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The Greens want every child to learn to swim and plan to expand courses together with clubs, the DLRG lifesaving association and the city's pool operator. The platform argues that learning to swim early can save lives. Pools are to be renovated on an ongoing basis and get more customer-friendly opening hours.

Every child should learn to swim. This can save lives. The Greens want to offer more swimming courses. They will work with clubs and pools to do this. The pools should be renovated and have better opening hours.

The Greens will review whether there is enough water space in teaching pools and whether a teaching pool can be included when new schools are built in underserved areas. After the new Horner Bad, the Westbad is next for renovation, and work on the Vegesack pool has been advanced. Bremer Bäder GmbH is to receive enough money for upkeep and development. The platform stresses school swimming in elementary school, citing Bremerhaven's "Schulschwimmen intensiv" model and the extension of swimming lessons in Bremen from 30 to 45 minutes. The "Kids in die Bäder" project is to continue and grow.

The Greens want to keep raising financial support for trained sports instructors. The city of Bremen is to continue covering the cost of their license training. At the federal level, the party wants to push for a higher tax-free allowance.

Instructors train people in sports clubs. The Greens want to give them more money. The city of Bremen should keep paying for their training. They should also pay less tax. The Greens want to push for this at the federal level.

The city of Bremen's coverage of license training costs is to stay in place and may be expanded; extending it to the whole state will be examined. The Greens also want to examine whether instructor training can be built into vocational programs such as teaching and childcare professions. At the federal level, the flat tax-free allowance for this work is to be raised.

The Greens want to help sports clubs facing higher energy costs with a funding program for investment and energy savings. Sports facilities are to be renovated and developed based on the sports development plan. City-owned sports facilities are to get solar panels and charging points for electric vehicles wherever possible.

Energy has become expensive for sports clubs. The Greens want to help the clubs with money. This should help clubs save energy. Sports halls and fields should be renovated. City sports facilities should get solar panels.

The platform considers current energy cost subsidies to be low. The party wants to work toward opening federal and EU renovation programs to sports clubs and associations. The investment money needed to renovate and build sports facilities is to be provided step by step, with the sports development plan as the data basis. Solutions are to be worked out with clubs, sports federations and the state sports association. Elite sports will continue to be supported, including by developing the "Eliteschule des Sports" with a boarding facility and expanding the model that combines coaching and teaching jobs.

The Greens want to maintain and expand freely accessible places for sports and play in parks and public areas. The platform sees them as an easy-access option, especially for children and teenagers. Schools and clubs are also to cooperate more closely so that all-day students can take part in club sports.

Bremen has many public places for sports. The Greens want to look after them and build new ones. Everyone can use them for free. Schools and sports clubs should work together more. Then more children can do sports in a club.

Parks and open areas are to get features such as basketball and beach volleyball courts, table tennis tables, slackline posts and seating. Trend and freestyle sports are to be considered when planning spaces. The platform holds that people should be able to do sports close to home even if this sometimes means more noise. Partnerships between all-day elementary schools and clubs are meant to ease the handover after classes end. The "Kids in die Clubs" project is to continue and grow.

The Greens want more freely accessible areas for play, sports and meeting in the neighborhoods and would provide more money for this. Allotment garden areas would stay protected from conversion, and public space would be better equipped.

The Greens want more places where people can meet. These include playgrounds, green areas and sports areas. These places should be free for everyone. There should be more benches, toilets and drinking fountains. Allotment gardens should stay.

The program lists playgrounds, green oases, urban gardening, open sports areas, skate parks and fitness facilities, as well as seating with tables. Places like the emerging Rennbahnpark between Vahr and Hemelingen should always remain openly accessible with no obligation to buy anything. Added to this are senior-friendly seating, accessibility and modern public toilets with changing tables. Additional drinking fountains are meant to secure access to clean water and help during heat waves.

The Greens want to restrict advertising in public space in Bremen by law. This is meant to make local retailers and local event organizers more visible and to reduce sensory overload and light pollution.

There is a lot of advertising in the city. The Greens want a law that limits it. Shops and event organizers from Bremen should become easier to see. There should also be less bright light from ads.

The program argues that people cannot avoid advertising in public space and that video billboards intensify this effect. So far, it says, mainly financially strong players have been able to gain attention this way. The planned advertising regulation law is therefore meant to favor local providers and reduce the burden of advertising.

The Greens want to create a funding program called “Stadtlabore” (city labs) to try out new uses in the city center and make them permanent if they work. It is meant to complement the existing concept and pop-up stores, which are mostly geared toward shopping.

The Greens want a new funding program for downtown. It is called “Stadtlabore,” or city labs. People can use it to try new ideas in empty spaces. Good ideas should stay for good.

As examples, the platform lists play houses for children, cultural centers, literary salons, and music clubs. These could use vacant stores, courtyards, or roof terraces. Downtown policy continues to be based on the “Strategie Centrum Bremen 2030+,” developed with public participation, together with the downtown project office.

The Greens want to make more use of the city center as a place to spend time and expand offerings for groups that have received little attention so far. These include children, young and older people, newcomers to Bremen, and people who cannot afford to spend money. A range of places with different profiles is to be developed.

The Greens want a downtown for everyone. Children should be able to play there safely. Young people should have places to meet. People with little money should feel welcome too.

Plans include safe play areas for families and spaces for sports and exercise. Young people are to get places where they can meet in larger groups and be loud. Public restrooms are to be open in the evening as well. Nightlife is to be possible in public spaces too, not only in clubs and bars.

The Greens want to upgrade the Bahnhofsvorstadt (the district around the main station) as a neighborhood in its own right, whose residents need more than cleanliness and safety. By the end of 2023, an assessment of their needs is to be completed and turned into recommendations for long-term development.

The Greens want to improve the neighborhood by the station. Many people live and work there. By the end of 2023, it should be clear what residents need. A plan for the neighborhood should come from that.

The platform sees a major opportunity in the redevelopment site on Falkenstraße, the former Bundeswehr high-rise. A planned integrated development concept for the neighborhood is also part of this. The platform stresses that, despite the pass-through character of the area right around the station, the Bahnhofsvorstadt is a district with many employees.