Against match fixing - European Research & Education Program

All assumed tasks presented in the application form have been completed in the project. Due to the pandemic Covid 19, the project was extended by 6 months and was implemented for 42 months. In February 2018, the project opening conference was organized in Warsaw. The attendance target was achieved and, according to the media report, the number of publications concerning the conference was estimated at 6.86 million recipients.According with the description of project, during the implementerion were created five teams working on intelectual outputs : 1)The Legal Team;2)The Case Study Team;3)The Research Team;4)The Education Team;5)The Super Team.The legal analysis covers a total of 12 countries and four continents, including eight European countries (Austria, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, United Kingdom), two Asian countries (Japan, South Korea), one South American country (Paraguay) and one country from Oceania (Australia). Very important part of the project are recommendations for possible changes and/or adaptions in legislation based on best‐practice."Report analysis of case studies of fixing activities in the EU and in the world" – is a summary of the STUDY TEAM work and contains the analysis and description of known fixing methods, and 20 cases of examples of fixing activities in different countries, with analysis of their environment, description of the legal and sport results and consequences.Research Team developed the metodoly of the work, creating special survey guaranteeing anonymity for the respondents. 432 responses was expected, but we received higher quantity – almost 700. It was necessary to extend the survey process, but that was definitely beneficial for the project. The result of the work of the Research Team is report under the working title: "An analysis of match fixing on the basis of research conducted among players and personnel of football clubs in selected European countries" (result number IO 3).The Eduation Team developed training materials (on-line and e-learning) such as: 1.Short promotional film2.Information brochure (leaflet)3.On-line materials in languages of all partners – film - educational presentation (about 1 hour)4.E-learning materials in languages of all partners – General presentation, Practical Guidelines, Reports, Additional information, Final Test, Certificate. As part of the work of Education Team, almost 300 available dates of on-line training were organized. A total of 500 people participated in the on-line training.The completed task is to prepare an on-line platform and a mobile application. Probably due to the pandemic period, it was not possible to fully use this solution, but the educational materials are very attractive and there are currently many opportunities on the use of the created educational tool. The Ekstraklasa Foundation, as the consortium leader, confirms that is going to continue training with the use of innovative solutions.The Education Team prepared "Summary report of the Education Team work". All international meetings related to working out all IO 1 – IO 5 were implemented in accordance with the assumptions included in the application form. The Super Team prepared recommendations for the prevention of corruption in sport (anti match-fixing). Unfortunately, the Super Team did not have a chance to work its job by organizing TPM. The work was carried out on-line and thus the final content of the recommendation was developed.The project were closed by a one-day conference in Warsaw (Multiplier sport event: MSE 2), which will was organized by the Leader, but it was in on-line formula. The conference was attended by 115 people including representatives of the Partners and guests.