Programmes
Online Trainings
Anti-Corruption, Anti-Money Laundering and New Digital Compliance Solutions in Sports Organizations
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dates
30 April - 6 May 2026 - Asynchronous Learning
7 and 8 May 2026 - Virtual interactive classes: 13:00 – 16:15 CET (Online via MS Teams)
Application deadline
23 April 2026
Fee
EUR 450
Language
English
Details
Overview
By the end of this course, participants should be able to:
- Know typologies and risks of corruption and money laundering in sport, including general and specific forms of corruption
- Understand behavioural aspects of corruption in sport
- Know how to conduct integrity and corruption risk assessment and identify corruption and money laundering risks in sports organizations
- Be able to design, implement and maintain integrity, safeguarding and anti-corruption compliance programmes in sports organizations
- Know how to implement and use emerging technologies to enhance the effectiveness of compliance programmes in sports organizations
Programme
Structure and Workload
- Approximately 12 hours
- The course will be problem-oriented, collaborative, and combine online interactive sessions and discussions with selected readings. The course will include a Q&A session, which will provide participants with an opportunity to discuss any specific questions with the lecturer and their peers.
Target Audience
- Managers
- Integrity, anti-corruption, compliance and legal professionals of international and national sports organizations
- Professional leagues and clubs, companies, working with sports organizations
- Officials of ministries of sport
- Anti-corruption and other law enforcement authorities responsible for prevention, detection and investigation of corruption in sport.
Certificate
A Certificate of Completion will be issued to all participants who successfully complete the course.
Lecturer
Prof. Dr. Eduard Ivanov is Acting Head of the Research & Analytics Department at IACA, member of the SIGA Permanent Committee on Anti-Corruption in sport. He has a solid academic and practical experience in compliance, preventing of and combating corruption, money-laundering, and terrorist financing. Since 2023, he leads the IACA research project on Integrity and Anti-Corruption Compliance in Sport. Based on the research outputs, Prof. Ivanov delivered tailor-made trainings on integrity and anti-corruption in sport for law enforcement authorities and sports organizations in various countries.
In his academic career, Eduard Ivanov lectured at the FGV Sao Paulo Law School (Brazil), the University of Nice (France), the University of Muenster (Germany), and the Ca’ Foscary University of Venice (Italy).
He also served as co-chair of the Working Group on Typologies in the Eurasian Group on Combating Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism and was a member of the FATF Working Group on Typologies.
Prof. Dr. Andrea Minto is Full Professor of Law and Regulation of Financial Markets at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and the University of Stavanger in Norway. He holds the Chair in Digitalisation in Financial Studies funded by the European Commission (Jean Monnet Chair). He works as Counsel at Annunziata&Conso Law Firm.
Furthermore, Andrea acted as consultant/researcher for many central banks, financial supervisory authorities, policy makers and international organizations, in the ambit of AML/CFT, compliance, integrity and the new AML/CFT supervisory system for European football.