International Seminar: Sexual explotation against children
“Sexual exploitation of children and adolescents. Unveiling a hidden reality, to train in its prevention and intervention”
29 September 2023
Registration
https://forms.gle/qKXBgXymQMGqd5iB9
The registration deadline for the seminar is September 27th.
Seminar participants will receive a digital certificate as long as they have paid their registration fee and have effectively participated in the seminar. Those who also take part as a speaker will receive 2 certificates, as a participant and as a speaker.
Komunikazioak aurkezteko
https://forms.gle/oNgCQ76ZPJNjxwK8A
Deadline fot the submission of contributions: September 8th
Contributions to the congress may be presented in a later extended version that will be published in a thematic book by Editorial Grao (SPII Q1, number one in Education).
Provisional program
From the STOP Erasmus + project (KA220-VET-000088336), different European partners (UPV/EHU, Pistes Solidaries, MEITIS, CESIE, and Four Elements) want to tackle a complex and sometimes hidden phenomenon such as sexual exploitation of children and adolescents. There is no data on its reality, but we know it exists and must tackle it. For example, in France, a report has recently been published which informs us of the magnitude of the phenomenon: it is estimated that there are between 7 and 10,000 minors in this situation, an increase of 682% in six years, according to the Central Office for the Repression of Trafficking in Human Beings (OCRTEH).
The invisibility or quasi-invisibility of sexual exploitation of children and adolescents, in politicians and public institutions, educators and social workers, higher education professionals in these professions, but also in families or young people themselves, means that no measures are taken to respond to it, and there is no training or methodologies for prevention and intervention. The consortium of professionals gathered in the STOP project wants to provide answers, make visible and improve the understanding of the phenomenon among social and socio-educational intervention professionals, and train to prevent and support minors in this situation.
In this context, this international seminar aims to be a space for reflection and dialogue between all the sectors involved that will allow us to build a shared diagnosis and reveal the dimension and characteristics of this phenomenon of sexual exploitation of children and adolescents and other related phenomena such as child pornography or the trafficking of minors for these purposes, also of the measures and alternatives necessary to fight for its eradication in all areas. To this end, on 29 September 2023 in the Bizkaia Aretoa hall (UPV/EHU) in Bilbao, in a bimodal format, we are organizing this seminar open to the entire political, academic, professional, and social community related to the subject.
Contact: mintegiastop@gmail.com
OBJECTIVES
- To reflect from the different dimensions and agents on the current dimension and characteristics of the phenomenon of sexual exploitation of children and adolescents
- To learn about the contribution of policies and actions in this field at a national and international level
- To learn about national and international research and reflections on this field and lines of future work
- To identify good local and international practices related to prevention and intervention in this field
- To identify good local and international practices related to prevention and intervention in this field
- To raise awareness of the European STOP Erasmus plus project
TARGET GROUP
This International Seminar is aimed at politicians and public administration technicians, professionals from multiple disciplines: social educators, social workers, psychologists, health professionals, university teachers and students, family members, and social organizations working in prevention and support for sexual exploitation of children and adolescents.
The Congress will be both face-to-face and online.
ORGANISING ENTITIES:
The organizers of this international seminar are the Faculty of Education of Bilbao (University of the Basque Country / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea) and the STOP Erasmus Plus project (KA220-VET-000088336) with the collaboration of the KideON research group (UPV/EHU), the Ibero-American Society of Social Pedagogy and the MITIE organization (France).
Institutional collaboration. Provincial Council of Bizkaia and Basque Government
ORGANISING AND SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
As is customary at international scientific events, we have an organizing and scientific committee of national and international experts.
| Name and Surname | Organización de Trabajo |
| Maitane Picaza (Director) | University of the Basque Country |
| Israel Alonso (Director) | University of the Basque Country |
| Nahia Idoiaga | Dept. of Developmental and Educational Psychology (UPV/EHU) |
| María Dosil | Dep. Methods of research and diagnosis in education (UPV/EHU) |
| Itsaso Biota | University of the Basque Country |
| Amaia Eiguren | Dep. Methods of research and diagnosis in education (UPV/EHU) |
| Teresa Laespada | Provincial Council of Bizkaia |
| Carolina Cañellas | Facultat d’Educació Social i Treball Social Pere Tarrés |
| Belén Espejo Villar | Salamanca University |
| Sara Serrate | Salamanca University |
| Amelia Tiganus | Emargi |
| Selma Fernández | Federación de Asociaciones para la Prevención del Maltrato Infantil, fapmi-ECPAT España |
| Beatriz Llorente Mesa | Vicki Bernadet |
| Luisa Maria Gomez del Aguila | Salamanca University |
| Karla Villaseñor | Autonomous University of Puebla (Mexico) |
| Isaac Ravetllat | University of Talca (Chile) |
| Judith Saavedra | University of Santiago de Chile |
| Marian Arias | Askabide |
| Isabel Baptista | Member of the Provincial Council of Bizkaia |
| Almerindo Janela Gonçalves | Universidade do Minho |
| Ana Vergara | University of Santiago de Chile |
| Edgardo Toro | University of Santiago de Chile |
| Aziz Essadek | University of Lorraine |
| Rosa Valls Carol | University of Santiago de Chile |
| Francisco José del Pozo Serrano | National University of Distance Education |
| Encarna Bas Peña | University of Murcia |
| Ignacia Arruabarrena Madariaga | Department of Social Psychology.UPV/EHU |
| Noemí Pereda | University of Barcelona, UB. |
| Luis Ballester | Universitat de les Illes Balears |
| Txus Morata | Catedra de Faculty. Pere Tarres. Universtita Ramon Llull |
| Maitane Urizar Elorza | Gure Sarea Elkartea |
| Aitziber Bañuelos | Eraikiz Kolektiboa |
| Carme Montserrat Boada | Universitat de Girona |
| Joana Miguelena Torrado | Universidad del País Vasco – Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea |
DATES AND LOCATIONS
The international seminar will be held in the Arriaga Auditorium of Bizkaia Aretoa, both in person and online, on the morning of 29 September 2023. The international and national speakers will give their presentations virtually and/or in person, and the national speakers will present in the same space. There will also be a space for group work at political, technical, and professional levels and communications presented at the seminar.
PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
29/09/2023 Friday
Arriaga Room (Bizkaia Aretoa, Bilbo)
All information on the seminar can be found at:
www.kideon.eus
www.ehu.eus/es/web/bilboko-hezkuntza-fakultatea
Funding
Unión Europea. Erasmus plus
Basque Government
Faculty of Education of Bilbao (UPV/EHU)
KideON research group (UPV/EHU)