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IV. European Women Rectors ’ Conference

The European Women Rectors’ Conference focuses on the role of leadership in creating structural changes for women in higher education. This conference brings together women rectors from across Europe to share experiences and discuss strategies for improving the conditions of women academics.

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IV. European Women Rectors ’ Conference

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  1. IV. EuropeanWomenRectors’ Conference Gülsün SAĞLAMER Istanbul Technical University 16 May 2014, Istanbul EuropeanWomenRectorsAcrossEurope Beyond theGlassCeiling: Role of LeadershipforStructuralChanges

  2. Content • New developments at EU level • “WomenAcademicsBeyondtheGlassCeiling: WomenRectorsAcrossEurope” (11th of November 2008) • “Women Academics Beyond the Glass Ceiling: Women Rectors Across Europe, Women Leadership in Higher Education”(12-14th of April 2010) • EuropeanWomenRectorsAcross Europe: Beyond theGlassCeiling: Achievements, ChallengesandOpportunities (21-23 May 2012) • EuropeanWomenRectorsAcross Europe: Beyond theGlassCeiling: Role of Leadership in StructuralChanges 15-17 May 2014 • SomeConclusions • IstanbulRecommendations

  3. Supporting EC policy on Gender and Scince 1. Communication on the ERA 2012: • Gender is one of 5 priorities: • “Gender equality and gender mainstreaming in research: Encouraging gender diversity to foster science excellence and relevance”. Member states are invited to: • Create a legal and policy environment and provide incentives. • Engage in partnerships with funding agencies, research organizations and universities to foster cultural and institutional change on gender. • 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: • Structural change for ensuring equal opportunities and promoting women’s careers. • Promoting integration of gender dimensions in research and innovationcontent

  4. Beyond theGlassCeiling: WomenRectorsAcross 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 ) Weinvited 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. Therepresentative of EC waspresent in thismeeting At theconference, WomenRectorssharedexperienceswitheachotheranddiscussthepossibilities of • Howtoimprovethesituation of womenacademics, • How todevelopstrategiesforfuture-orientedcooperation Theyfocused on newideastoimprovetheconditionsforwomenacademicstoremovethebarriersforhorizontalandverticalsegregationanddecided; • Tocontinuetheorganization of themeetingsannually, • Tocooperatewiththesimilarnetworksandorganizations in theworld.

  5. “Women Academics Beyond the Glass Ceiling: Women Rectors Across Europe, Women Leadership in HigherEducation” 12-14 April 2010, Istanbul “BeyondtheGlassCeiling: WomenRectorsAcrossEurope, WomenandLeadershipInHigherEducation”, which is againhostedby ITU andsupportedby IAUP (InternationalAssociation of UniversityPresidents) and EUA (EuropeanUniversityAssosication).

  6. Road Map & Recommendations • Formation of a EuropeanWomenRectors’ Platform, • Representation in & interactionwith “WorldWomenPresidents’ Forum” • Organisation of annual/biannualconferences, • Creatingopportunitiesforcollobrativeprojects, • Participation in theactivities of theEuropean & global highereducationorganisations. • EUA AnnualConference, October 20-23 , 2010, Palermo • IAUP TriennialConference, June 17-20, 2011, NewYork • SEFI AnnualConference 2011 Lisbon,September 27-30, 2011 • WorldWomenUniversityPresidents Forum 3-5 November, 2011 TheThirdEuropeanWomenRectorsConference 21-23 May 2012,ISTANBUL

  7. Inthethird Conference; 79 participantsfrom 29 countries60 internationaland 19 nationalparticipant “Women Academics Beyond the Glass Ceiling: Women Rectors Across Europe, Women Leadership in HigherEducation” 21-23 May 2012, Istanbul

  8. III EuropeanWomenRectors Conference 21-23 May 2012

  9. III. EuropeanWomenRectors’ ConferenceEuropeanWomenRectorsAcrossEurope: BeyondtheGlassCeilingAchievements, ChallengesandOpportunities 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 This conference was also hosting the sub-conference of the 6th Conference of WWUPF to be held in China in 2014 Minister of FamilyandSocialPoliciesandthePresident of CoHEsupportedandhonoredtheconference We had 7 distinguishedkeynotespeakerswith 26 excellentpresentations.

  10. Under thePatronage of UNESCO IV. EWRC is organizedunderthepatronage of UNESCO Prof.LiuJinan , Prof.GulsunSaglamer met with TheDirector General of UNESCO Mrs. IrinaBokova on 9th April 2014 in Paris anddiscussedthepossibilities of UNESCO support; • Cooperation of WWUPF and EWRP under UNESCO • Developing New Projectsbythesupport of UNESCO • Unesco Patronageforboth of theconferences • IV.EWRC, 15-17 May 2014, Istanbul • VI.WWUPF, 07-09 September 2014, Beijing

  11. UNESCO 9 April 2014, Paris

  12. IV.EuropeanWomenrectors 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 academicleaders /academic institutions. During the plenary sessions invaluable contributions havebeenmade 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 arewegoingtomeasuretheresultsandclosetheloop? Wearehopingtoarticulaterecommendations foracademicleaders, institutions, nationstatesandsupranationalorganizations

  13. IV.EuropeanWomenrectors Conference 15-17 May 2014, Istanbul Wehavedeveloped a databaseusing • Thelist of WWUPF • Thelist of EUA • Thelist of womenacademicleadersdevelopedbygooglesearch • Wehave sent 350 invitations • Wehaveover 80 participantsfrom 30 differentcountries • 60 international • 22 national • Wehave 7 distinguishedkeynotespeakers • 30 presentations in parallelsessions

  14. IV.EuropeanWomenrectors 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 • Recruitmentandpromotionprocessesarestillpresent specific difficulties forwomen

  15. IV.EuropeanWomenrectors Conference 15-17 May 2014, Istanbul Therefore we need; • Substantial structural changes for promoting gender equality in academia • Strong leadership as it plays a crucial role in change processes • Holistic approaches to improve the conditions step by step • Concrete but flexible strategiesandroad maps as well as close monitoring – evaluation – feedback mechanisms.

  16. Collaboration between WWUPF and EWRP • Whatarethepossibleareasforcollaboration? • Designing an extensive World-widedatabaseforwomenacademics ; • Active womenleaders in academia • Formerwomenleaders in academia • Organizingsmallworkshops (annualy min. 2 workshops) tocreateawareness; • in differentcountries • in differentcontinents • Organizingconferences in an integratedwaysuch as; • Organizingbiannualconferencesandhostingsub-conferances of eachother • Organizingconferenceseveryfouryear but everytwoyearswewill be meeting in one of theseconferences 2014 (EWRC-WWUPF)-2016(WWUPF or EWRC)-2018 (EWRC)-2020(WWUPF) • Designingtrainingleadershipcoursesforyoungacademics • Takingpart in other HE andresearchnetworks’ conferencesforthevisibility of the Forum and Platform

  17. Whatweneedforeffectiveandefficientcollaboartion? • Weneedyou /yourcommittementsandcontributions • Weneedsoundorganizations • Weneed UNESCO support • Patronage • letter of cooperation • Designingprojectstogether • Weneed EC support • Weneedvisibilitythereforeweneed • Good PR strategy • Effectiveandefficientcommunicationtools And…… • Weneedfunding

  18. ThankYougsaglamer@gmail.com

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