AMELIA - Aesthetic Movement to Enhance sporty Lifestyles and Inclusive Active public spaces

AMELIA aims at engaging several stakeholders to establish and develop a new Aesthetic Transnational Movement to enhance sporty lifestyles and inclusive active public spaces, consistency with the New European Bauhaus (NEB) initiative, which considers physical activity “an important contributor to wellbeing and community spirit”. AMELIA triggers cities leaders, planners, architects, sport clubs, sport federation, civic and youths’ organisations to initiate a Transnational network and Living Labs to share practices, ideate proposals, and test pilot sport-based solutions and to advance inclusive placemaking and active regeneration of public spaces for the health of communities. Main outcomes are: (i) ATLAS of 50+ sport-based solutions for public spaces to inspire cities practitioners, policy makers, sport organisations to became protagonist of a more sustainable lifestyle in the urban context (ii) Movement engaging 60+ stakeholders interested in sharing and promoting sport-based solutions for public spaces in the prospect of NEB. (iii) Experimental actions in 5+ Living Labs in pilot cities to test new solutions to integrate Physical activity in urban policies and strategies for a healthier lifestyle of all citizens. (iv) Manifesto to promote a sporty lifestyle in cities. AMELIA scales up past projects, capitalizes their results, finds new synergies. It engages various stakeholders capable to co-design, rethink, revitalize and transform public spaces into active and inclusive places. All the deliverables and the main outcomes will be disseminated via diverse channels and network, including the E+ results platform and the NEB platform AMELIA results in a spreading network composed of linked hubs for inter-disciplinary, multi-sectoral, transregional cooperation that serve as a think-do tank to transfer and replicate know-how, good practices, and successful models, support common initiatives, and upgrade approaches for providing citizens with added value.