ADeL

Anti-Doping e-Learning Platform

ADEL is a global Anti-Doping Education and Learning platform provided by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). After registering, athletes, coaches, anti-doping organisations and others interested in clean sport education and anti-doping, can gain access to a wide range of online resources. Specialised education programs have been developed for Athletes, Athlete Support Personnel, Anti-Doping Practitioners, and Educators.

ADeL currently includes the following modules:

Relevance to WADA’s 2021 International Standards of Education (ISE)

ADVICE project

Doping in Grassroots Sport

The ADVICE project, co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union, aims to provide coach education programmes for grassroots coaches. ADVICE is an interactive mobile application designed to help coaches consider their views on different situations they might encounter and to reduce the prevalence of doping among young athletes in grassroots sports. The application contains several key modules, covering topics such as ‘fair play’, ‘substances’, ‘supplements’, ‘rules’, and ‘support’. Coaches who complete all the modules receive a completion certificate from the University of Hull.

Relevance to WADA’s 2021 International Standards of Education (ISE)

ANTI-DIF

Anti – Doping in Football

The aim of the ANTI-DIF project is to educate football players about doping through:

• the understanding the problem/evaluating the current situation (investigation) in the EuropeanLocal/grassroots football clubs
• the creation of value-based education materials
• the creation of guidelines for “anti-doping coaches” who act like ambassador in the fight against doping
• anti-Doping Code of Conduct for Amateur Grassroots Football

Relevance to WADA’s 2021 International Standards of Education (ISE)

ATHENA

Athletes Targeting Healthy Exercise and Nutrition Alternatives

ATHENA is a sport-based harm reduction and health promotion programme. The intervention is an eight-session programme designed to address the connection between young women involved in sport and the risk they might develop disordered eating behaviours or turn to body-shaping substances. Each classroom session comprises three to five activities that address topics and issues such as depression, self-esteem, effects of media, perceptions of healthy body weight, and social pressures. Everyone who completes the programme receives a pocket-sized sport nutrition and training guide.

Relevance to WADA’s 2021 International Standards of Education (ISE)

ATLAS

Athletes Training and Learning to Avoid Steroids

ATLAS is an award-winning school-based drug prevention and health promotion programme for young male athletes. The programme is gender specific and peer-led, using positive peer pressure to influence healthy choices among athletes to encourage them to avoid alcohol consumption, drug use, steroids, and other performance-enhancing drugs. The resource consists of ten forty-five-minute interactive sessions which are led by coaches and squad leaders. The sessions include role play activities, athlete-created campaigns, and interactive games.

Relevance to WADA’s 2021 International Standards of Education (ISE)

CSI

Coaches and Sport Integrity: needs in coaching education

Coaches and Sport Integrity addresses the problem that contemporary sport coaches face new ethical challenges and threats to the integrity of sport at both grassroots and competitive levels. The programme aims to educate coaches and educators about the scale and scope of threats such as doping, match-fixing and anti-social conduct, and to promote and encourage good governance in sport, social inclusion and equal opportunities. CSI offers coaches and educators knowledge, competencies and skills that will support them as they manage different forms of intolerance and discrimination in sport. The project consists of a new innovative academic curriculum that provides pre and in-service coaches with option of completing one of two courses (long and short courses) which have both been developed using up-to-date and cutting-edge theory. Once the course has been completed, the educational resources are distributed so they can be used by trainees to build a much wider ethical sporting culture.

Relevance to WADA’s 2021 International Standards of Education (ISE)

DELTS

The Doping e-Learning Tools

The Doping E-learning Tools (DELTS) project evaluates the utility and acceptance of several PIED (performance and image enhancing drugs) e-learning modules targeted at health professionals and fitness personnel. This project has the potential to drive clinical outcomes as the e-learning tools are focused on improving best practice in healthcare by offering tailored interventions to provide better health education and counselling. The DELTS project includes two e-learning courses. One is addressed to healthcare professionals and the second to fitness industry professionals.

Relevance to WADA’s 2021 International Standards of Education (ISE)

Project GAME

A Serious Game Approach in Mitigating Performance Enhancement Culture

Project GAME addresses the need to advance and transform anti-doping education and offers a new type of anti-doping education resource. Specifically, GAME targets young amateur and elite athletes to tackle doping use in recreational and competitive sports. Using state-of-the-art pedagogies, up-to-date research from the social and behavioural sciences, and cutting-edge gaming design and technology, the project provides an innovative and impactful gamified approach to education intervention that reaches wider audiences than typical anti-doping campaigns. The game, which is engaging and easy-to-use, provides realistic scenarios to engage players in situations which will help them think about their anti-doping awareness and how they react to situations involving potential drug use. Once players have classified themselves as ‘amateur’ or ‘elite’, the game offers five scenarios that each describe a unique story; the five levels correspond to different learning indicators (knowledge, self-efficacy, moral displacement, mindfulness, and attitudes). Over the course of the game players must make important decisions in order to succeed and gain as many points as possible. A scoring system has been integrated to provide user feedback and raise engagement levels.

