SSW on other topics

The SSW wants to support professional and recreational sports and have sports facilities and swimming pools renovated through funding programs. Schleswig-Holstein should also get its own Olympic and Paralympic training center.

The SSW wants more support for sports. Gyms and swimming pools should be repaired. The state should give money for this. Schleswig-Holstein should get its own training center for Olympic sports.

According to the platform, municipalities and clubs often cannot pay for renovations and new buildings on their own, so the SSW calls for targeted funding programs. It wants to lobby the federal government to renew the sports facility investment pact that ends in 2024. Sports are to be integrated more closely into all-day schools. The planned center is meant to host elite sports and support athletes in their training. The state should keep bidding for major sporting events if there is broad public support.

The SSW wants esports officially recognized as a sport and written into the rules on nonprofit status. This is meant to open the way for public funding and professional structures.

Esports means people compete in computer games. The SSW wants esports to count as a real sport. Then clubs can get money for it. The state should keep supporting esports.

The platform justifies recognition with the mental demands and the physical fitness the activity requires. The definition should rest on competitive criteria rather than on imitating traditional sports; the SSW points to chess as a comparison. Section 52(2) of the Abgabenordnung (Fiscal Code) is to be amended. Funding should go to a multi-tier league and tournament system, the state esports center, and esports in sports clubs and municipalities. An esports academy is to be set up at Fachhochschule Westküste.