The 'A.W.AR.E.N.E.S.' project aims to equip staff assisting women victims of violence with tools to foster their social and economic reintegration. The main objectives include the development of a toolkit with two teaching modules focusing on awareness of the vicissitudes experienced and the development of entrepreneurial skills. The project contributes to the improvement of practitioners' skills through transnational mobility and knowledge exchange. Furthermore, it aims to promote inclusion by training women victims of violence, supporting them in acquiring new knowledge and skills to overcome the economic and social disadvantage resulting from the violence they have suffered. The creation of a Moodle platform offers a further tool for continuous exchange on educational and methodological challenges. In summary, the project aims at enhancing the capacities of the staff and women involved to deal with the impacts of violence and to foster their success in the social and working context.
The 'A.W.AR.E.N.E.S.' project was conceived to address the complex challenges related to gender-based violence, be it economic, physical and/or psychological, that affects women. It intends to support volunteers and workers in the social and economic reintegration of victims, sharing with the entire partnership educational tools and strategies that can increase in women who have suffered violence the awareness of their own potential and the ability to become economically independent. Studies conducted at different levels confirm that violence against women is a problem that affects every country in the world. In fact, the 'World Report on Violence and Health'1 estimates that one in five women has experienced some form of violence in her lifetime and within the EU, according to data on crimes in the member states, violence is the leading cause of death of women in the 16 to 50 age group. Given the importance of this phenomenon, which also led, in September 2021, the European Parliament to pronounce on gender-based violence, wishing it to be punished unanimously, we believe that A.W.AR.E.N.E.S.S. was a relevant and necessary project to support women.