The CSD calls for aid worth 2 million euros to sports entities affected by the DANA

• “The Government of Spain is committed to the recovery of all sports spaces damaged by DANA because they are essential for the physical, social and emotional development of citizens,” says the president of the Superior Sports Council (CSD), José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes.

Madrid, 13 March 2025.- The Official State Gazette (BOE) publishes this Thursday the call for aid, worth 2 million euros, with which the Higher Sports Council (CSD) contributes to the repair, reconstruction and restitution of infrastructures, equipment or facilities that have been affected by DANA and that are owned by private sports entities.

These grants may reach a maximum of 100,000 euros for each sports entity and will cover the costs of the works to be carried out between 28 October 2024 and 31 December 2025 as a result of the damage caused by DANA.

The beneficiaries of this grant will be sports entities of a private nature that appear in the registers of the state or regional level. Mainly, clubs and territorial federations that own infrastructures, equipment or sports facilities located in one of the 78 municipalities included in the annex of Royal Decree-Law 6/2024.

This call for EUR 2 million is part of the set of measures that the Government of Spain has articulated in the face of the consequences caused by DANA.

In the field of sports, the Government of Spain has also promoted a channel of aid, specifically aimed at local entities, which covers the totality of the expenses of the interventions necessary for the repair, reconstruction and restitution of 55 facilities of municipal ownership.

The intervention in these 55 sports centers is part of the plan for the reconstruction of municipal infrastructures, endowed with a total of 1,745 million euros, with which the Government of Spain will assume 100% of the cost of repairing 372 facilities. They also include municipalities and administrative centres, libraries and cultural centres, children ' s schools, social service centres, cemeteries and funeral services, markets and lonjas, protection centres and local police, transport facilities and care centres.

According to the president of the CSD, José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes, both measures underline “the firm commitment of the Government of Spain to the recovery of all sports spaces damaged by the DANA because they are essential for the physical, social and emotional development of citizens”.

“With them, we are ensuring that sports activities can once again be accessible to all people, especially young people, who find sport a way of growth and integration,” he added.

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A government committed to sport

Sport is occupying a central place in the recovery process of DANA, not only because of the obvious benefits to the physical and mental health of the people affected, but also as an engine of social cohesion and economic reactivation. In disaster situations, sports practice provides a way to reconstruct emotional normality.

In addition, sport generates employment, promotes sectors such as tourism and hospitality and promotes values such as solidarity and resilience, which are fundamental in times of reconstruction. Therefore, the Government of Spain has prioritized the rehabilitation of affected sports facilities and the promotion of programs that use sport as a tool of integral recovery.

The Government of Spain has already given sport a pre-eminent place during the pandemic. In fact, Spain was the only country in the European Union that included it as a tractor element within the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, putting 300 million euros from NextGenerationEU funds at the disposal of this sector. On this occasion, the importance that the Spanish Government attaches to sport has once again been highlighted.