Partners
Duration
Starting date: 1st of December 2017
End date: 30th of December 2019
Project coordinator
University of Alicante [1] Spain
LUMSA research unit leader
Prof. Consuelo Corradi
Members of LUMSA research unit
Prof. Gabriella Agrusti
Prof. Maria Cinque
Prof. Francesca Comunello
Prof. Francesca Ieracitano
Prof. Donatella Pacelli
Prof. Nicoletta Rosati
Dr. Francesca Belotti
Funding
Overall EU contribution:
Euro: 398.355.86
Contribution received by LUMSA:
Euro: 65.583,30
Project's aims
This project is focused on promoting adolescents’ capabilities to improve their intimate relationships with their peers through different activities aimed at:
Project’s contents
The project is going to involve about 700 adolescents between 14 and 15 years enrolled in secondary education schools from Alicante (Spain), Rome (Italy), Cardiff (UK), Iasi (Romania), Porto (Portugal) and Poznan (Poland) and more than 70 secondary school teachers. The experts are going to work with pupils in classes on a range of activities to make them aware of claiming their rights and those of their peers and protecting themselves from risky or abusive relationships.
"Lights4Violence" will develop two typologies of intervention.
On the one hand, activities for the benefit of adolescents with the activity of short videos making and an international conference on "Dating violence between young people and adolescents and the role of education". On the other hand, the project will develop activities for teachers such as seminars on information and promotion of means to protect against violence and the drafting of teaching guides for the use of thematic videos in classrooms
Main Activities
Lights4Violence main activities are:
The Expected Results are:
Upgrading on the European project Lights4Violence (June 2018)
The pilot study has been carried out in all partner countries in order to evaluate and adapt the online questionnaire that will be used to evaluate the results in the intervention and control group.
In Italy, Lumsa University reached 18 students aged in the 15th (72,2%). According to the results, 66.6% of them has ever been in a dating relationship, and 56% knows some women who have experienced intimate partner violence. Bullying is the most registered violent behaviors: 16.7% of students bullied someone and 33.4% were bullied.
Project's meetings
25-26 January 2018 - Madrid (Spain)
4-5 October 2018 - Rome (Italy)
March 2019 - Cardiff (UK)
Ocotber 2019 - Alicante (Spain)
Web-site: http://www.lights4violence.eu/ [6]
Facebook: Light4Violence
Twitter: @lights4violence
For further information:
Dr. Francesca Trodella
LUMSA Office of Scientific Research
Via delle Fosse di Castello, 7 - 00193 Roma
ricerca@lumsa.it [7]
Links:
[1] http://www.ua.es/
[2] http://www.umfiasi.ro/
[3] http://www.cardiffmet.ac.uk/
[4] http://amu.edu.pl/
[5] http://www.ismai.pt/
[6] http://www.lights4violence.eu/
[7] mailto:ricerca@lumsa.it