HALT

HALT - Halting Harassment and Abuse in Sports using Learning Technologies – a three-year project which looked to raise awareness of best practices in combating violence and tackling racism, discrimination and intolerance in sport.

The project created and exploited learning technologies (digital games, digital informative material, movie, online community of practice platform) developed by academics to address the goal in a wide network of athletes across Europe, supported by sports and athlete organizations.

Coordinated by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, HALT looked to develop Online Communities of Practice (CoP) for awareness and knowledge about harassment and abuse in sports among athletes, academic experts, and sport sector stakeholders.

The project's aim was to enable knowledge sharing and the emergence of best practices with an emphasis on athletes' awareness and knowledge about harassment and abuse in sport; develop e-learning material; minimize the risk of offending behavior of people involved in sports; identify new areas for policy intervention; and develop anti-harassment and abuse social norms through whistleblowing promotion across all levels and types of sports.

The final conference on stopping harassment and abuse in sport was held in Madrid on December 17, as one of the last activities of the HALT project. The event started with a presentation of the project and its resources. A very interesting panel debate was the focal point of the event, having a futsal player / survivor of sexual harassment and abuse, director of women and sport programme, NGO communications specialist and a psychologist. Jose Manuel Franco, State Secretary of Sport and President of the Spanish High Sports Council closed the conference, thanking the speakers and HALT partners for their work in this field.

Partners of this transnational project included:  Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (GRE), European University Cyprus (CYP), Portuguese Union of Professional Football Players (POR), Spanish Women Futsal Players Association (ESP), Salzburg Sports Association (AUT), Hellenic Gymnastics Federation (GRE) and EUSA Institute (SLO).

The project was co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.

Project outputs:

- Movie: https://halt.phed.auth.gr/movie/movie.mp4  

- Game: http://games.csd.auth.gr/halt/ 

- Virtual Community of Practice: http://haltvm.phed.auth.gr/ 

- HALT Whistleblowing: https://halt.phed.auth.gr/whistleblowing/map_en.php 

For more information about the project HALT, please see the official website http://halt.phed.auth.gr and refer to the Erasmus+ project card for technical information.