Development and management of resources in Sports for All

• The organization of sports activities, often implies managing human and material resources. Among the material resources, it is important to adapt each activity to the practice space so that the activity can be carried out effectively using the most suitable equipment. That is why the design and utilization of the sports facilities plays a fundamental role. The efficient use of each space will depend, in many occasions; on the economic and social value of the programs established.
At the same time, the sports organizations should be capable of managing the practice spaces and to assume everything that it implies, from the organization of its activities to the exploitation and maintenance of a building.

• As for the human resources, it is very important to develop the technical capacity of the instructors responsible for giving the activities offered. Keeping the instructors up to date with the latest techniques and ways of training means that they can introduce their knowledge into the activity programs, ensuring that the participants carry out exercise safely. The recruitment of technical instructors and their motivation is fundamental for maintaining the participants interest in the physical activities and programs.

• Apart from the human and technical resources; studies of environmental impact have shown that practicing physical activity indiscriminately in the natural environment, generates a series of impacts that can affect the environment.

• Often the sports organizations take care of making sure the participants are aware of the need to respect their natural environment by preserving it so that future generations can enjoy it. The presentation and analysis of activities that respect the natural environment, should serve as an example for those organizations and people responsible for dictating sports policies.
At the same time, the responsible use of the natural resources should be constant in the management of the sports facilities, that’s why, the use of renewable energies can signify an important impulse in this aspect.

Health enhancing sport programs, projects and campaigns

•The creation of international networks of exchange should constitute a fundamental tool to help the organizations from the Continent to devise their own offering of practice, by evaluating and adapting experiences that have happened in other countries and regions.

• The creation of this offering of practice should base its development on the analysis of the quality of the elaborated programs, as its success or failure will depend on the initiatives taken. The management of the quality of the programs implies interpreting the needs of the participants; as well as the analysis of their satisfaction, related to what the participants want to achieve.

• The evolution of the activities and the analysis of the results obtained, as well as the satisfaction of the participants; should awake the interest of the scientific groups by getting to know and value new initiatives, showing at all times the efficacy of the activity programs proposed.

• Another issue is the relation between the nutritional habits in people and the consequences of health development . Synergies need to be created between healthy diet campaigns, food producers and the consumers.

Sports for All – added value for society

• Sport for all plays a very important role in our society. It attributes numerous functions like the promotion and maintenance of health. Nevertheless to the sports practice in general it attributes other functions like education, social integration, cultural development, etc. It is this summary of functions that we can identify as the added value of sports practice.

• This added value can also be interpreted by Communities and Territories, and often utilized to resolve different social situations. The organization of campaigns and projects linked to the multifunctional sports phenomenon, must form part of a strategy of transnational environment that will help to promote the development of the sports organizations.

• Experiences in the field of the integration of disadvantaged groups, development of economically depressed areas by means of the construction of sports infrastructure; health promotion campaigns through the practice of physical exercise, educational projects that pursue the habit of practicing sport ; should find debate forums and necessary exchange so that they can be established in an international environment.

• The social changes that arise in the our Communities and the globalisation of the world wide economy suppose a challenge today for the social integration and intercultural dialogue. In this sense, sport organisations can play an important role in the development of sport programs that include the integration of different cultures based around physical activity practise. Thanks to the EU declaration, the intercultural dialogue will become one of the most relevant issues to take into account for the sport environment.