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With a new training module especially designed for volleyball, the Play Fair Code visited all 20 clubs of the Austrian Volley Leagues (AVL) women and men for the very first time.
The top flight of the Austrian Volleyball Federation’s referees was also trained for the first time as part of their central referee annual conference.
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With a workshop module that has been redesigned, adapted and updated in terms of both, content and layout, the Play Fair Code currently is visiting and training all clubs of the Austrian Bundesliga for the fourth time. The procedure is a well-practiced and highly professional interaction with the league and the clubs. Eleven of twelve teams have already been trained. More

Final conference reporting on the "Against Match-Fixing" project, co-financed under the Erasmus + Sport programme, implemented by an international consortium of entities dealing with the problem. Thursday, 24.06.2021, 11:00 a.m. CET. More

After the women's national team and the male junior national teams were trained last autumn, the Play Fair Code now also was a guest of the female junior national teams (born in 2002 and 2004) during their training camp in Dornbirn. More

The urge for the European Association for the Study of Gambling’s webinar on the subject of match-fixing and integrity arose from the film “Fixed - A Football Comedy” released in 2020. More

It is due to Corona that the Erasmus+ project SEE-I (Southeast European Countries for the Integrity of Football Clubs) has so far been carried out in an online mode mainly. Under the project management of the Romanian University of Sports (UNEFS), an international team of renowned integrity experts, including the Play Fair Code, has tasked itself with the development and implementation of specialized training materials for the Southeastern European region. More

A large-scale European study shows that nearly 20% of people in sports has been confronted with direct or indirect match-fixing - being the manipulation of sport competitions or matches - proposals. More

This year’s beginning marked the first anniversary of the manipulation scandal in the Austrian Basketball Superliga. Following an acute-workshop series in the Superliga in 2020, shortly after the incident became known, a second training module has now been rolled out for the clubs of the Basketball 2nd League. More

In addition to the three Erasmus+ projects AMFix (Against Match Fixing), EPOSM (Evidence-based Prevention Of Sporting-related Match-fixing) and SEE-I (South Eastern European Countries for the Integrity of Football Clubs), in which the Play Fair Code is currently involved, other EU-projects are regularly supported with expert contributions as requested. More

The well-established long-term partnership between the IOC, the Austrian NOC and the Play Fair Code recently led to another invitation to contribute to what is now the third “Advanced NOCs Virtual Training on the Prevention of the Manipulation of Competitions” at the beginning of February 2021. More