Preventing gender violence in schools

Marie Louise Petersen works as a teacher in Denmark. She also holds a supplementary degree in Gender studies and has been engaged in gender issues alongside teaching for more than 30 years. In 2017 she created the group Gender-know-how to stop stereotypes on eTwinning which was a featured group until 2024. During those years Marie Louise moderated 17 webinars with various experts and researchers on gender and sexuality issues related to education. Marie Louise Petersen is an eTwinning-ambassador since 2014.

Dr. Ana Vidu holds a Marie Sklodowska-Curie post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, to pursue research on solidarity networks and mechanisms to prevent and respond to sexual harassment in Universities. She received the Distinction Award for her Bachelor's Degree and for her Master's in Sociology, but such recognition as the best student for her cohort changed radically when she was the first victim to provide her testimony for the complaint against the most well-known and recidivist professor. This reaction led her to conduct a doctoral dissertation and provide pioneering scientific knowledge in Spain comparing the treatment of gender-based violence and Isolating Gender Violence at the University of California, Berkeley and at the University of Barcelona. Dr. Vidu is co-coordinator of the Research Network: Women’s and Gender Studies, co-founder of the "Solidarity Network of Victims of Gender Violence in Universities", created in 2013, and was recognized as "Best practice" by the Women's Foundation of the Spanish Equality Observatory.