ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights the existing evidence around prevalence, policy and practice of sexual harassment and violence in some of the Universities Supporting Victims of Sexual Violence (USVreact) partner countries. USVreact was co-funded under the Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme of the European Union. The data available with regard to violence against students specifically is relatively thin, however in 2014 the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights presented the results of the first European-Union-wide survey on violence against women. The chapter highlightes the USVreact project was a cross-national seven-partner study that aimed to develop a programme for staff so that they could intervene to improve the support offered immediately, within universities, to all survivors of sexual violence. Statutory guidance in both tackling and preventing sexual harassment and violence in universities is needed. In order to encourage reporting and to prevent harassment and violence awareness-raising and sexual violence campaigns should be developed.
