With a hearing in the Assembly, the State begins to structure the Ten-Year Sports Plan

The State Secretariat for Sport participated in the first public hearing to prepare the Ten-Year Sport Plan (2026-2036), part of the O Esporte Que Quero program, this Wednesday afternoon (8) at the Legislative Assembly of Paraná. The methodology for constructing the strategic plan for the decade was presented, which will continue at the end of the current four-year period (2023-2026). It involves public consultations and municipal hearings.

The Ten-Year Sports Plan will contain proposals based on topics: a State Sports Conference; support for Olympic sports, non-Olympic sports, parasports and Paralympic sports; encouragement for athletes and non-athletes, student-athletes, practitioners and non-practitioners; diagnosis and construction of a database in Paraná; increase in sports infrastructure and support for electronic sports; professional development; universal access to sport; and violence, fair play and doping.

The State Secretary for Sport, Helio Wirbiski, said that public sports policy will gain a lot of space in the next ten years. “Paraná is the most advanced state in Brazil in implementing support processes for the segment, following the guidelines of the General Sports Law,” he stated. He mentioned, among the initiatives, Proesporte, Geração Olímpica and Paralímpica and the annual calendar of activities in different regions, from the first steps to supporting athletes who represent the country in world championships.

The CEO of Paraná Esporte, Walmir da Silva Matos, said that the hearing marks the first step in a new stage. “In the second semester we will finalize the proposal and design the logistics so that, next year, we can hold macro-regional conferences and further debate ideas for the sector”, he added.

The schedule of municipal and macro-regional hearings will be presented in 2025. The State Conference and the formalization of the plan are projected for 2026. “The final idea of ​​the plan is that it becomes a bill and that it directs Paraná’s sports policies for the next 10 years,” said Matos.

THE SPORT WE WANT – The Sport We Want program is carried out by the Government of Paraná, through the State Secretariat for Sport, developed in partnership with the Sports Intelligence Research Institute, at the Federal University of Paraná, and aims to contribute to the refinement of sport management sport in the State and municipalities, based on the General Sports Law and the State Sports System Law, supporting the consolidation and functioning of the Federal and State Sports Systems.

ATTENDANCE – The general director of SEES, Ilson Augusto Rhoden, the person responsible for the Ten-Year Sports Plan, Dilson Martins, deputy Tiago Bührer, president of the Sports Commission of the Legislative Assembly, the president of the Regional Council of Physical Education of the Paraná (CREF), Gustavo Brandão, the pro-rector of planning and budget at the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), Fernando Mezzadri, the vice-president of the Brazilian Paralympic Committee (CPB), Yohansson Nascimento, the secretary of Sports, Leisure and Youth of Curitiba, Carlos Pijak, the president of the Curitiba City Council, Marcelo Fachinello, the coordinator of studies and research in public policies at the State University of Maringá (UEM), Fernando Augusto Starepravo, and the president of the Federation of School Sports of Paraná, Jackson de Almeida.