EXECUTIVE WOMEN LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE
May 15th & 16th, 2008 - Barcelona, Spain

Published by P. Horvath, April 28th, 2008, Barcelona (Spain)

The Marcus Evans event organiser company is preparing a Conference on Executive Women Leadership to be held in Barcelona in the month of May. The event will capitalise on the knowledge of successful business women sharing their most valuable lessons and aims to help the women attending the conference to unleash their leadership potential while being true to themselves.

For more information on this event, you can download the Conference’s programme here.

FCEM WORLD COMMITTEE MEETING
April 24 to 28, 2008, Florence, Italy

The Italian Association of Women Entrepreneurs AIDDA are organizing the FCEM World Committee Meeting which will take place on 24 to 28 April, 2008 at Florence (Italy) .

Registration fee for the World Committee Meeting is ? 150 for inscriptions sent before the 15th March 2008, after that date each price will be increased of 30% .

For further information please contact with: info@lauragucci.net

More info: http://www.fcem.org

Mission of Moroccans entrepreneurs in Barcelona

From April 4th to April 11th AFAEMME will receive - in Barcelona, Spain - a mission formed by 11 Moroccans female entrepreneurs who were trained throughout the year 2007 in a business incubator located in Casablanca, Morocco.

During their stay, AFAEMME will contact these entrepreneurs with five Catalan businesswomen in order to support Mediterranean business networking. This entrepreneurial mission also includes two seminars: the first one, on Business Motivation, will be imparted by Mrs. Beatriz Fdez-Tubau, AFAEMME’s legal adviser and the second one “How to make businesses in Spain” will be given by AFAEMME’s International Relations Director, Mrs. Elizabeth Trallero. Apart from the above mentioned seminars, the entrepreneurs will be received by the Director of Internationalisation of “Foment del Treball” and FEPIME Catalunya, Mr. David Tornos.

WORLD BUSINESSWOMEN CONGRESS
March 12 to 15, 2008, Mersin, Turkey

The Association of Enterprising Business Women from Turkey is preparing a World Businesswomen Congress which will take place on 12 to 15 March 2008 at Mersin (Turkey).

This event will Count on the distinguished presence of the President of GISKAG, Mayor, Governor, Guest Ministers, Turkish Minister K.Tüzmen and representatives women from turkish and foreign women associations.

If you want more information please click here:

http://www.giskad.org/en/index.php?giskad=kayit

Invitation to the Celebration of the International Women's Day 2008
Thursday, 6 March 2008, Brussels

The International Women's Day will be celebrated by the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality of the European Parliament on Thursday, 6 March 2008. Representatives of the Network of Parliamentary Committees for Equal Opportunities for Women and Men in the European Union (NCEO) will participate actively in the meeting.

The Day will start with a conference on "The role of women in the intercultural dialogue". It will be the occasion to hear women from different parts of the world on the subject. Mr Hans-Gert Pöttering, President of the European Parliament, will open the conference.

Thereafter, a seminar on "Gender mainstreaming in parliamentary work" will concentrate on the presentation of best practices by delegations from national Parliaments and Members of the European Parliament.

The conference and the seminar will be chaired by Dr. Anna Záborská, Chair of the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality.

The meeting will take place in the Hemicycle of the European Parliament (Building Paul-Henri SPAAK, rue Wiertz 60, 1047 Brussels).

People wishing to attend should contact the following e-mail address: ip-femm@europarl.europa.eu , as soon as possible and no later than 25 February 2008.

INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON WOMEN AND JOB MOBILITY
21 February 2008, Turin, Italy

The International Training Centre of the ILO, AFAEMME and SIPTU are pleased to invite you to participate in the International Seminar on Women and Job Mobility that will take place in Turin on 21 February 2008.

The seminar deals with the mobility of women in the ITC sector. In particular, the purpose is twofold: to discuss the actual role of women in the ITC sector and to outline new job opportunities for women in the ICT sector.

Meeting Agenda

For further information please contact with: M.Veyret-Picot@itcilo.org

55th FCEM World Congress

The 55th FCEM World Congress will be held 23 to 28 November 2007 in Cairo, Egypt. An FCEM-Women Business Leaders OECD Forum is programmed in parallel to the MENA-OECD 2nd Ministerial Meeting and Investment Programme, on November 27, 2007.
The event will be organized byEBWA under the theme: 

"FCEM: meeting the Millennium Challenge"
FCEM-Women Business Leaders OECD Forum, November 27, 2007

For more information please contact: Dr. Amany Asfour, President EBWA

1st INTERNATIONAL FAIR OF WOMEN'S ENTREPRENEURSHIP
CROATIA, PULA, Hotel HISTRIA , 16th -18th November 2007

The organization of ECONOMICA, the first international fair that brings together activities and companies run by women and younger people who are owners, directors.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:

• encouraging women's entrepreneurship, as well as that of young people, directly and specifically through public appearance at this fair aiming at the presentation of products and services
• providing an opportunity to emerge from anonymity by such a fair, offering counselling on the culture of fairs, ways of presentation
• enabling business presentation and finding new markets
• the fair is a place for negotiating and doing business, sharing business experience
• informing the market of women's achievements and creativity, as well as activity of young people
• business communication, economic education at thematic lectures, round table discussions and workshops by participating at the 2nd BPW Danube Net business Forum
• networking with businessmen from European countries
• lobbying and connecting in the interest of reinforcing entrepreneurship
• making such an event a traditional one and turning ECONOMICA into a meeting place for women entrepreneurs in this part of Europe and beyond.

For participation in lectures, workshops and round table discussions, as well as activities of the international business women's club, please contact BPW Pula, e-mail: bpwpula@net.hr For booking accommodation contact: www.uniline.hr .

For information and registration contact:

ADRIA EXPO: + 385/91/576-3180, + 85/98/1902-703 adria.expo@ri.t-com.hr,

www.adriaexpo.org

kontakt person:

     Mirjana Brickweg