Barcelone, le 6 septembre 2013. La Fondation des femmes de l’Euro-Méditerranée a été lancée le 6 septembre 2013 à Barcelone, Espagne, dans le but de soutenir les femmes euro-méditerranéennes dans leur quête d’autonomie et d’égalité entre les sexes. Plus concrètement, cette fondation mettra en œuvre le projet labellisé par l’Union pour la Méditerranée et approuvé par ses 43 membres, Développer l’autonomie des femmes. Cette nouvelle fondation, dont le siège se trouve à Barcelone, est composée et gouvernée par des représentants du nord et du sud de la Méditerranée, comprenant des organisations non gouvernementales, la communauté universitaire et de recherche et des… Lire la suite
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 the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya. It was attended by a large number of both, female and male students, from eight participating Spanish universities. The event opened with an intervention by Mr. Boris Dumančić from the Union for the Mediterranean, who conveyed the organization’s strong commitment to… Lire la suite
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…. Lire la suite
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…. Lire la suite
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…. Lire la suite
UfM Secretary General Sijilmassi took part in a High-level Conference on civil protection cooperation in the Euro-Mediterranean region. The UfM Secretariat has identified possible areas of project cooperation to enable the civil protection actors to better anticipate the risks to which the countries are exposed…. Lire la suite
The UfM Social and Civil Affairs Division and the Spanish Civil Society Platform for Cooperation in the Mediterranean (ECEM) are to collaborate on a future project to improve the social and economic situation of women in the Southern Mediterranean region…. Lire la suite
The United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) and the UfM Secretariat agreed on defining concrete ways of collaboration based on the existing synergies and complementarities with the aim to create an added-value in the Euro-Mediterranean cooperation…. Lire la suite
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…. Lire la suite
The establishment of a Euro-Mediterranean University in Morocco, an employability training program addressed at Southern Mediterranean disadvantaged women, and a plan for overcoming governance challenges to the mobilisation of financing for the Mediterranean water sector are the three new projects recently labelled by the UfM…. Lire la suite
