The project will combat the cross border match-fixing threat to European sport. It will do this by directly raising awareness of match fixing issues by educating athletes via face to face visits at their place of work. This education for athletes will be delivered by people the athletes know and trust – their player associations according to the accredited training courses for them delivered by INTERPOL. The project is co-financed by the private betting operators’ trade associations. Education for participants is now accepted as an essential part of any programme to combat match fixing. It is included in the EU Work Plan for Sport 2014-17. The 2012 Presidency conclusions on establishing a strategy to combat the manipulation of sport results recognise the need to educate athletes. The new Council of Europe convention on the Manipulation of Sports Competitions (which the EC will sign up to) says in Article 6 “Each Party shall encourage awareness raising, education, training and research to strengthen the fight against manipulation of sports competitions.”Match fixing mainly occurs in elite sport but will have a negative effect on the whole of sport including grass roots. Match fixing directly harms grass roots sport through the loss of sports credibility as a force for good as well the loss of role models, negative media publicity and long term reductions in income for sport. For example, evidence from the match fixing scandals in Chinese professional football clearly demonstrate that they had a large negative impact upon grass roots football nationally as parents and children thought the sport was corrupt and had lost the values that make sport a worthwhile pastime. By preventing match fixing scandals in elite sports, our education project will help to protect grass roots sport maintaining the inspiration effect of elite sport on the grass roots participation.