The final conclusions document of the Valencia Strategic Plan for Sports, which includes 15 projects and 80 measures on the main action lines for the future of municipal sport, was unanimously approved at an extraordinary Board Meeting.
The document, on which more than 2,200 contributors from all groupings and agents of the sector have participated, is divided into three main sections that tackle the main sporting issues. The aim of this document is to provide a roadmap for everything related to sport in the city of Valencia.
The political consensus achieved, for which the Sports Councillor, Cristóbal Grau, thanked the support and wide participation of some 60 sports federations, more than 200 clubs, 200 experts, 220 bodies and institutions and more than 1,000 proposals from the public received on the web page, adds legitimacy to the Strategic Plan, which will come into being the year in which the city celebrates its designation as European Capital for Sport.
The main aim of drawing up this document was to study what the possibilities were of increasing public participation in sports among the Valencian public. Although the City Council, through the Municipal Sports Federation, has been the coordinator and promoter of this project, the aim was to produce a document with the widest participation possible. Everyone who has anything to do with municipal sport was invited to take part and their contributions have been gathered in it. A good example of this was the first study document, published last September.
The three main sections into which the study of municipal sport is divided are: sporting facilities; sport, health and education; and sport, economics and projection. In the first of these, issues concerning the installations and spaces where sport takes place are dealt with. The second studies the sports on offer and the third analyses the way in which Valencia projects itself externally and the economic and skills sector relating to our sports. To guarantee the scientific and methodological rigour of this process, an advisory council was set up consisting of three doctors from the University of Valencia and the Polytechnic University of Valencia. |
