City of Stuttgart
What is typical of Stuttgart? Cars: most people say Mercedes and Porsche, and wine, which is of course true. Stuttgart is renowned for its cars and its wine. After some thought, someone is bound to mention all the city's parks, from which Stuttgart has gained its reputation as the "city between forest and vineyards". Some may wish to add, perhaps from their own (painful?) experience: the "Stäffele"! The need for these flights of steps, which are known as "Stäffele", arises owing to Stuttgart's valley location: they make all the ups and downs easier for pedestrians.
Although Stuttgart is not on the waterfront, it certainly lies "on" the water!! It boasts the largest mineral water deposits in Europe after Budapest, as witnessed by the fact that there are well over 250 springs within the urban area.
Stuttgart is also a sports city. Citizens love to do sports, be it in sport clubs or autonomous.
Sports policy
The State Capital Stuttgart established five main sports objectives. Based on the Olympic rings they are considered to be a basis for the future sports development in Stuttgart: to take pleasure in movement, to feel up to performance, to experience community, the acquisition of fair-play and health promotion. Under the assumptions the State Capital Stuttgart shall be sustained and continually improved as worth living place.
Our aim is it, to establish and to extend a high quality grid for all people to move and play. This is based on a broad and holistic understanding of exercise and sport, which includes both the growing informal sport and the club-traditional sports culture.
Municipal Promotion of Sports
- Target: to set up and extend a close-knit and high-quality network for sports and exercise facilities for everyone.
- Therefore:
- Being a partner in sport includes:
- Maintenance of sports facilities
- Financial promotion of sport
- Advisory service for 440 clubs, sports organisations and individual citizens
- Stuttgart Model: no self-organised events (on principle)
- One focal point: promotion of children and youths
Sports Clubs/Associations
440, 156 000 members, no systematic objective target was pursued in the formation. The regular sports club facilities are the gratifying result of many years of voluntary work by many thousands of citizens. To date there has been no distinct steering of the facilities on offer.
The principle is volunteerism. The regular sports clubs are the main characteristic of German sports.
Room to Move (Facilities, Playgrounds, Parks)
In Stuttgart there are some 500 playground facilities, including
- 150 playing fields for ball games
- 26 skater rinks
- The entire surface area of the sports and recreational facilities comprises 106 hectares.
- An online database administers all playgrounds in Stuttgart, including those which are supervised: adventure playgrounds, youth farms and a city farm allocated to the various city districts.
Sports System Germany
Precedence of the autonomy of sports with its clubs and associations
Public sports administration Subsidiary
Olympic sports
School and Day Care System
In Stuttgart there are 216 schools with 90.888 pupils. The different kinds of schools are: Grundschule, Förderschule, Hauptschule, Realschule, Gymnasium and berufliche Schulen. A child is enrolled with 6 years.
There are very versatile and flexible care facilities for children: The range extends from the childminder on the nursery and kindergarten to full day of school hours. For the care of children aged 0 to 14 years in Stuttgart, there are over 500 day care centers in urban and private maintenance. The childminder is an alternative to care in day care centers and is especially for families with young children an attractive and flexible offering that helps to reconcile family and work.
Motivation to be in the project/goal
- Impetus for planned projects and solution approaches, especially for daily movement of children
- Exchange and network
- Platform for presentation
- Better local networking (Round table)
- start special programs earlier
- Targets and general aims:
- Innovative proposals
- transfer of knowledge,
- creation of a European Every Day Culture of Sports for children,
- development of guidelines to implement every day culture for children in European Cities,
- Development of a database of European best practice.
