This symposium presents key findings on gender violence prevention from education, specifically from educational centres through community and family involvement. The centre of research CREA from University of Barcelona (http://creaub.info) is the largest centre in Spain working on overcoming inequalities through social and educational research. It is an interdisciplinary centrein which different Spanish and European universities participate from different disciplines (education, sociology, history, gender studies, etc). From CREA we have been working in educational research on the prevention of gender violence for more than 12 years, in collaboration with other European institutions. From this extensive research we have developed the line of research “Preventive socialization on gender violence”. The results of our research in this line have been published in JCR journals like Violence against women. This line of research analyse the social and educational interactions (family, school, massmedia, peers) that contribute to the creation of different attraction models. The links between this attraction models and gender based violence are studied through educational research. Research incorporates social theories about love and attraction with contributions from authors such as Beck, Elster and from fields like community education with authors like Freire. Youth and teenagers have participated in these research and different European and national researchers have been developed in this line. Besides the identification of the elements that contribute to configure the different attraction models we study how to do a preventive education of gender violence. Many educational actions oriented to prevent gender violence are not based in scientific evidences, with our research we elaborate orientations based in educational research.At this symposium we present some of these European and national researches developed over recent years and some of them in process nowadays.

The first paper presents the theoretical basis and the pioneer research in this line entitled “Love in risk society. An education tentative” from Jesús Gómez, that established the grounds of the research line of preventive socialisation on gender violence. This paper presents the evidences of the links between attraction models and gender violence, presenting also results from different national and European research. In the second paper based on a European and a national research and based also in educational practices we present how the prevention of gender violence in schools need all the women of families and communitiesto participate in the prevention.  This paperhighlights the need of the participation of all women and not only expert women in gender violence but mothers, grandmothers, sisters, neighbours, etc. In the third paper we present the first results of new research in this line of a new concept named “mirage of upward mobility”. Social status in the peer group with regards to affective relationships and gender violence are analysed. In the last paper we present research on peer education on the prevention of gender violence. On this research some results of a Daphne project on peer education and educational practice will be presented.