The main objectives of the project were: 1. strengthen the anti-violence transactional network through the exchange of good practices between rehabilitation institutions perpetrators of violence; 2. standardize the intervention system and share a structured approach; 3. promote awareness of the phenomenon of gender-based violence and the importance of prevention through actions synergies in the socio-educational field, primarily intervening on violent communication and cultural stereotypes e ingrained social issues relating to the identities and roles of men and women in society and in the family; 4. raise public awareness in the community; 5. reduce the health and social impact on the victims; 6. orient the work for perpetrators of violence towards methodologies that meet the criteria of the European Guidelines and the parameters of the Istanbul Convention;
The project was based on the analysis of the phenomenon of gender-based violence, which includes any act of gender difference that causes or is likely to cause physical, sexual, psychological harm or suffering to women, including the threat linked to such acts, the coercion or the arbitrary deprivation of liberty in both public and private life. The project that brought together three European partners from Italy, Poland, and Lithuania, coming from different contexts and operating in different sectors (third sector, associations, local public entity), allowed to structure a working group aimed at sharing experiences and work projects, starting from the analysis of the territories. The project also enabled the initiation of innovative research in the field of working with perpetrators of violence, in continuous theoretical and technical updating and allowed for the activation and exchange of good practices.