MATCH POINT
The objective of Match Point 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-pro-
fessional tennis athletes’ and coaches’
culture and attitudes against doping, pro-
tecting 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 pro-
ject’s smart, interactive web-based plat-
form, allowing for continuous collabora-
tion between project stakeholders as well
as for the integration of new organisations
in it during and after the project lifetime.Through strengthened cooperation be-
tween the project partners from five Euro-
pean 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 educa-
tional anti-doping tools and contribute to
development of an European sport and
socio-cultural doping free environment.Partners in this collaborative partner-
ship 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
(SLO).The two-year project, which runs from
January 2019 to December 2020, is co-
funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of
the European Union.