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The Sixth World Women University Presidents Forum

Prof.Dr. Gulsun Saglamer Chair, European Women Rectors Platform 6 September 2014, Beijing

World Wide Cooperation for Women’s Leadership in Higher Education and Research: UNESCO-EWRP-WWUPF

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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

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EWRP Scientific Committee

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 innovation content

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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.

Beyond the Glass Ceiling: Women Rectors Across Europe (11th of November 2008)

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“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

“Women Academics Beyond the Glass Ceiling: Women Rectors Across Europe, Women Leadership in Higher Education” 12-14 April 2010, Istanbul

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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
• rganisations.

– 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

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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

• f 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 6th 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.

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Under the Patronage of UNESCO

• IV. European Women Rectors Conference has been
• rganized 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;

• Cooperation of WWUPF and EWRP under UNESCO
• Developing New Projects by the support of UNESCO
• Unesco Patronage for both of the conferences
• IV.EWRC, 15-17 May 2014, Istanbul
• VI.WWUPF, 07-09 September 2014, Beijing

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UNESCO 9 April 2014, Paris

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Keynote Speakers

WWUP+EWRP

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Keynotes and Chairs

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Young Members

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EWRC2014-Istanbul

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

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IV.European Women rectors Conference 15-17 May 2014, Istanbul

We have developed a database using

• The list of WWUPF
• The list of EUA
• The list of women academic leaders developed by google search
• We have sent 350 invitations
• We have over 80 participants from 30 different countries
• 60 international
• 22 national
• We have 7 distinguished keynote speakers
• 30 presentations in parallel sessions

beyondtheglassceiling2014.org

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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

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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

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IV.European Women rectors 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 strategies and road maps as

well as close monitoring – evaluation – feedback mechanisms.

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World Women University Presidents Forum

• Since 2003 under the leadership of Prof.Liu Jinan WWUPF conferences have been
• rgaized ;
• 2003-2005-2007-2009-2011-2014
• These conferences set an excellent model for establishing new networks such as

EWRP

• Since 2009 WWUPF and EWRP have been cooperating and organizing joint

activities

• EWRP and WWUPF have applied to UNESCO for the patronage of their 2014

conferences

• Director General of UNESCO has given a great support and these two
• rganizations are going to take further steps for coopearation under UNESCO

umbrella

• Establishment of the Women leadership Academy will be a corner stone in these

developments

• WWUPF2014 is creating a new opportunity for extending our efforts by the help
• f our colleagues from all over the world.

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Collaboration between WWUPF and EWRP

• What are the possible areas for collaboration?
• Designing an extensive World-wide database for women academics ;

– Active women leaders in academia – Former women leaders in academia

• Organizing small workshops (annualy min. 2 workshops) to create awareness;

– in different countries – in different continents

• Organizing conferences in an integrated way such as;

– Organizing biannual conferences and hosting sub-conferances of each other – Organizing conferences every four year but every two years we will be meeting in one of these conferences 2014 (EWRC-WWUPF)-2016(WWUPF or EWRC)-2018 (EWRC)-2020(WWUPF)

• Designing training leadership courses for young academics
• Taking part in other HE and research networks’ conferences for the visibility of

the Forum and Platform

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What we need for effective and efficient collaboartion?

• We need you /your committements and contributions
• We need sound organizations
• We need UNESCO support

– Patronage – letter of cooperation – Designing projects together

• We need EC support
• We need visibility therefore we need

– Good PR strategy – Effective and efficient communication tools

And……We need funding for our actions

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Thank You

gsaglamer@gmail.com

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