15 TH MAY 2014 Prof Dr iler DURSUN

15 TH MAY 2014 Prof. Dr. Çiler DURSUN Scientific Coordinator and Manager at AU cdursun@ankara. edu. tr www. genovate. eu

What is Genovate about? 2 �Genovate is an action research poject based on the implementation of Gender Equality Action Plan at 6 different European Universities. � 3 areas were identified for make intervention in academic institutions for gender mainstreaming: � Recruitment, progression and research support � Working environment, work-life balance, institutional culture � Standarts and diversity in research excellence and innovation

COORDINATOR University of Bradford (UNIBRAD) 3 PARTNERS SEVENTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME University College Cork (UCC) Transforming organisational culture for Ankara University (Turkey) Lulea University of Technology (LTU) gender equality in research and innovation January 2013 - December 2016 www. genovate. eu Università degli Studi di Napoli (UNINA) Trnava University in Trnava (TU) University of Madrid (UCM) Universidad Complutense de Madrid

4 �Each partner university has its own tailored GEAP according to its needs and priorities on gender mainstreaming. �Knowledge exchange, sharing experiences and ongoing participatory evaluation are the key activities of the project which involves many national and international stakeholders

Main Purposes of AU’s GEAP 5 � 1 -Knowledge building and information networking: it has been aimed to develop gender equality point of view and expand it to the whole organizational structure. � 2 - Secure a gender equality perspective as a management priority on administrative levels of the various units and in the level of university administration � 3 - To Increase the proportion of women in senior leadership positions particularly at the Rectorate, Vice-Chancellor level, and including Deans, Chair of Departments and Senior Managers and to strengthen the presence of female academics’ senior positions

AU is leading WP: Working culture and climate change 6 �WP 4 is directed towards changing working culture and climate for gender equality in the institutions. �Evaluating the current atmosphere and concrete indicators of gender equality is a starting stage �AU team was lead to conduct the gender climate assessment report of partner institutions in order to grasp gender equality perceptions of the academics in their institutions. The objective of these assessments is to identify the gaps, needs and areas for the improvement of gender equality.

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Method of Climate Report and Dissemination 8 �Survey, interview and focus group data gathering technics were used by as mixed method. �All partners have an opportunity to identify each institutions own contexts according to the perceptions of academics and inclusion mechanisms in decision making process and leadership in the institutions. �Gender Equality Climate and Culture Report of AU was distributed over 4000 academics with the signatory of AU Rector Prof. Dr. Erkan İbiş in May 2014.

Ankara University Gender Equality Climate Assessment Report May- June 2013 17 July 2013 submission 9

Institutional Needs of AU 10 � Absence of a monitoring system to track applications, recruitment, promotion, appointment processes of academics in the institution � Absence of an academic mentoring program/system for the academics at the institution � Frequent and sometimes radical changes/improvements in the appointment and promotion criteria � Absence of an in service training program for the academics in order to raise awareness for gender equality in academia � Promoting gender balance in the relationships between the academics and industry through the companies at university’s techno-park � Absence of gender balance in allocation of research funds provided by the Scientific Research Coordinate Office � Absence of substantive gender balance among the members of commissions and committees at AU � Lack of motivation of women academics for leadership positions and for chairs of decision making bodies of AU � Need for promoting working conditions for academics

Gender Gompetent Leadership Package 11 �AU team is also responsible for preparing D 4. 1. online leadership package on gender competent leadership and management for January 2015. �Embedding GECATs in the faculties can be seen as a part of supporting implementation of WP 4 goals. �We’ve founded 2 Genovate Change Academy Teams: Veterinary Faculty and Faculty of Educational sciences. �We have moderated 2 Genovate Cafe’s at these faculties in order to get faculty specific needs and demands.

Networking – Implementation Strategies 12 �AU established close connections with the Coordinatorship of Women Platform and Coordinatorship of Equality Policies through small meetings to be able to give a force for embedding some policies into the academic life of AU. �“Gender equality selective courses” for the undergraduate classes was accepted by the Rectorate and will be implemented by Faculty of Pharmacy and Faculty of Medicine at first.

