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

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If you are seeking to develop, improve, or implement a policy addressing gender-based violence in your research and higher education institution, you are at the right place! Advancing a zero-tolerance approach, the GenderSAFE offers state-of-the art insights, tools, trainings, and is operationalising a baseline policy framework effectively counteract gender-based violence. It will also be creating a knowledge base on the uptake and contents of zero-tolerance policies in research and higher education institutions in the EU.
through a data collection and monitoring system

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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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Our
objectives.

The EU-funded GenderSAFE project will support 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.

Latest news

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.”

New webinar: Technology-Facilitated Abuse in Academia

Jul 8, 2025 | Events, Project news

GenderSAFE Webinar on Technology-Facilitated Abuse in Academia with Arpita Chakraborty, in conversation with Ayşe Gül Altinay Date: 18 September 2025 Time: 11:00 - 12:30 CEST Webinar language: English This webinar explores the issue of technology-facilitated...

Policy Brief – Beyond Symbolic Commitment: Taking a Zero-Tolerance Approach to Counteracting Gender-Based Violence

Feb 28, 2025 | Outputs, Project news

Based on the initial studies published by GenderSAFE, this first policy brief provides higher education and research institutions and other stakeholders with insights into existing policy approaches on the zero-tolerance approach (Bondestam et al., 2024) and the needs...