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

GenderSAFE Institutional Self-Assessment Tool

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

Strengthening National Frameworks Against Gender-Based Violence: Launch Report

Apr 10, 2026 | Events, Project news

On 19 March 2026, an event organized by the GenderSAFE project titled “A Safer ERA: Strengthening National Frameworks Against Gender-Based Violence” took place in Brussels, to present new findings on national policies on gender-based violence in research and higher...

EU Sister Projects Unite for International Women’s Day 2026

Mar 6, 2026 | Project news

Advancing Intersectional Equality in Research and Innovation: EU sister projects launch a joint campaign for the International Day of Women’s Rights 2026.

A Safer ERA: Strengthening National Frameworks Against Gender-Based Violence

Feb 18, 2026 | Events, Project news

Join this event launching our national policy monitoring report on responses to gender-based violence in higher education and research.

Upcoming trainings and webinars

On-site Training: Active Bystander Intervention

5 May 2026 in Vienna: Training on Active Bystander Intervention

Rethinking Data Protection in Academia

17 Feb: webinar on data protection in gender-based violence cases

Training on addressing gender-based violence against trans and non-binary people

TRAININGAddressing gender-based violence against trans and non-binary people in universities and research organisations 19 March 2026 | 13.00 – 15.00 CETonline***Thank you for your strong interest in this training! Registration has now reached full capacity. If you...

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Our
objectives.

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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