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PROJECT
PROJECT
Specific Objectives
- To carry out an educational and awareness-raising intervention focusing on primary prevention, through a methodology based on peer counseling and gamification, pivoted from high-schools.
- To apply insights and practical tools from behavioral sciences in order to first, identify the main drivers of GBV among youth early affective-sexual relationships as well as the main behavioral causes. Then, to design a phase of pre-testing before implementing the pilot in full-scale and a complete impact evaluation.
- To empower and increase youngsters‘ autonomy , capacitating them and encouraging critical thinking to confront GBV through their own awareness-raising actions and strategies.
- Promote the capacitation of the educational community to tackle and identify GBV among their students.
Main Activities
- The activities the Consortium will implement to reach the project objectives are:
- Research among the partner countries (Italy and Spain) to identify 10 good practices to prevent GBV among youngsters and specifically in the first sexual-affective relationships
- 200.000 data collection through the creation of a Transnational Artificial Intelligence text analytics platform to identify anonymously pressing social problems related to GBV and first sexual-affective relationships of youngsters and the general public of Barcelona, Madrid and Milan
- Design of a Capacity-Building Training (C-BT) in 6 high- schools to support preventing and identifying GBV in youth early affective-sexual relationships.
- Creation of 6 groups of young feminists that once trained, will lead the actions in the selected institutes.
- Validation of the C-BT in the different high-schools, training 120 youngsters and 120 teachers.
- European raise-awareness campaign: more than 200 awareness actions developed by youngsters to prevent GBV in youth sexual-affective relationships through the The Social Coin methodology, a chain of actions with a social impact.
- Transnational Impact Evaluation of the effectiveness of the pilot in changing social norms/behaviours of youngsters.
- National and European dissemination campaign which includes the creation of a network of stakeholders and project advisors, national conferences and a European seminar.
Main Results
- The main results of the project are:
- 120 students actively participate in the project, become aware of GBV issues and develop into agents of change.
- 120 teachers increase their educational tools to prevent and identify GBV issues among their students.
- Through The Social Coin, the project influences more than 6,000 young people in Europe.
- 105 stakeholders (6 public authorities) are directly involved through the awareness campaign.
- 600 stakeholders and 120 policy makers participate in the activities of the advocacy campaign
Impact Evaluation
- The project foresees a comprehensive impact evaluation with the following objectives:
- Evaluate the implementation process of the intervention in terms of quality coverage (integrity, fidelity to the planned activities and satisfaction) to identify positive and negative aspects and improvements.
- Evaluate the impact of the intervention on the behavior, opinions, attitudes and awareness of young people about psychological abuse and sexual and physical violence in the first affective and sexual relationships.
