EchoLove

<< Objectives >>The project ECHOLOVE aims to promote healthy relationships and prevent gender-based violence among youth through the development of an innovative artistic-pedagogical tool. The tool will increase young people’s awareness of toxic relationships and their ability to react to emotional dependency and violent behaviours. It will also help teachers and trainers address young people’s relational needs, recognizing and preventing affective issues that may lead to unhealthy relationships.<< Implementation >>The project will implement key activities in order to develop and disseminate its final outcome, namely the artisticpedagogical tool. Such activities include: The preparation of the methodology A 7-day artistic-pedagogic residency to co-develop the artistic tool in Bologna A local testing event in Barcelona Evaluation, finalisation and translation of the handbook Dissemination of the handbook in Spain and of the final artistic tool in Italy Online and in presence coordination meetings<< Results >>The project will produce an artistic-pedagogical tool developed in cooperation with artists, non-formal trainers, and gender and relational experts to help young people recognise toxic relationships and prevent gender-based violence. This tool will be available through a handbook, providing formal and non-formal youth trainers with a practical resource to integrate into their daily work, addressing the gap left by limited or absent affective and relational education in formal education systems.