Urban sports promotion for social inclusion, healthy and active living

Programme 2014 - 2020 URBACT III

Date of latest update: 2025-01-21

Description

Description (EN):

VITAL CITIES seeks answers on how to combat social exclusion through the redesign of public spaces in deprived residential areas by using the power and common language of sport; through innovative community and IT based urban sport actions, innovative physical equipment and better orchestrated service delivery. The project tackles TO9 (“promoting social inclusion and combating poverty”).The project applies a novel approach: instead of bringing inactive citizens to sports facilities, public space should be turned into a low threshold sports facility, inviting all citizens to physical activity. Street layout, land use, location of recreation facilities, parks and public buildings, the transport system can all encourage or discourage physical activity. Opportunities for physical activity need to be created close to where people live, while also creating cleaner, safer, greener and more activity-friendly local environments.In order to reach this, cities need to be equipped with new, innovative tools to be used in urban design and planning (to redesign public spaces linked to sport activities, urban sports, games, physical exercises) to adequately provide for recreation and sport services and exploit potential social, health and economic benefits. Partners will create the “vital cities” brand, to be allocated to cities ensuring open access to recreation and sport services and breaking down barriers to participation especially within the less active, deprived population.

Achievements (EN):

Urban sports promotion for social inclusion, healthy and active living: Seeking answers on how to combat social exclusion through the redesign of public spaces in deprived residential areas by using the power and common language of sport, this Action Planning network found solutions through innovative urban sport actions, physical equipment and better orchestrated service delivery. Active living positively contributes to social cohesion, wellbeing and economic prosperity in cities. However, currently cities are challenged by the opposite: dramatic increase in the frequency of diseases as a result of sedentary life style and social exclusion. To tackle these challenges, European cities have invested in large scale sports facilities over the past decades. These strategies have a limited success, hence a new approach is needed: instead of ‘bringing’ the inactive citizens to the sports facilities, public space itself should be turned into a low threshold facility inviting all citizens to physical activity.

Website: http://www.urbact.eu

Thematic information

Urban development Social inclusion and equal opportunities

Specific Objective: To improve the capacity of cities to manage sustainable urban policies and practices in an integrated and participative way

Thematic Objective:

(11) enhancing institutional capacity of public authorities and stakeholders and efficient public administration through actions to strengthen the institutional capacity and the efficiency of public administrations and public services related to the implementation of the ERDF, and in support of actions under the ESF to strengthen the institutional capacity and the efficiency of public administration.

Investment Priority:

(11 ETC) ETC specific for interregional cooperation: enhancing institutional capacity of public authorities and stakeholders and efficient public administration by enhancing institutional capacity of public authorities and stakeholders and efficient public administration by disseminating good practices and expertise and capitalising on the results of the exchange of experience in relation to sustainable urban development, including urban-rural linkages pursuant to point (3)(b) of Article 2 (exchange of experience concerning the identification, transfer and dissemination of good practices in relation to sustainable urban development, including urban-rural linkages)

Partners (10)

Lead Partner: Câmara Municipal de Loulé

Address: Praça da República, 8104-001 Loulé, Portugal

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 202 123.92

ERDF budget: EUR 171 805.33

Rieti

Name: Rieti

Address: Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II, 2100 Rieti, Italy

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 65 153.81

ERDF budget: EUR 45 607.67

Šibenik

Name: Šibenik

Address: Trg palih branitelja domovinskog rata 1, 22000 Šibenik, Croatia

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 41 945.06

ERDF budget: EUR 35 653.30

Budapest 13th District Public Services Plc

Name: Budapest 13th District Public Services Plc

Address: Béke utca 65,, 1131 Budapest, Hungary

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 61 186.33

ERDF budget: EUR 42 830.43

Ústí nad Labem

Name: Ústí nad Labem

Address: 401 00 Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 43 436.35

ERDF budget: EUR 36 920.90

Liepaja

Name: Liepaja

Address: Brivibas street 39, LV-3401 Liepaja, Latvia

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 49 402.74

ERDF budget: EUR 41 992.33

Birmingham

Name: Birmingham

Address: Birmingham City Council, Victoria Square, B1 1BB Birmingham, United Kingdom

