voices of impactful change and women empowerment to end gender-based violence.
An international prevention and support project
young relationships consent
Experience, listening and concrete action for real change.
VOICES is an international project promoted by D.i.Re and Stigamot to prevent sexual violence among young people and improve support for survivors.
What is VOICES
Voices of Impactful Change and Empowerment to End Gender-Based Violence (VOICES) is a project of the Network D.i.Re - Women on the Net against violence funded by Erasmus+ programme through theItalian Youth Agency, in collaboration with the Icelandic association Stigma meeting, which has been committed to preventing and combating sexual violence for years.
Who is it for?
VOICES is aimed in particular at young women and men, and aims to build innovative, accessible and replicable tools across Europe.
Two realities, one shared vision.
D.i.Re - Donne in rete contro la violenza
It is the largest Italian network of anti-violence centers: 88 organizations present throughout the country. Every year it welcomes over 23 thousand women, promotes advocacy, awareness and training actions.
Stígamót – Iceland
It is a support center for survivors of sexual violence, with an open and intersectional approach. It has been working with girls and boys for years and also runs an anonymous online chat service.
The goal is to build a network of tools, educational practices, local actions and shared campaigns that can be adapted to different European contexts, always putting at the center the voices of the girls and boys, theirs right to healthy relationships and the experiences of survivors.
Concrete action
What We Do
Prevention
VOICES involves young people aged between 18 and 25 in activities of discussion, listening and creation of concrete tools to recognise, avoid and combat sexual violence.
Training
Through international training, VOICES strengthens the skills of the operators of the Anti-Violence Centers, improving the response to the needs of young women survivors.
Support and Research
We collect and analyze international good practices to improve interventions to support young survivors of sexual violence.
Best practices
Focus Group
Italy – February / March 2026
The focus groups made on the national territory they involved 95 young people in 11 meetings, creating spaces for discussion on relationships, consent, personal boundaries, controlling behaviors, and violence.
Through dialogue and experimentation with Flag Check, boys and girls were able to share perceptions, doubts, and experiences, helping to bring out needs, languages, and points of view useful for developing the VOICES tools.
The results collected guided the project and offer valuable insights for developing prevention activities that are more in tune with the experiences of young people.
Testing of communication tools, web content, and prevention strategies
FLAG CHECK
Let's put our cards on the table!
A deck of cards for recognizing and discussing healthy and abusive relationships, designed as a simple, participatory tool suitable for working with young people.
Postcards
The VOICES postcards are awareness-raising tools designed to bring the project's themes to the forefront even outside of training sessions.
Through instant messaging and recognizable graphics, they invite reflection on consent, relationships, and control signals. They are available in two versions: “Sex vs. Abuse”, dedicated to the distinction between consent, abuse and coercion, and “Relationship Spectrum”, which helps to read the different relational dynamics and to recognize possible risk signals.
A flexible and easily shareable resource, designed for young people, stakeholders, and online communities.
Tools and resources
Instruments
for anti-violence centers
Tools and resources
FLAG CHECK with your cards face up!
Flag Check is the card game developed as part of VOICES to discuss relationships, consent, boundaries, and controlling behaviors in a simple and participatory way.
Through situations and phrases related to everyday life, it invites us to discuss what can characterize a positive, unbalanced, or violent relationship, placing the point of view and experience of those who play at the center.
A tool designed especially for young people and groups, to be used as an opportunity for discussion, awareness, and prevention.
Tools and resources
Desk research
Italian Research Desk
Sexual violence prevention projects aimed at adolescents
Desk Research Iceland
Projects and campaigns aimed at fighting and raising awareness on gender-based and sexual violence in the last 20 years.
Co-funded by the European Union. The opinions expressed, however, are those of the author(s) alone and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the EACEA can be held responsible for them.
