12/9/2018. SAFEYOU team member Dr Pavlidis presented the SAFEYOU project aims and activities to the Greek Basketball Academy’s (GBA) athletes. Dr Pavlidis distributed leaflets to the amateur athletes and focused on raising awareness about the consequences from doping use. Also, he addressed the need for prevention and introduced the SAFEYOU tool to the GBA’s athletes.
4/09/2018. SAFEYOU team member Dr Pavlidis visited “The Lab”, a crossfit gym in Thessaloniki, Greece and distributed leaflets to personal trainers and amateur athletes. Dr Pavlidis presented the SAFEYOU tool and talked about how to prevent doping use in recreational sports.
8/2018. SAFEYOU was promoted in an anti-doping event which organized in the context of an Archery Tag tournament. More than 250 people attended the event that lasted two days. A thorough discussion followed on the SAFEYOU project and the use of the educational tool on the prevention of doping use in recreational sports.
7/2018. SAFEYOU project and tool were presented at two international softball tournaments. The tournaments included four female softball matches between Italian and American teams. SAFEYOU team members informed athletes about how to prevent doping use in sport and introduced the SAFEYOU tool.
25/7/2018. SAFEYOU project was promoted at the “Sport Evening” which was organized by the S.S. Lazio. Both the athletes of the SS Lazio Baseball Softball and Lacrosse and the athletes of the dance school of Fregene took part in the event. Overall, 250 people participated in the “Sport Evening”. During the meetings, a thorough discussion followed on the doping…
9/7/2018. The SAFEYOU success story. EU produced a short film about the project SAFEYOU. The video presents case studies of recreational athletes describing their experiences with doping use or doping-free exercise. The case studies and the videos are used as parts of the SAFEYOU educational material. The film, produced by the EU, about the…
12/6/2018. SAFEYOU team member Dr Lambros Lazuras (Associate Professor in Social Psychology, Sheffield Hallam University) organized and delivered the first Sheffield Forum for Clean Sports under the auspices of the Sheffield Institute for Policy Studies (SIPS). This initiative recognized the complex and multifaceted nature of doping use across all levels of sports, and promoted open…
5/2018. SAFEYOU team member Dr Michaelides presented the SAFEYOU project in the seminar organized atthe National Guard of Limassol, Cyprus. Dr Michaelides focused on raising awareness about the consequences from the use of maladaptive practices during sport involvement. In addition, Dr Sxizas talked about doping use from a public health point of view. Dr Michaelides…
19/5/2018. SAFEYOU team members promoted the ‘stay fit, stay clean’ message to the participants of the 10th Aristotle Run, held in Thessaloniki, Greece. This is a running event organized by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and includes a 5000m run for adults and a 1000m run for children. The purpose of the event is to involve…
