President of Universidade Católica attends EWORA 2026 in Brussels
On behalf of the European Women Rectors Association (EWORA), the President of Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Isabel Capeloa Gil, travelled to Brussels to mark the association’s anniversary and to participate in the closing session of the first phase of the Leadership and Development Programme for New Rectors, an EWORA initiative designed to support women assuming top leadership positions in higher education institutions.
On 10 June, Isabel Capeloa Gil took part in the EWORA 2026 Conference, themed “Women’s Leadership in Academia in Times of Rising Geopolitical Tensions”. The President chaired the conference’s first panel, entitled “Universities at the Crossroads: Challenges for Higher Education Leaders”, featuring Fadime Üney Yüksektepe, President of Istanbul Kültür University, Silja Bára R. Ómarsdóttir, President of the University of Iceland, and Ulrike Beisiegel, former President of the University of Göttingen.
Elif Nur Fırat Karalar, Associate Professor at AKoç University; Birgit Riegraf, Former President of Paderborn University; Eva Åkesson, Former President of Uppsala University; Inga Žalėnienė, President of Mykolas Romeris University; Sondan D. Feyiz, Former President of Kadir Has University; Kerstin Tham, Former President of Malmö University, Lucyna Woźniak, Vice-President of Medical University of Łódź; Pamela Gillies, Former President of Glasgow Caledonian University; Ulrike Beisiegel, Former President of University of Göttingen; Isabel Capeloa Gil, President of Universidade Católica Portuguesa; Caroline Parker, Assistant Vice Principal of Glasgow Caledonian University.