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

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...

GenderSAFE into its second year!

Feb 28, 2025 | Project news

On 24-25 February, the GenderSAFE consortium gathered for its first progress meeting at the beautiful Czech Academy of Sciences, in Prague. We took stock of the project’s first year of activity, which set the project’s foundations, including the development of...

GenderSAFE CoP meeting: Working towards victim/survivor-centred policies

Feb 24, 2025 | Blog, Project news

On 21 February the GenderSAFE Community of Practice gathered for a meeting titled Shifting the burden — (Working) towards victim/survivor-centred policies in current university practices.