Projects Contributing to SDGs
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FoB’s SDG5 project portfolio demonstrates a coherent, multi-level approach aligned with the School’s mission to advance inclusive, responsible, and globally engaged business education. Projects supported by Erasmus+ and COST collectively strengthen gender-responsive research methods, advance evidence on gender diversity in governance, and support women’s transition into the workforce and entrepreneurship. This alignment enables systematic knowledge transfer into curriculum and stakeholder engagement, evidencing mission-consistent impact. Together, the portfolio reflects sustained international collaboration and measurable contribution to SDG5-oriented outcomes. The projects listed below illustrate the scope and continuity of this impact.
FoB’s projects related with SDG5
| Project Title | Supporting Body | Date Range |
| Volcanoes’ Women Co-Creation – Empowering women transitioning into the workforce and revitalizing women entrepreneurs (VoWoCo) | Erasmus+ Key Action 220 |
01/10/2025- 31/01/2028 |
| The VoWoCo project directly supports gender equality and economic resilience by empowering women returning to the workforce, seeking to revitalize their businesses, or aiming for career change. Evidence-based analyses conducted within the project reveal, with scientific data, the limitations faced by women entrepreneurs, such as lack of financial management skills, digital competencies, and constraints stemming from family responsibilities, and develop ways to acquire skills in these areas. Innovative business plans developed through a three-way mentoring process based on a “co-creation” model increase women’s professional legitimacy in the business world and create new employment value in local communities, constituting a sustainable regional development model.
In line with AACSB’s vision of social impact, the project builds a sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystem integrating higher education institutions with the business world, SMEs, and civil society. The developed open-access digital learning platform and dissemination activities aimed at reaching more than 3,000 stakeholders ensure the democratization of academic knowledge and its transformation into social benefit through lifelong learning. Furthermore, the strategic recommendations presented to policymakers extend the project’s impact from the individual to the institutional and national levels by promoting structural reforms that support women’s entrepreneurship and inclusive economic growth, thereby reinforcing universities’ strategic role in social transformation. |
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| Capacity building for the next generation of researchers and evaluators to engage in inclusive sex and gendered research | COST Action |
November 2025 – October 2026 |
| Gender Diversity on Corporate Boards: A Road to Sustainability | Erasmus+ KA2 | February 2022 – April 2025 |
FoB operationalizes its SDG10 commitment through mutually reinforcing activities in research, teaching, and stakeholder engagement. The diversity and continuity of externally funded and institutionally supported projects demonstrate the Faculty’s sustained scholarly capacity to address inequality through research, policy dialogue, and applied knowledge production within the mission of Dokuz Eylül University.
FoB’s research engagement is supported by participation in international research networks and externally funded projects addressing migration, social inclusion, and inequality. These initiatives contribute to cumulative scholarly capacity and sustained knowledge production on structural dimensions of inequality.
FoB’s projects related with SDG10
| Project Title | Supporting Body | Date Range |
| EU Policy Making on Migration (EUPOLY-MIG) | Erasmus+ Jean Monnet Module | September 2024 – September 2027 |
| Innovative Support for Promoting Refugee Entrepreneurship in Tourism (INSPIRE) | Erasmus+ Key Action 220 | November 2023 – November 2025 |
| Financial Literacy for Accessible and Inclusive Vocational Education | Erasmus+ KA2 | 2022 – 2025 |
| Connecting Theory and Practical Issues of Migration and Religious Diversity (COREnet) | COST Action | 2021 – 2025 |
Upcoming and Planned Project (2025–2028) on SDG 5 and 10
| SDG | Domain | Activity |
| SDG5 | Project | Erasmus+ WeGrow project application to strengthen inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystems. |