University and Gender Mainstreaming (UNIGEM) is a project that TPO Foundation from Sarajevo implements from 2021 to 2025, with the support of the Government of the United Kingdom, with the aim to prevent and fight against gender-based violence, discrimination and sexual harassment and to ensure integrity and quality in higher education. The project stands for the strategic commitment of 19 partner universities and their dedication – via introduction of gender perspective – to ensure gender equality and a safe environment for teaching staff and students at universities in Bosnia and […]

Education on gender equality, which took place during June 2023 at the University of Zenica as part of the UNIGEM project, included all eight faculties of this University: Faculty of Islam and Pedagogy, Faculty of Economy, Faculty of Philosophy, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Metallurgy and Technology, Polytechnics and Faculty of Law. Visit to the Faculty of Polytechnics of the University of Zenica On June 14, 2023, Professor Larisa Velić, PhD, Coordinator of the Center for Gender Equality of the University of Zenica, visited the Faculty[…]

This overview of planned and implemented teaching staff trainings at partner universities was written on the basis of reports on the monitoring of activities from the Action Plans for Gender Equality of the partner universities within the UNIGEM project, and quarterly coordinator reports. The baseline research that was carried out at the beginning of the UNIGEM project in 2021 has shown that there is room for significant improvement of fundamental and advanced knowledge on the topic of gender equality, gender discrimination and gender-based violence in academic communities among teaching staff[…]