Betzenhausen becomes part of the Sports Quarters: Freiburg continues to expand the network

SC Freiburg has expanded the Mooswald Sports Quarter to include the district of Betzenhausen. According to the club, the citywide network of Sports Quarters now covers 13 out of 28 Freiburg city districts – another step in a project that aims to reach all districts by 2030.

Betzenhausen expands the Mooswald Sports Quarter

At the launch of the expanded Mooswald–Betzenhausen network, twelve local institutions came together for a kick-off meeting. The main focus was initially to connect the actors from the newly added district and to practically initiate cooperation within the larger quarter. At the beginning, the Sports Quarters approach was presented and the quarter was described using demographic data; afterwards, participants from the already existing Mooswald Sports Quarter also joined.

Networking remains the core of the project – and aims to create structures

The Sports Quarters have been established in Freiburg since the 2021/22 season at the initiative of SC Freiburg – in close cooperation with the "model networks for continuous language development." The intention behind this is deliberately socio-spatial: not individual offers should stand side by side, but day-care centers, primary schools, sports clubs, and other social institutions in the respective district should work together so that sports and exercise programs become reliably accessible.

This networking is exactly the central building block of the project. It is supplemented by qualification offers for professionals as well as by sports and exercise programs that are developed together and not planned in isolation. In implementation, SC Freiburg works with the beruf leben akademie, the city of Freiburg, the step foundation, and the Eisvögel Freiburg. The practical added value: when institutions coordinate their resources, access, and responsibilities in the quarter, low-threshold paths into sports are created – especially where participation often fails due to lack of information, transitions (day-care–school–club), or too few contact persons.

Funding until 2030: Five years, around 1.4 million euros

The further development is financially supported by funding from the GKV Alliance for Health Baden-Württemberg, an initiative of the statutory health insurance funds for health promotion and prevention in living environments. For the Freiburg Sports Quarters and the associated Freiburg Language Ball School, funding of around 1.4 million euros is planned over five years.

This also makes the scale of the project tangible: the network is already anchored in almost half of Freiburg's city districts – and is also set for further growth. The goal of involving all districts by 2030 requires that local cooperations not only start but also become permanently viable. The expansion to include Betzenhausen shows that the model is growing in breadth: less as a one-off individual measure, but as a long-term district network that aims to systematically connect education, exercise, and social infrastructure.