G7 France/UNESCO International Conference: Innovating for girls' and women's empowerment through education

The G7 France-UNESCO International Conference Innovating for girls’ and women’s empowerment through education will be held today in the context of the G7 Education-Development joint ministerial meeting. The conference will be live streamed, starting at 14:30.

Organized by the French G7 Presidency, in cooperation with UNESCO, the conference aims to:

• Highlight concrete and innovative initiatives and solutions to improve girls’ and women’s access to quality education and learning opportunities that empower and build knowledge and skills for life and decent work.
• Provide space for new collaboration initiatives to advance girls’ and women’s empowerment in and through education.
• Galvanize collective action to deliver on the 2030 Agenda commitments to girls’ education, women’s empowerment and gender equality.

Interlinking education, infrastructure, health and nutrition issues, enhancing skills and access to work through science and digital technologies, and innovating to break stereotypes, will be three major themes addressed during the event.

DG DEVCO's Director-General Stefano Manservisi will speak on the panel on innovating to break stereotypes and educate young women as agents of change. 

Link for English webstreaming: http://webcast.unesco.org/live/room-01/en  

Link for French webstreaming: http://webcast.unesco.org/live/room-01/fr