DRAWS

Project Description

The project DRAWS aims at promoting the integrity of sport by combating doping within recreational and non-elite young sport practitioners, starting from evidences (scientific studies, researches, and EU policies).
The project addresses the topic of doping in recreational environment thanks to the involvement of partner organizations from Eastern and Mediterranean regions in Europe that have been touched by doping scandals in the past and that could therefore  be particularly interested in fighting and preventing the establishment of a pro-doping culture among youth sport participants. The consortium involves organizations that play different roles within the sport field.

The rationale of the proposal is searching effectiveness in combating doping, notably in preventing the creation of a pro-doping culture through a set of educational activities among sport participants in recreational environments, through the following processes:

• Deepening the knowledge about recreational environments participants/athletes’ knowledge, attitudes, opinions and motivational orientations toward doping/substances to orient the contents and maximize the effectiveness of the educational tools;
• Designing and testing an effective training course for raising awareness and knowledge about doping among youth in recreational sport contexts (aged between 14-19 years old);
• Creating an attractive and immediate educational tool on doping prevention, knowledge and awareness raising in the form of comic/stripes, with the active engagement of young participants from the recreational environments;
• Implementing an educational doping campaign using the EDU-communication tools created, that are the training courses and the comic/stripes;
• Sharing and disseminating the EDU-communication tools at EU level (training courses + comic/stripes), to prevent and combat the establishment of a pro-doping culture among young participants in recreational sport environments.