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## The UJI Salusex team joins the Bridge Project to prevent online sexual violence against children

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The Salusex team from the Universitat Jaume I in Castelló has joined the Bridge Project, funded by the Internal Security Fund of the European Commission, which brings together organisations from six member states of the European Union to strengthen the prevention of online child sexual exploitation and abuse. The initiative, which began in January 2023, is coordinated by the Stockholm region (Sweden) and the Centre for Psychiatry Research at the Karolinska Institute.

Child sexual exploitation and abuse is a huge global problem. Existing strategies have so far not proven sufficient to stop it or even to reduce its scale. The Council of Europe estimates that one in five children in Europe will be a victim of sexual violence. This violence increasingly occurs online, as criminals take advantage of technological development to abuse children.

In the opinion of Rafael Ballester, director of Salusex and principal investigator of the project in Spain: “Child sexual exploitation and abuse is a scourge we simply must react to as a society. Effective interventions are urgently needed to avoid the tremendous suffering and devastating effects caused to the sexual and emotional development of the children who suffer them. We are all responsible for the care and protection of children.”

The Bridge Project will implement an innovative strategy to ensure that people at high risk of sexually abusing children receive professional treatment, with the aim of reducing cases of this kind of sexual violence. “Recent research shows that people at high risk of offending need interventions that cannot be provided solely by online programmes or telephone helplines. Instead, they require professional treatment to intervene in their criminal behaviour,” explained Dr Christoffer Rahm, head psychiatrist at the Karolinska Institute and principal investigator of the Bridge Project.

Recruitment for the Bridge Project is open to those who are concerned about their sexual urges towards children, and are over 18 years old. Participation is free and confidential (<https://www.iterapi.se/sites/bridge/>).

**EU funding to combat child sexual abuse**

The [European Commission](https://commission.europa.eu/index_en) has provided 16 million euros in a call for proposals for projects to prevent and fight child sexual abuse. The Bridge Project is financed by the European Commission within the framework of the [Internal Security Fund](https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/funding/internal-security-funds/internal-security-fund-2021-2027_en), in response to the Call for Proposals on Child Sexual Abuse Prevention, Assistance for Child Sexual Abuse Victims, and Tools to Detect Online Child Sexual Abuse ([ISF-2021-TF1 -AG-CYBER](https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/docs/2021-2027/isf/wp-call/2021-2022/call-fiche_isf-2021-tf1-ag-cyber_en.pdf)).

The Bridge Project consortium includes higher education institutions, law enforcement and civil society organisations from six EU Member States, including the [Stockholm region](https://www.regionstockholm.se/) and the [Centre for Psychiatry Research](https://ki.se/en/cns/centre-for-psychiatry-research) at the [Karolinska Institute](https://ki.se/en/cns/centre-for-psychiatry-research) (Sweden); the [Universitat Jaume I in Castelló](https://www.uji.es/#0) (Spain); [Suojellaan Lapsia, Protect Children](https://www.suojellaanlapsia.fi/en) (Finland); the [Hamburg-Eppendorf University Medical Centre](https://www.uke.de/english/index.html) (Germany); [Bratislava Police Academy](https://www.akademiapz.sk/en) (Slovakia); and the [National Institute of Mental Health](https://www.nudz.cz/) (Czech Republic).

For more information, contact Rafael Ballester Arnal ([rballest@uji.es](mailto:rballest@uji.es) / +34 964 729719) or Christoffer Rahm ([christoffer.rahm@ki.se](mailto:christoffer.rahm@ki.se) / +46 08-123 410 23).

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