ACTIVI TIES ACHIEVEMENTS (Jan. 2013 - May 2014) 13 1 - National stakeholders meeting 2 - Establishment of national learning circle 3 - Genovate Opening Convention- UK 3 - Gender Equality Action Plan Commission established 4 - Genovate Launch in AU 5 - Dissemination-Content provided to the national, local, institutional media Ulusal, yerel, üniversite medyası için içerikler verildi (interviews, openings etc. ) 6 - Mobbing Directive and Unit established 7 - Academic works and studies on gender issues were given credit as academic promotional criteria in a University in 2013.

WP 4: Support female academic researchers in accessing opportunities for advancement in their careers 14 �Training Graduate Students from different departments to improve their obtaining research funds with their projects: Support for Thesis Projects. �To increase portion of research funds of doctoral students from %1 to %3. � 45 Graduate students were trained to improve their access to research funds in and outside AU in 26 th February 2014. �Mentoring programme is part of AU’s agenda. We can support improvement of Ph. D. Supervisory efforts of the academics.

Embedding Structural Changes 15 ● An Official Unit of AU Against Mobbing was established in February 2014 and chairs of the Unit are distributed in favour of women academics. Directive for solving mobbing issues in AU is accepted in February 2014 in Senate.

AU Workplan 2014 16 � 2 - A. U graduate students training sessions and meetings to promote their access to research funds � 3 - Stakeholder meeting (26 th May 2014) � 5 - Genovate Cafe meetings and work related Ge. Cat � 6 - Code of Practice to be submitted to TUBITAK � 7 - Online gender competent leadership toolkit preparations � 9 - Changes in ways action plan commission works � 10 - Preparing papers to submit international and national journals � 11 - Raising gender equality awareness Toplumsal Cinsiyet Eşitliği farkındalığını arttıracak paylaşım çalışmalarına hız vermek � 12 - Strengthen the relations with National media � 13 - Strengthen relations with Women Centers in other universities, share experience and knowledge to initiate their action plans

Dissemination: Interview– January 2013 17

First Stakeholder Meeting 18 January 2013 18 KASAUM BAP SKS TÜRK ÜNİVERSİTELİ KADINLAR DERNEĞİ ÇUKUROVA KADAM İNSAN HAKLARI ABD KARİYER DANIŞMANLIĞI MRK. ANKARA ÜNİVERSİTELİLER DERNEĞİ

TRT Radio – GENOVATE 20 January 2013 19

FIRST GENOVATE CONVENTION 5 -8 MARCH 2013 - UK 20 PROF. DR. ÇİLER DURSUN PROF. DR. GÜZİN EVLİYAOĞLU UNICA- KRİS DEEKONJESTA

ACTION PLAN COMMISSION –FIRST MEETING 22. 04. 2013 21 Prof. Dr. Çiler Dursun Prof. Dr. Selin Esen Yard. Doç. Dr. Abdurrahman Saygılı Doç. Dr. Selçuk İşsever Prof. Dr. Ruken Öztürk Yard. Doç. Dr. Burça Kızılırmak Yakışır Prof. Dr. Ayşe Çakır İlhan Doç. Dr. Ömer Adıgüzel (SKS) Doç. Dr. Ahmet Emre Yaprak Prof. Dr. Serap Şahinoğlu Prof. Dr. Ali Murat Zergeroğlu Prof. Dr. Şengül Hablemitoğlu Doç. Dr. Gülbin Özçelikay Prof. Dr. Gülay Özkan Prof. Dr. Pelin Özkan Doç. Dr. Bedriye Poyraz Doç. Dr. İhsan Toker Prof. Dr. Bülent Gülçubuk Prof. Dr. Melahat Avcı Birsin Doç. Dr. Sema Yıldırım Becerikli Prof. Dr. Rıfkı Hazıroğlu Prof. Dr. Güzin Evliyaoğlu Prof. Dr. Nevin Özkan Prof. Dr. Nuran Kayabaşı Prof. Dr. Timur Gültekin

GENOVATE LAUNCH MEETING IN AU 22 MAY 2013 22

GENOVATE LAUNCH MEETING 22 MAY 2013 23

NATIONAL MEDIA-GENOVATEMİLLİYET NEWSPAPER ANKARA 21 OCTOBER 2013 24

GENOVATE WEB PLATFORMS 25 �www. genovate. eu �http: //www. genovate. unina. it/community/ �http: //kasaum. ankara. edu. tr/ �http: //ankara. edu. tr

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