EuroMed Invest Academy Barcelona - the Young Women as Job Creators project as best practice

In the framework of the EUROMED Invest Academy, AFAEMME, together with the Barcelona Chamber of Commerce and the Association of the Mediterranean Chambers of Commerce (ASCAME), organized a free of charge seminar on ”Stimulating Women Entrepreneurship in the Mediterranean".

The seminar took place on the 24th of November 2015 in the Casa Llotja de Mar, Barcelona, in the framework of other seminars related to "FDI promotion/investors servicing and business support services for existing SMEs and new entrepreneurs".

AFAEMME's international project coordinator, Ms. Mally, and the Programmes Manager of Social & Civil Affairs at the UfM, Ms. Hassouni, gave some insights to the participating business support organizations about possible program approaches to attact and retain more young women entrepreneurs as members.

EUROMED Invest (www.euromedinvest.eu), with a budget of €5 million, is one of the main European programs aiming at developing private investments and economic relations in the Euro-Mediterranean area. EUROMED Invest is funded by the European Commission, the MedAlliance consortium, the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Region and the City of Marseilles.

The project is coordinated by ANIMA Investment Network within the MedAlliance consortium: Eurochambres (Association of European Chambers of Commerce), ASCAME (Association of Mediterranean Chambers of Commerce), BusinessMed (Union of Mediterranean Confederations of Enterprises), EMDC (Euro-med Development Center for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises), GACIC (German-Arab Chamber of Commerce) and EABC (Euro-Arab Business Council).