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Call for Nomination for the book “100 Black European Women in Leadership” and the “Black European Leadership Award – BELA 2009”
The need to highlight, raise awareness on and to celebrate achievements and successes of Black European Women from a self-empowerment perspective has been repeated on several occasions. It is a fact that there are many Black European Women in decision-making and leadership positions in different Member States of the European Union. However, their contributions and achievements still remain largely invisible.
Therefore, AFRA and its partners think that it is high time to pick up this challenge from a self-empowerment perspective and focus on this aspect within the framework of the European Year on Innovation and Creativity 2009.
For this reason we are currently working on our next book with the title: "100 Black European Women in Leadership". This project aims at gathering data on 100 Black European Women in leadership and decision-making positions in Europe, under the following categories: Social and
Humanitarian engagements, Politics, Entrepreneurship, Academics and Research, Arts and Culture, Sports and Media.
The selected 100 women shall be published as an attempt to honor these Black European role models (in all their rich diversity) for their leadership activities on the one hand, and on the other hand to encourage and promote the younger generations to go even further.
We therefore would very much appreciate it, if you could recommend and/or help passing on this call to Black European Women around you, whom you think definitely deserve to be honored and celebrated.
The deadline for nominations has been extended to April 20th 2009.
An international jury is going to decide upon the 100 Black European Women to be considered in the book project. Alongside the book project AFRA and its partners are organising the High Level Gala Night in Brussels in October 2009, to officially present the book “100 Black European Women in Leadership” and to honor selected personalities (for the first time) with the "Black European Leadership Award (BELA 2009)".
For further information we gladly will be at your service and are looking forward to getting in personal contact with you.
"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." (Barack Obama 2008)
Let us make a difference together!
Beatrice Achaleke
Executive Director AFRA
Nomination-Form.doc
Call for participation BEWC General Assembly and Capacity Building Seminar April 9-10th Soesterberg /Utrecht, Holland 2009
Happy new year to each one of you! I do hope you all had a good start in this historical new year 2009. President Barack H. Obama gave each one of us every reason to begin this year on a positive note, despite of all the challenges faced daily. We have all been very inspired and proud of him, let’s follow his example and face our own european challenges now!
As already announced in the past, our BEWC General Assembly and first capacity Building seminar is taking place in Soesterberg /Utrecht-Holland from April 9th -10th 2009.
Aims
This meeting has two main aims:
1. a capacity building seminar to help equip those trying or planing to set up a national coordination of the BEWC with the right tools to start up sucessfully.
2. the general assembly of the BEWC, including the election of board members and adoption of a plan of action of the BEWC for the next four years.
Participation
Participation is opened to all officially registered members of BEWC.
For those who still want to register, registration is open until March 20th 2009. You may also want to register online under www.bewnet.eu/main/members/. For those not yet decided, but who would like to attend this meeting, we do encourage you to register, but to please bear in mind that priority will be given to registered members in case of too many registration.
Deadline for registration
Please send us your registration form not later than March 15th 2009. We shall send you a confirmation of participation by March 20th 2009
Cost of Participation
Participation is free of charge. However, each participant is expected to take care of her own travel expenses.Thanks to a limited funding of the EU program “Europe for Citizens” we shall be able to cover your feeding and accommodation for one night.
As we are currently working out more details of the program, we shall get back to you with more details within the coming days. Meanwhile to facilitate the organisational process, we would kindly ask you to:
1. register if you intend to attend the capacity building seminar and General Assembly from 9th -10th of April 2009
2. indicate if you would take part in both the general assembly and the capacity building seminar
3. indicate if your are interested in taking part in the elections
4. to start making your own travel arrangements to and from Utrecht
A draft agenda and further detailed information about this meeting shall follow soon.
We gladly look forward to meeting you again and taking the next steps and challenges together.
With best greetings from Vienna
The participation form can be downloaded here:
PARTICIPATION-FORM.doc
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