• The city supports citizens in each community to establish and independently manage a community-based comprehensive sport club.
• The city supports citizens to secure a stronghold of their sport activities including club houses, and advances the utilization of sport facilities at schools and other social/educational facilities.
• Local sport centers in each community support sport activities of people in the community and aim to establish a close relationship with them.
• The city advances its effort to establish an integrated sport education system in conjunction with schools and educational organizations.
• The city aims to improve the association of the project with other projects, including the lifelong learning room project and the children iki-iki after school project, and their operation efficiency.
• The city supports to establish a management basis of community-based comprehensive sport clubs and to transform the clubs into corporative Non-Governmental Organizations.

3)Establishment of associated wide-area sport clubs

• By seeking the cooperation of Osaka-based professional sport teams as well as national-level amateur sport teams and organizations, the city aims to establish a more-competitive, comprehensive wide-area sport club (association).
• The city makes efforts to discover Osaka-related talented athletes and sport instructors and to invite them to instruct sport activities in the city.
• To provide an integrated instruction program and medical/scientific support to promising athletes and sport teams, the city discusses the establishment of a system to improve their competitiveness.

4) Development of a support system for "Sports to Participate "

• The city intends to develop a total supporting network of local training rooms, which will be based at a training room of the Osaka Municipal Central Gymnasium.
• The city aims to improve training programs and sports diagnoses based on sports medical/scientific approaches.
• The city discusses the establishment of a system that effectively connects researchers of sports medicine/science with sport instructors and enables the collection, accumulation and supply of the practical research results and the latest information in the areas.
• The city asks sport doctors for a strong cooperation with a community-based comprehensive sport club in the community.
• The city aims to improve a support system for the continuous improvement of established community-based comprehensive sport clubs.

5) Improvement of utilization programs of sport facilities

• The city aims to improve sport programs that utilize sport centers and heated pools in the city.
• As for large-scale sport facilities including the Osaka Municipal Central Gymnasium, the city also intends to develop and improve sport programs in which general citizens can participate.
• The city aims to develop a program to organize the functions of various sport facilities in the city, including those at Maishima Sports Island, Tsurumiryokuchi, Nagai Park and so on, where many sport facilities are concentratedly located.
• To promote the sport activities of physically and/or mentally challenged people, the city makes efforts to develop software and prepare the environment in which the disabled people can enjoy sports.
• The city discusses the effective use of privately-owned inactive lands.

2. Promotion of "Sports to Watch"
1) Establishment of a basis and a program to foster sport-minded children from preschool age

• To consider the importance of an encounter of preschool children to sports and to encourage their interest in sports, the city intends to develop a basis to foster their lifelong sport activities at home, community and school.
• In conjunction with schools, the media, sport organizations and so on, the city discusses the development of programs that improve children's skills to watch sport games. The city also organizes sport classes by front-rank athletes at local sport facilities and provides children with an opportunity to experience national-level sport demonstration.

2) Invitation and hosting of international sport competitions

• The city continues to host international sport competitions, including the Osaka Mayor's Cup World Super Junior Tennis Championships and the IAAF Japan Grand Prix in Osaka. The city also hosted the World Judo Championships in 2003 and will host the World Championships in Athletics in 2007.
• The city continues to provide the citizens with opportunities to watch first-class sport competitions and appeal to the other parts of Japan as well as to the world by inviting and hosting both domestic and international sport competitions.
• The city aims to improve its marketing functions for hosting international sport competitions, including presentation schemes for the competitions, an association with private businesses required for hosting large-scale competitions, and so on.

3. Promotion of "Sports to Support"
1) Production and utilization of sport instructors

• The city intends to improve the contents and opportunities of seminars and OSPA Sports College classes for sport instructors.
• The city aims to increase the number of licensed sport instructors by supporting an instructor training system at sport organizations, promoting the acquirement of instructor licenses, providing related information, and so on.
• The city aims to discover and support a licensed instructor and/or a sport leader who can play a leading role to promote sports in the community beyond his/her specialty.
• The city will also organize and network those sport leaders.

2) Promotion and support of sport volunteers

• The city aims to establish a consultation system for sport volunteers and provide necessary information to support their activities by recruiting them for sport competitions hosted by the city, providing information on volunteer insurance, and so on.
• The city organizes a "volunteer leader training course" and provides participants with information on volunteer opportunities to enable their continuous activities. The course also intends to help them improve their leadership skills.
• By establishing a network of volunteers for the hosting sport competitions, the city aims to enforce the connection between the volunteers and the sport administration as well as to encourage the exchange of information between them.
• The city also aims to expand the activities of the sport competition volunteers to other competitions and events organized by sport organizations and/or private businesses.
• The city makes efforts to functionalize sport centers in the city as a place where residents in the community would visit on a daily basis and exchange information.
• The city advances a system to honor sport volunteers for their contributions.

4. Creation of sport culture
1) Promotion of sport culture

• The city organizes sport-related events that feature paintings, photographs, literature, visual arts, fashion, and other forms of artistic creations to encourage the interest in sports and health among people.
• The city discusses the measures to produce a sport-oriented element throughout the city, such as a walking course in a business district which provides an easy exercise opportunity to city workers.
• The city improves the system to honor citizens who contributed to the promotion of sport culture in the city and to encourage promising athletes and other active sportsmen.
• The city supports activities of a sports friendship salon, where people with various sport-related backgrounds can gather and foster friendships.
• The city improves the contents of the "Osaka City Sports Gallery" to functionalize it as a museum-like comprehensive information source about sports.

2) Promotion of Olympic Movement

• To actively participate in the Olympic Movement, the city promotes citizen-level sport events by inviting Olympians and continues to advertise itself to the world by cooperating with the World Olympian Association (WOA).
• The city aims to promote the citizens' recognition of the Olympic Movement by organizing sport-related meetings, symposiums, citizen-level events, exhibitions at the Sports Gallery, and so on.
• The city discusses the measures to develop the International Training Center concept, which aims to support Japanese/non-Japanese athletes by offering existing sport facilities in the city for their trainings.
• According to the agreement with the Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC), the city offers national sport teams existing sports facilities in the city for their intensive trainings, and promotes friendship exchange between those athletes and the citizens.

3) Provision of sport-related information

• The city aims to improve the contents of information it provides to the citizens via "Miotsukushi Sports Net" system, which processes facility use applications and provides information about sport facilities in the city.
• The city aims to provide and collect updated information by effectively using its website.
• The city intends to expand the functions of sport facilities in the city as an information source and an advisory organization by increasing their collection of sport-related magazines and improving the facilities' availability of information on community-based sport/recreational activities.