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The 5th Mediterranean Women Entrepreneurs Forum was held in the framework of the 7th Mediterranean Week of Economic Leaders, a major economic event in the Mediterranean region, focusing on the key aspects of the region’s socio-economic development.

Jordan, 2 November, 2013. Jordan Forum for Business & Professional Women (JFBPW) conducted on November 2nd 2013, the first Women Entrepreneurship Day (WED) in Amman, continuing thus the implementation of the Union for the Mediterranean labelled project “Young Women as Job Creators”, promoted by the Association of Organisations of Mediterranean Businesswomen (AFAEMME). The workshop wasRead more

More than 100 young women students attended the first Palestinian Women Entrepreneurship Day, which took place at the Ramallah Chamber of Commerce and Industry as part of the activities implemented within the framework of the UfM Project ‘Young Women as Job Creators’ launched earlier this year. The participants came from three local higher education institutions,Read more

A series of seminars on Women Entrepreneurship will take place in Morocco and Palestine next October 2013 with the aim to provide talented young women finishing their University studies with assistance to become successful businesswomen.

The Third Ministerial Conference on Strengthening the Role of Women in Society took place on 11 and 12 September 2013 in Paris, France. The Conference gathered ministers of the 43 Member States of the Union for the Mediterranean responsible for women affairs and gender equality.

The Third Union for the Mediterranean Ministerial Conference on Strengthening the Role of Women in Society took place on 11 and 12 September 2013 in Paris, gathering Ministers in charge of women affairs and gender equality from the 43 UfM Member States. Following the commitments from the 2006 Istanbul and 2009 Marrakech Ministerial Conferences on StrengtheningRead more

Barcelona, 6 September, 2013. The new Euro-Mediterranean Women’s Foundation was launched on 6 September 2013 in Barcelona, Spain, with the aim of supporting women of the Euro-Mediterranean in their quest for empowerment and gender equality. More concretely, the Foundation will implement the Union for the Mediterranean labelled project Developing Women Empowerment, approved by the 43Read more

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 theRead more

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, FathallahRead more

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.