Fostering Gender Equality: Meeting the Entrepreneurship and Microfinance Challenge

Upcoming Events

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Previous events

• ISBE Conference 2009 (3-6 November) - more information

• Microcredit - An alternative for women's emmpowerment? - Conférence organised by WIDE on 15th of May 2009 in Brussels (Belgium) - view the Conference report and presentations

• Fondazione Risorsa Donna, Women and Microfinance - Tools for a Fair Development, European Parliament, 29/04/2009 - more information

• Le Monde selon les Femmes, Training Gender and Economy (in French), 17/02/2009, Brussels - more information

• Call for papers of the International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship - expressions of interest accepted until 28 Feburary 2009 - download the Call for Papers here

• Jump Women's Academy, Workshop "Quatrième pouvoir" et "deuxième sexe", Comment mieux communiquer avec la presse?, 4 September 2008, 13h30-17h, Brussels, Belgium (for more information: academy@blogjump.eu)

• Uniglobal Research, "Banking on Women - Driving Profit and Growth",  18-19 September, 2008, London

• Sharing a global research agenda in gender and entrepreneurship, 4th November 2008, Belfast, Ireland

• CERMI (Centre for European Research in Microfinance) International Conference on Gender mainstreaming in Microfinance: current debates and innovation, 16 May, 2008 Brussels, Belgium

• Fit for the Future, 5th Prowess Annual International Conference, 20 - 21st February 2008, Peterborough, UK

• TRANSNATIONAL CONFERENCE "FOSTERING GENDER EQUALITY: MEETING THE ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND MICROFINANCE CHALLENGE", 13-14 December, 2007, Madrid, Spain

• EMN Exchange visit, 5th - 6th February 2007 in the UK (you can download the minutes of the visit here)

• 4th EMN Annual Conference: “Microfinance in a Banking Environment”, April 25-27, 2007 (Berlin - Germany)
   

• Prowess Awareness Workshop in Social Accounting and Social Audit, 25th April 2007 in Sheffield and 24th May 2007 in London

• Fusion Conference and exhibition on "Opportunities for women-owned businesses in Science, Engineering, Construction and Technology (SECT)", 13 July 2007, Birmingham (UK)

• EMN / Integra Exchange Visit, 13-14 September 2007 in Slovakia

• The 2nd Global Symposium on Growth Strategies for Women Entrepreneurs, October 1-2, 2007 (Stockholm  - Sweden)

Gender Workshops and Meetings during the Madrid Transnational Conference on Gender and Microfinance

• Presentation the study on the "Social impact of microcredits in Spain” - See Power Point Presentation “El impacto de los microcreditos"  by Inger Berggren WWB Spain

• Rural women, entrepreneurship and microcredits - See Power Point Presentation "MUJERES RURALES, CREACIÓN DE EMPRESAS Y MICROCRÉDITOS" by Inger Berggren, WWB, Spain

• Plenary "Fostering Gender Equality, Meeting the Entrepreneurship and Microfinance Challenge" - See Power Point Presentation “Fostering Gender Equality - Meeting the Entrepreneurship and Microfinance Challenge" by Stefanie Lahn, Evers&Jung, Germany; see Power Point Presentation "European Report on the Entrepreneurial Environment for Women: The Gender Scorecard" by Tamara Underwood, Community Capital Ressources, USA

Gender Workshops and Meetings during the 4th EMN Annual Conference

• Women Entrepreneurs and Access to Finance - Where is the Deadlock?”

Moderator: Sue Lawton - Prowess (UK)
Speakers: Sara Carter - Stirling University (UK) - presentation, Beatriz Araneta, MITA ONG (Spain) - presentation

• “Prowess Flagship Awards – Mainstreaming Gender Equality in Business Support and Finance in the UK”

Speakers: Sue Lawton - Prowess (UK) - presentation, Isebail MacKinnon - Street Cred (UK)