The National Sports Innovator Award is given annually to innovative products or services in the sport and exercise (top) sector. The award consists of a financial grant given to innovations that result in a tangible product or service. This includes consideration of ideas that, in addition to their impact on sport, also have (potential) economic and social value. The theme this time was “Future-proof sports providers”. Innovations can be aimed at sports clubs as well as enterprising sports providers, and must have already proven successful locally on a small scale.
“The promising sports providers of the future are professionally organised and financially sound. They are enterprising sports clubs or sports providers that respond to an ageing population, individualism and digitalisation. They work together where necessary and possible to meet changing future demand. The jury evaluated twenty selected innovative initiatives, from which these winners ultimately emerged, and by honouring these five great innovations we contribute to the ambition of the National Sports Agreement to make all types of sports and exercise providers future-proof,” said jury chairman Martin Olde Vejhuis.
The five winners of the National Sports Innovator Award 2021:
