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Synthesis
Recommendations – classification by theme and by priority
Introduction

1. Access to sports equipment conditioned by a detailed knowledge of the places of practice and an optimization of their uses

1.1 DATA RES, a useful information system, which has limits and must evolve
1.1.1 A tool acclaimed by stakeholders and a valuable decision-making aid
1.1.2 A tool that needs to be redesigned for greater agility
1.1.3 Necessary sharing of all the data available from the actors to facilitate the connection of equipment to serve the practice of users
1.2 A physical and sports practice that comes up against unguaranteed accessibility of equipment in all territories and for all audiences
1.2.1 The location of sports facilities reveals inequalities in territorial distribution
1.2.1.1 In the city’s priority neighborhoods (QPV), an insufficient number of facilities, effective underuse and a poorly diversified offer
1.2.1.2 In rural areas, a constraint that is mainly based on the remoteness of the sites and the weakness of the associative fabric
1.2.1.3 In the overseas territories, unequal territorial coverage marked by dilapidated infrastructure, additional maintenance costs and transport issues
1.2.1.4 The particular case of swimming pools and aquatic basins: a large offer but an aging fleet that is struggling to meet needs
1.2.2 In addition, equipment is largely underused, such as school and university facilities
1.2.2.1 Opening of school and university facilities still too limited for extra-curricular time
1.2.2.2 Legislative and conventional levers can be mobilized to optimize the use of school and university sports land
1.2.3 In their very design, sports equipment takes very little account of the issues of diversity and inclusion
1.2.3.1 Attendance at sports facilities and the number of members show significant gender disparities
1.2.3.2 The practice of the most distant audiences, such as people with disabilities and advancing in age, still needs to be encouraged and supported with adapted infrastructures and multi-activity

2. A “5,000 local sports facilities” program with the ambitious objective of covering needs but only partially meeting the expectations of stakeholders

2.1 The choice of flexibility, the search for synergies between actors and the rapid disbursement of funds make the 5,000 equipment program particularly innovative
2.1.1 An ambitious objective in terms of developing the practice which is part of the PARIS 2024 heritage
2.1.2 An unprecedented role for sports federations
2.1.3 Management of the program mainly left to the actors of the territories
2.2 However, the scope of the program and the target in terms of equipment only partially meet the expectations of the actorss
2.2.1 Without being a massive sports equipment investment plan, the 5,000 local equipment plan is rather well received by local authorities
2.2.2 The restrictive territorial coverage of the 5,000 equipment plan could be adjusted as it is implemented
2.2.3 The restrictive typology of equipment and eligible project promoters could change
2.3 Recently launched, the 5,000 pieces of equipment program still lacks visibility and its impact will have to be assessed
2.3.1 A communication effort should be made to strengthen ownership of the program by the greatest number of actors and support potential project promoters
2.3.2 Assessing the impact of the 5,000 pieces of equipment program will be the key to success in adapting and changing funding if necessary

3. New innovative models of design, carrying and animation of equipment to be made permanent in order to support the change in practices

3.1 The specific case of the equipment needs of sports-health centers illustrates the issues of accessibility and the promotion of “going to” remote audiences
3.1.1 Sport-health centers lack sports equipment adapted to the needs of their users, niches but also long-term funding
3.1.2 For those who are furthest removed from practicing sport, access to equipment for MSS must aim to restore autonomy and encourage reflection on inclusive and intergenerational practice
3.2 Changing practices call for rethinking the design of sports equipment
3.2.1 The development of free or anomic practices, of urban and rural sport but also of sport in the workplace constitute as many new demands for equipment that should be accompanied
3.2.2 More collaboration in the design and operation of equipment between users, sports stakeholders, local authorities and the commercial world is to be sought
3.2.2.1 In the context of local facilities, co-construction projects with users should be supported
3.2.2.2 Economic actors must be more mobilized
3.2.2.3 An animation of the spaces to be provided between free and supervised practice: the question of the place of sports educators
3.3 If the federal support of the equipment projects is difficult to achieve, the search for a stronger involvement of the private actors is to be encouraged
3.3.1 The carrying of projects and the operation of equipment by the federations will take time, despite the existence of innovative practices and the interest for the sports movement of forming a cooperative society of collective interest
3.3.2 Various incentive and regulatory levers could be mobilized, making it possible to consolidate the economic model of sports equipment

4. The deployment of the 5,000 equipment programme: an opportunity to experiment with the renewed governance of sports policies and the coherence of the territorial strategy for sports equipment

4.1 The new sports governance will have to keep its promises in order to develop a coherent and shared equipment strategy with all players
4.1.1 Local authorities, first and foremost municipalities, remain the main players in the supply of local sports facilities but lack engineering and support
4.1.1.1 Shared powers without a leader
4.1.1.2 Faced with the challenge of aging stock, intermunicipal pooling is a lever to be encouraged
4.1.1.3 Fragile expertise and engineering, especially for small municipalities
4.1.2 The development of the territorial sports project (PST) must make it possible to identify the priorities for action for the territory and to give substance to the concerted exercise of sports skills between the different levels of the communities with a view to the conferences of funders
4.1.3 While the CRdS have only just been set up, initial concerns about their effectiveness call for particular vigilance
4.1.3.1 Local actors fear the reproduction of the CNDS model
4.1.3.2 PST must be crossed with federal sports projects (PSF)
4.1.3.3 The limits of the funders’ conference
4.2 Greater planning of investments in sports equipment is to be sought by mobilizing existing legal tools and clarifying public funding
4.2.1 Rarely activated, collective sports service plans and sports equipment consistency plans are instruments to be better mobilized
4.2.1.1 The scheme of collective sports services (SSCS) launched in 1995 but little implemented
4.2.1.2 In-depth territorial diagnostics (DTA): support for the State in defining a development strategy
4.2.1.3 A plan of sports equipment, intended for territorial actors: a first milestone towards territorial coherence
4.2.1.4 Sports development plans in the regions: the foundations of the PST
4.2.2 An effort to improve the clarity and readability of public and private funding for sports equipment is still to be made
4.2.2.1 A great deal of funding is available to local authorities and sports stakeholders to finance their equipment needs, without them having sufficient information to mobilize them
4.2.2.2 Promotion of sports sponsorship and earmarking of state grants should be encouraged
4.2.3 Enact a law for the programming of equipment and a sustainable public order

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