Project’s full name: LINK – Linking Information for Adaptive and Accessible Child-Friendly Courts (CERV-2022-DAPHNE), Nr. 101097047.

Project’s duration: 2 years (1 June 2023–31 May 2025).

Project’s description:

Project aims to improve the accessibility and integration of child protection systems in criminal proceedings involving children, especially children with intellectual and/or psychosocial disabilities. We aim for a decision-making process that is adapted to disability, age and gender – all with the aim of protecting and supporting child victims.

Project’s main goals: 

  1. Building or strengthening capacity of criminal justice professionals to ensure that child victims with intellectual and/or psychosocial disabilities are not discriminated against.
  2. Optimising or developing the integration of child protection systems in criminal proceedings.

Project takes place in: Bolgaria, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Portugal, Italy, Slovenia.

Project’s partners:

Validity Foundation (koordinator projekta, Madžarska)

APAV | Associação Portuguesa de Apoio à Vítima (Portugalska)

CNR – Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche (Italija)
Fenacerci – Federação Nacional de Cooperativas de Solidariedade Social (Portugalska)

KERA Foundation (Bolgarija)

PIC – Pravni center za varstvo človekovih pravic in okolja

Mental Health Perspectives (Litva)

SL Consult – Sabine Lobnig (Avstrija)

SPMP CR – Společnost pro podporu lidí s mentálním postižením v České Republice ZS (Češka)

Terre des Hommes Hungary (Madžarska)

VSE – Victim Support Europe (Belgija)

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