“Revitalizing School Yards” responds to a growing necessity of European urban areas,which have limited space to fit new sport facilities, and rural areas, in which the challenge is to place the facilities in areas accessible to everyone with a limited budget.

The goal of the project is to support municipalities and sport organizations with the bureaucratic procedures through the offering of pre-designed administrative mechanism and the creation of online Communities of Practice. The e-platform will be established as a shared communication ground for the common interest of public and private institutions. The digital nature of the outcomes will, at the same time, provide continuity and further development to the initial idea.

The specific objectives that will guide the collaboration are:
O.1) Transform the unused or under-used potential of schools’ outdoor spaces into valuable community resources to support new forms of physical activity and grassroots sport opportunities;
O.2) Contribute actively to refurbish/reconstruct/replace/maintain (out)dated school external areas and/or provide new roofed areas for polyvalent sporting destination;
O.3) Improve quantity but also quality of both physical education curricula and community grassroots sport supply, by focusing on multifunctional outdoor venues to favor the development of innovative multisport programs combined with not-formal education and life skills games;
O.4) Empower local people to invest in and care for the school open-air spaces within a Community of Practice (CoP) that shares a common concern toward local quality sport facilities;
O.5) Facilitate investment by sport organizations to improve availability and programmability of access to safe, clean, suitable (and affordable) sport facilities within school context.