
Project summary
MotivAction is a transnational project financed by Erasmus + Sport funding from the European Union between 7 countries (Bulgaria, Cyprus, France, Greece, Moldova, Poland, Portugal) aiming to implement whistleblowing policies at national level, to promote, protect and handle alerts against the manipulation of sports competitions.
The project gathers 7 national platforms, representative organisations such as coaches players and referees during three years (2022-2025). The project coordinator is the French National Gambling Authority (ANJ).
An international and multidisciplinary group of experts collaborate to better understand how to empower athletes, referees and coaches to report manipulations, before designing and implementing national action plans for effective reporting mechanisms and whistleblowing policies at national levels. Both the preparation phase and the implementation, in the context of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, will create operational expertise and good practices on the promotion and management of whistleblowing behaviour that will be disseminated far beyond the 7 partner countries.
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End of the implementation phase & organisation of the closing conference in Paris
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Deliverables
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Closing international conference in Paris
Main steps
Sports players, referees, or coaches are regularly contacted to fix matches. Very few of them actually report such approaches to relevant authorities. There are many reasons for that lack of reporting: fear of reprisals, lack of awareness and trust in reporting mechanisms, lack of whistleblowing policies or poor ethical climate. National platforms need: 1. Reporting mechanisms and management policies. 2. Whistleblowing policies to promote and protect whistleblowers.
The MotivAction project has 4 general objectives :
1. Focus on tools and policies implemented at national level in the seven partner countries.
2. Bring together national platforms and sport actors (consultation and co-construction).
3. Build guidance and tools : create deliverables to assist policy-makers at national level.
4. Protect the sport and fight against the manipulation of sport competitions by promoting reporting.
