Improving Access to Services for Victims of Domestic Violence by Accelerating Change in Frontline Responder Organisations

Project Information

IMPROVE

Grant agreement ID: 101074010

DOI

10.3030/101074010

Project closed

EC signature date 18 July 2022

Start date 1 October 2022

End date 30 September 2025

Funded under

• Civil Security for Society

Total cost

€ 3 185 790,00

EU contribution

€ 2 978 095,50

Coordinated by

DEUTSCHE HOCHSCHULE DER POLIZEI
Germany

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (5)

Factors leading to low reporting and non-access to services

The report maps the structural and cultural factors influence low reporting of DV and obstacles for accessing services and support by the victims.

Factors influencing the effectiveness of frontline response and potential solutions

The report displays the factors that undermine or support the implementation of DV policy on combating DV. The report maps country-specific priority areas, challenges and solutions that influence the effectiveness of frontline response to DV.

Response to DV and the victims needs in context of pandemic

The report discusses how COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown measures influenced violence, reporting, access to services and support and the response to DV in various countries and locations. The report also highlights solutions and innovations to circumvent the influence confinement measures.

Barriers, challenges and solutions to DV response: Transferring research findings to training materials

This is an analytical report that presents barriers to report violence and access to services by the victims as well as challenges and solutions to detect and intervene violence by FLRs and how these finding can be transferred and integrated into teaching concepts and methods.

Victims’ mental maps of institutional response to DV and needs regarding AI Chatbot

The report describes victims’ understanding of their situation, victims’ needs and preferences concerning the features in AI Chatbot. The report represents victim-survivors' mental maps about the institutional response to DV.

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

Project Website

The project website is set up.

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (10)

Does assessment drive learning or should learning for professional life drive assessment?

Author(s): Paulina Juszczyk, Lisa Sondern, Bettina Pfleiderer
Published in: GMS Journal for Medical Education, 2022, ISSN 2366-5017
Publisher: Gesellschaft für Medizinische Ausbildung
DOI: 10.3205/ZMA001577

Education in Police Training

Author(s): Felgueiras Sérgio, Morgado Sónia M. A.
Published in: Magyar Rendészet, Issue 25, 2025, ISSN 1787-050X
Publisher: Magyar Rendeszet
DOI: 10.32577/MR.2025.KSZ.1.14

Látencia és felszínre kerülés kapcsolati erőszak esetén

Author(s): Gábor Héra; Mónika Füstös; Zoltán Mészáros
Published in: Belügyi Szemle, 2024, ISSN 2677-1632
Publisher: Ministry of Interior of Hungary
DOI: 10.38146/BSZ-AJIA.2024.V72.I11.PP2061-2076

Empowering Change: Unveiling the Synergy of Feminist Perspectives and AI Tools in addressing Domestic Violence

Author(s): Ainhoa Izaguirre Choperena; María López Belloso; Borja Sanz Urquijo
Published in: Communication Papers, 2024, ISSN 2014-6752
Publisher: Universitat de Girona
DOI: 10.33115/UDG_BIB/CP.V13I27.23087

Intimate partner homicide: Risk constellations in separation conflicts and points of intervention for the police

Author(s): Stefanie Horn; Catharina Vogt; Chiara Wüller; Thomas Görgen
Published in: Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, 2024, ISSN 1752-4520
Publisher: OUP
DOI: 10.1093/POLICE/PAAE029

Embedded social workers within police organizations: Comparing domestic violence interventions in France and Finland

Author(s): François Bonnet, Thierry Delpeuch, Jarmo Houtsonen, Marianne Mela
Published in: Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, Issue 18, 2024, ISSN 1752-4512
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
DOI: 10.1093/POLICE/PAAE065

Empathy, bias, and data responsibility: evaluating AI chatbots for gender-based violence support

Author(s): Borja Sanz Urquijo, María López Belloso, Ainhoa Izaguirre-Choperena
Published in: Frontiers in Political Science, Issue 7, 2025, ISSN 2673-3145
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/FPOS.2025.1631881

Lähisuhdeväkivallan riskinarvioinnin haasteet poliisiorganisaatiossa

Author(s): Marianne Mela, Suvi Nipuli, Jarmo Houtsonen, Martta October
Published in: Kriminologia, Issue 5, 2025, ISSN 2737-0771
Publisher: Suomen Kriminologinen Yhdistys
DOI: 10.54332/KRIM.142760

The Potential of Restorative Approaches in Domestic Violence Cases to Contribute to More Victim-Centred Responses – Based on the Experiences of Two Field-based Research Programs

Author(s): Gabor Hera, Dora Szego
Published in: Temida, 2023, ISSN 1450-6637
Publisher: National Library of Serbia
DOI: 10.2298/TEM2303345H

Introduction and evaluation of a clinical compulsory elective course on domestic violence.

