{"id":101582,"date":"2021-12-21T08:57:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T06:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cesie.org\/?p=101582"},"modified":"2022-01-31T09:03:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T07:03:00","slug":"final-seminar-hei4diversity-higher-education-institutions-against-lgbtqi-phobia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cesie.org\/en\/higher-education-and-research\/final-seminar-hei4diversity-higher-education-institutions-against-lgbtqi-phobia\/","title":{"rendered":"Final seminar HEI4Diversity: Higher Education Institutions against LGBTQI-phobia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

LGBTQI+ communities in European universities are still too exposed to discrimination and violence. As part of the HEI4Diversity project<\/a>, 4 European universities and 2 NGOs have collaborated to raise awareness and train academic and administrative staff and students to change this situation and make the university environment more comfortable and safer for vulnerable groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HEI4Diversity project, led by the Spanish University Rovira i Virgili, MEDIS research group, celebrated its completion with the Final Seminar \"Overcoming LGBTQI-phobia in Higher Education Institutions in Europe\" held online on the 16th of December 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the Seminar, all the results and outputs of this two-year collaborative work were presented in the form of roundtables in order to share national experiences and educational strategies and create networks of stakeholders aimed at strengthening the system of protection of LGBTQI+ groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the greeting of the Dean of the host University, Dr. Maria Jos\u00e9 Figueras Salvat, the project coordinator Dr. Oriol Rios-Gonzalez described the context in which the project developed and reconnected the activities and objectives of the project to the scientific evidence of the necessity for intervention in this area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first panel discussion featured Dr. Diego Marchante-Hueso, Professor at the University of Barcelona, artist and activist for LGBTQI+ rights, who spoke about his research path and commitment to the acquisition of LGBTQI+ rights. Dr. Marchante-Hueso represents an example for other European universities in this field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second session was dedicated to the presentation of the two main products of the project, by Dagmara Szczepa\u0144ska, Professor at the Pedagogiki Specjalnej Im.Marii Grzegorzewskiej Academy and Caterina Impastato, Project Manager of CESIE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \"Comparative and country-based study of existing measures for prevention of violence based on sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression in higher education institution in Europe<\/a>\" is a report that analyzes the European framework for the protection of the LGBTQI+ community, with in-depth analysis of the national framework of the partner universities, collects different procedures aimed at ensuring the inclusion of LGBTQI+ groups in universities and preventing various forms of homophobic and transphobic violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Innovative online training course<\/a> is designed primarily to strengthen the capacity of all members of the university community to recognize any form of violence and discrimination against LGBTQI+ groups and to take action against them. It is a training course structured in five sessions containing both theoretical input and proposals for exercises and case studies designed to stimulate reflection and group discussion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both outputs are available in English, Spanish, Polish, Greek and Italian and can be downloaded for free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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