SafeShred

Background Snowboarding is a relatively young sport but issues related to sports integrity have recently emerged within the community. Ethical education is rarely included in the initiatives of sports organizations despite its increasing importance to keep snowboarding safe and clean, especially for more vulnerable young grassroots snowboarders. This project is designed to provide them with the tools to protect not only themselves but the entire community, including parents, coaches, and federations. Objectives SafeShred is an educational program that provides awareness-raising on integrity to the grassroots riders on topics such as basic human rights, harassment, doping, whistleblowing, and manipulation of sport competition/corruption. The project is based on a multidisciplinary and transnational approach, with expert trainers and field actors. In the long-term, the tools created under this project will help educate the trainers and generations of riders to encounter integrity threats more confidently Implementation Based on a comprehensive research that helped to understand the target groups and the specificities in partner countries, the curriculum was developed to meet two target groups: anyone working with young riders, such as coaches, parents, managers of snowboard associations (Rider’s Guide), and the young riders themselves (E-learning course). Workshops for trainers and young riders were organised with evaluation and monitoring, as well as dissemination in and outside the snowboarding community. Achievements The main results are the development of the Rider’s Guide (IO3) and the SafeShred E-Learning (IO4) accessible in 6 languages. After a “train the trainers workshop”, 7 trainers in 6 nations were organized for 195 young riders between 13 and 19. The Evaluation of the effectiveness of the trainings (IO6) confirmed that young athletes found them positive and useful. After a preliminary research phase, the Desk research and survey (IO1) and the Fact-finding missions (IO2) were published.