How the shared economy will support educational institutions?
Managing universities or schools is extremely complicated and pricey. Mainly, all state educational institutions get whole financial support from the government. But still, many of these institutions need more financial support in order to increase the quality of education.
There is a way to receive more by effectively managing all capacity of their properties. This is connected directly with sports, particularly, with gyms and sports grounds. Most schools and universities have their own gyms and sports grounds that are most likely to be empty or not used fully. This article will open up some interesting ideas on this topic.
Unused potential
The majority of sports grounds are being fully untouched during summer holidays and after teaching hours. That’s an unused opportunity that potentially makes universities and schools to lose money that they could earn.
If there would be a way to increase assignments from single digits of a percent to 50% schools might use that money to upgrade/expand their sports grounds or use the money to put that money back to education.
Helping society
These institutions that would not want to consider making money, they can easily open up the sports grounds or gyms for children, teenagers, and communities that can’t afford to pay for it. There is an actual example that shows us the significant change in teenagers’ lives. Teenagers that get support in sports activities feel less likely to drink, smoke or using drugs. Wide access to sports makes society significantly better. Here is the mentioned example:
Expensive problem
Educational institutions might have a need to create their own reservation websites. However, the creation of own reservation website is expensive and not effective if you have only 1–2 unused playground. Moreover, it’s also about marketing campaigns, selling channels, and other sales efforts. Schools don’t have enough capacity for covering all marketing and sales forces as it is not the main focus.
Cheap solution
However, if these institutions would have a chance to delegate all sales-related activities, it would definitely support institutions as this enables the possibility of additional monetization. For instance, travel portals, offering travel activities locally, can partly take over the management of sports facilities of educational institutions.
Siesta Cloud solves this problem and connects universities with travel portals without the need for expensive and long development cycles. Siesta’s main focus is to support niche communities, thereby addressing a major gap in the industry.