Women Leading Change – Training for Universities and their Municipalities

11-12 June 2026, Barcelona. The UfM will host a two-day in-person training session for representatives from the 13 universities and 13 municipalities from Morocco, Lebanon and Syria participating in the Women Leading Change initiative. The programme will include: a 6-hour in-person training session on recruitment and promotion without gender bias; a 3-hour in-person session on preventing and addressing sexual harassment; and a 6-hour training on gender, leadership, and mentoring, consisting of 3 hours delivered in person in Barcelona and an additional 3-hour online session scheduled for mid-July.

The online component will take the form of a 3-hour follow-up group session, delivered to the same participants who attended the in-person mentoring session, including representatives from beneficiary universities and municipalities. This session will build on the in-person training, enabling participants to consolidate their understanding of mentoring approaches and reflect on their application within their respective institutional contexts. In addition, a complementary training session on the collection and analysis of gender-disaggregated data will be organised in September 2026.

Together, all these activities aim to strengthen participants’ technical knowledge while enhancing their capacity to promote and disseminate gender-responsive practices within their institutions.