News
News with regard to events organised or attended by members of the IMPRODOVA Consortium can be found here.
International Women’s Day symposium – Innovate to end gender-based violence!
04.03.2021
IMPRODOVA participates in International Women's Day 2021 symposium, organised by Felm, and in cooperation with Fingo, WeEncourage, Hyvinpitely, C-Sema (Tanzania National Child Helpline), ELCT (Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania), UNFPA Tanzania, and the Embassy of Finland in Tanzania to end gender-based violence. Through this event, the organisers wish to enable free and informal dialogue and new ideas for collaboration.
Workshop by the European Commission on domestic violence
23.02.2021
On invitation, our IMPRODOVA team joined the CERIS FCT* workshop on domestic violence by the European Commission (DG Home and DG JUST) on February 23rd, 2021. Focus of the online debate was on investigation, protection and prevention. Prof. Michele Burman presented IMPRODOVA’ main results.
Information letter of German Security Research Programme
23.02.2021
IMPRODOVA has been featured in the current Information letter of the Security Research Programme by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Dr. Catharina Vogt has written the article about objectives and research results of the IMPRODOVA project.
Workshop by the Community of Users on Secure, Safe and Resilient Societies on the human and societal aspects of crime in the time of the pandemic
02.12.2020
Prof. Michele Burman presented on ‘The IMPRODOVA Project’ at a workshop organised by the European Commission on the human and societal aspects of crime in the time of the pandemic.
Project Presentation at OSCE Meeting
02.12.2020
On November 27, 2020 the Annual Meeting of the OSCE Police Academy Network took place online focussing on "Use of Force" as general theme. Reference point of most presentations were responses to what seems to trigger police violence and what can be done about the problem. IMPRODOVA Coordinator Prof. Joachim Kersten covered German police education and training including IMPRODOVA research findings.
Another successful elective course on domestic violence at the medical faculty in Münster
04.11.2020
On 24 and 25 October 2020, the second compulsory elective course for medical students on the topic of "Domestic Violence in an International Context" was held - due to the Corona Pandemic - online again. The elective course was designed to be interactive and allowed the 16 students to engage in lively discussions.
APHA 2020 Virtual
28.10.2020
Prof. Dr. Dr. Bettina Pfleiderer - IMPRODOVA´s German WWU partner- gave an invited talk at the annual meeting of the American Pulblic Health Association entitled: Development of online training platform on domestic violence for police, health care and social sector at the 27th of Oof October 2020. The session title was "COVID-19 and human rights".
IMPROVODA training platform on domestic violence goes global!
15.10.2020
Prof. Bettina Pfleiderer, IMPRODOVA consortium partner from the University of Muenster, Germany, was guest of honor and gave a presentationat at the first training course of the Federation of Obstetric and Gynaecological Societies of India (FOGSI) on the topic "European online training platform on domestic violence for the medical sector". The IMPRODOVA platform was very well received by the 200 Indian participants of the course and many are very interested to use the training materials of the platform in the future.