Jurgita Pečiūrienė, EIGE’s Gender Expert and member of the gender-based violence team receives the commemorative badge for the contribution to Lithuanian Presidency of the Council of the EU from the President of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė.

EIGE provides access to existing statistics data and information on gender-based violence, aiming to support the institutions and experts engaged in preventing and combating gender-based violence in the EU and beyond. Amongst others, Jurgita and EIGE colleagues working on data collection on GBV participated and provided expertise in the Strategic planning meeting on GBV, which was part of official side-events calendar of the Lithuanian Presidency.