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Mar 8, 2024 | euneighbourseast.eu

With communities under growing pressure in the face of multiple crises, gender equality is more important than ever. As the world marks International Women’s Day (IWD) on 8 March, ensuring the rights of women and girls across all aspects of life, and promoting female entrepreneurship is critical to ensure prosperous and just economies. The United Nations has proposed ‘Invest in women: Accelerate progress’ as the theme for this year’s IWD, and the European Union promotes women’s economic empowerment and women entrepreneurship across all the Eastern Partnership countries, funding a wide range of projects and initiatives that provide opportunities specifically geared toward women

Mar 8, 2024 | euneighbourseast.eu

Young Armenian entrepreneur Meri Vardanyan from Sevan, spent six months in the Spanish city of Cesantes with the EU-funded Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs Exchange Programme, hosted by a female entrepreneur from Spain. Based on her experience, Meri said that the most essential thing the programme gave her was the ability to communicate appropriately with people. “I always knew what I was striving for, what I was going to achieve, what profession I was going to have,” says Meri, the young founder of the Sevan IT Plus start-up. Meri, who is now 27, remembers that when she was still at school,

Mar 4, 2024 | euneighbourseast.eu

I want to start my own business, but I’m not sure my idea would work. Who can advise me? I already have a business, but my biggest challenge as a businesswoman is to take it to the next step: is there any EU support available for me? I’m not sure I want to start a business, but I want to learn new skills: is there something for me from the EU? Are there women like me, who started their own business with EU help? Are there women like me, who started their own business with EU help? Whom can I

Mar 4, 2024 | euneighbourseast.eu

I want to start my own business, but I’m not sure my idea would work. Who can advise me? I already have a business, but my biggest challenge as a businesswoman is to take it to the next step: is there any EU support available for me? I’m not sure I want to start a business, but I want to learn new skills: is there something for me from the EU? Are there women like me, who started their own business with EU help? Whom can I ask for help?

Oct 13, 2023 | euneighbourseast.eu | Militsa Eggert

In 2023, progress on the level of gender equality in Moldova stagnates. Although in previous years the Republic of Moldova advanced in the field of ensuring gender equality in socio-economic and political life, in 2023 a slight regression is recorded. Thus, the average level of equality between women and men, calculated for six strategic areas evaluated, was estimated at 61 points, being 1 point less than the previous year. In the year 2023, 4 out of 6 areas analyzed have regressed in terms of ensuring gender equality. Thus, in 2023, the equality score decreased for the domains: politics, access to