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Received: 19 September 2018

Accepted: 29 March 2019

First Online: 8 April 2019

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: Carmen Vives Cases, MPH, PhD.- Professor in the area of preventive medicine and public health of the University of Alicante. She has directed several research projects in the areas of epidemiology of gender-based violence against women, immigration, ethnic minorities and public health. She is now coordinating the European Commission Action Grant, “Lights, Camera and Action against dating violence” (Available at ExternalRef removed). She is the author of more than 120 articles published in indexed journals about this issue (ExternalRef removed). She is a member of the WHO Collaborating Center for social inclusion and health issues at the University of Alicante.Dr. Mari Carmen Davó Blanes (MPhil, PhD).- is Public Health Senior Lecturer at the University of Alicante. She has leaded and collaborated in several research projects on school health promotion, school feeding policy and gender violence and has authored and co-authored a wide range of papers on these topic. Member of the European Project “Policies on Marketing food and beverages to children” (POLMARK) she is currently coordinating the Public Health University Professors Forum for the improvement of public health curriculum in Spanish universities.Rosario Ferrer-Cascales.- Ph.D. in Psychology. Full Professor in the area of Personality, Assessment and Psychological Treatment at the University of Alicante. Director of the Department of Health Psychology and of the Research Group Psychology Applied to Health and Human Behavior of the University of Alicante. She has published a wide range of articles in relevant journals of the area and has participated as Principal Investigator in different research projects. She has participated as researcher in different European Projects.Belén Sanz Barbero (MHP, Phd) - Scientific researcher at the Health Institute Carlos III (Spain) Professor of epidemiology at the National School of Public Health (Madrid, Spain). She is expert in Social Epidemiology from a gender perspective. She is involved in several national and international projects about intimate partner violence. She is currently leading the evaluation in the project “Lights, Camera and Action against dating violence”. She is member of the Spanish research network CIBERESP.Natalia Albaladejo-Blazquez.- Ph.D. in Psychology. Graduate in Psychopedagogy. Associate Professor in the area of Personality, Assessment and Psychological Treatment at the Department of Health Psychology of the University of Alicante (Spain). Member of the Research Group Psychology Applied to Health and Human Behavior of the University of Alicante. Author of different articles published in indexed journals and presentations in national and international congresses.Miriam Sánchez-SanSegundo.- PhD. in Health Science. Graduate in Psychology and Criminology. . She is Research Assistant Sciente with specialization in Personality, Assessment and Psychological Treatment as well as in Forensic Psychology. She has published articles in different JCR impact factor journals, written book chapters and participate in numerous scientific events. She is an active researcher of different European Commission funded Projects.Manuel Lillo-Crespo, MSN, PhD<b>-</b> Associate Professor in the Department of Nursing and International Mobility Coordinator at the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Alicante. He is also a Nurse Manager at Vistahermosa HLA Hospital in Alicante and recently appointed as Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and Academic Fellow of his Regional Academy of Nursing (Comunidad Valenciana). He has participated in nine European Commission funded projects in the field of healthcare, directed 10 doctoral dissertations and published more than 65 scientific manuscripts and book chapters (ExternalRef removed). His areas of expertise include: healthcare management, healthcare improvement science, qualitative methods and ageing.Nic Bowes, Phd<b>.-</b> is a Forensic Psychologist and Reader of Forensic Psychology at Cardiff Metropolitan University. Her practice and research interests relate to violent offending. She has experience of directing clinical trials, designing and implementing the methodology. Her research was accepted within the Research Excellence Framework, 2014. Nicola is a registered practitioner with the Health and Care Professions Council and also works as a Visitor for the HPC assisting them to evaluate academic programmes for practitioner psychologists in the UK. She is also a Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society (BPS) and Full Member of the BPS Division of Forensic Psychology (DFP). She is a member of the DFP national committee and is currently Consultations Lead.Sofia Neves, PhD – is Assistant Professor at University Institute of Maia (ISMAI) and researcher at Interdisciplinary Center of Gender Studies (CIEG – ISCSP/ULisboa). She has been coordinating several research projects in the area of gender-based violence against women and social diversity. Since 2015 she is the President of Associação Plano i, a non-governmental organization aimed to promote Human Rights and prevent and combat gender-based violence. She is the author of numerous books, book chapters and articles (ExternalRef removed/ 0000–0001–6180-4932).Veronica Mocanu (M.D, Ph D) is Professor of Pathophysiology and Eating behavior at “Grigore T. Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Iasi, Romania. She is senior endocrinologist and her major research field of interest is the obesity (including exposure to violence of obese children and adolescencents). She is the coordinator of the regional Healthy TraditionsProgramme for the prevention of childhood obesity. She participated in different projects funded by the European Commission. She is the author of more than 50 papers published in indexed journals focusing on a healthy lifestyle. (ExternalRef removed).Elena Mihaela Cărăușu (M.D., Ph. D) is Associate Professor of Management and Public Health at “Grigore T. Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Iasi, Romania. In 1989, she graduated from the Faculty of Pediatrics and received the PhD degree in 1997. She is a senior (primary) physician in two specialties: Public Health and Management, since 2003, and Food Hygiene and Nutrition, since 1997. She has been involved in the international public health research project “Training and prevention for a healthy life” as team member. In the last 20 years she has published in extenso, as main author, over 130 studies and scientific papers focusing on public health issues, 15 of which in ISI indexed journals.Jacek Pyżalski, PhD in humanities in the field of education studies. Participant and coordinator of about 60 national and international research projects. The author of many publications in peer-revied journals and books. His research interests are connected with the following issues: electronic aggression, new media, communication at school, traditional peer peer bullying and cyberbullying (also intervention aspects). In the years 2008–2012, he was a member of the international consortium of researchers of cyberbullying (COST IS801). A member of the European research network IS 1210 “Apperance matters” and currently COST CA16207 “European Network for Problematic Usage of the Internet”.Maria João Forjaz, PhD - Scientific researcher at the National School of Public Health, Spanish National Institute of Health Carlos III. She graduated from University of Lisbon and obtained her doctorate in Clinical Psychology in 2000 from University of North Texas, USA, with a Fulbright scholarship. She participates actively in the training of junior researchers and medical residents in public health and preventive medicine. Her research interests include scale validation and health indicators. Dr. Forjaz is the author of almost 100 articles in peer-review journal and several books and book chapters. She is an associate editor of the journal <i>Quality of Life Research</i>, an associated member of the European-funded joint action CHRODIS+ and group leader of the Spanish research network REDISSEC.Iwona Chmura-Rutkowska – assistant professor of pedagogy and sociology at the Faculty of Education Studies at Adam Mickiewicz University. She is a Scholarly Board member of the Interdisciplinary Center for Gender and Identity Research UAM and a lecturer at postgraduate Gender Studies UAM. Chmura-Rutkowska is an expert in social education sciences including gender studies. She has published on cultural and social conditioning of gender identity formation, violence and critical analysis of discourses of femininity and masculinity in popular cultural, school curricula, textbooks, every day live, biography and storytelling.Cristina Pereira Vieira PhD in Sociology - Assistant Professor at the UAb (Open University, in Portugal) and researcher at Interdisciplinary Center of Gender Studies (CIEG – ISCSP/ULisboa). She has been conducting research on sexuality, gender, among others with emphasis on the experiences of youth sexuality; masculinities from the models and logics of relationships; Bodies and seduction; Equality and gender violence from the practice of discrimination (especially homophobic Bullying) in the daily relationship of youth. In this vast area, she is the author of publications and communications in national and international congresses. She is a member of the MEDUSA - Genders in transition: masculinities, affections, bodies and technoscience (ExternalRef removed/ 0000–0002–5494-5371).Consuelo Corradi Ph.D. is professor of Sociology at Lumsa University (Rome, Italy). Her research interests include the cross-national comparison of policies on gender violence and femicide. She is the author of more than 100 scientific publications on related topics. She is currently the scientific supervisor of WoMoGes, a Marie S. Curie global grant on surrogacy in 4 countries of the world. In 2007–2009 she was Vice-President of the European Sociological Association.

: The Lights4Violence protocol was approved by the ethical committee of the University of Alicante, Instituto Universitário da Maia/ Maiêutica Cooperativa de Ensino Superior CRL. Maia, Universitatea de Medicina si Farmacie Grigore T. Popa and Adam Mickiewicz University. Waivers were obteined from the Libera Universita Maria SS. Assunta of Rome and the Cardiff Metropolitan University. These ethics approvals/waivers covered the individual schools where we are going to perform our intervention. It was also registered in ExternalRef removed by the coordinator (ExternalRef removed: NCT03411564. Unique Protocol ID: 776905. Date registered: 18-01-2018).

: All partners must ask parents and children for their consent to make public the resulting video capsules, short films and photos without children’s name attached to protect their identity. They will be asked to provide a signed informed consent to publish and share all these project results for non-commercial purposes and without any kind of modification. They will be assured that the dissemination of these results will be carried out giving the appropriate credit and providing a link to the creative commons license (Attribution & Non-commercial & Non-derivate Creative Commons License: ExternalRef removed).

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