BGRF is partner in the project “Stop Violence against Elderly Women: STOPVI.E.W.” The project started in February 2011 and will continue until February 2013 and is supported by Daphne programme of the EU.

STOPVI.E.W is focused on issues of violence against women over 65 that is still a relatively unexplored area in six EU countries – Italy, Portugal, Bulgaria, Spain, Slovenia and France. The overall aim is to increase knowledge of motivations and consequences of the phenomenon at national and EU levels and to give social visibility to this problem through an intensive awareness-raising, information and communication programme.
STOPVI.E.W envisages also to prepare organisations and services to the elderly women to develop new approaches and tools for recognising the phenomena and set up social support networks.

The leading partner is Auser Regionale Lombardia (Milan, Italy) and other partners are: Bulgarian Gender Research Foundation (Bulgaria), CNIDFF (France), ANJAF (Portugal), UNAF (Spain), ZDUS (Slovenia).