The Sixth World Women University Presidents Forum World Wide Cooperation for Women’s Leadership in Higher Education and Research: UNESCO-EWRP-WWUPF Prof.Dr. Gulsun Saglamer Chair, European Women Rectors Platform 6 September 2014, Beijing 1
Content • New developments at EU level • European Women Rectors Platform – Women Academics Beyond the Glass Ceiling: Women Rectors Across Europe” (11th November 2008) – Women Academics Beyond the Glass Ceiling: Women Rectors Across Europe, Women Leadership in Higher Education” (12-14th April 2010) – European Women Rectors Across Europe: Beyond the Glass Ceiling: Achievements, Challenges and Opportunities (21-23 May 2012) – European Women Rectors Across Europe: Beyond the Glass Ceiling: Role of Leadership in Structural Changes (15-17 May 2014) • Istanbul Recommendations • World Women University Presidents Forum – 2003-2005-2007-2009-2011-2014 – Establishment of Women Leadership Academy • UNESCO-EWRP-WWUPG Cooperation 2
EWRP Scientific Committee 3
Supporting EC policy on Gender and Scince 1. Communication on the ERA 2012: o Gender is one of 5 priorities: “Gender equality and gender mainstreaming in research: Encouraging o gender diversity to foster science excellence and relevance” . Member states are invited to: o Create a legal and policy environment and provide incentives. o Engage in partnerships with funding agencies, research organizations and universities to foster cultural and institutional change on gender. o Ensure that at least 40% of the under-represented sex participate in committees involved in recruitment/career progression and in establishing and evaluating research programs. 2. Horizon 2020, Art. 15: o Structural change for ensuring equal opportunities and promoting women’s careers. o Promoting integration of gender dimensions in research and innovation content 4
Beyond the Glass Ceiling: Women Rectors Across Europe (11th of November 2008) First meeting has been organized as pre-conference meeting of the UNICAFE dissemination conference titled “Beyond the Glass Ceiling: Women Academics in Engineering, Technology and Life Sciences Across Europe” (12-14 November 2008, ITU, Istanbul ) We invited women rectors and vice rectors of European universities which are already members in EUA. EUA has supported us to organize such an event in Istanbul. We invited 43 EUA member universities and received 11 positive replies from 9 countries. We have also extended our invitation to present and former women rectors and vice rectors of Turkish universities and received 10 positive replies. The representative of EC was present in this meeting At the conference, Women Rectors shared experiences with each other and discuss the possibilities of – How to improve the situation of women academics, – How to develop strategies for future-oriented cooperation They focused on new ideas to improve the conditions for women academics to remove the barriers for horizontal and vertical segregation and decided; – To continue the organization of the meetings annually, – To cooperate with the similar networks and organizations in the world. 5
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“Women Academics Beyond the Glass Ceiling: Women Rectors Across Europe, Women Leadership in Higher Education” 12-14 April 2010, Istanbul “Beyond the Glass Ceiling: Women Rectors Across Europe, Women and Leadership In Higher Education ”, which is again hosted by ITU and supported by IAUP (International Association of University Presidents) EUA (European University Assosication) provided list of Women Rectors from its member universities 7
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Road Map & Recommendations • Formation of a European Women Rectors ’ Platform, • Representation in & interaction with “ World Women Presidents ’ Forum” • Organisation of annual/biannual conferences, • Creating opportunities for collobrative projects, • Participation in the activities of the European & global higher education organisations . – EUA Annual Conference, October 20-23 , 2010, Palermo – IAUP Triennial Conference, June 17-20, 2011, NewYork – SEFI Annual Conference 2011 Lisbon,September 27-30, 2011 – World Women University Presidents Forum 3-5 November, 2011 The Third European Women Rectors Conference 21-23 May 2012,ISTANBUL 9
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III. European Women Rectors ’ Conference European Women Rectors Across Europe: Beyond the Glass Ceiling Achievements, Challenges and Opportunities In this third meeting we will have 79 participants, with some 60 of these coming from 29 countries in Europe and Asia, and also from Africa and 19 National participant This conference was also hosting the sub-conference of the 6 th Conference of WWUPF to be held in China in 2014 Minister of Family and Social Policies and the President of CoHE supported and honored the conference 7 distinguished keynote speakers with 26 excellent presentations. 11
Under the Patronage of UNESCO IV. European Women Rectors Conference has been organized under the patronage of UNESCO Prof.Liu Jinan , Prof.Gulsun Saglamer met with The Director General of UNESCO Mrs. Irina Bokova on 9th April 2014 in Paris and discussed the possibilities of UNESCO support; o Cooperation of WWUPF and EWRP under UNESCO o Developing New Projects by the support of UNESCO o Unesco Patronage for both of the conferences o IV.EWRC, 15-17 May 2014, Istanbul o VI.WWUPF, 07-09 September 2014, Beijing 12
UNESCO 9 April 2014, Paris 13
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Keynote Speakers 15
WWUP+EWRP 16
Keynotes and Chairs 17
Young Members 18
EWRC2014-Istanbul 19
IV.European Women rectors Conference 15-17 May 2014, Istanbul The theme of the fourth European Women Rectors Conference is the role of leadership in structural changes for achieving gender equality in academia. The aim of the conference is to articulate a set of recommendations for different bodies such as European Commission, nation states and academic leaders /academic institutions. During the plenary sessions invaluable contributions have been made by the keynote speakers and along the parallel sessions distinguished women leaders coming from 30 different countries shared their experiences and discussed the questions of: • What are the structural changes that we need to promote gender equality in higher education and research? • How are we going to initiate these changes? • How are we going to monitor change processes? • How are we going to measure the results and close the loop? We are hoping to articulate recommendations for academic leaders, institutions, nation states and supra national organizations 20
IV.European Women rectors Conference 15-17 May 2014, Istanbul We have developed a database using o The list of WWUPF o The list of EUA o The list of women academic leaders developed by google search o We have sent 350 invitations o We have over 80 participants from 30 different countries o 60 international o 22 national o We have 7 distinguished keynote speakers o 30 presentations in parallel sessions beyondtheglassceiling2014.org 21
Istanbul Recommendations Beyond The Glass Ceiling: Women Rectors Across Europe, Role of Leadership in Structural Changes • Recommendations For Academic Leaders / Leadership / Institutions • Creating awareness for decision makers to make them observe – analyze and understand the mechanisms of resistance towards horizontal and vertical segregation in their institutions • Sorting out the external and internal constraints for gender equality and giving them priority according to their impact factor on the problem and also the institution’s and leadership’s capabilities to remove these constraints. • Making the university community aware of the importance of this problem and persuading them to foster the idea of gender equality • Planning and preparing a social environment for change to remove cultural barriers for gender equality by the participation of the all constituencies by • Developing innovative and creative approaches for designing and crafting a new legal environment to speed up the change processes • Monitoring the change process, measuring the impact of the strategy applied for structural changes to improve the conditions for gender equality and making the necessary adjustment for further steps • Preparing proposals for national and supra-national organizations to remove the external constraints and establishing strong networks to be influential on these authorities • Recommendations for National Authorities • Recommendations for Supra-National Organizations 22
IV.European Women rectors Conference 15-17 May 2014, Istanbul In summary: what are the facts? • Gender equality in academia is still an urgent problem • Horizontal and vertical segregation make the academic life difficult for women • The inequality problem is even more drastic at decision making levels • Asymmetric distribution of research funding still persists among female and male researchers • Recruitment and promotion processes are still present specific difficulties for women 23
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