Turkey’s Women Leaders Award Ceremony, organized by Dünya Newspaper in strategic partnership with the Center for Gender Studies at Koc University (KOC-KAM), was held on March 1, 2021.  Özyeğin University was honoured with the “Universities Contributing to Gender Equality” Award in recognition of its  Gender Equality Plan.

Özyeğin University received the award in the “Universities Contributing to Gender Equality” category in

On September 22, between 5 and 6 pm, PLOTINA participated in a joint Twitter campaign to raise awareness about the importance of Gender Equality Plans (GEPs). As sister project of GEARING ROLES, PLOTINA helped creating a moment of visible support of GEPs as an important tool for achieving gender equality in R&I. PLOTINA tweeted about why GEPs are necessary, using the hashtags #RiDaysEU #ERA4Equality

The SWAFS (science with and for society) programme of the European Commission has recently published its SWAFS achievements and recommendations report 2020 and the SWAFS report 2020 Gender equality, were a paragraph is devoted to PLOTINA project. The objective of this report is to convey the Horizon 2020 achievements of SWAFS to serve as input for DG Research and

The University of Bologna has published the Gender Equality Annual Report related to 2019. The Rector of the University, Francesco Ubertini, highlights that the UGII (University Gender Inequality Index), which measures the progress of gender equality within the university, shows a slight improvement. However, he is concerned about the big amount of aspects that are unsolved related to gender equality.

Gender

Özyeğin
University (ÖzU) hosted a panel titled “Science, engineering, gender”

On December
5, 2019, ÖzU’s Gender Equality Unit and the PLOTINA Team organized a panel
titled “Science, Engineering, Gender,” which focused on the current
gender-related issues in positive sciences and engineering. The panelists
discussed questions such as gender inequalities in their own fields, what
universities could do to overcome these problems and how gender could be
integrated into