<< Background >>Inclusive societies are a priority of the European Union. In working to create inclusive societies, multiple actors spread across the societal strata have to come together to work, consistently, over multiple years to create tangible societal change.Gender imbalance has been highlighted as a priority case towards achieving inclusive societies. In striving to work for gender equality across all spheres, numerous countries have hitherto realised the value of the girl child, the young women who will build a strong society for tomorrow. Young women are an ASSET to tomorrow’s Europe. Hence, we actually need to be Acting to Stop the Silent Epidemic Together supporting to have Resilient Young Women.Our society of today, especially exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic has gone astray in its willingness to support young women come out of the pandemic unscathed. Violence towards women has gone underreported especially since March 2020. As lockdowns kept getting extended, so did the incessant atrocities committed by partners, fathers, husbands, to name a few on young women they knew, the silent pandemic still rages on. Many cases of young women being domestically abused, sexually exploited, coerced into marriage and murdered went largely unreported. Statistics and law-enforcement agencies recorded fewer cases. As the old adage goes, out of sight, out of mind. Young women have disproportionately borne the brunt of the current pandemic.Women, irrespective of their age are impacted by gender-based violence. Our project wishes to selectively target young women as we believe they have been the most disproportionately affected by this issue. Young women dream to have a stable and successful career, wish to be independent in their decisions and finally believe that the world should be an equal place. Our project, wishes to do its little bit but supporting young women across the partner countries and thereafter across Europe to support them by combating this evil phenomenon in our society.Through Project ASSET, we target:The Valorous ASSET, oriented towards ideas of self-valuing, experience sharing while ensuring the participants come together to feel included in today’s diverse society. Speaking out about the silent epidemic and giving it a voice will allow it to come out of the shadows and making it aware in the minds of the populations.The Resilient ASSETs on synergy across groups of people separated by distance can be built through common stories of strength, on overcoming difficult situations by sourcing actual implications of past events that can be seen as best practices in today’s light. Tangible Solutions as Europe’s Real ASSET with the intellectual powerhouse that Europe is, would allow the partners of the consortium to support its young women in creating a better future for them. When young women are empowered, society benefits as a whole. Thematics and topics in this project include inclusion and diversity, common values, civic engagement and participation, reinforcing links between policy, research and practice, inclusion of marginalised young people, promoting gender equality and physical and mental health and well-being.The partnership, spanning across multiple European countries and extending into the Mediterranean is vital to understand the latent mindset of the populations to combat the issue of violence against young women. Each country and population is unique in the way they tackle the issue, even if the problem is the same. Our strength in this partnership will be the diversity of voices at play.Project ASSET, conceived as a real responsive intervention to the atrocities committed before and during the pandemic addresses the silent part of today’s society and media when it comes to crimes committed against young women.<< Objectives >>The greater objective of Acting to Stop the Silent Epidemic Together: Resilient Young Women is to create healthy and resilient societies in Europe by raising awareness on the issue of gender-based violence, tapping into women’s networks while providing tools and life-skills for young women across multiple sectors. The partnership consortium wishes to do its bit in working towards supporting young women to counter violence and femicidal tendencies through self-strengthening and reinforcement through capacity building and recognition. These objectives will be achieved through three LTTAs: (i) Valorous ASSET (sharing experiences with psychosocial support); (ii) Resilient ASSETs (exchange of best practices and research on empowerment); (iii) Tangible Solutions: Europe’s Real ASSET (capacity building through networking, resilience engrained) and through the production of R1: (iv) Europe’s ASSET: A Handbook with Policy Recommendations and a PlatformThe concrete objectives of the project are:(i) Capacity-building through expert interventions to support young women to think alternatively(ii) Supporting victims of gender-based violence(iii) Providing a space for young women to be heard, share their views and jointly develop measures that they can use to support themselves and others(iv) Ensuring the opportunity to support young women, especially in the vulnerable years as they look to build a career and their lives is not lost(v) Empowering young women to recognise elements and facets of violence in their lives and those of others to provide self and communal support<< Implementation >>Each of the activities under Project Acting to Stop the Silent Epidemic Together: Resilient Young Women concentrate on one of the three sections that have been thought of to be central to having a wholesome understanding of the situation. Through opening such activities to persons with different profiles (learners, young people while extrapolating them to youth workers), our activities are tailored to reach out to those who need such support, re-empowerment, capacity building and networking the most.Activity 1 Title: Valorous ASSETIt is oriented towards ideas of self-valuing, experience sharing while ensuring the participants come together to feel included in today’s diverse society. Speaking out about the silent epidemic and giving it a voice will allow it to come out of the shadows and making it aware in the minds of the populations.Activity 2 Title: Resilient ASSETsSynergy across groups of people separated by distance can be built through common stories of strength, on overcoming difficult situations by sourcing actual implications of past events that can be seen as best practices in today’s light. Sometimes, actual work done in one country could be applied in the case of another country to ensure the young women get the support they need in a pre-fashioned manner.Activity 3 Title: Tangible Solutions: Europe’s Real ASSETThe intellectual powerhouse that Europe is, will allow the partners of the consortium to support its young women in creating a better future for them. Tools and life-skills that have been learnt from the previous two activities will be used as the foundations to envisage having tomorrow’s resilient young women. This activity will also bring together practitioners as facilitators to brain storm with the participants on how new networks could help alleviate the existing pain on the targeted young women or ensure they never go down this spiral.We work towards this by doing our little bit through these three training activities bringing learners and young people from across Europe and using this learned material to prepare our output Handbook and the platform.<< Results >>Under Project Acting to Stop the Silent Epidemic Together: Resilient Young Women, the result is titled Europe’s ASSET: A Handbook with Policy Recommendations and a Platform is tailored to young women in and around Europe. The result is two-fold, comprising of(i) Handbook with Policy Recommendations(ii) A Web-Platform to bring the synergies of the project consortium and other future partners togetherThis handbook will be supported by the digital web platform that will allow to network and connect, available in six European languages. The handbook with policy recommendations per se will be available for download as a PDF from the online-platform, the project’s website and also from the partner organisations’ websites.The handbook will present lessons learnt including best practices and research assimilated from the LTTAs in order to provide a compendium that youth workers, young people and researchers across Europe will be able to use in working with young women, especially those vulnerable to gender-based violence. Case-studies under anonymous names will be further included to support potential beneficiaries to learn real-life scenarios and apply them in their daily work.The long term impact of project ASSET would be:(i) Creating long-term capacity building initiatives across trans-european regions(ii) Allowing young women to gather support(iii) Supporting young women to reach out to support networks and organisations(iv) Build life-skills in youth and young women, as defined by the WHO(v) Create an egalitarian society where violence against women will be shunned upon(vi) Having resilient policies in place that will support young women who are victims of violenceTransferability Potential of the result:- The issue of femicide and gender-based violence is prevalent in every single European country, thence the potential to use the lessons learnt is high by all our target beneficiaries- Countries, cities and communities tending to work on gender-related issues, especially when wishing to extend support to young women- Additional translations, when commissioned could also help furthering the result’s outreachProject ASSET envisages working through the partners existing expertise on youth, young women, gender-specific priorities besides transnational action to generate a cascade effect of strengthening the current capacity to support, empower and provide valuable life-skills and tools to young women, items and thematics that will be dealt with through the proposed result.