A space designed for professionals, organizations, and students in the STEM field who are committed to a more inclusive, collaborative, and global science. May 7, 2025. The 2nd Science by...
New year 2023 arrived with heaviness. Whilst others celebrated, I was mentally preparing myself for a surgery which would take place on the 7th of January. Interestingly, the surgery itself...
Madrid, April 14, 2025 – Learn Africa, the postgraduate scholarship program and one of the most established and renowned initiatives of the Women for Africa Foundation (MxA), launches its 2025–2026...
Madrid, April 3, 2025 – The private sector plays a fundamental role in job creation and the promotion of gender equality. In this context, GB Foods, in collaboration with MxA,...
Dear friends, Today, March 8, 2025, we come together once again to celebrate International Women's Day. We do so with unwavering commitment and the certainty that the fight for women's...
March 3, 2025, Madrid – The Women’s Alliance for Peace, a joint initiative of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) and Women for Africa Foundation, held a special virtual...
Thursday, February 20th. On Monday, February 11th, in celebration of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, the Spanish Embassy, in collaboration with the Association of Spanish Scientists...
On Friday, February 14th, the launch of the project "I+DeAlgas: Women for the Sustainable Development of the Marchica Lagoon" took place at Nador's headquarters. This initiative, led by the University...
February 17, Nador, Morocco – The “Origine Nador” project has taken a significant step in its commitment to women's entrepreneurship by organizing a series of focus groups last Thursday, bringing...
Marisa Mañana, the writer and professor of Equatorial Guinean origin, recently led a creative writing workshop for female students in the Spanish departments of Cheikh Anta Diop and Gaston Berger...
Between January 26 and 31 of this year, the tourist city of Goma endured a horrific ordeal. Fierce clashes between loyalist forces, backed by Wazalendo reservists, and M23/RDF rebels, supported...
November 28 – From November 25 to 27, Cascais hosted the 10th Global Forum of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations. Under the theme "United in Peace: Restoring Trust, Reshaping...
November 27, 2024 – On November 22, 2024, the Women for Africa Foundation officially inaugurated the 'Origine Nador' project during a ceremony held at Phare Nador, its headquarters in Africa....
November 25, 2024 – On November 21, construction began on a professional training center for sustainable fishing and shellfish processing for the Khessani Women’s Cooperative. It is located in Madava,...
Tuesday, November 5, 2024. Yesterday, the Higher Center for National Defense Studies (CESEDEN) hosted the event “Women, Peace, and Security: Addressing Armed Conflicts from a Gender Perspective.” The gathering brought...
October 31, 2024. Yesterday, an intensive two-day online training in perinatal mental health began at the Irene Neto Hospital in Huila Province, Angola. This initiative, organized in collaboration with the...
Wednesday, October 8th, 2024. In a milestone achievement for the Women for Africa Foundation, Caroline Wairimu Njuguna has been awarded the very first Business Boost Prize during the inaugural "Launch...
Tuesday, september 17th. Launched in 2016 by the Women for Africa Foundation in partnership with Babson College and supported by Banco Santander, the Launch & Grow program aims to empower...
On July 16th and 17th, Kinshasa will host the international congress "Conflict Mediation and Peace Building: Strengthening the Role of Women". This event, organized in collaboration with Pélagie Muhigirwa Foundation...
Women from the Almostakbal Cooperative in Morocco, together with two professors from the Multidisciplinary Faculty of Nador (FPN), have participated in theoretical and practical training days at the Spanish Algae...
Dr. Mable Mutengo is the winner of the III Edition of the Science by Women 2024 Contest in science dissemination that we carry out thanks to the support of Eurofins....
The I Science by Women Congress, organized by the Women for Africa Foundation, was held on June 24 and 25 at the N.O.W. is Africa* classroom of the UNED Vitoria-Gasteiz....
The First Annual Meeting of the Learn Africa Program was held on Wednesday, June 12th at UNED, Pontevedra, a university that has supported this cooperation on the program since its...