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 89 142.55

ERDF budget: EUR 62 399.79

Burgas

Name: Burgas

Address: Alexandrovska str, 26, 8000 Burgas, Bulgaria

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 50 533.68

ERDF budget: EUR 42 953.63

KRAKOW

Name: KRAKOW

Address: 3-4 31-004 KRAKÓW, Poland

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 60 898.16

ERDF budget: EUR 51 763.44

Vestfold County

Name: Vestfold County

Address: Svend Foynsgt, 9, 3126 Tønsberg, Norway

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 83 951.77

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Rieti

Urban sports promotion for social inclusion, healthy and active living

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Šibenik

Urban sports promotion for social inclusion, healthy and active living

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Budapest 13th District Public Services Plc

Urban sports promotion for social inclusion, healthy and active living

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Ústí nad Labem

Urban sports promotion for social inclusion, healthy and active living

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Liepaja

Urban sports promotion for social inclusion, healthy and active living

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Birmingham

Urban sports promotion for social inclusion, healthy and active living

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Burgas

Urban sports promotion for social inclusion, healthy and active living

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KRAKOW

Urban sports promotion for social inclusion, healthy and active living

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Câmara Municipal de Loulé

Urban sports promotion for social inclusion, healthy and active living

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Vestfold County

Urban sports promotion for social inclusion, healthy and active living

Lead partner

Project partner

Summary

Project name (EN): Urban sports promotion for social inclusion, healthy and active living

Project acronym: VITAL CITIES

Project start date: 2015-09-15

Project end date: 2018-05-03

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 747 774.37

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 531 926.82

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 531 926.82.

Documents

Documents on this project are listed below, and organised by category. Please note field "Data source", attached to each document. Keep.eu users are free to use these documents as long as they mention the data source and keep.eu.

Project’s final reports

Final Report - Vital Cities

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Project’s final report

Data source: https://urbact.eu/vital-cities

Publication date: 2021-01-23

Document date: 2018-05-03

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Brochures / magazines / manuals

Loulé - Portugal Integrated Action Plan

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Brochure / magazine / manual

Data source: https://urbact.eu/vital-cities

Publication date: 2021-01-23

Document date: 2006-06-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Municipality of Rieti Integrated Action Plans Produced in the Vital Cities Project

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Brochure / magazine / manual

Data source: https://urbact.eu/vital-cities

Publication date: 2021-01-23

Document date: 2006-06-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

City of Šibenik Integrated Action Plan

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Brochure / magazine / manual

Data source: https://urbact.eu/vital-cities

Publication date: 2021-01-23

Document date: 2017-10-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Local Sport Development Plan of Burgas

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Brochure / magazine / manual

Data source: https://urbact.eu/vital-cities

Publication date: 2021-01-23

Document date: 2018-05-03

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Improving the condition of public spaces to promote active lifestyle - 13th District of Budapest Integrated Action Plan

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Brochure / magazine / manual

Data source: https://urbact.eu/vital-cities

Publication date: 2021-01-23

Document date: 2018-05-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Krakow-Nowa Huta Integrated Action Plan

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Brochure / magazine / manual

Data source: https://urbact.eu/vital-cities

Publication date: 2021-01-23

Document date: 2018-05-03

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Integrated Action Plan of the City of Ústí nad Labem

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Brochure / magazine / manual

Data source: https://urbact.eu/vital-cities

Publication date: 2021-01-23

Document date: 2018-05-03

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Integrated Action Plan - Liepāja

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Brochure / magazine / manual

Data source: https://urbact.eu/vital-cities

Publication date: 2021-01-23

Document date: 2018-05-03

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Horten Municipality: Horten - home of opportunities

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Brochure / magazine / manual

Data source: https://urbact.eu/vital-cities

Publication date: 2021-01-23

Document date: 2018-05-03

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Birmingham Integrated Action Plan

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Brochure / magazine / manual

Data source: https://urbact.eu/vital-cities

Publication date: 2021-01-23

Document date: 2018-03-23

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Information regarding the data in keep.eu on the programme financing this project

Financing programme

2014 - 2020 URBACT III

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2023-03-28

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

88 / 88 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

716 / 716 (100%)

Notes on the data

Information provided by the Programme. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (http://www.urbact.eu), or a website directly linked from it, on 2021-12-13, 2023-01-03 and 2024-02-01.

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Urban sports promotion for social inclusion, healthy and active living

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