Doha: Doha based, International Centre for Sport Security (ICSS) and its partners the United Nations Office of Counter Terrorism (UNOCT) and the Unite.
ICSS, EU partners launch ‘BITEFIX’ project
03 Feb 2021 - 8:03
The Peninsula
Doha: Recognising the need for enhanced cooperation between stakeholders and innovative practical tools to combat corruption in sport and tackle match-fixing and betting fraud, the ICSS, through its ICSS INSIGHT, and seven organisations from six EU countries, joined forces in a collaborative partnership under the EU ERASMUS+ sport program to launch ‘Building innovative tools for the exchange of information and awareness raising against match-fixing in sport’ (BITEFIX) project.
Led by ICSS INSIGHT and made possible by the financial support of the European Union, the BITEFIX project aims to create and offer tools to enable committed stakeholders to work together, contributing to greater efficiency of the existing exchange of information mechanisms, particularly in support of the national platforms under the Council of Europe Convention on the Manipulation of Sports Competitions, also known as