On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (25/11), RESET institutions mark their engagement towards this cause through various actions:

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

At the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, a series of training sessions on the topic were held on 21 & 22 November in Thessaloniki and in Athens in parallel. More specifically, RESET together with the ΙEEE Women in Engineering Greece Section AG, the Gender Equality Office of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), with the participation of the School of of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering NTUA, organized a 2 days event, on Thursday 21st and Friday 22nd of November 2024, honoring the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.

Main goals of the events were to:

• Raise awareness and inform about gender-based violence, discrimination, sexism and other harassing behaviors,
  Conduct workshops to:
• Inform and train participants on ways to deal with sexist and harassing behaviors (of various kinds),
• Raise awareness regarding the ways that each and every one of us can contribute to the establishment of an equal and inclusive work environment.

University of Bordeaux

The University of Bordeaux will organise an exhibition of portraits of men who stand against gender-based violence. This date will also be the occasion for the UBx Gender Equality Officer to disseminate an informative email to the university community with all the resources that exist to raise awareness and report on any kind of violence or discrimination.

University of Lodz

The University of Lodz will share information on its website, to highlight the work done in RESET as well as one of RESET’s sister project: GenderSAFE, but also the initiatives carried out locally to tackle harassment, discrimination and gender-based violence.

University of Oulu

The University of Oulu, is participating in the UNwomen Orange the World campaign by hosting an open lecture and also by bringing the orange colour to campus screens throughout the 16 days from Nov 25th until the Dec 10th as presented in the University of Oulu news (https://www.oulu.fi/en/news/university-oulu-participates-un-campaign-stop-violence-against-women-attend-open-lecture-november-19 ) Teija Hyväri and Tuire Tikkanen from the Oulu Child and Women’s Shelter talk on 19th of November in Tellus Backstage introduced recent statistics on intimate partner violence in Finland, support available for victims of violence and the international campaign and the day against GBV.

University of Porto

The University of Porto will host the EUGLOH UniTes! – A webinar series aimed at promoting gender equality and preventing gender-based violence across the nine universities in the EUGLOH alliance. Four webinars will be organised from the 25th to the 28th November. Each session will feature at least two speakers—comprising academics, staff, or students—from a minimum of two partner universities. Each webinar will explore different dimensions of gender equality and gender-based violence, fostering rich dialogue among participants.

Sara Isabel Magalhães from RESET will be participating in the panel discussion on the 27th with a talk entitled Looking at gender, sexuality and diversity through an intersectional lens.

Furthermore, with the support of RESET, on December 4th an open lecture on harassment and discrimination at HEI’s directed to U.Porto students will be hosted at the faculty of psychology and educational sciences.

Lecture title in Portuguese – POR OS PONTOS NOS IS: PROMOÇÃO DE AMBIENTES LIVRES DE ASSÉDIO E DISCRIMINAÇÃO)

Ruhr-Bochum University

The Ruhr-Bochum University will join the ‘Orange Days’ – an awareness campaign for GBV through a booth by the Equal Opportunity Office and RESET team at RUB’s Campus.

Sciences Po

Sciences Po organises a round-table on 25 November, in the frame of the Equality Network of the Sorbonne Paris-Cité Alliance. An award ceremony will be held.

It will also co-host a conference “Caring for survivors: sexual violence in higher education institutions” with the University Paris Cité, on the 28th of November. This is a public lecture of Shivani Gupta.