Switzerland - Physical activity factsheet (2019)

Success story

The national Youth + Sports (Jugend + Sport) programme promotes sports participation to children and adolescents and has been implemented since 1974. Today, it supports courses in more than 70 disciplines and reaches more than half a million children and adolescents every year. Since 2008, it offers sports promotion activities for children aged 5–10 years.

Youth + Sports is based on the Federal Act on the Promotion of Sport and Exercise and involves activities that take place mostly in sports clubs. Schools can also organize after-school sports courses and obtain funding through the programme.