About us

VSS-FORMATION is an independent network of trainers and experts in gender-based violence (GBV) in higher education and research.
Each trainer is or has been based in a higher education establishment, and has been involved in the creation or development of a system for reporting or dealing with gender-based and sexual violence.

Board

Véronique Van de Bor

President of CPED

Geneviève Pezeu

President of ANEF

Sarah Boratav

Member of CPED

Maïlys Derenemesnil

Member of ANEF

Claire Berthonneau

Member of CPED 

Justine Azoze

Project Manager since 2022

Trainers network

ANEF

Maïlys DERENEMESNIL, lawyer, member of CPED, former teacher of modern literature, she has been mission manager Gender equality and non-discrimination at the University Paris Nanterre. In this capacity, she created and directed the cell against VSS. She works at the doctoral school of law at Sciences Po on "The voice of women victims of sexual violence in French criminal justice".

Hélène MARQUIÉ, university professor of gender studies and the arts and former head of Equality at
University of Paris 8. Former member of the CPED. Published the book Non, la danse n'est pas un truc de filles - Essay on gender in danceToulouse, l'Attribut, 2016.

Choralyne DUMESNIL, Attorney-at-law at the Paris and California Bars, Doctor of Law, has been providing training on the subject of combating sexual and gender-based violence since 2014. She has taught at PSL on the subject of the judicial treatment of sexual violence around the world. She defends victims of sexual and gender-based violence in court.

Geneviève PEZEU, President of ANEF. History and geography teacher. Doctor of Education. Training engineering in gender equality, citizenship and secularism. Research coordinator, co-development facilitator. For Anef, she coordinated the writing of Le genre dans l'enseignement supérieur et la recherche: le
white paper, Paris, La Découverte, 2014.

Catherine LE MAGUERESSE, lawyer, doctor of law, researcher, Former president of the European Association against Violence in the Workplace (AVFT), works on the subject of sexist and sexual violence, author of the book Les pièges du consentement. Pour une redéfinition pénale du consentement sexuel. Editions iXe, March 2021.

CPED

Rizlaine AFIF, legal expert and referent for harassment, sexist, discriminatory and sexual violence at the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées in Rennes. It co-constructed and is a member of the INSA Rennes anti-harassment and anti-sexist, discriminatory and sexual violence unit.

Lucile DEZERALD, Senior Lecturer in Materials Science at the University of Lorraine and in charge of equality, diversity and inclusion at Ecole des Mines Nancy, where she set up and managed the awareness and listening unit.. It trains the members of the listening unit at the Université de Lorraine, as well as staff, students and BDEs.

Clare RAMSBOTTOMassociate professor of English and former secretary of the CPED. As a Gender Equality Coordinator and Vice-President, Social Responsibility at Le Havre Normandie from 2014 to 2020 she co-constructed and piloted the anti-discrimination hotline from university.

Jeanne TOULOUSE, referent for gender equality and the fight against harassment, discrimination and violence and English teacher at ENSTA Bretagneshe took part in consolidate the helpline, coordinate the anti-discrimination network and design and run awareness-raising sessions on harassment and discrimination. and violence (verbal self-defense, forum theater, workshops).

Claire BERTHONNEAU, Gender Equality and Anti-Discrimination Officer, host and coordinator of the anti-SGBV and anti-discrimination unit, racism and anti-Semitism referent à University of Clermont Auvergne. Professor of FLE and modern letters. She is behind a program to integrate refugee students into university and combat discrimination based on origin.

Philippe LIOTARD, sociologist, Senior lecturer in STAPS at the Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1. VSS in sport since the late 1990s. Member Honorary Chairman and former Chairman of CPED, in charge of Equality-Diversity and Racism and anti-Semitism. from University of Lyon 1 from 2008 to 2024.

Stépahnie Tabois, teacher-researcher in sociology. A specialist in gender, the body and sexuality, she works on polyamory and co-organizes the Les Menstrueuses festival.

Since 2021, she has been Equality-Diversity referent at the UFR STAPS of the University of Poitiers.

Véronique VAN DE BOR, President of CPED. Vice President, Social Policy, Equality and Diversity University Côte d'Azur and founder of the Égalité Université Côte network d'Azur. PhD, CNRS, researcher in developmental biology and genetics.

Sarah BORATAV, Equality-Diversity Project Manager à Université Paris-Saclay since 2015, equality and anti-discrimination referent for students and staff, in charge of the VSS/harassment unit. She holds a Master's degree in gender study, in particular worked in Central America in international organizations on programs to combat violence against women.

David NIGET, History teacher-researcherworking on the history of juvenile deviance from a gender perspective, including the issue of sexual violence. Since 2020, it has been in charge of equality at the University of Angers.

Rozenn TEXIER-PICARD, honorary member and former president of CPED. Mathematician, in charge of Gender equality at ENS Cachan and then ENS Rennes from 2012 to 2019, she helped set up a mutualist system with the universities of Rennes. Co- author Vade-mecum Sexual harassment in higher education (2015-2017).

Sandrine VATON, Gender Equality Officer and research professor at IMT Atlantique, in the IT. Holder of an engineering degree from Télécom Paris, a DEA in probability, a PhD in signal processing, and an HDR in computer science.

Cécile VERMOT, sociologist, teacher-researcher and Equality referent at Sup'Biotech Paris. She has created a device against VSS which she now leads and coordinates. She is the author of articles on emotions and gender, including "Migration and gendered emotions: Argentines in Miami and Barcelona." Migrations Société, 168, 67-83.