The Balearic Women’s Institute (IBDONA) and the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB) are strengthening gender studies with a new postgraduate course in Interdisciplinary Intervention in Sexual Violence. This postgraduate course joins those that IBDONA has already financed in previous years and which this year reach their third edition, such as the postgraduate course for University Specialists in Coeducation and the postgraduate course for University Experts in Social Intervention in Situations of Human Trafficking and Prostitution.

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The Director of IBDONA, Maria Duran, and the Rector of the UIB, Jaume Carot, were responsible for formalising the three agreements, in the presence of the Regional Minister of the Presidency, Public Function and Equality, Mercedes Garrido. These agreements represent a total contribution of €68,000 from the Regional Ministry of the Presidency, Public Function and Equality, through IBDONA. Garrido has valued “very positively the collaboration, year after year, with the University in matters of equality. This is a clear demonstration of the commitment that both institutions maintain to the promotion of equality and the eradication of gender violence”.

Also present from the University were Dr. Mauricio Mus, vice-rector for Postgraduate Management and Policy and Lifelong Learning; Dr. Esperanza Bosch, professor of Basic Psychology; Dr. Victoria Ferrer, professor of Social Psychology; Dr. Francesca Salvá, professor of Didactics and School Organisation; and Dr. Elena Quintana, professor of Didactics and School Organisation.

University Specialist in Interdisciplinary Intervention in Sexual Violence
The first edition is framed in the academic year 2022-2023 and the course is aimed at five different professional areas with direct responsibility for intervention in cases of sexual violence: the field of social services, security, health, legal and psychological.

The aim of these studies is to place sexual violence at the centre of the current social context, to know the fundamental concepts of sexual violence and to analyse all types of violence and possible scenarios, while providing tools for raising awareness, reporting, detecting and tackling sexual violence from a multi-sectoral and multi-professional point of view.

The course is mainly aimed at non-university teaching staff and people with university degrees in specialities related to education or who want to work professionally in teaching.