Involve companies to cease domestic violence: CEASE

European project
December 2017 to December 2019

Following the CARVE project which took place from 2014 to 2016, POUR LA SOLIDARITÉ continues its work against domestic violence. The CEASE project aims to gather a European network of companies involved in this fight and to create a training module to train companies' managers and human ressources on this issue.

Domestic violence impacts victims in their everyday life and can have severe consequences on their worklife such as a high level of stress and anxiety, burn-out, sickness, absenteeism... The CEASE project aims to support companies to fight domestic violence through becoming a welcoming and ressourceful environment for victims of violence.

The project steps

CEASE takes place from 2017 to 2019 and aims to :

  • create a European Companies Network involved to cease domestic violence
  • build and animate a trainign module for companies' HR and managers
  • sensitize on this subject and disseminate the project's achievements at a large scale.

The consortium

Funded by the European Comission, CEASE is a project led by 4 partners organization in 3 member states :

  • FACE - Fondation Agir Contre l'Exclusion, France
  • POUR LA SOLIDARITÉ, Belgium
  • DIESIS, Belgium
  • CSR Hellas, Greece

CEASE in a nutshell

  • 1 European Companies Network
  • 1 Impact Map of organization working to end gender-based violence
  • 1 launching event in November 2018 in Paris
  • 5 training session in each country, so approximately 300 professionals trained in 2019
  • 1 final conference in 2019 in Brussels 

 This project is co-funded by the Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme (2014-2020) of the European Union