PLOTINA Project promotional video.

The approach of PLOTINA project is to simplify the process to perform a gender audit and to approve a gender equality plan in universities and research performing organizations. Gender equality plans can identify some of the barriers and obstacles and can help identify ways to overcome those. It is important not only to belief in gender equity

On March 6, 2019, ÖzU PLOTINA Team organized a gender equality seminar for the Deans, School Directors and Vice Rectors of Özyeğin University. This three-hour-long seminar was developed and given by Prof. Yıldız Ecevit who is one of the founding members of KA.DER (Association to Support Women Candidates in Elections), KEİG (Women’s Labor and Employment Initiative). Between 1996-2017, Prof. Ecevit

At this year’s International Women’s Day on March 8th, NIC organized a round table entitled “Science or family? Should we really choose? ‘. The table was focussed around the question of what obstacles – and also perhaps myths – researchers encounter at different stages of their research career. In this context, we were particularly interested in whether it is possible

March 7th 2019, at the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport of Slovenia, in the organisation of the Commission for Equal Opportunities in Science, National Institute of Chemistry (NIC) presented the implementation of its Gender Equality Plan. NIC presented the measures taken in the field of gender mainstreaming in research, reconciliation of domestic work and work, recruitment, career advancement and

The 9th annual Özyeğin University Sectoral Orienteering (SO), one of the flagship events organized by the ÖzU Sectoral Education and Professional Development team, took place between 25 February – 1 March, 2019 at the Çekmeköy Campus.

The event brought together the leading names of the business world with ÖzU students around many different activities such as sectoral talks,

PLOTINA was invited to ACT 1st International Synergy Conference on 25th February 2019 in Brussels and Maria Mantini Satta for Progetto Donna Italy and Mojca Dusica Zajc for National Chemistry Institute of Slovenia have taken part to the Conference and given their contribution to the consultation sessions on the initial Community of Practice setups and support scenarios.

ACT is a Horizon

In accordance with its Gender Equality Plan, Özyeğin University has launched a series of Gender Equality Awareness seminars and workshops for academic and administrative staff. Covering the period between mid-February and mid-Fall semester of the 2019-2020 Academic Year, these seminars and workshops will be held with 7 groups of administrative personnel and directors, and 15 groups of faculty

Charikleia Tzanakou PLOTINA team member from the Department of Politics and International Studies of the University of Warwick has recently published a piece of research in the journal Gender, Work & Organization together with Ruth Pearce, researcher at the School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds.

The article, entitled “Moderate feminism within or against the neoliberal university? The example

Mondragon Unibertsitatea held a course on inclusive language on 11 January 2019. This training was organized within the training sessions that have been proposed based on the equality plan for Mondragon Unibertsitatea that has been designed within the PLOTINA project.

Apart from people from the field of communication in the 4 faculties that make up Mondagon Unibertsitatea, collaborators from different companies