Deadline: 7-Feb-23
The Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Sports, the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games Organizing Committee, the National Sport Agency (ANS), the Erasmus+ France Youth and Sport Agency, the French National Olympic and Sports Committee (CNOSF) and the French Paralympic and Sports Committee (CPSF) are cooperating within the framework of the biennial call for projects “Sport and decentralized cooperation” aimed at all metropolitan and overseas local authorities French companies and their foreign partners who make sport a lever for sustainable development.
This call for projects is intended to support the joint commitment of French and foreign local authorities to make sport a lever for the sustainable development of territories and participate in the fight against global inequalities in terms of access to sport.
Aims
This call for projects aims to:
- Support international partnerships between communities and the integration of sports practices into local life;
- Promote sport as a tool for implementing territorial public policies, in the spirit of the Olympic and Paralympic values and the SDGs;
- Contribute to involving local authorities around the world in the dynamics of the Paris 2024 Games;
- Promoting French territorial expertise in the field of sport.
This call for projects aims to initiate the strengthening of the place of sport in decentralized cooperation.
Fields of Intervention
Projects must fall within one or both of the following fields of intervention:
- Make sport a lever for sustainable regional development, in line with the 2030 Agenda: Faced with the multiple challenges faced by territories and their inhabitants (health, climate, economic, social), sport is a means of supporting the implementation of transitions (ecological, democratic, digital) and building resilience.
- Mutually reinforce the sports capacities of the territories to develop access to sport for all: If local authorities can improve the effectiveness of their public policies for health, education, social inclusion, promotion of peace through sport, they must also contribute to making sport accessible to all, regardless of the age, sex, condition or country of origin of practitioners.
Duration
This year, local authorities can submit projects lasting one or two years:
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Before August 31, 2023, for one-year projects;
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Before August 31, 2024 for projects between one and two years.
Eligibility Criteria
All countries and territories are eligible for this call for projects.
For more information, visit Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs.