Enhancing prevention and protection mechanisms of Sexual Harassment at the Workplace through capacity building, coalition building and interagency collaboration

A direct continuation of the Teamwork project to better understand and address sexual harassment in the workplace.

GA number: 101094241

Funded by: CERV      Duration: 01/02/2023-31/01/2025

Challenge

The TEAMWORK 2 project is a direct continuation of the REC-funded TEAMWORK project, whose research activities, conducted in Greece, Bulgaria, Italy and Spain, demonstrate that sexual harassment is a persistent problem across the EU, and the factors contributing to it are similar in the different countries. The main factors are 1) fragility of the protection system in all four countries (fragmentation of the laws, shortcomings in their implementation, low level of networking between stakeholders), 2) low level of awareness of the problem among employers as well as workers, which is also linked to underreporting and lack of reliable statistics, and 3) lack of structures that would contribute to ongoing prevention and early detection of sexual harassment at work.

Innovation

The project relies on a bottom-up strategy (empowering victims and employers, and ensuring a wide-scale dissemination of good practices) to create a demand for policy improvements and interagency collaboration to address sexual harassment in the workplace.

Action

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.

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