ERASE
Education and Raising Awareness in Schools to Prevent and Encounter Gender-Based Violence
Visit the official project websiteERASE aimed to strengthen the capacity of educational systems to prevent and respond to gender-based violence (GBV). The project focused on improving awareness, early detection and intervention by equipping teachers, future educators and school professionals with the knowledge and skills necessary to recognise, address and prevent GBV affecting children and young people.
Through research, training and institutional collaboration, ERASE developed a sustainable and transferable training programme for educational professionals, promoting safer and more gender-equal school environments.
Why it matters — ERASE
Schools are key spaces for preventing and addressing gender-based violence from an early age. By equipping teachers and school professionals with evidence-based tools to recognise, prevent and respond to GBV, the project strengthens early detection, promotes safe disclosure and challenges harmful social norms. Through sustainable and transferable training, ERASE contributes to building safer, more inclusive and gender-equal educational environments.
Core Objectives
- Increase awareness and change social norms and behaviours related to gender-based violence.
- Encourage disclosure, reporting and help-seeking among victims of violence.
- Strengthen professionals’ capacity to detect, prevent and respond to GBV affecting children and youth.
- Develop a sustainable and transferable GBV training programme for educational contexts.
Key Actions
- Development and piloting of a four-module GBV training programme for school professionals.
- Data collection and evaluation to design a needs-based and sustainable training approach.
- Knowledge exchange among partners, stakeholders and institutions.
- Dissemination of training tools, research findings and prevention strategies.
Outputs
Materials produced by the project. Where a public link is available it is included below.
