Campaign to Prevent Gender-Based Violence

Sexualised and gender-based violence can have far-reaching and lasting corporal, psychological and economic consequences for affected individuals. Health, quality of life, productivity and the actualization of work and study opportunities can be decreased considerably due to forms of sexualised discrimination.

It is the University of Vienna’s responsibility as an employer as well as research and educational institution to aim at increasing the awareness for different forms of violence and abuse of power structures through a university-wide prevention campaign, u:respect.

Following the EU-project UniSAFE, this campaign aims to provide information and means of action for the prevention and handling of sexualized and/or gender-based discrimination and violence.

“Campaign to Prevent Gender-Based Violence” is funded by Gender-Mainstreaming-Bonus of the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF) (made possible by the project VRG21-011 by Barbara Christina Klump). The campaign was run by the Culture and Equality unit from May 2023 to October 2024.