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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, 1 June, 2013. The Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) participated in the first Arab-Euro Conference on Higher Education (AECHE), held on 30th -31st May and 1st June in Barcelona. The UfM Secretariat presented the numerous projects it is currently working on, highlighting the creation of the Euro-Mediterranean University of Fes (EMUF),Read more

Place: Historical Building, Universitat de Barcelona – Date: 30-30 May, 2013 The Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean will participate at the First Arab-Euro Conference on Higher Education, which will bring together for the first time the Association of Arab Universities (AARU), the European University Association (EUA) and their respective members. The Conference is addressedRead 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.

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.