Project: Youth4Youth – Empowering Young People in Preventing Gender-based Violence through Peer Education 

Project No: JUST/2010/DAP3/AG/1351

Duration: 1.02.2011 – 31.03.2013

Coordinator: Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies (MIGS) – Cyprus

Partners

  • Casa delle Donne per non Subire Violenza, Italy
  • Centre of Research in Theories & Practices that Overcome Inequalities – University of Barcelona, Spain
  • European Anti-Violence Network, Greece
  • Women’s Issues Information Centre, Lithuania

Short description of the project

EAVN participated as a partner in the project “Youth4Youth – Empowering Young People in Preventing Gender-based Violence through Peer Education” (with financial support from the DAPHNE III Programme of the European Union).

The project’s main aim is to contribute to the prevention and combating of gender-based violence among adolescents by providing them with a safe space to reveal their attitudes towards violence, to reassess their tolerance towards it, and empower them to become actively involved in developing an environment free from violence for themselves as well as for their peers. The project will be implemented using a gender equality and rights based approach. 

In the framework of the project, EAVN conducted the following activities:  

  • research study on young people’s (699 students from 4 Lyceums in Attika) attitudes towards gender-based violence and the links between gender stereotypes and gender-based violence [read the research results here (in Greek) and here (in English)],
  • 4 experiential workshops (34 teaching hours duration), with 87 students of secondary education who were sensitized on gender stereotypes and prevention of GBV and trained on the peer education method and 28 awareness raising workshops, (33 teaching hours duration), where 61 students of secondary education acted as peer educators and sensitized 435 of their co-students in 3 Lyceums in Attica [read the report here (in English)],
  • realization of exhibitions with the products that resulted from the workshops,
  • two training seminars of teachers aiming to introduce the basic concepts relating to gender-base violence and peer education and actively engage teachers in the project activities,
  • one press conference for the presentation and dissemination of the results of the research, the intervention and the evaluation of the workshops,
  • three interviews (2 radio interviews and 1 that was published in newspaper), reporting the main results of the research, but also the experience from the implementation of the workshops [listen to the radio interviews (in Greek): 1st Interview (June 30th, 2012) –  2nd Interview (September 29th, 2012)] 
  • publication of the Awareness-Raising Booklet “VIOLENCE IN RELATIONSHIPS: MYTHS & REALITIES” with information aimed at preventing gender-based violence among young people,
  • publication of the “Teachers’ Manual for Empowering young people in preventing gender-based violence through peer education”.