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MATCH POINT
The objective of the Match Point project is to combat
doping in recreational environments by setting up a
transnational network to elaborate and conceive engaging,
deterring and detecting educational programmes and
innovative open resource online educational courses,
which will lead to the development of an Ethical Code
for behaviour in tennis and grassroots sports.
The project focuses on young
non-professional tennis
athletes’ and coaches’ culture
and attitudes against doping,
protecting their health and
moral ethics and supporting the
integrity of sports as well as its
positive values and principles.
Results from the Match
Point project will be well
disseminated through multiplier
sport events, as well as through
the project’s smart, interactive
web-based platform, allowing
for continuous collaboration
between project stakeholders
as well as for the integration of
new organisations in it during
and after the project lifetime.
Through strengthened
cooperation between the project
partners from five European
countries and different sectors
such as sports, research
and education, Match Point
will promote and support
new anti-doping pathways,
raise the young athletes’ and
coaches’ awareness of the
doping threats, develop new
prevention educational anti-
doping tools and contribute to
the development of an European
sport and socio-cultural doping
free environment.Partners in this collaborative
partnership project include the
Bulgarian Tennis Federation
(BUL); Polish Tennis Federation(POL); Romanian Tennis
Federation (ROU); University of
Vienna (AUT); Austrian Institute
for Sport Medicine (AUT) and
the European University Sports
Association Institute (SLO).The two-year project, which
runs from January 2019 to
December 2020, is co-funded
by the Erasmus+ Programme of
the European Union.PLEASE SEE
eusa.eu/projects/match-point
for more information