SPD on other topics

The SPD wants to move faster on rebuilding the areas hit by the July 2021 flood. Aid money is to be paid out more quickly, municipalities are to be supported in restoring infrastructure, and a special program is to be launched. The stated goal is that people there have the same opportunities as elsewhere in the state.

In July 2021 there was a severe flood. The SPD wants to help people there faster. The money for rebuilding should arrive sooner. Towns should get help for roads and buildings. There should also be help for mental health.

Application procedures for reconstruction aid are to be streamlined. A trauma center is to be set up together with medical and psychotherapeutic providers, and the SPD will push for more publicly insured psychotherapy practices. Psychosocial support services, including those run by volunteers, are to be better connected and supported. The special program "Aufholen nach dem Hochwasser" (catching up after the flood) could give affected businesses, for example, a temporary multi-year waiver of the local business tax and help municipalities improve living and learning conditions.

The SPD wants to invest in gyms, swimming pools and sports fields and continue the state program "Moderne Sportstätten" (modern sports facilities). It puts particular emphasis on accessibility so that people with and without disabilities can do sports together.

The SPD wants to renovate gyms, pools and sports fields. The state should keep paying for this. The facilities should be open to everyone. People with disabilities should be able to do sports there too.

The SPD wants modern gyms, pools, changing rooms and fields to be the norm again in the state. The funding program "Moderne Sportstätten" is to continue with sufficient money. It should support the renovation of facilities owned by municipalities or by clubs. The party also wants to expand the Pact for Sport together with the state sports federation (Landessportbund NRW).

The SPD wants the state to pay the annual membership fee once when children and young people join a sports club. The aim is to bring at least 500,000 young people into organized sports.

The SPD wants more children to join sports clubs. The state should pay the fee for one year, one time. The goal is 500,000 new young club members.

The state would cover the annual fee once when a young person joins a club. The program sets a target of at least 500,000 children and young people to be won over for organized sports together with the clubs. The reasoning is that sports teach team spirit and fair competition.

The SPD wants every child to learn to swim. Pools are to be renovated, lessons offered both in and outside school, and municipalities supported in providing school swimming.

The SPD wants every child to learn to swim. Pools should be repaired for this. Every child should be able to get lessons. Towns will get help to offer swimming at school.

Swimming pools are to be renovated so that enough pool space is available. Every child should be offered a way to learn to swim, during school hours and outside them. The state would support municipalities so that regular swimming lessons at schools are possible.

The SPD wants to support young talent in elite sports and para sports and bring major sporting events to the state. It backs bids by the Rhine-Ruhr region for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, provided they have broad public support and respect human rights and sustainability.

The SPD wants to support young sports talent. Big sports events should take place in the state. The Rhine-Ruhr region should be able to bid for the Olympic Games. Human rights and the environment must be respected.

Elite athletes should be better able to combine sports with a career, in public agencies as well as in college, training and work; the SPD wants to promote agreements on this between the state and municipalities. Bids by sports federations for major events are to be backed. For the Olympics, the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and social, environmental and economic sustainability are to be the basis. Fan projects and club initiatives against physical, psychological and sexualized violence in sports are to be supported. In the party's view, right-wing extremism and antisemitism have no place in sports.