− The Principality’s initiative combines occupational health, gender equality and organizational transformation to try to prevent this type of aggression.
− SESPA strengthens its commitment to protecting rights and improving work environments and positions itself as a key player in building inclusive and safe spaces.
The Health Service of the Principality of Asturias (SESPA) is leading the design and implementation of a pilot project within the framework of the European Brave-Wow project. This initiative, co-financed by the European Commission’s Citizens , Equality, Rights and Values (CERV ) program, seeks to prevent gender-based violence and harassment in the workplace.
Since last May, Sespa has been part of a working group that unites healthcare organizations from Portugal, Italy, Spain, and Slovenia to develop an innovative assessment tool designed to improve understanding and prevention of these types of attacks.
Specifically, Sespa is working on a project that includes a comprehensive approach combining occupational health, gender equality, and organizational transformation. Through collaboration with healthcare professionals, public administrators, and prevention experts, practical tools are being developed to improve the detection, response, and eradication of workplace violence and harassment.
As a leading healthcare institution, SESPA coordinates a series of activities that include psychosocial risk analysis, the development of intervention protocols, staff training, and impact assessments in selected workplaces. These actions allow for the validation of innovative methodologies that can be replicated in other institutional contexts.
SESPA thus reinforces its commitment to improving work environments and protecting fundamental rights, positioning itself as a key player in building safe, inclusive, and violence-free spaces.
The project, designed to be participatory and inclusive, will focus on the use of focus groups, interviews, and roundtable discussions, as well as sentiment analysis on social media, to identify expressions of violence or toxic behavior. This will promote the creation of practical procedures and policy recommendations co-developed with external partners and collaborators.The program is led by the University of Coimbra (Portugal), brings together 14 partners, and has a budget of 2.1 million euros. Sespa, for its part, works with two other Asturian partners: the Foundation for the Promotion of Scientific Research and Technology in Asturias (Ficyt) and the Technological Center Foundation for the Development of Information Technology in Asturias (Ctic), in addition to the University of Barcelona.