USVReact project: a final event not to stop combating gender violence in universities February, the 21st 2018, from 9.00 to 13.00, in the impressive location of the Valentine Castle, Turin, the Italian partner, CIRSDe (Research Center for Women's and Gender Studies - CIRSDe) of the University of Turin and the Italian associate Partner, Polytechnic of [...]
The Gender and Equality Committee of the Aristotle University organizes a training seminar for employees of the University entitled "Zero tolerance Sexual harassment-The necessity of creating workplaces with equality and full respect for the dignity of all. " This training seminar will take place on Wednesday 14 February 2018 at 9:00, in the Tower of the Pedagogical School [...]
Addressing Sexual Violence at the University This one day local event organized by the Centre for Gender Studies of Panteion University in Athens was a great success, with many students participating. The project was commended officially, and the Rector and two members of the university Senate gave introductory speeches. Here some images from the [...]
‘Tackling Sexual Violence & Harassment on Campus: Policy and Practice’ This free local conference took place at Brunel University London, Eastern Gateway 003/003a on Wednesday 7th February from 11am-5pm. USVreact is the Universities Supporting Survivors of Sexual Violence project which has been coordinated by Brunel, but links 24 universities across Europe. The event sees high profile speakers: [...]
A UK wide University staff strike is taking place at the end of February, due to universities wanting to end guaranteed pension benefits regardless of members' contributions to their pension scheme over their employment lifetime. For this reason this local event will be postponed to the 12th of April 2018, to coincide with the ESRC [...]
Very happy to announce that our local conference will be held in Donostia (San Sebastian) the 26th of January. Final programme to be confirmed soon, but we have already some confirmations, like those of Edurne Jimenez from the Catalan USVreact team; Patsilí Toledo and Montse Pineda, authors of the "conceptual frame on sexual violence in [...]
On 17th January, we will be hosting the local conference “Responding to disclosures of sexual violence in institutional contexts” at the University of Sussex to share our results and recommendations from the USVreact project. We are pleased to be hosting Dr Nina Burrowes, who will be delivering a keynote speech, as well as the Vice-Chancellors of [...]
On December 1st we were sharing the results of the project in Tarragona with the partners of the UPV-EHU and CEPS. We had also the pleasure to exchange reflections with catalan partners (UAB, UB, UVIC-UCC and UPF) and with people from several universities and entities that joined us. We could present some of the results, [...]
The event was the closing meeting of the #USVreact training path organized by the University of Turin. It was an occasion to discuss violence against women and Homophobia, in the academic and city context, from a juridical and psychological point of view. The piloted training models and the analysis of their evaluation will be published [...]
