Impact
Not just tennis, padel and real estate. The Dome Sweden is also social infrastructure. A place where sport, health, education, community and events reinforce each other, measurable effects in the healthcare budget, in the school day and in the safety of a neighbourhood.
Better health, education and quality of life.
More inclusion, safety and community.
Jobs, growth, tourism and tax revenue.
A sustainable, long-term investment that strengthens the competitiveness of Stockholm and Sweden.
Everything below is written as an ambition, not a promise of numbers. The revenues come once the building is open and the measuring starts.
Five reasons a multi-sports arena belongs on the agenda of public health, integration and regional growth, not only of sport.
Lack of physical activity is one of the great challenges of our time. Through professional coaching, family activities and easily accessible forms of exercise, The Dome Sweden works as a preventive health intervention that ultimately relieves public healthcare.
Sport has a unique ability to break down segregation. The arena is designed as a welcoming, neutral meeting place where people of different backgrounds, cultures and ages meet through movement.
A safe and meaningful leisure time is the best alternative a city can offer its young people. Physical activity also improves concentration and school results.
The arena promotes local club life and engages the voluntary network, which strengthens residents’ democratic education, teamwork and sense of responsibility.
A hub for social impact and regional attractiveness, in line with the ambition of a sustainable, innovative and inclusive Stockholm region of world class.
Impact is abstract until you see who is on the court.
Someone who arrived in Sweden last year meets someone born here on the badminton court. The language is the game. Integration happens without a single policy document.
A fifteen-year-old from a vulnerable area gets a coach, a team and a reason to come back every week, instead of a street corner.
A pensioner gets affordable access to the gym, the pool and a group of people the same age, and a reason to leave the flat.
Girls get their own training times and their own coaches, so the court is theirs too.
This is integration through community, not through decree. Safety built through movement, not walls. Health promoted through access, not prescriptions.
An investor, a municipality or a sponsor should be able to say what their involvement in The Dome Sweden contributed to. From day one the arena will report on a fixed set of indicators, publicly and every year.
The exact indicator set is agreed with partners before opening and reported against the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Sustainability, in its broadest sense, is a philosophy: a way of thinking and acting that takes the economic, environmental and social consequences of every decision into account. It is never bolted on at the end.
Our ambition is an arena where every watt, every cubic metre of water and every kilogram of material is measurable, verifiable and reusable.
Construction and operation designed to be sustainable through and through: own renewable energy production, heat recovery, smart control of ventilation and lighting, circular and low-carbon materials, and environmental data published openly. The ambition is net-zero operation and the highest Nordic building certifications.
Reserved capacity for those who need it most: schools, clubs, low-income families, young people from vulnerable areas and newly arrived. Training times for women and girls, language integration through sport, full accessibility. Sport is not only training; it is community building.
Transparent reporting, ethical partnerships, zero tolerance of corruption, responsible procurement, and an annual sustainability and impact report against the UN goals. The aim is an organisation trusted by investors, municipalities, agencies, federations and local communities alike.
The Dome Sweden is designed with the ambition of being more than a modern sports facility: a long-term sustainable meeting place where sport, health, education, innovation and community development interact. That gives the project the potential to contribute to thirteen of the United Nations’ seventeen global goals, with a direct impact on six and a supporting impact on seven. The World Health Organization has also established that physical activity can affect thirteen of the seventeen.
2. Zero hunger. Healthy food in the restaurant and café, and nutrition as part of every member’s health profile and of the programmes for children and families.
3. Good health and well-being. More opportunities for physical activity at every age, better public health, well-being and a more active lifestyle.
4. Quality education. Sports academies, education programmes, leadership development and collaboration with schools and universities: lifelong learning.
5. Gender equality. Equal access to sport for girls and women, a stated goal of the project: classes that attract women, equal court time and coaching in every sport.
8. Decent work and economic growth. Jobs during construction and operation, and growth in the visitor economy, events, retail and local business.
9. Industry, innovation and infrastructure. A modern, flexible facility where sustainable construction, digital technology and innovative operation shape the sports and event infrastructure of the future.
10. Reduced inequalities. An inclusive meeting place where people take part regardless of age, gender, background or functional ability.
11. Sustainable cities and communities. A modern destination for sport, culture and international events, and new social meeting places, that strengthen the region’s attractiveness.
12. Responsible consumption and production. Resource-efficient solutions, responsible materials, recycling and circular principles in construction and operation.
13. Climate action. Lower climate impact through energy-efficient systems, sustainable material choices and resource-efficient operation.
15. Life on land. An arena set into the landscape with a park around it, built and run to respect and promote the surrounding nature.
16. Peace, justice and strong institutions. A safe, coached meeting place that is a real alternative to the street, crime prevention through sport, and transparent governance and ethical decision-making.
17. Partnerships for the goals. Built on collaboration between the public sector, business, the sports movement, education and civil society.
The Swedish government’s own Agenda 2030 delegation concluded in its final report that national objectives often correspond well to the global targets, but have in many cases not been achieved, and that municipalities and regions carry much of the responsibility for turning goals into results. The Dome Sweden is designed as implementation: a concrete, buildable contribution rather than another goal document.
“In many cases, however, the national objectives have not been achieved. Therefore, action is needed in several areas to move beyond goal-setting towards achieving concrete results.”
“Municipalities and county councils are responsible for many of the decisions and actions needed to implement the 2030 Agenda.”
“Implementation and follow-up of the 2030 Agenda can only be successful if all actors and sectors of society engage and collaborate.”
Source: Agenda 2030-delegationen (2019), Agenda 2030 och Sverige: Världens utmaning – världens möjlighet, SOU 2019:13.
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