Research Project CODE-IWP: Commitment to Democracy Through Increasing Women’s Participation
April 25, 2025
Athena SWAN Charter and Equality Framework – UCY’s Accreditation
January 9, 2026
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”
- Sensitizing and raising awareness through research-product material, both transnational and differential according to the partner-context
Duration: 2 years, December 2009 – December 2011
Funding: European programme DAPHNE III (action grants 2007 – 2013)
Short description: This project had 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 was 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. The project is innovative as far as content and methodology are concerned, and its results can contribute to the EU policy areas regarding the indirect harmful effect of violence against children that were of priority during its implementation.
The project’s network: Applicant of the project was the University of Cyprus – UNESCO Chair in Gender Equality and Empowerment. The project’s coordinator was the former UNESCO Chairholder in Gender Equality and Empowerment, Prof. Emerita Mary Koutselini, Department of Education. The partnership of the project consisted 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.
