Franco: “ the CSD will put into the hands of the communities eur 48 million this year to modernize sports facilities ”

Madrid, 13 july 2021.-The high council of sports (CSD) today welcomed the meeting of the sectoral commission of sport with the assistance of the directors and directors of the sports sector of all the autonomous governments, and in which the secretary of State for sport, josé Manuel Franco, has ensured the concession in 2021 a budget of eur 48 million to the autonomous communities to modernize its sports facilities.

The meeting took as the focal point in the submission of the strategic lines of action in the field of sport linked to the recovery Plan, transformation and Resilience of the economy in Spain financed with european funds. The president of the CSD has broken down three investments that will be guided by this project: the Digitalization of the sport sector (75.2 mill.), the Ecological transition plan of sports facilities (146,5 mill.) and the Social plan of the Sport Sector (77.8 mill.).

It will be within the Ecological transition plan of sports facilities where there will be the territorialisation of european funds. Franco has detailed that “ these eur 48 million that will autonomous hands this year will modernize sports facilities through the digitization, accessibility and efficiency ”. More than 50 centres and canoe high performance throughout spain which it will benefit from the amount.

The high council of sports sent at a later date to the autonomous communities the proposed criteria for the territorialisation of funds, to whose distribution will be taken into account the views and assessments of the autonomous governments – these judgments, mentioned Albert Soler, director-general should go back to Deportes- CSD before the end of july.

The Council intended that, with common work of all authorities in the autonomous communities and autonomous cities to develop a road map for recovery and the momentum of spanish sport in the coming years.

Opportunity for innovation and structural rehabilitation

According To José Manuel Franco, “ we must all welcome the fact that Spain was the only country in the european union that we have incorporated sport as a tractor in the recovery Plan ”.

“ but not only about alleviating the heavy losses generated by the crisis, which put at risk of disappearance to the social fabric and organisational behind it, it is, above all, to take this opportunity to redefine and restructure the sector assuming new challenges and emerging new horizons for sport english robustly on the global vanguard, "said the president of the CSD.

The modernization of a cross-cutting field such as sport generates important synergies for the rest of the national economy sectors such as tourism, health or education. It Is a sector which employs directly 220,000 people and represents almost 3 per cent of gdp of Spain, and an engine of job creation young with 75% of jobs generated by the sport sector are for people under 40 years.

Franco has defined as the “ axis priority programme of action of the government ”, endorsed by europe, the work to achieve “ real equality between men and women, with the definitive thrust to women's sport, improving the visibility of women in sports, the momentum of female role also in management and direction of entities and the improvement of working conditions for female sports ”.

“ we are, ultimately, an enormous challenge of sector's recovery but also a huge opportunity for innovation and structural rehabilitation ”, has assured.