maintain(out)dated school external areas and/or provide new roofed areas for polyvalent sporting destination; improve quantity but also quality of both physical education curricula and grassroots sport supply, by focusing on multifunctional schoolyards to favour the development of innovative multisport programmes; empower local people to invest in and care for the schoolyards within CoP that shares a common concern toward local quality sport facilities.

 

Project OUTCOMES:

(1) E-platform

(2) Creation of the label “Adopt a School Playground”

(3) Network