ALLSTARS – Good practice For Active Life Styles in Local Sport Policies is an EU-funded research project that runs from 2024-2026. It is dedicated to describing and understanding inspiring sport projects and programmes that manage well in catering sport for all on a local level.
- What kind of networks lead to a more inclusive sports practice?
- Which common features can be depicted in otherwise very different projects?
- How can municipalities contribute to sport and physical activities for people who are not or do not feel addressed by the regular sport club?
- Which role do sport clubs play in this?
ALLSTARS aims at both, giving answers to these questions, as well as enabling people from sport organisations and municipal administration to get hands on information, network opportunities and inspiration the like.
Data collection
- 5 countries
- 32 good practices
This collection showcases good practices for promoting active lifestyles within local sports policies, with a focus on integrating marginalized groups into sports.
The project team identified and analysed successful local policies and brought them together in a mapping system. By highlighting and understanding these good practices, we gained deeper insights into how sports contribute to the integration and inclusion of marginalized groups.
Scientific background and trajectories
Background to the ALLSTARS project are the well-documented deficits of existing sport policies with regards to sports for all and sports participation. The mainstream of existing sports policies within the European model of organised sport is rather successful in activating the affluent, healthy, young, non-migrant, male members of society, but they struggle in catering to the less affluent, physically impaired, older, migrant or non-male members of society to varying degrees. Key to an improvement of this situation is a better understanding of the creation and implementation of policies that aim at usually less organised segments of society.
The ALLSTARS project assumes that the local level, cities and municipalities are the focal point for improvement as they are practically involved with sports for all. It is here that new and innovative approaches can be developed and it is the very locus of participation in a tangible sense.
By combining good practice, institutional change and the analysis of local networks, the project seeks to highlight new and successful ways in process and content of local sport politics and governance.