Relevance to WADA’s 2021 International Standards of Education (ISE)

iPlayClean

iPlayClean is an innovative anti-doping education programme that engages users using thought-provoking information, videos, and questions. The project is fully funded by the International Olympic Committee and the central aim of the resource is to provide information to high-level athletes between the ages of 14 to 18, and the coaches and parents of those athletes. iPlayClean is centred around the topic of performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) and it offers various strategies that can help athletes make the right decisions when taking part in sport. The resource is divided into two sections, one focusing on how parents and coaches can maximise the sporting environment and build relationships, and the other on athletes making the right decisions, understanding nutritional supplements, and exploring the myths surrounding doping. The parent and coach component of the resource contains three modules and additional links to other resources. The athletes section consists of ten modules, nine of which feature short videos that focus on key fictional characters.

Relevance to WADA’s 2021 International Standards of Education (ISE)

I Run Clean 

I Run Clean is European Athletics latest anti-doping education programme and knowledge base. The programme offers a state-of-the-art e-learning platform that supports athletes, and others who simply enjoy sport, as they play their part in the fight against illegal drug use. The resource was designed alongside athletes and experts in the field of sport and as a result is engaging and easy to use. I Run Clean comprises eight units (decisions, prohibited substances, health consequences, control procedures, rule violations, ‘wherabouts’ procedures, therapeutic use exemptions, and dietary supplements) which provide users with the essential information and understanding they need to make good decisions, protect their health and avoid breaching anti-doping regulations. Once athletes complete the programme, they are provided with an I Run Clean diploma which can be used to support entry information when individuals enter future athletics events.

Relevance to WADA’s 2021 International Standards of Education (ISE)

SafeYOU+ Programme

Strengthening the Anti-Doping Fight in Fitness & Exercise in Youth

The SAFE YOU Programme consists of a carefully planned collection of educational materials and information resources. The project aims to increase individual empowerment, provide coaches and teachers with useful and practical information sources, and provide a deep learning experience. The resources offered are wide-ranging and cater to all learning needs; educators and coaches can make use of video stimulus material, detailed case studies, planned workshop activities, web-based information sources, an excellent information application (Play Safe) that can be used on mobile phones, relevant research papers, tailored assessments, and an extensive SAFEYOU guide. The Play Safe app is available for use in multiple languages and engages users in a highly engaging interactive experience.

Relevance to WADA’s 2021 International Standards of Education (ISE)

VIRTUE

Values and Individual Responsibility Training to Uphold Ethics in Sport

The VIRTUE project is an anti-doping programme that aims to prevent doping in young athletes aged between 16 and 22. The intervention focuses on the idea that existing anti-doping education resources are too heavily focused on the negative health consequences of drug taking. Responding to this concern, this project sets out to intervene by focusing on the psychological factors that are known to be associated with doping use among athletes. The programme presently being developed focuses on two psychological variables that have been identified as essential predictors of doping intervention – self-regulatory efficacy and moral disengagement. When it is fully completed, the education resource will include two components, an in-person version and a web-based application.

Relevance to WADA’s 2021 International Standards of Education (ISE)

WHISTLE

Whistleblowing of Harmful Irregularities in Sport Through Learning and Education

The WHISTLE project was developed to inform and educate athletes and stakeholders about recognising, resisting and reporting harmful irregularities in competitive and non-competitive sport. The central aim of WHISTLE was to develop an educational tool that would increase awareness of whistleblowing among sportspeople by providing them with information about legislation and how to deal with irregularities in sport (such as doping, match-fixing, fraud, bribery, corruption, abuse, violence, harassment, and bullying). The WHISTLE educational material looks to build confidence, destigmatise whistleblowing, and highlight how it can benefit the wider sport community. The programme consists of a number of in-depth modules that: unpack definitions of whistleblowing, explain the benefits of whistleblowing, provide information about what, how and where to report whistleblowing, offer strategies for developing positive norms and for enhancing self-efficacy and empowerment, and provide some direction on how whistleblowing platforms can be encouraged and formed from amateur club level up to elite institutions.

Relevance to WADA’s 2021 International Standards of Education (ISE)

100% Me

100% Me

“100% me” is an values-based clean sport education programme developed by UKAD to help athletes throughout their sporting journey. The education programme is based on the values of Passion, Respect, Integrity, Determination and Enjoyment, and helps athletes make informed choices about clean sport.

Relevance to WADA’s 2021 International Standards of Education (ISE)