While physical, emotional, and sexual forms of domestic violence and violence against women continue to be major social and health problems, new forms of domestic violence have emerged. In the last decade, legislation in different European states has started to incorporate forms of domestic violence and violence against women that had not been identified as such until now. For example, digital violence and abuse, coercive control, economic abuse, and isolating gender-based violence (which concerns violence or abuse against those who support victims, isolating them further). Children have also been identified as victims of domestic violence. Broadening definitions of domestic violence and violence against women have led us to establish new strategies and interventions to prevent and reduce their effects.

The contributions to this sixth ECDV conference will enable us to share recent advances in knowledge about both established and new forms of domestic violence and violence against women across Europe, as well as the political and social impacts achieved and the differences that have been made to the lives of victims and survivors.

Spain has been a pioneer in Europe in the development of legislation to combat gender violence. These developments have been underpinned by the co-creation of knowledge and the commitment to generating scientific evidence that is a key feature of the ECDV conferences.

This Conference is a great opportunity to create spaces of exchange and discussion to continue the co-creation of scientific knowledge aimed at eradicating all forms of domestic violence and violence against women.

The conference language will be English, and the conference is in-person only. There will be the option of presenting a proposal of Workshops in Spanish.