 Sabancı University began planning a series of events, including meetings, symposiums and certificate programmes, for reinforcing gender equality, in the cities within the United Nations Joint Programme (UNJP), İzmir, Kars, Nevşehir, Şanlıurfa, Trabzon and Van.
Sabancı University began planning a series of events, including meetings, symposiums and certificate programmes, for protecting and promoting the human rights of women and girls, and reinforcing gender equality in the education sector. The events will be part of the United Nations Joint Programme (UNJP), and held in the six cities within the Programme, İzmir, Kars, Nevşehir, Şanlıurfa, Trabzon and Van.
Within the framework of the planned events, academics from Sabancı University, Ayşe Yüksel and Hülya Adak, visited İzmir, Kars, Nevşehir, Şanlıurfa, Trabzon and Van, meeting with academics, students and representatives from NGOs, and sharing information.
The main targets of Sabancı University’s initiative were listed as:
1. To create a network among academics who want to study gender studies, in the universities in the cities within the Programme,
2. To encourage the development of student-led gender projects within the universities,
3. To establish university-civil society dialogue through academics, students and local women’s NGOs,
4. To develop a critical gender perspective among high school teachers.
In the near future, Sabancı University is planning a set of meetings with academics and students in the universities in the Programme cities, a national symposium on gender and women’s studies in July 2007, and a certificate programme, titled “Purple Certificate” for high school teachers.
One major target of these events planned and organized by Sabancı University is “positioning gender studies as mainstream within high school education, and incorporating a gender-sensitive approach into curriculum and school activities.”
Academics from Sabancı University maintained that they want to raise awareness on women’s human rights among high school teachers, and among high school students through teachers, adding that they are planning to “establish a shared gender language and theory among high school teachers, and strengthen and support them in creating education strategies with a gender perspective, deriving from ‘learning to learn’ principle.”
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