Anti Match-fixing Top Training

The Anti Match-Fixing Top Training project focused on tackling match-fixing, one of the biggest cross-border threats to the integrity of sport, through education and training targeting Top Decision Makers (directors, managers and coaches from sports clubs; federations, leagues, agents, sport regulators, players associations and other institutional stakeholders) and Media Operations (online and traditional media), specifically aimed at awareness raising and policy effectiveness.Even though to prevent and to fight match-fixing is included in the agenda of several international institutions, such as the European Commission, the Council of Europe, Interpol, FIFA, UEFA, EPFL, FIFPro, SportAccord and Transparency International (TI), not all national agencies and regulators, both from the world of Sports and the Gambling Sector, are fully aware that educational and learning programmes are powerful tools to fight match-fixing, nor that to educate sports actors in order to recognize, resist and report any form of match-fixing cannot be effective without an holistic approach to the sports reasons and the economic interests behind match-fixing together with a proper legislative environment that systematically pursues and punishes these practices. Sport organizations struggle to develop appropriate policies to fight match-fixing without investing in very specific know-how and peer learning, despite the growing awareness of the problem. At the same time, spectators and sports enthusiasts quite often play a very passive role in relation to the match-fixing phenomenon.The AMATT training intervention is based on needs assessment for greater awareness and the development of specific competences by sport bodies top decision makers to effectively face the match-fixing risks, both at professional and grassroots level, and for more data- based media reporting.Using the partners distinct know-how and organizational skills, the tailored training was developed according to a holistic and interconnected approach, based in four dimensions - E - Engage; A - Raise Awareness; C - Build Capacity and Competences, W - Create Willingness to Act – and a set of anti match-fixing core values: Collaboration, Partnerships, Knowledge-sharing, Peer Learning, Empathy and Solidarity.The project results in a training model tailored to different national contexts, institutional frameworks and diverse stakeholders' needs and expectations, following desk research, quantitive and qualitative data collection and pilot training activities in five EU countries: Austria, Italy, Portugal, Slovenia and Spain. Through the AMATT Multi-Level Learning Tool - a range of materials, tools and guidelines that can be used in various learning and training setups - conferences, seminars, workshops, coaching, e-learning, a dedicated Digital Peer Learning Community and links to the partner’s National Digital Learning Platforms-, the collaborative partnership aims to foster knowledge sharing, peer learning and, especially, the most needed change of actions and attitudes from Anti Match-Fixing Top Influencers.