“Female Empowerment in Science and Technology Academia” FESTA is supported by Sevent Framework Programme of the European Union FP7-SCIENCE-IN-SOCIETY-2011-1. ITU is the WP leader for the WP7 “Dealing with Resistance”. Team members are Prof. Dr. Gulsun Saglamer (team leader), Prof. Dr. Mine Tan, Dr. Ozge Atalay Celik, Assist. Prof. Dr Fulya Tepe and Hulya Caglayan.