SPD on other topics

The SPD wants to push forward a Berlin bid for the 2040/44 Olympic and Paralympic Games and for EXPO 2035, together with Brandenburg. It expects this to boost urban development, infrastructure, and digitalization.

The SPD wants Berlin to bid for the Olympic Games. This means the Games in 2040 or 2044. Berlin should also bid for the world's fair EXPO 2035. Brandenburg should take part. Berliners should have a say from the start.

In addition to the bids, the International Building Exhibition 2034 to 2036 is to be prepared. The platform also names the city's 800th anniversary in 2037 and 50 years since the fall of the Wall in 2039 as occasions. All major events are to be organized in a social, ecological, and democratic way. Residents are to be involved transparently from the outset and to benefit noticeably.

The SPD wants to keep giving clubs free use of sports facilities and to invest in new construction, renovation, and accessibility. Sports are to be a regular part of daily life in daycare centers and schools. Every child should be able to swim by the time they finish elementary school.

Clubs should keep using sports fields and halls for free. The SPD wants to build and repair sports facilities and pools. Children should do more sports in daycare and school. Every child should learn to swim in elementary school.

Clubs would get maintenance budgets without complicated applications, and the club investment program would be simplified and better funded. A central planning and construction unit is to relieve the districts, and standardized designs for service buildings and swimming halls are to speed up construction. Mandatory swimming lessons and intensive courses would be expanded; swimming for clubs, daycare centers, and schools stays free of charge. Named projects include rebuilding the Jahn-Sportpark, the Sportforum, the Olympiapark, and Tegel. Parks are to get more activity areas for all generations, and a contact office is to bring major sporting events to Berlin.