ENVR continues to organize study visits in 2024. The first visit was held on 1-2 October 2024, in Salzburg, Austria, where experts of Austria, Czech Republic, Cyprus, France, Germany, Ireland, Hungary, and Slovenia came together to discuss national structures of supporting victims of domestic violence, including domestic violence victims abused in the cyber space. Supporting and protecting victims of domestic violence is in the centre of the recent EU policy level reforms of which the remarkable milestone is the new directive came into effect recently.  

Member States keep making serious efforts for developing their national schemes in this area and the study visit provides forum for changing views and focused learning about this aspect of victims’ rights.  

Discussions cover 

• reaching out to victims in opt out system, 
• risk assessment, 
• danger assessment, 
• violence prevention,  
• good practices for ban the violence and for safety interventions, 
• eviction orders in practice – different national solutions for police and court barring orders,
• counseling of victims, 
• counseling the perpetrators, 
• child protection and methods of child-friendly approaches to participation of the child in the criminal proceeding, 
• the relevance of court support, and 
• the role of national strategies and hotlines. 

Detailed information will come soon on the www.envr.eu website.