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Description
Within the project we will conduct educational activities on how to prevent discrimination and respond to sexual harassment and abuse at universities. According to the Ombudsman''s report ''Experiences of harassment among female and male students'', as many as 40.7% of students have experienced harassment, and the perpetrators of one third of cases were male or female university lecturers. Preliminary analyses of the study conducted by the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan indicate that one in ten people surveyed has experienced harassment or abuse. Students lack basic knowledge on how to react to situations in which they are abused, or witness others being abused. They do not trust the university or the academic staff, and lack a sense of security. We want to raise awareness of this problem among a wide group of recipients, provide them with reliable knowledge and show them how to react quickly to situations of violence and harassment at universities. We will conduct 15 anti-discrimination workshops led by experienced trainers, and 5 webinars in cooperation with the "Emancipation" Equality Education Scientific Club. We will create an educational spot and promote it widely. The beneficiaries of our activities are mainly university students, but to participate in the events organised within the project we also invite lecturers, university administration staff and all interested people working with youth people and young adults. By reaching out to such a wide audience, we want to give impetus for further actions aimed at effectively counteracting discrimination, sexual harassment and abuse.
Summary of project results
The Akcja EDUreact 2.0 project was a continuation of the pilot project that was implemented at Poznań universities.
We have seen and still see a huge need for anti-discrimination training and counteracting sexual harassment - this is signaled to us by some universities and, above all, by students themselves. The aim of our activities was anti-discrimination education in the area of counteracting manifestations of discrimination and responding to harassment and sexual harassment, which - as we see in recent reports of the Commissioner for Human Rights or the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights - is a significant problem that remains silent. The students had the opportunity to gain basic knowledge on how to react to situations in which someone harasses them and in situations when they witness such a situation. The basis for this is reliable anti-discrimination education with practical information
In our project, we organized 19 training courses, 5 webinars and recorded an information spot. We have tried to provide as much and as intensive information as possible about possible counteracting discrimination and sexual harassment through all possible channels, so that students, as well as academic staff, receive reliable knowledge and acquire competences that will allow them to respond quickly in the event of acts of discrimination and violence at universities. .
During the project, we had to partially change the target recruitment group in the project. In the initial version of the project, these were only students. Unfortunately, there were difficulties in recruiting only this group. The interest in the workshops was lower than we expected. Meanwhile, however, we were contacted by many people who were interested in participating in the training, but they had already completed their studies. So we decided to expand the target group. Ultimately, the range of people invited to participate was broader and included all people in contact with young people who want to promote the topic of counteracting harassment and discrimination, as well as want to educate further on this topic.
We organized 19 group trainings for young people.
The training itself was received very positively. Many participants were interested in further cooperation and deepening their knowledge in the field of counteracting harassment and sexual harassment, or education on equal rights.
The training was conducted using very active non-formal education methods, using various media and training aids. Both online and offline workshops provided participants with reflection and, ultimately, knowledge.
We conducted several interesting interviews in the form of webinars.
The introduction to the thematic webinars was an information webinar. It took place in the form of a conversation between three students who, from the perspective of young people attending, noticed the problem and initiated the project.
The information webinar was followed by two five thematic webinars. Each of the planned thematic webinars lasted approximately 2 hours. Calls are translated into PJM.
We also managed to record an information spot. The spot involved Foundation volunteers, a project trainer and students of the University of Adam Mickiewicz in Poznań. Additionally, the film featured dancers from the ballet school. Through the artistic form and narration of various people, the spot turned out to be a very interesting form of conveying information. Its content is a combination of data from reports by the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights and the Ombudsman, as well as information about how education is a tool to solve the problem. The film also contains information about the project and encourages you to get involved in it.
We have created the report “What is consent?”, which presents comprehensive and most important data sets and reflections of participants. The report also aimed to convey what real change occurred in the participants or their surroundings after the training.