Transformative teaching innovation

COVIMADI

COVIMADI brings together critical reflection, collective action, and social commitment to help university students address digital gender-based violence.

Browse projects How it works

Browse projects, materials, and intervention proposals developed by students from real cases of digital gender-based violence.

Indexed projects: 2
Universities represented: 2

Digital Gender-Based Violence (DGBV)

DGBV affects women, LGBTQI+ people, and young people particularly intensely, and includes online harassment, digital control, non-consensual image sharing, hate speech, and identity manipulation, among many other practices.

Methodology

COVIMADI combines Problem-Based Learning, Project-Based Learning, and Service-Learning, and works through teaching innovation methodologies such as design thinking and the hackathon format to analyse real cases and design concrete interventions.

Implementation

In the classroom, the first phase of the project was rolled out in two Sociology courses at the University of Barcelona, one undergraduate and one master’s level, with 69 students organised into working groups. The development of the group projects was structured in three moments: empathise and define; ideate and prototype the intervention design; and test, implement, and present.

The COVIMADI project

COVIMADI is a teaching innovation initiative that understands the university as a space for critical reflection, collective action, and social transformation. From the classroom, the project connects academic analysis with urgent gender-related issues in digital environments.

One of its central goals is to empower students to confront digital gender-based violence from a feminist and intersectional perspective. To do so, it supports them in understanding its different forms, analysing causes and contexts, and developing situated responses.

The first implementation phase ran in two Sociology courses at the University of Barcelona, one undergraduate and one master’s level, with 69 students working in groups. Working from real cases, each group developed a problem diagnosis, a theoretical review, empathy work around the target audience for the proposal, and intervention design including prototyping and evaluation.