Promoting comprehensive policies to end gender-based violence in research and higher education.

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While many institutions adopt policies against gender-based violence, too often they lack the structures, resources, or monitoring mechanisms to ensure these policies are effective in practice. The result: persistent gaps between formal commitments and lived realities for staff and students.

The GenderSAFE Institutional Assessment Tool provides a structured framework to evaluate an organisation’s capacity and progress in addressing gender-based violence and supports institutions in adopting coherent, sustainable strategies for prevention, protection, provision of services, prosecution, partnerships, and policy (7P model).

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Latest news

New webinar: Introducing our Institutional Assessment Tool

Sep 29, 2025 | Events, Project news

Introducing the GenderSAFE Institutional Assessment Tool. Join us on Wednesday 26 November, 11.00 am CET, to learn how to use the tool and how it can support institutional transformation!

Work in progress: Baseline Policy Framework for Addressing Gender-Based Violence

Sep 9, 2025 | Outputs, Project news

The Baseline Policy Framework for Addressing Gender-Based Violence is designed as a practical resource for higher education and research institutions, providing clear provisions and guidance on how to prevent, address, and respond to gender-based violence. It covers...

Strategic framing to tackle resistance to change: Addressing gender-based violence in research and academia

Aug 5, 2025 | Outputs, Project news

Gender-based violence remains a deeply rooted issue across European research and higher education institutions and implementing effective institutional responses still faces resistance. To support those leading change, GenderSAFE has developed a new guide: “Strategic Framing to Tackle Resistance to Change: Addressing Gender-Based Violence in Research and Academia.”

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The EU-funded GenderSAFE project is supporting research and higher education institutions in establishing safe, inclusive, and respectful environments by setting up comprehensive policies to effectively counteract gender-based violence.

Increasing robustness of zero-tolerance policies by building a common policy discourse in the EU reflecting state-of-the-art theoretical debates, including attention to power and intersectionality, mobility and precarity,

Facilitating the uptake and ownership of a zero-tolerance approach to gender-based violence policies through mutual learning, exchange, and co-design in a Community of Practice, involving multiple circles of various types of stakeholders,

Building institutional capacities to set up and implement gender-based violence policies through training of responsible staff and officers.

Creating a knowledge base on the uptake and contents of zero-tolerance policies at RPOs in the EU through a data collection and monitoring system.

Raising awareness and creating uptake through carefully designed communication, dissemination, and advocacy activities.

Pledge zero tolerance to gender-based violence!

In alignment with the zero-tolerance code of conduct published by the Commission’s Sub-group ‘Inclusive Gender Equality in the ERA’, we’re calling on higher education institutions, research organisations, and all ERA stakeholders to take a bold stand against any form of gender-based violence by committing to its principles.

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