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1st EWORA Workshop Change Management and Resistance 25 May 2018 University of Lisbon Nova 1st EWORA Workshop Change Management and Resistance 25 May 2018 University of Lisbon Nova President’s Office Levent Loft Büyükdere Cad. No. 201 A Blok K:5 D:88 Şişli/Istanbul TURKEY Tel: + 90 212 284 11 59 E-mail address: [email protected] Postal Address: European Women Rectors Association 11 Rond Point Schuman, B-1040 Brussels, BELGIUM Sponsors: 4 CONTENTS PROGRAM ..................................................................................................................................................... 6 EWORA AND THE RECOGNITION OF SUCCESSFUL IMPLEMENTATION OF GENDER EQUALITY POLICIES 8 BACKGROUND ............................................................................................................................................... 10 VISION, MISSION & GOALS .......................................................................................................................... 12 EWORA INAGURATION CEREMONY ............................................................................................................. 14 5TH EUROPEAN WOMEN RECTORS CONFERENCE....................................................................................... 16 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE ................................................................................................................................ 18 BOARD OF DIRECTORS ................................................................................................................................. 20 SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD ..................................................................................................................... 25 BEYOND THE GLASS CEILING: A JOURNEY FROM 2008 TO 2018 .............................................................. 28 SPEAKERS ...................................................................................................................................................... 29 PARTICIPANTS LIST ....................................................................................................................................... 36 CLOSING REMARKS........................................................................................................................................ 39 5 PROGRAM 24/26 May, 2018 Venue: NOVA School of Law, University of Lisbon Nova, Portugal MC: Emellin Oliveira THURSDAY, MAY 24 2018 15:00-17:00 EWORA Board of Directors (BoD) Meeting 15:00-17:00 EWORA Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) Meeting 17:00-18:00 Joint Meeting of BoD and SAB FRIDAY, MAY 25 2018 09:00-10:00 Opening Speeches Prof. Gülsün Sağlamer, President, EWORA Prof. Teresa Pizarro Beleza, Dean, Nova Law School Dr. Lotta Strandberg, Senior Adviser, NordForsk Prof. João Sàágua, Rector, University of Lisbon Nova Prof. Manuel Heitor, Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education of Portugal 10:00-11:15 Keynote Speeches: Change Processes Experienced by University Leaders Chair: Prof. Helena Nazare, Former Rector, University of Aveiro Prof. Pamela Gillies, Vice Chancellor, Glasgow Caledonian University Prof. Kerstin Tham, Vice Chancellor, Malmö University Prof. Ana Costa Freitas, Rector, University of Evora 11:15- 11:45 Coffee Break 11:45 - 13:00 Keynote Speeches: Change Processes Experienced by University Leaders Chair: Prof. Krista Varantola, Former Rector, University of Tampere Prof. Liisa Laakso, Rector, University of Tampere Prof. Anne de Paepe, Pro Rector, Ghent University Prof. Sara Moreno, Vice Rector, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 6 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch 14:00 - 14:30 Group Photo 14:30 - 17:00 Parallel Workshop Sessions Session 1: Imagining the Gender-Free University of the Future? Moderator : Prof. Louise Morley, Professor of Education, University of Sussex Session 2: Leading Change towards Gender Equal Universities Moderator : Prof. Liisa Husu, Professor of Gender Studies, Örebro University 17:00 - 18:00 Concluding Remarks Chair: Prof. Mine G. Tan, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Ankara University Workshop Moderators: Prof. Louise Morley Prof. Liisa Husu EWORA BoD Members: Gulsun Saglamer Krista Varantola Helena Nazare Christina Ullenius Ursula Nelles Kristin Ingólfsdóttir Carmen Fenoll 18:30 - 19:00 Transfer to the Thalia Theatre, Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education of Portugal 19:00 - 21:00 Award Ceremony & Banquet The EWORA Honorary AWARD 2018 to the Government of Sweden Prof. Manuel Heitor, Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education of Portugal Prof. Gülsün Sağlamer, President, EWORA Marie Helene Hellmark Knutsson, Minister for Higher Education and Research, Government of Sweden 21:00 Concert SATURDAY, MAY 26 2018 10:30 - 12:30 EWORA General Assembly (GA) in the morning (only for EWORA members) 12:30 -14:00 Lunch www.ewora.org 7 EWORA and the Recognition of Successful Implementation of Gender Equality Policies EWORA was established as a non-profit association in 2015, but its activities started already in 2008 in the format of European Women Rectors Platform. From the start, the aim of EWORA has been to advocate gender equality in higher education and to build up the self-confidence of female academics to apply for academic leadership positions. To celebrate its ten years of existence the Board of Directors of EWORA agreed to pinpoint major gender equality achievements by an Honorary Award granted on the International Women’s Day in March. The aim of this honorary recognition is to highlight actions and initiatives that turn policies into practice and empower women to become fully-fledged citizens in academia and in their respective societies. EWORA’s first honorary award goes to the current Swedish government as the first Feminist Government in the world. The Swedish government has proclaimed gender equality to be central to its work and therefore gender issues or gender perspectives are integrated into all policy areas, from higher education to foreign policy, and need to be clearly manifested in political initiatives. Establishing a feminist government is the logical extension of long-term domestic developments in Swedish society. Sweden, however, was not the first country to implement universal suffrage. Finland in 1906, Norway in 1913 and Denmark and Iceland in 1915 were all granting women full voting rights before Sweden finally joined the club in 1919. 8 Developments since then have brought Sweden to a leading position regarding equality between women and men. It has also become generally accepted in Sweden that the contribution of both women and men in society creates value for the individual, for the family and for the development of society. It is no wonder then that Sweden together with the other Nordic countries rank high on international evaluations of gender equality, quality of life, life expectancy and serve as an inspiring example for women and men in other countries. Among many important areas globally where gender analyses highlight the importance of women’s full participation are naturally education, economic independence, as well as the numerous crisis management processes currently in progress in many parts of the world. In short, the issue is about securing universal human rights for women. An assessment of the implementation of the action plan for feminist foreign policy shows that Sweden has actively promoted feminist foreign policy in bi- and multilateral cooperation. Implementation, indeed, is the keyword. It is fairly easy to establish equality policies, for example, in higher education but little happens if policies are not supported by affirmative action. Only when policies materialize as equal participation of women and men in academic decision-making bodies, will the number of female project researchers, female senior academics and university leaders reach satisfactory levels. The important thing is that mainstreaming gender starts early in the education system and stays on the academic agenda. Currently NordForsk, (the joint Nordic funding agency) and many national Nordic funding agencies also have ambitious research programmes for gender equality indicating that research on gender and gender issues still need to be mainstreamed in Nordic societies. A great deal still needs to happen even in the Nordic countries before “all male panels” and hidden discriminatory practices disappear from the Nordic scene and girls and grown women feel that they are treated equally throughout their education, have equal career prospects, and girls are told from the beginning what they can do instead of what they are not supposed to do. To summarize, experience has shown that, at national level, equality in academia and other walks of life can only be achieved through continued awareness and implementation of gender mainstreaming policies. At international level, however, the feminist foreign policy agenda driven by the Swedish government presents an approach that is far more radical and wider in scope than the rest of the world is used to and will in the long run contribute to gender equality in unprecedented ways. EWORA is very proud that the Swedish government has agreed to accept the Honorary Award. 9 BACKGROUND European Women Rectors Association (EWORA) is a full-fledged international non-profit association established in Brussels under Belgian Law in December 2015 to promote the role of women in leadership positions in the academic sector and to advocate gender equality in higher education and research at European and international scales. EWORA is also the continuation of European