JESA Project - Esports

Barcelona Provincial Council is developing transformative projects that, aligned with the strategies of the Sustainable Development Goals, want to give response at the global challenges that has for in front of the future of our society.

Regarding physical activity, sport, and the sentence of the World Health Organisation (WHO), according to which “the regular physical activity favours the physical and mental health” and is beneficial for all the persons, no matter their age and capacity.

At present time, 81% of teenagers do not attain the levels of physical activity recommended by the WHO, and that, no only affects these persons during all his life but, besides, affects at their health and society.

From Sports Public Service of Barcelona Provincial Council we want to reduce sedentarism of young people and sportive abandonment, especially on peolple with more difficulties to access sport.

With this spirit is born at the 2020 the Transformative Project "Sportive Youth, Active Society" investing at this mandate near 5,5 million of euros, at 218 townships, to transform society through sport, by means of distinct blocs of intervention:

• Economic aid for vulnerable communities.
• Collaborating with municipal projects of reference addressed at the community
• Giving direct support at the municipal implementation of the transformative project “Sportive Youth, Active Society” (JESA) at the territory.
• According to JESA community, a virtual room for all those people that share affinities of interests and convictions to improve levels of physical activity for young people.