As part of its commitment to preventing all forms of violence, UGA is organizing an awareness-raising session on gender-based violence (GBV), discrimination and harassment for doctoral students, teacher-researchers and UGA staff on thursday, January 29th 2026 from 10am to 12pm.

Understanding gender-based violence, discrimination and harassment

This 2-hour awareness-raising session will give you the keys to understanding GBV, discrimination and harassment in higher education and research. It will also enable you to know how to legally qualify these forms of violence, and how to react if you are a victim or witness.
It will be completed by a presentation of the UGA's system for reporting acts of violence, discrimination and harassment.

How to deal with sexist and sexual violence, discrimination and harassment in the context of a thesis

This awareness-raising session will be followed by a workshop to take you further in the fight against GBV, discrimination and harassment in the context of your thesis. Open only to doctoral students/PhD students, this 2-hour workshop will use role-playing to help participants acquire the right reflexes to prevent and react to violence in the context of doctoral supervision.

Two workshops for 30 participants each will take place from 2 to 4pm.
Location : to be precised.
You must have been to the 2-hour awareness-raising session in the morning before going to this workshop.

Confirmation emails will be send to you after you register for the training sessions at the end of january with the location informations.