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Barcelona, 15 May, 2013. The Union for the Mediterranean labelled project Young Women as Job Creators, promoted by the Association of Organisations of Mediterranean Businesswomen (AFAEMME), held its first Women Entrepreneurship Day on 15 of May 2013 in Barcelona. The seminar was organized by the Catalan Association of Business and Executive Women (ACEE) and hosted by theإقرأ المزيد

UfM headquarters. Barcelona – Start date: 30.04.2013 The Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean will hold the Launching Conference of the Young Women as Job Creators project on Tuesday, 30 April 2013, at its headquarters in Barcelona. The Conference will be attended, among others, by the Secretary General of the Union for the Mediterranean, Fathallahإقرأ المزيد

The project Young Women as Job Creators intends to inform, motivate and train about 10.000 young women university students to become future successful businesswomen and employers. It will be implemented between May and November 2013 in Morocco, Palestine, Jordan and Spain.

The official launch of the UfM-project Young Women as Job Creators will take place before May 2013. The initiative aims at promoting self-employment and entrepreneurship among young women university students who are about to graduate and have interest in starting their own business.

Three new projects adopted by the Union for the Mediterranean envisage the construction of a Jordanian National Railway as part of a regional railway network; the improvement of Higher education on food security and rural development; and the creation of a Euro-Mediterranean Development Centre for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises.

The meeting was an excellent opportunity to assess the progress achieved and the tasks yet to be delivered for an enhanced participation of women in the political, economic, social and cultural life of the Mediterranean region.

The Euro-Mediterranean University of Fes (UEMF) aims at being a unique regional centre of excellence in the fields of Higher Education, Research and Innovation. It will offer a wide range of study and research programmes in Humanities & Social Sciences and Engineering which will focus on topics with important impact on the integrated development of the region.

The UfM Social and Civil Affairs Division and the Spanish Civil Society Platform for Cooperation in the Mediterranean (ECEM) are to collaborate on a future project to improve the social and economic situation of women in the Southern Mediterranean region.

The United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) and the UfM Secretariat agreed on defining concrete ways of collaboration based on the existing synergies and complementarities with the aim to create an added-value in the Euro-Mediterranean cooperation.

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