European Funds, EUR 300 million for the modernisation of the sector
Spain is the only country in the European Union that has included sport as a tractor element within the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, recognizing the specific weight that this sector has in the country. It is not only a hugely enriching human activity that generates personal well-being; sport is also an important instrument of social cohesion, an effective vehicle for the transmission of values and a strong element of economic momentum.
With an allocation of EUR 300 million from the European Funds, the dynamisation, restructuring and modernisation of the sports sector is being promoted, adapting it to a new socio-economic reality through its digital transformation and adaptation to the ecological transition.
Sport has suffered very directly the consequences of the health emergency generated by COVID-19. It is therefore necessary to adopt extraordinary and urgent measures for its reactivation as an economic activity, based on criteria of sustainable development, social cohesion, job creation, attention to vulnerable groups and territorial rebalance.
Within this process of transformation, it has also been sought to provide a renewed regulatory framework for the sector through a new Sports Law, in order to promote it as an essential element in the maintenance of public health and in the promotion of gender equality.
The promotion of the sports sector is reflected in the development of safe and sustainable infrastructures, in the promotion of the digital transformation of sports organisations, in the promotion of research on physical activity as an element of health promotion, in the promotion of candidatures for the organisation of major sports events, in the promotion of sports tourism and in the improvement of the network of centres of high performance and sports technification.
Special attention is also given to infrastructure in areas at risk of depopulation, the promotion of healthy habits through sport and physical activity - improving the health of our citizens - and the development of specific sectors that promote equality and inclusion in sport.
These measures focus on tackling the main challenges of sport in Spain.
In all of them, common objectives are present, such as: the creation of stable employment, the promotion of equality, the digitalization of the sector, the ecological transition through energies and sustainable structures, collaboration with territorial administrations and attention to vulnerable or disadvantaged groups.
Modernization of sports facilities to host international sports events in terms of energy efficiency, inclusion and sustainability, under the European Funds of the PRTR:
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