The total value amounts to 36 million euros from European funds
MADRID, 30 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Official State Gazette (BOE) has published this Friday the order establishing the bases for the granting of subsidies and aid from the Higher Sports Council (CSD) to public entities that own infrastructures for the improvement and optimization of facilities and sports spaces that promote sustainable sports tourism.
Intended for projects whose execution period is between February 1, 2020 and September 30, 2025, these grants aim to consolidate structures that promote equality, dissemination, visibility, training, energy efficiency, digital transformation and accessibility.
In order to consolidate the modernization of the national tourism industry associated with sports, those investments whose purpose is the adaptation, reform, improvement and maintenance of sports infrastructures, especially in the most unpopulated areas, may benefit from them.
The beneficiaries of these aids, whose total value amounts to 36 million euros from European Funds, are the Public Administrations that own sports facilities or spaces in which sustainable sports tourism activities can be carried out.
These are understood to be those that imply the displacement and/or accommodation of people to witness and/or participate in some event of a sporting nature as well as for the practice of physical-sports activity.
They will be subsidized, with a maximum amount of 600,000 euros for each beneficiary entity, those investments destined to the adaptation and improvement of the spaces and facilities, the accesses and parking lots, the changing rooms and gyms, the readaptation and nursing rooms, the residences and the rooms dedicated to training.
Also those investments aimed at improving energy efficiency, as well as the adaptation, adaptation and improvements of the facilities that are aimed at achieving the objectives of ecological transition, digitization, equality and inclusion, and accessibility and/or security on the premises.
The deadline for submitting applications begins this Saturday and includes 30 business days. Interested entities will submit a single application, containing a maximum of two financeable projects, through the standard model available at the CSD electronic headquarters and must contact the General Directorate of Sports.
Spain is the only country in the European Union (EU) that has included sport within the sectors that receive funds for economic and social recovery, through the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, with a total investment of 300 million euros. euro.