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As part of its Women empowerment strategy, UfM has labeled a leadership program called WOMED “next generation of leaders” for 22 young Women from the south of the Mediterranean which aims at improving their leadership capacities and gender skills. The project was launched in Sciences PO – Paris on June 1st, 2015 with the presenceRead more

• 250 policymakers, experts, representatives from international organisations, think tanks, funding agencies, private sector and civil society from 35 countries discussed solutions to reduce the economic gender gap in the Euro-Mediterranean region. They stressed the urgency to improve women’s economic participation and called for concrete measures and more synergy between key actors in the region.
• The Minister of Women and Family Affairs of Tunisia, Samira Merai Friia, proposed that Tunisia hosts the next Union for the Mediterranean Ministerial Conference on increasing the role of women in Society in 2016.

The event was held within the framework of the foundation Catalunya Voluntària’s long-term project called Peace Education and Intercultural Dialogue, funded by the Anna Lindh Foundation. It gathered leading young activists with the aim to exchange views on peace, intercultural dialogue and mobility challenges facing youths in the Euro-Med region.

The Union for the Mediterranean and the Anna Lindh Foundation agreed on a Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen their mutual cooperation and enhance their joint efforts to boost the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership.