15TH MAY 2014
Prof.Dr.Çiler DURSUN
Scientific Coordinator and Manager at AU
cdursun@ankara.edu.tr
www.genovate.eu
What is Genovate about?
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 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
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COORDINATOR
Univer
University of Bradford (UNIBRAD)
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PARTNERS
SEVENTH FRAMEWORK
PROGRAMME
University College Cork (UCC)
Transforming organisational culture for
gender equality in research and innovation
Ankara University (Turkey)
Lulea University of Technology (LTU)
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
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 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
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 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
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 WP4 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.
WP4
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Method of Climate Report and Dissemination
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 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
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Institutional Needs of AU
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 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
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 AU team is also responsible for preparing D4.1.
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 WP4 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
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 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)
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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.
WP4: Support female academic researchers in accessing opportunities for
advancement in their careers
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 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 26th
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
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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
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 2- A.U graduate students training sessions and meetings to promote
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their access to research funds
3- Stakeholder meeting (26th May 2014)
5- Genovate Cafe meetings and work related GeCat
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
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First Stakeholder Meeting
18 January 2013
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KASAUM
BAP
SKS
TÜRK ÜNİVERSİTELİ
KADINLAR DERNEĞİ
ÇUKUROVA KADAM
İNSAN HAKLARI ABD
KARİYER
DANIŞMANLIĞI MRK.
ANKARA
ÜNİVERSİTELİLER
DERNEĞİ
TRT Radio – GENOVATE
20 January 2013
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FIRST GENOVATE CONVENTION 5-8 MARCH 2013- UK
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PROF.DR.ÇİLER DURSUN
PROF.DR.GÜZİN EVLİYAOĞLU
UNICA- KRİS DEEKONJESTA
ACTION PLAN COMMISSION –FIRST MEETING
22.04.2013
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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
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GENOVATE LAUNCH MEETING
22 MAY 2013
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NATIONAL MEDIA-GENOVATEMİLLİYET NEWSPAPER ANKARA 21 OCTOBER 2013
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GENOVATE WEB PLATFORMS
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DISSEMINATION
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