Raising awareness about gender-based and sexual violence, discrimination and harassment - 2026

Citizenship, Staff Life, Student Life Training Session
October 13, 2026 - November 17, 2026 Saint-Martin-d'Hères - University Campus
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The UGA team in charge of equality offers awareness sessions on sexist and sexual violence, discrimination, harassment for doctoral students.

Understanding sexist and sexual violence, discrimination and harassment

As part of its commitment to preventing all forms of violence, UGA is organizing an awareness session on gender-based and sexual violence (GBV), discrimination and harassment for doctoral students, teaching and research staff and UGA personnel:

Attention: the October awareness campaign has been postponed!!

In French: 

  • Tuesday, November 17, 2026, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. - Amphitheater H of the CLV (rescheduled from the session of Tuesday, October 13, 2026)
This 2-hour awareness session will provide you with the keys to understanding VSS, discrimination, and harassment in higher education and research. It will also enable you to understand the legal definition of these forms of violence and how to react if you are a victim or witness. It will be complemented by a presentation of the UGA's reporting system for VSS, discrimination, and harassment.

Knowing how to react to sexist and sexual violence, discrimination and harassment in the context of the thesis

This awareness session will be followed by a workshop to delve deeper into combating violence against women, discrimination, and harassment within the context of doctoral studies. Open only to doctoral students , this 2-hour workshop will use role-playing exercises to develop the appropriate responses to prevent and address violence in the context of doctoral supervision. Two workshops, each limited to 20 people, will be held from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM.

In French: 

  • Tuesday, November 17, 2026 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. - TD room B02, Alpilles 2 building. Attention: Maximum 30 places (rescheduled from the session of Tuesday, October 13, 2026). 

It is necessary to have attended the morning awareness session to participate in the afternoon workshops.

Note that the participation of doctoral students may be validated by training hours allocated by doctoral hours for awareness-raising and the workshop.

Published on January 7, 2025
Updated on November 2, 2026