Fighting against harassment, discrimination and sexist or sexual violence (HDSSV)
IP Paris and its member schools are each signatories of the Conférence des Grandes Ecoles' Charter for Gender Equality.
The Charter affirms that equality between women and men is a fundamental right for all, and a fundamental value for democracy. It commits to action in three main areas:
- Implementing gender equality
- Raising student awareness of gender equality and gender issues
- Developing a policy of upstream attractiveness, particularly among students.
Institut Polytechnique de Paris intends to make a voluntary and lasting commitment to the fight against HDSSV.
To help victims speak out and receive support, the following services have been set up:
- A reporting platform available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, enabling the helpline to deal with all reports, including sexual and gender-based violence, harassment (moral or sexual) and all forms of discrimination.
- A hotline for all forms of sexual and gender-based violence, harassment or discrimination.
Like its member schools, IP Paris deployed an HDSSV reporting platform.
his platform will be accessible to report acts of gender-based and sexual violence (GBSV) involving, whether as a victim or witness, or allegedly committed by, a student enrolled at IP Paris (Master’s, PhD, or Habilitation to Direct Research), a staff member of the shared services of IP Paris, or any other user of IP Paris or person acting on behalf of IP Paris.
Business card-sized bookmarks and flyers are also available to remind students of the different types of harassment and useful contacts for combating inappropriate behavior.
These two goodies are of course available in both French and English.
Institut Polytechnique de Paris also proposes posters to be displayed across campus to alert, raise awareness and inform about HDSSV situations.
Some are the creation and property of IP Paris, while others are taken from national campaigns launched by the French Ministry of Higher Education.