PARTICIPATION OF UNS IN THE UNISAFE PROJECT

The acitivities within the UniSAFE project (Gender-based violence and institutional responses: Building a knowledge base and operational tools to make universities and research organisations safe) encompass various organized efforts by the members of the multi-disciplinary international project consortium of nine European partners. The strength of the consortium is based on the partners’ in-depth knowledge and extensive collaborative track record on researching of gender-based violence (hereafter: GBV), transforming academic insights into operational tools, and knowledge dissemination.

Confronting the problem of gender-based violence, including sexual harassment in universities and other research performing organisations (RPOs) is a global concern. Partnerships between GBV-researchers and RPOs are prerequisite to produce better knowledge on GBV and sexual harassment, and to translate this knowledge into operational tools.

The University of Novi Sad became a partner institution along with two other universities in Serbia (University of Belgrade and Union University). The Memorandum of Understanding was signed by UNS on 29^th October 2021.

UniSAFE contact point at UNS is Assistant Professor Karolina Lendak-Kabok, PhD.