The project “Against match fixing – European Research & Education Programme” is implemented by an international consortium. The main goal of the project is conducting research and education activities to prevent the phenomenon of match fixing in football.
The project is financed from European funds under the Erasmus + Sport Programme, which is the main support for the implementation of projects targeted at the sports environment.
The project “Against match fixing – European Research & Education Programme” will see international cooperation between eight organisations involved in sport and counteracting match-fixing. It will prepare an innovative training programme based on materials collected, analyses and research. The expected result of the training is to increase knowledge on fixing methods and skills related to assertive responses in such situations among 80% of the participants.
The project will include work of the following four working groups:
Legal Team
The team will conduct an analysis of legal solutions related to counteracting corruption in sport, taking into account national legislation, the rules of league games, as well as bilateral agreements (club-player) in selected countries of the EU, Asia and South America.
Study Team
The team will select and analyse fixing methods. Examples of fixing activities of different countries will be described in the form of case studies.
Research Team
The team will organise and conduct a study to determine the scale of the problem, motivation and the degree of exposure to fixing activities in sport.
Research Team
The team will organise and conduct a study to determine the scale of the problem, motivation and the degree of exposure to fixing activities in sport.
An educational platform will be created on which all the results of the project will be shared, including e-learning courses and reports. The results will also be available on the mobile application.
We expect that two conferences will be organised; these will be attended by 160 people, and involve 33 professionals who will organise 14 working meetings, conduct research involving approximately 1,500 respondents, develop five reports with recommendations, create an educational platform that will benefit 50,000 recipients, implement online training for 300 groups of participants, and provide three e-learning courses, which will be completed by 1,000 people.
As the initiator and at the same time the project leader, the Ekstraklasa Foundation invited partners from seven EU countries to cooperate. Partners were carefully selected based on their substantive value and experience in the field of sport.
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