The CSD grants EUR 9 million to the CC.AA. for the promotion of physical activity and health through digital tools

• The Sectoral Committee on Sport approves the distribution of funds for the promotion of physical exercise for health and the implementation of technologies that ensure access to a safe, healthy and inclusive sport

• The autonomies have also been informed of the distribution of 26 million euros aimed at the ecological transition of sports facilities, which adds to the 49 million territorialized in 2021

• With these new investments, 84 million euros have already been territorialized between the Autonomous Communities, almost 30% of the total recovery funds directed to sport

Madrid, March 24, 2022.- The Sectoral Commission of Sport met today at the headquarters of the Higher Sports Council (CSD) to address the distribution between the Autonomous Communities of a new item of 9 million euros destined to the implementation of a Prescription Plan for Activity and Physical Exercise.

The goal of this investment is that the CC.AA. develop and implement a plan to promote physical activity and sport for health (AFBS) through digital tools aimed at improving the accessibility and effectiveness of sports and health systems, as well as intensifying the training of the professionals involved.

Given the intertwining between sport, health and technology, this investment is part of the so-called Digitalization Plan for the Sports Sector, one of the three axes of Component 26 of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, aimed at promoting the sports sector, and to which a total of 300 million euros have been allocated until 2023.

“The role of all public administrations must be to promote sport as an essential element of the physical and mental health of citizens and, in this mission, technology and digital tools are essential,” said the president of the CSD, José Manuel Franco, during the Commission. Because “sport cannot be left out of the process of structural digitalization; on the contrary, it must be spearheaded at a time of unprecedented transformation and innovation”.

The Secretary of State for Sport, in addition, has highlighted the role of the Autonomous Communities, whose “territorial coordination and involvement are being fundamental to achieve maximum effectiveness in the execution of European funds and, therefore, in the final modernization of national sport.”

Criteria for distribution

The territorialization of these funds is subject to a series of criteria, approved in the Sectoral Commission.

Firstly, territorial cohesion is taken into account; in this way a fixed sum of 100,000 euros is established for each Autonomous Community.

Secondly, there are the criteria linked to the territory. The percentage of population of each C.A. will be taken into account. in relation to the whole of Spain; the number of municipalities in each Community; insularity; belonging to the so-called “Depopulated Spain”; and the number of health centres or local clinics per C.A.

Finally, the criteria related to the implementation of the project include the percentage of physical and sports educators; the health staff involved in the project; the number of participating municipalities; and the number of people - inactive or with pathologies - participating in these programmes.

EUR 84 million has already been distributed among the CAAs

Today’s Sectoral Committee has also reported on the allocation of EUR 26 million for the ecological transition of sports facilities, which, added to the 49 million territorialised for the same purpose during 2021, reach 75 million investment in two years, as approved at the Sectoral Conference on Sport on 8 November.

The objective, within the framework of the so-called Ecological Transition Plan - another of the axes of the Sport project of the European funds - is to modernise the infrastructures of the centres of high sports performance and the Network of Centres existing in the autonomous communities, by replacing the current energies they use in their operation with others with lower polluting emissions or the renewal of equipment to obtain the maximum energy performance of each of the systems they have.

With the new investments belonging to the items of digitalization of sport and modernization of sports facilities, in this first quarter of 2022 a total of 84 million euros have already been territorialized between the Autonomous Communities. A figure that accounts for almost 30% of the 300 million directed to the Sports Sector Promotion Plan.