Donor: European Commission, Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme 2014-2020.
Project name: Vivien - VIctim VIolence Educational Network
Duration: 1.11.2018.-31.10.2020.
Project description:
Partners: Giolli Cooperativa Sociale (Italy), Baby, Associazione Centro Antiviolenza di Parma (Italy), Open your eyes. (Bulgaria), Saints Cyril and Methodius (Bulgaria), University of Parma (Italy), SAMK - Satakunta University of Applied Sciences (Finland).
Goals:
- systematically improve the expertise of professionals (police, judicial system, education system, health and social welfare system) who are most often the first point of contact for women victims of violence, with special emphasis on persons with disabilities,
- eliminating secondary victimization of victims and eliminating stereotypes - educating professionals on how to respond in cases of violence against women
- develop models for raising the competence of professionals transferable to other countries
Activities through which the goals will be achieved: training, education, forum theater, supervision, research, guidelines, public events and the establishment of cross-sectoral cooperation between all relevant stakeholders.