SMAS
Sports Medicine Association of Serbia (SMAS)
The Sports Medicine Association of Serbia (SMAS) is a national professional organization established in 1995. and dedicated to the advancement of sports medicine through research, education, and the promotion of physical activity. SMAS brings together specialists in sports medicine, physicians from related medical disciplines, and sports professionals involved in athlete health protection and performance enhancement.
SMAS has strong expertise in the medical, scientific, and psychosocial aspects of sport, with particular focus on athlete health, mental well-being, and safeguarding. Through continuous education for medical staff and coaches, the development of professional guidelines, and scientific research, the association actively contributes to improving safety standards in sport.
In recent years, SMAS has placed increasing emphasis on ethical issues and athlete protection, including the prevention of abuse and sexual harassment in sport. Influenced by international cases and emerging evidence, SMAS members have been involved in initiatives addressing misconduct, safeguarding policies, and education to recognize, prevent, and respond to inappropriate behavior within the sports environment.
Within the COVIS project, SMAS contributes its medical and scientific expertise, experience in education and research, and a long-standing collaboration with sports organizations and institutions. As project coordinator, SMAS plays a key role in project management, research, and the development of evidence-based educational resources to create safer, fairer, and more inclusive sport for young athletes.
KEA Fair Play Code, Hellas
KEA Fair Play Code Hellas is a civil society organisation of private law (non-profit), established in 2014, working to promote integrity, transparency, and ethical values in sport. KEA operates as an independent organisation focused on prevention, education, and awareness-raising, supporting athletes, coaches, referees, sport officials, and sport organisations in recognising integrity risks and adopting responsible practices.
The organisation’s core activities include:
- design and delivery of educational actions addressing match-fixing and betting-related manipulation,
- anti-doping education,
- whistleblowing awareness,
- sport governance,
- safeguarding,
- ethics, and fair play.
KEA implements these activities through lectures, seminars, workshops, and targeted training sessions, adapted to different sport contexts ranging from professional and semi-professional environments to grassroots sport.
Since its establishment, KEA has built a solid track record of engagement at national and European level. Its training and awareness actions have reached several thousand direct beneficiaries over time, including athletes, referees, coaches, club staff, federation representatives, and sport professionals. KEA regularly updates and refreshes its educational content in line with emerging risks, research findings, and policy developments, ensuring the relevance and sustainability of its interventions.
KEA has extensive experience in Erasmus+ Sport cooperation, contributing to research, educational tools, pilot trainings, and dissemination activities. The organisation has participated in and supported multiple European projects focusing on sport integrity, governance, whistleblowing, anti-doping education, equity, and ethics in coaching. Indicative projects include FIX THE FIXING, SEE-I, Coaches and Sport Integrity, Win-Dop, WHISTLE / SPORT W.H.I.S.T.L.E., ADVICE, FAIR COACHING, and Whistleblower 1.0.
KEA is currently involved in the e-Health project, a 24-month initiative promoting healthy and active lifestyles among esports players through research, awareness-raising material, and educational resources developed in cooperation with European academic and sport partners.
By combining field experience, research-informed approaches, and education, KEA contributes to building a fairer, safer, and more ethical sport environment aligned with European priorities on integrity, good governance, health, and inclusion.
Social HUB
Social HUB is an NGO founded and registered at the beginning of 2018 by youth workers, mentors, volunteers, and friends that have a common interest in sharing their personal and professional experience in the areas like outdoor activities, sport, arts, and sustainability to encourage and promote social inclusion through non-formal education.
We promote collaboration between non-profit organizations active in the field of culture, outdoor activities, sports, and social inclusion, developing a community of young active people that share life-changing stories.
Social HUB is to contribute to the development of society, promote, disseminate and apply through non-formal education, sport, arts, and outdoor activities values like equality, freedom, tolerance, inclusion, and care.
Social HUB mission is:
– To create a more inclusive society, fair and supportive, at a local, national and international level;
– To shape a harmonious life perspective for young people through non-formal education, and having a friendly approach to the issues of employability among young people;
– To provide learning and growing opportunities for youngsters no matter their background, gender, race, physical characteristics;
– To contribute to the construction and development of the European identity and active citizenship;
Social HUB objectives are:
– The development of active citizenship and civic competencies;
– Encouraging volunteer activities among young people;
– Social, vocational, and professional insertion among young people;
– Integration of people with fewer opportunities in the Bulgarian society;
Supporting young people with fewer opportunities remains one of our main priorities, but we are also focusing on activities like volunteering, international youth exchanges, training sessions, extracurricular activities, information events that have a great contribution to the youth people’s development. Participants improve their skills, and they are also informed about existing opportunities, which help them increase their chances of employment and become active citizens.