Project

Region	National coverage
Title of the Programme	Human Rights
Title of the Project	Prevention of gender-based violence in work environment of Czech public research institutions and universities
Number of the Project	LP-HRMGSC-007
Project Promoter	The Gender Information Centre NORA  (Genderové informační centrum NORA, o.p.s)
Czech Partner	Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry
Status	Estimated project duraiton: 10/2022 - 4/2024
More Information	Target groups: Victims of domestic/gender-based violence Students (any age) Researchers/scientists Other minorities Web site: www.gendernora.cz facebook.com/gendernora
Total Eligible Costs	88 370 EUR
Grant	88 370 EUR (100 %)

Project description

The project aims to create attractive, comprehensive and publicly available training and awareness packages tailored to Czech public academic and research institutions on the topic of preventing and combating gender stereotypes, sexism and the main causes of gender-based violence in the workplace.

EU policies have been mapping the prevalence of gender-based violence and working on the prevention of this form of violence for a long time, however, the situation in science and research in the Czech Republic does not correspond to this.

Many universities and research institutions are at the beginning of the work on this issue and they need to start working urgently on the prevention and treatment of GPN and sexual harassment. At the moment, few Czech academic institutions have the tools, information and trained staff to work with gender-based violence. In addition to starting work on the systemic treatment of these cases, institutions must ensure that they primarily raise awareness of the issue among their students and staff.

This project, therefore, focuses on:

• the creation of a training package on the topics of prevention of gender-based violence for persons employed by public academic and research institutions in the Czech Republic. This package will contain a set of short instructional videos and information materials and will also include self-testing tools to verify the acquired knowledge. In this way, we will support employees' ability to recognize, name and know discriminatory behavior based on gender and other intersectional categories in the workplace, and learn how to behave in case one faces violence and/or harassment as a victim or a witness.
• In the next training package made of videos, presentations and tests, we will focus on training members of the selection and evaluation committees of these institutions, to support the prevention of discriminatory behavior among decision-makers and managers. The packages will then be piloted and evaluated by one university and one research institute in the Czech Republic.
• The project will also map the motivation of people for being interested in topics related to gender equality through the pilot phase and prepare a manual for effective distribution at the institution. Based on the mapping and feedback on the form and content of the training packages, we will adjust the training packages.

After the end of the project, the training packages will be made available to other Czech public academic and research institutions where they enable the personnel of HR departments to provide information on the topic of gender-based violence and sexual harassment in the work environment in a comprehensive and high-quality manner to other employees of their institutions.