Author(s): Juszczyk, Paulina; Sondern, Lisa; Pfleiderer, Bettina
Published in: GMS journal for medical education, 2022, ISSN 2366-5017
Publisher: GMS Journal for Medical Education
DOI: 10.3205/ZMA001577

Other (6)

Transferring Research Findings about Domestic Violence to Training Materials

Author(s): Vogt, Catharina; Kersten, Joachim; Köpsel, Natalie; Juszczyk, Paulina; Pfleiderer, Bettina; Mela, Marianne; Hera, Gabor; Szego, Dora; Delpeuch, Thierry; Clement, Julie; Haudegond, Magali; Nogues, Jean-Stéphane; Prendes, Audrey
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.11191463

Handbook on combating domestic violence

Author(s): Thierry Delpeuch
Published in: 2023
Publisher: Ministère de L'Interieur, CNRS

Response to Domestic Violence & the victims' needs in the context of the pandemic

Author(s): Szgeo, Dora; Hera, Gabor; Tananau Blumenschein, Emanuel; Hopf, Emanuel; Köpsel, Natalie; Izaguirre Choperena, Ainhoa; Romero Gutierrez, Lorea; Pfleiderer, Bettina; Juszczyk, Paulina; Hellbernd, Hilde; May, Angelika; Bonet, Eduardo; Fernandez, Ruben; Gramuntell, Miretia; Morgado, Sonia; Nipuli, Suvi; Parekh, Seija; Houtsonen, Jarmo; Vassileva, Margarita
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.14140915

Victims' Mental Maps of Institutional Response to Domestic Violence and Needs Regarding AI Chatbot

Author(s): Tananau Blumenschein, Emanuel; Hopf, Stefan; Leonhardmair, Norbert; Vogt, Catharina; Kersten, Joachim; Köpsel, Natalie; González Cabezas, Sandra; Hellbernd, Hilde; May, Angelika; Mela, Marianne; Nipuli, Suvi; Romero Gutierrez, Lorea; Vassileva, Margarita
Published in: 2023
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.10953644

The Study of Gender-Based Violence through a Narrative Approach: Evidence from the European Project IMPROVE

Author(s): Lorea Romero Gutierrez; Ainhoa Izaguirre Choperena; María López Belloso
Published in: Social Sciences, 2024
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/SOCSCI13070330

Factors Leading to Low Reporting of Domestic Violence and Restricting Access to Service

Author(s): Mela, Marianne; Houtsonen, Jarmo; Izaguirre, Ainhoa; May, Angelika; Juusela, Anna; Pfleiderer, Bettina; Vogt, Catharina; Szego, Dora; Kortman, Ellimari; Tananau Blumenschein, Emanuel; Linares Bahillo, Estíbaliz; Bonnet, Francois; Hera, Gabor; Hellbernd, Hilde; Kytölä, Katja; López Belloso, María; Köpsel, Natalie; Leonhardmair, Norbert; Juszczyk, Paulina; González Cabezas, Sandra; Parekh, Seija; Hopf, Stefan; Delpeuch, Thierry; Koivukoski, Ulla
Published in: 2023
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.10908092

Monographic books (1)

Domestic Violence and COVID-19

Author(s): Joachim Kersten, Michele Burman, Jarmo Houtsonen, Paul Herbinger, Norbert Leonhardmair
Published in: 2023, ISSN 2192-8533
Publisher: Springer Link
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-15335-8

Book chapters (1)

La invisibilidad de la infancia en la respuesta de los servicios de apoyo a las mujeres que sufren violencia de género: Evidencias del proyecto europeo IMPROVE

Author(s): Izaguirre Choperena, Ainhoa; Romero Gutiérrez, Lorea; López Belloso, María
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.14165960

Intellectual Property Rights

Trademark (1)

AinoAid™

Application/Publication number: AinoAid services
Date: 2023-09-20
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