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BRIDGE Main Challenge: A.1. Structural and intersectional inequalities that shape inclusion and social cohesion
Schools and universities across Europe lack systematic strategies to prevent, detect and respond to sexism, sexual harassment and homophobic bullying. Normative commitments on gender equality exist, but institutions have no operational means to diagnose their own gaps, and the available resources remain scattered across national contexts, languages and institutional traditions.
FREASCO built a dual system: an online Self-Assessment Tool through which schools and universities evaluate their performance across five strategic areas, and a database of 177 catalogued resources drawn from 14 countries. Assessment scores return tailored resource recommendations, so that diagnosis leads directly to improvement, while a guideline in five languages and a mobile application complete the system.
FREASCO (2021–2023) was a project co-funded by the European Union under the Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme, coordinated by the University of Florence with partners in France, Estonia and Greece. It produced an integrated system for preventing sexism, sexual harassment and homophobic bullying in schools and universities: a database of 177 catalogued resources, an online Self-Assessment Tool structured around five strategic areas, a guideline in five languages and a mobile application.
Sexism, sexual harassment and homophobic bullying in educational settings are not isolated incidents but structural inequalities intersecting gender, sexual orientation, institutional hierarchy and age. Institutions reproduce and normalise them through the absence of systematic prevention, detection and response mechanisms, which disproportionately affects women, LGBTQ+ people and students in subordinate positions.
Educational institutions are tasked with promoting democratic citizenship and social cohesion, yet without the capacity to diagnose their own compliance gaps they remain locked in a cycle of institutional denial and inaction, and discriminatory behaviours persist unchallenged.
It addresses Level A Challenge 1 by making structural inequality measurable at institutional level: five strategic areas turn an abstract normative commitment into a diagnosable, improvable and monitorable dimension of how a school or university actually operates.
Partners collected resources under standardised inclusion criteria and catalogued 177 of them on an Airtable platform, classified by type, strategic area, target group, language, country of origin and best practice criteria. The online Self-Assessment Tool was designed around the same five areas, so that institutional scores return filtered recommendations; the database is also accessible directly as an open library.
FREASCO Good Practice Resources Database
Interactive digital resource
An online database cataloguing 177 resources on combating gender-based violence, sexism and homophobic bullying in educational settings, collected by the partners under standardised inclusion and exclusion criteria. Resources come from the four partner countries and from ten further national and international contexts, and are classified by type (publications, guidelines, tools, projects, guides, online courses), strategic area, target group, language, country of origin and best practice criteria, with full metadata including author, year, description and link. Publications of studies and research form the largest category. The database can be consulted either as an open library or through the filtered recommendations generated by the Self-Assessment Tool.
Teaching staff, Researchers, Professionals, Policy Makers
FREASCO Online Self-Assessment Tool
Interactive digital resource
An online instrument enabling schools and universities to evaluate their own institutional performance in preventing and responding to sexism, sexual harassment and homophobic bullying. The assessment is organised around five strategic areas: Policy (institutional rules and procedures for identifying and combating violence); Educational Environment (improving institutional climate towards inclusion); Training (knowledge-building on combating violence and harassment); Implementation Activities (research and project models for practical interventions); and Leadership (equal opportunities and gender discrimination within institutional hierarchies). It generates individualised scores linked to tailored recommendations drawn from the project database.
Teaching staff, Professionals, Policy Makers
FREASCO multilingual methodological guideline
Digital publication
A guideline produced in English, Italian, French, Estonian and Greek, providing information, concrete suggestions, good practice examples and strategies for implementing a gender mainstreaming approach at institutional level. It is designed to accompany the Self-Assessment Tool by translating diagnostic findings into actionable recommendations for schools and universities, and it functions as a standardised reference for institutional gender mainstreaming across the different national contexts covered by the project.
Teaching staff, Researchers, Professionals, Policy Makers
FREASCO multilingual methodological guideline
Interactive digital resource
Reports produced by each partner documenting the legislative, institutional and practical context of gender-based violence prevention in their country. They include the Italian analysis of resource typologies, the French identification of university-level response protocols, the Greek analysis combining national statistics with legal framework analysis, and the Estonian integration of the 2020 national survey on gender-based and sexual harassment in universities within a European comparative framework.
Researchers, Professionals, Policy Makers
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