VITAL CITIES

Urban sports promotion for social inclusion, healthy and active living

Edited on 24/07/2025

15/09/2015 03/05/2018

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  • Action Planning Network
  • Social cohesion
  • Urban planning
  • Disadvantaged neighbourhoods
  • Health
  • Poverty

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.

Summary

Partners

Lead Partner : Loulé - Portugal
  • Birmingham
  • Budapest - Hungary
  • Burgas - Bulgaria
  • Krakow - Poland
  • Liepaja - Latvia
  • Rieti - Italy
  • Sibenik - Croatia
  • Usti Nad Labem - Czech Republic
  • Vestfold County - Norway

Timeline

Kick-off meeting in July (Birmingham). Transnational meeting in November (Liepaja).

Transnational meeting in March (Rieti).

Final event in April (Loule).

Network Outputs

Get in touch!

City of Loulé

Praça da República, 8104-001 Loulé
Phone +351 289 400 600

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