NEW EU RESEARCH PROGRAMME


Programme: 2008 DAPHNE III (action grants)

 

Project's Title: An indirect harmful effect of violence: Victimizing the child and Re-victimizing the woman-mother through her child’s exposure to violence against herself.

 

Short description of the project: This project has a twofold aim: Firstly, to address the problem of the indirect harmful effect of violence against women mothers upon their children if exposed to it in the domestic sphere, as well as mothers´ conscience of that effect and secondly, to address the problem of lack of research based information on the issue as well as of sensitization. This will be reached by: a) data collection for mothers´ awareness about the indirect harmful effect of violence against them upon their children if exposed to it b) investigation of possible indirect harmful effect on children and comparison of their perceptions and self-images with children not exposed to violence against their mother c) production of research-product guidelines for the development of informational, web-based counselling, TV broadcasting and educational material, d) the web-paged sustainable communication and counselling e) multi-level dissemination of the results.

Project's network: Applicant of the project is the University of Cyprus- UNESCO Chair in Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment. The project's coordinator is the UNESCO Chairholder in Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment, Prof. Mary Koutselini, Department of Education. The partnership of the project consists of three partners of the UNESCO Chair’s Partnership (Università di Roma Tre, Italy – Leader: Prof. Sandra Chistolini, University of Presov, Slovak Republic – Leader: Prof. Iveta Kovalcikova and University of Oradea, Romania – Leader: Prof. Secui Monica) and fifteen associate partners (GOs and NGO’s) in the participating countries.

 

PROJECT FUNDED BY CYPRUS RESEARCH PROMOTION FOUNDATION