The Fundación Universitat Jaume I-Empresa has organised the Meeting-Debate Women's Entrepreneurship in the agri-food sector in the framework of the visit to Castelló of María del Carmen García, coordinator of the European cooperation project with Argentina ECOMAyA. The conference was attended by the association Netwotking Directivas Castellón (NDCS). The Universitat Jaume I participates as a partner in the ECOMAyA project, through the SOGRES group, as experts in the area of circular economy, together with the FUE-UJI also as a partner of the project and coordinated by Red PROTER (Argentina).

The meeting, held on Thursday 22 September at the FUE-UJI, brought together female entrepreneurs and managers from Castelló, to whom the ECOMAyA project was presented, "whose main objective is to promote entrepreneurship through a microcredit programme for women, which allows them to develop a whole network of companies based on circular economy, especially around beekeeping production", as Gloria Serra, manager of the FUE-UJI, explained at the opening of the meeting.

María del Carmen García, project coordinator, presented ECOMAyA on behalf of Red PROTER (Argentina), the project coordinator.  "This project is an important achievement for Buenos Aires, as the first project financed by the European Union in our province, and it is also of great importance for Argentina", said García during her presentation.

NDCS was represented at the meeting by its president, Mónica Boix; Susana Pérez, director of the jewellery firm Le Cadó; María Bellmunt, director of Fundación Globalis; Pilar Esquer, director of the Nutritional Consultancy Habits and Emma Bordills, manager of Masía Les Casotes.

This meeting marked the beginning of a collaboration between entrepreneurs from Castelló and Buenos Aires through the ECOMAyA project and in the form of a mentoring and accompaniment activity. "The members of NDCS have the profile, knowledge and experience to develop this activity in which they will guide these women who are entrepreneurs for the first time, so that they can do so with the greatest guarantees of success", said Nela Gómez, director of the European and International Projects Office of the FUE-UJI and ECOMAyA project manager, during the meeting.

The ECOMAyA project, funded by the European Union in the framework of the EuropeAid territorial cooperation call, has a duration of 3 years. During the next year it will carry out different activities for the creation of a honey extraction plant in Argentina, as well as the training of entrepreneurs in administration, communication and circular economy and their mentoring in the form of twinning between Castelló-Argentina entrepreneurs.