From 22 to 26 April in Comarruga, Tarragona, Spain, a seminar was held of the project "Consensual - measures against sexual harassment" dedicated to prevent sexual violence among young people by piloting a training program aimed at developing interpersonal relationships and creating a gender-free environment.

The Consensual project with a focus on prevention, detection and react upon the  forms of sexual violence is coordinated by the Globers Association and the objectives of the project are:

• Identifiy of the so-called "Rape culture", which normalizes or downplays sexual violence and increases public awareness on the subject.
• Reducing beliefs and understandings in society that support gender – based violence through direct work with young boys and girls and by changing harmful social norms and stereotypes that promote gender inequality and create conditions for sexual violence and harassment;
• Know gender mainstreaming methodology for building gender equality policy and its implementation at local, national and international levels.
• Develop an implementation strategy inside the partner organizations for the application of methods aimed at creating a gender-violence free environment.

The seminar brought together about 30 specialists, youth workers and coordinators of youth organizations from 9 countries: Фондация ПУЛС / PULSE Foundation и Сдружение Ре-Акт Re-Act association (Bulgaria), Globers (Spain), Európa Ifjúsága Egyesület - Youth of Europe Association (Hungary), Oriel (Italy), You in Europe  (Greece), JOETZ vzw  (Belgium),Youth association Mano Europa (Lithuania), Association Hors Pistes (France), Partner Up Estonia (Estonia) during which participants developed their competencies on recognizing the signs of sexual violence and harassment, prevention methods and mechanisms for timely response.

During the training program, the approach of non-formal and intercultural learning through experience was used and it was filled with various workshops, thematic cases, games, practical examples, experiences and other methods of non-formal learning, physical activities and movement, accompanied by various discussions and reflections, which aimed to support the personal and professional development of the participants.

The learning process provided space for everyone to participate directly through their experience, knowledge, methods and approaches and all together they have learned about specific terminology, discussed the different types of violence and  the different sorts of interventions,  shared their valuable opinions on the topic as well as their personal and professional experiences.

The seminar provided an opportunity for the participants to discuss the plan for the future development of the project and the possibilities for its continuation and direct action at national, regional and local level, as well as provided space for building a long-term partnership at national and international level as a bridge which aimed to solve the problem of sexual violence and harassment.

The project is funded by the Erasmus + program of the European Union, Key Activity 1: Learning Mobility of Individuals (2020-1-ES02-KA105-015045).