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Dare to Care at KTH

Since the spring of 2024 KTH and THS - The KTH Student Union - are working together with RFSU - The Swedish Association for Sexuality Education - with the Dare to Care initiative to promote safe study and work environments free from sexual harassment and misconduct.

The collaboration between KTH, THS, and RFSU is an expansion of a concept that RFSU has been working with since 2018. Dare to Care has previously existed mainly at festivals and clubs. KTH is now the first Swedish university to make a long-term commitment to develop and implement the initiative in a university setting, for both students and staff.

Through Dare to Care, we aim to:

  • Strengthen our proactive and preventive efforts to promote a safe and supportive study and work environment at KTH.

  • Encourage active bystandership – ensuring that both students and employees respond and take action if someone is at risk of being subjected to harm.

  • Broaden the initiative to include all grounds of discrimination.

We do this through training and information activities, as well as through RFSU’s participation in different events at KTH. Our hope is that Dare to Care will help us create a shared language and common ground for how we can all contribute to a study and work environment characterized by care and respect – where everyone has an important part to play.

Do you want more information?

For more information about the Dare to Care initiative, contact Hanna Knutsson, project manager for Dare to Care at KTH and JML-strategist at KTH Equality Office: hk2@kth.se

If you want to know more about the inititial initiative made by RFSU, visit the Dare to Care website.  

Six ways to be an active bystander:

With the help of this list, we want to empower you as a student or employee at KTH to take action when you see something that doesn’t feel right or when someone is at risk of being subjected to harassment or mistreatment.

  1. Think it through before it happens. What would you do if you saw someone at risk of getting hurt? If you have thought about it in advance, it’s easier to take action in the moment.
     

  2. Be considerate rather than suspicious. Sometimes it’s easier to help the person who’s being harassed instead of focusing on the person doing something wrong.
     

  3. Make contact with others. Look around - are other people seeing the same thing you’re seeing? Make contact with them so you can help each other take action.
     

  4. Dare to speak up. Is no one else reacting? Take action anyway. You can be the first link in a chain of people who, together, prevent an assault from happening.
     

  5. Interrupt the situation. Do something that creates a distraction. Ask an unexpected question or turn the music off. If you know that a sexual assault is going on, fetch a security guard or call the police!
     

  6. It's never to late to help. Make contact with and support the person who’s been harassed or assaulted. Offer to act as a witness if necessary.