The project (ERASMUS-SPORT-2021-SCP) aims to narrow the gap between the current environmental performances of sports clubs and associations, their strategies and practices and the strategies and targets of the cities and regions in which they are located and where their activities take place.

While many cities and regions in Europe are following the European-wide pattern of adopting required strategies that would enhance and deploy various European policies and frameworks locally regarding waste, water, energy, mobility and other environmental issues or the Circular Economy Action Plan and Green Deal in general, their successful implementation and uptake among sport organisations are rather limited and require additional efforts to achieve required contribution. The underlying factors for this are diverse and range from the shortage of qualified staff, lack of cooperation between sports clubs and associations and relevant academic bodies, low inclusion of existing staff in training and capacity building activities to general difficulties in cooperating with local and regional authorities.

This project intends to address these key challenges and transform them into enabling actions that promote the application of circular economy solutions to sport. It wants to promote innovative and replicable circular economy solutions among sport organisations, as well as their cooperation and synergy with local and regional authorities, contributing to the development of circular cities.

These actions would lead to seizing transversal improvement opportunities by embedding circular economy and sustainability principles in city planning, infrastructure and asset management procedures as well as in sports organisations management and governance. The key goal is to activate a collaboration between urban stakeholders and sport organisations for getting closer to circular cities.

Partnership 
• Association of Cities and Regions for sustainable Resource management (Belgio), Coord
• Sant'Anna School (partner)
• Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) (Ireland)
• Danish Football Association (DBU) (Denmark)
• FC Porto (Portugal)
• Football Association of Wales (FAW) (UK) 
• ACR+ (Association of Cities and Regions for sustainable Resource management)