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The project addresses the problem of insufficient, stereotype-based knowledge about the mechanisms of domestic violence in the legal community. This problem causes secondary victimisation, e.g. women who have experienced domestic violence for years and who attacked the perpetrator receive harsher punishments compared to the perpetrators. We address our project to young people, studying at law and administration faculties at Polish universities or continuing their education with patrons (at Councils of the Bar) or at the National School of Judiciary and Public Prosecution. We will provide them with a free specialist e-learning course on domestic violence, containing among others descriptions of the experiences of victims and perpetrators of violence with the Polish justice system. We are developing the course in cooperation with our partners from Poland and Norway. Our partner in the project is the District Council of the Bar in Opole, whose members teach at law faculties and/or support future attorneys through mentoring, traineeships, as well as providing substantive support for the activities of law student scientific clubs. While promoting the course, we have reached out to all law faculties at Polish universities, student clubs at law faculties, as well as non-profit legal and domestic violence organisations across Poland.