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The selection of young female participants to the training courses concluded in August, 2014. The programmes began this month and will run until the end of December.

“Young Women as Job Creators” provides talented young women finishing university with training and assistance in order to make them become successful businesswomen. The project’s second phase is to be implemented in additional countries and universities with enriched content.

Bringing together some 200 participants from 35 countries, the conference created a unique momentum for dialogue at political and technical levels, allowing the exchange of best practices in the field of gender equality, the signature of cooperation and financing agreements, as well as the official launching of specific projects.

The project was launched today on the occasion of the ‘Women’s Socio-Economic Empowerment: Projects for Progress’ Conference. Co-funding for the implementation of the first phase has been secured by Norway and Flanders. The training courses will start in the coming months in Jordan, Tunisia and Morocco, then in Lebanon and Egypt.

26-27 March, 2014 – Headquarters of the UfM, Palau Pedralbes. Barcelona, Spain   The Conference The project-oriented conference “Women’s Socio-Economic Empowerment: Project for Progress” was mandated by the Third Union for the Mediterranean Ministerial Conference on Strengthening the Role of Women in Society, held in Paris on 11 September 2013. Ministers supported the development of projects onRead more

Barcelona, 8 March, 2014. On the occasion of the International Women’s Day, the Union for the Mediterranean joins the international community in congratulating and supporting all women around the world. We express our particular and utmost admiration and respect for the women of the Euro-Mediterranean region, who have stood at the forefront of development, respectRead more

This UfM project-oriented conference will take place on 26-27 March 2014, at the headquarters of the Union for the Mediterranean, in Barcelona, with the aim to encourage the implementation of projects and initiatives in the field of socio-economic empowerment of women in the Euro-Mediterranean region.

Barcelona, 23 January, 2013. With the aim to discuss possibilities of cooperation in the field of women’s handicraft in the Euro-Mediterranean region, a meeting with representatives of civil society organisations active in the field from Morocco, Lebanon, Croatia, France, Tunisia and Spain was held yesterday at the headquarters of the Union for the Mediterranean, inRead more

The Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) is preparing to launch the second phase of Young Women as Job Creators, in an effort to continue supporting young women in the Southern Mediterranean in starting up their own businesses.

Barcelona, 29 November, 2013. The Women's Rights Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean (PA-UfM) took place today at the premises of the Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean. The Committee was chaired by Samira Merai-Friaa, member of the National Constituent Assembly of Tunisia, and focused on two main topics:Read more