The main objective of the “WE GO! Women Economicindependence & Growth Opportunity” Project (acronym WE GO!) is to strengthen support services for women victims of domestic violence in Europe, with a particular regard to training and advisory services that shelters/women’s centres offer to these victims. It focuses on the capacity building of trainers and officers of these centres and the development of new methods/responses to address the lack of economic alternatives for women victims. Thanks to WE GO!, centres will become more responsive to economic needs of victims (often a secondary focus following legal support), who will be able to exit situation of violence as a result of being empowered.
Specific objectives:
- To enhance amongst practitioners crossborder cooperation of support services targeting women victims of violence, identifying and exchanging good practices from at least 8 European countries that foster victims’ economic empowerment;
- To enhance the practitioners’ understanding and skills by proposingmodels/protocols of support paths that will help victims in gaining economic independence.
Expected results:
- 160.000 πολίτες θα ενημερωθούν για τα πρόβλημα βίας και τα πορίσματα του σχεδίου.
- 200 women involved in training activities during the whole project lifetime;
- 35-50 anti-violence centres operators involved in training activities;
- 50 professionals involved in comparative analysis and exchange activities;
- 100 policy makers/institutional representatives reached;
- 1,000 stakeholders informed about the project’s results.
Partnership:
- SEGE – Greek Association of Women Entrepreneurs (Greece)
- Animus Association Foundation (Italy)
- Associazione Donatella Tellini-biblioteca Delle Donne-ce (Italy)
- Bulgarian Centre Of Women In Technology (Bulgaria)
- Centro Veneto Progetti Donna-auser (Italy)
- i.f-centro Italiano Femminile Provinciale Di Reggio Cal (Italy)
- Euclid Network (UK)
- Folkuniversitetet, Stiftelsen För Kursverksamheten Vid Up (Sweden)
- Fundación Mujeres (Spain)
- Gender Project for Bulgaria Foundation (Bulgaria)
- Istituto Per La Ricerca Sociale (Italy)
- Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies – MIGS (Cyprus)
- Fundació De Dones. Fundació Privada (Spain)
- Women’s Center of Karditsa (Greece)
Target Groups: Women victims of intimate partner violence, Practitioners of social work, Psychologists
Duration: 11/01/2016 – 10/01/2018
More information can be found on the official website of the project wegoproject.eu
