Programme:

Bulgaria – Turkey IPA Cross-border Programme2007-2013

Partners:

EUROCLUB WOMAN (BG), YAMBOL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY (BG), EDIRNE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ( TR)

Duration:

12 months (2011-2012)

Main objective:

The project aims to overcome specific problems of women in cross-border region Yambol-Edirne in the field of way of life, culture, traditions, education of children and family, business, conditions of life, gender equality imposed as a result of relative isolation in the framework of national traditions and social life of both countries through wide mutual knowledge and active informational exchange.

Project Activities:

  • Press-conferences for the start and end of the project
  • Informational publications in the regional media
  • Promotional materials
  • Informational brochure “European aspects of the role and position of women from cross-border region Bulgaria – Turkey in the family, society, at work and in the business
  • Information research-survey and analysis
  • International conference in Yambol, Bulgaria – “Women from cross-border region – Many-sided and Identical”
  • International exhibition in Yambol, Bulgaria and Edirne, Turkey of art works, articles and home goods, presented by women from cross-border region in Bulgaria and Turkey entitled “DIFFRENECES BRING US TOGETHER”
  • Informational training seminar in Yambol, Bulgaria and in Edirne, Turkey entitled “Cross-border world of women in conditions of world globalization and European enlargement”

Website of the project: http://www.yambiz.com/euwoman/