Pilot project- Sport for People and Planet – A new approach on sustainability through sport in Europe – 2022

Objectives

• To raise awarness, inspire behaviour, and lead the thinking in European society, on how sport can enable and accelerate social and environmental transformation
• To engage EU citizens to actively participate in sustainable measures using the communicative power of sport, its major events and leading role models
• To contribute to the implementation of the New European Bauhaus initiative

Priorities

• Priority 1: to focus on examples of inspirational behaviour and practices at grassroots level that can be multiplied
• Priority 2: to focus on methods to engage citizens and sport stakeholders in communities to co-create and cooperate on sustainable sport practices

Among financed actions

• To collect and share knowledge on new behavioural approaches needed to make the sport sector more environmental sustainable
• To develop approaches allowing sport to become a model of sustainability espacially for European young generation
• To present and implement socially and environmentally sustainable solutions for sport events

Additional information

• This call is an open call for proposals
• Only applications by single applicants are allowed
• Initial duration of the action: between 12 and 18 months

Eligibilty 

• Be a legal entity (public or private) in one of the eligible countries
• Be an organisation active in the field of sport (sport federation or club) which regularly organises sport activities and competitions
• Be an organisation which has activities in Europe, a European dimension or European impact

• Total budget of the call: 1 437 074 euros
• Amount of the grant: up to 400 000 euros
• Co-financing rate: up to 80% of the total eligible costs