The Association of Organizations of Mediterranean Businesswomen (AFAEMME) together with the Association of Businesswomen from Balearic Islands (ASEME) organized the European Job Fair at Mallorca. In the event, held on last 29th and 30th September, the President of AFAEMME, Mrs. Mª Helena de Felipe Lehtonen, and Mrs. Elizabeth Villagómez Morales, Gender Expert, discussed about the actual project that AFAEMME, as European Platform for Organizations of Mediterranean Businesswomen, is dealing with the Coalition for Gender Equality for Latvia.
This project, called “Mobility and Equality: entrepreneurial participation towards an european labour market”, is focused on the development of an interactive toll for a self-diagnosis of reconciliation of work and family life under different Social Security Systems in the Baltic and Mediterranean1 countries involved in the project. The aim is to highlight the obstacles men and women must face by combining work and family life within the mobility frame. AFAEMME is developing this comparative database starting from its job mobility web site www.womenmobility.org and in continuous collaboration with EURES, the job mobility portal of European Commission, and with MISSOC (Mutual Information System on Social Protection for the EU member states) database.
The event was attended by the President and the Vice President of the Govern of Balearic Islands, Mr. Jaime Matas i Palou and Mrs. Rosa Estarás Ferragut; by the President of the Chamber of Commerce of Mallorca, Ibiza and Formentera, Mr. Juan Gual de Torrilla, by Mr. Cristóbal Huguet Sintes, Advisor for Training and Employ, and by Mr. Antonio Serra, President of Social Affairs and Sport of Mallorca, who spoke about the social corporative responsibility in business affairs.
In the last phase of the event, a videoconference Riga-Mallorca opened a debate/workshop about the main reasons and obstacles to the workers’ mobility across Europe as well as the study of possible future measures in order to facilitate the movement of workers within the European Union area.
The event is one of the European Job Fairs organized simultaneously in hundreds of European towns and cities on 29th and 30th September. The European Commission has designated the 2006 as European Year for Workers’ Mobility, to open up the debate on the real benefits and challenges of working abroad or changing job. This is the first European Year in which Mobility, Equality and Workers issues are jointly debated, and AFAEMME, together with ASEME- Balearic (member of AFAEMME) was the one of the 31 European organizations to work in the developing of several studies on the impact of mobility, as well as in the improvement of statistical data.