Last Thursday, 23 May at 7pm, we premiered the documentary film "La Ciencia de las Mujeres de África" at the Palacio de la Prensa in Madrid. We had the presence of...
For the twelfth consecutive year, Fundación Mujeres por África holds the exhibition Ellas son Cine. Sala Berlanga hosts, once again, this selection of five films made by African female directors in which...
From today, April 2, until April 17, African university students have the opportunity to apply for one of the Women for Africa Foundation's Learn Africa postgraduate scholarships. This year, we...
lll edition of the Science by Women contest The Science by Women program announces the call for its third contest. This initiative aims to give continuity to the proposal "From...
Extreme weather events, exacerbated by climate change, place a disproportionate burden on women in many parts of the world. In vulnerable and low-income communities, it is often women who face...
Last Friday, March 15, the presentation of an analysis of the variables and factors that influence the entrepreneurial intentions of African women was held at our headquarters. The study was...
We just kicked off the "Origine Nador" project in Nador, Morocco thanks to funding from the ISS Foundation, Una Sonrisa Más, an organization supported by the employees of ISS Spain...
A pioneering and transformative project begins: "I+DeAlgas: the impulse of women for sustainable development in the Mar Chica lagoon". With funding from AECID, today, February 1, 2024 begins a unique...
Following the success of the project "Connecting the Seas 1" carried out in 2020, the Femmes pour l'Afrique Association has decided to expand its efforts and carry out a second...
Last December 16 took place the closing ceremony of the project "Avanz@ pour l'égalité numérique" that we have carried out for two years in Phase Nador, our first headquarters in...
You can learn about the 27 beneficiaries who will be part of the Ninth Edition of "Science by Women", as well as the Spanish research centers where they will carry...
The ECOWAS Center for the Development of Women organized from December 19 to 21, 2023 a regional technical dialogue with the objective to strengthen the role of women in the...
A leadership training program is being held at Cranfield University this week with the aim of improving the skills of 12 women university professors coming from University of Lagos. The...
Thanks to Eurofins Foundation, our scientific cooperation program, Science by Women, launched its second contest a few weeks ago. The aim of this initiative is to give continuity to the...
Madrid, October 16, 2023. The closing ceremony of the F.U.E.R.T.E.S. (Femmes Unies Ensemble pour la Recherche, la Technologie, l'Environnement et la Science) project took place last Tuesday, October 10, at...
Madrid, October 5, 2023. Science by Women announces its second contest with the aim of giving continuity to its proposal "from labs to society" in which women scientists of the...
The president of the Women for Africa Foundation (FMxA), M. Teresa Fernández de la Vega, and the rector of the University of Valencia, M. Vicenta Mestre, have renewed the collaboration...
05 September 2023. Thanks to the sponsorship of the Ministry of Economy, Knowledge and Employment of the Canary Islands Government, the Women for Africa Foundation launches, for the third consecutive...
Madrid, 6 July 2023 The MxA Foundation presents the ninth edition of Science by Women, also known as Ellas Investigan, a program in which African scientists from all over the...
- Women for Africa has been organizing this showcase since 2013 to give visibility to women's cinema from the continent. - The screenings will take place from June 20 to...
Madrid, April 14, 2023. The Women for Africa Foundation (MxA), in collaboration with eLankidetza-Basque Agency for Development Cooperation, presents "Women United: against Sexual Violence in Armed Conflicts", a year and...
Madrid, 31st March 2023. From Thursday 30th March until 12th April, African women university students can submit their applications to apply for one of the postgraduate scholarships of the Women...
Madrid, March 29th. The Society of Spanish Researchers in the United Kingdom (SRUK/CERU) and the Women for Africa Foundation (MxA), in collaboration with the Spanish Embassy, will host a roundtable...
Madrid, February 23rd, 2023. Women for Africa is in mourning. Yesterday Javier Martínez Salmeán passed away in Madrid. He was a great gynecologist and a committed man, who throughout his...
Madrid, 20th of February of 2023. As of tomorrow, the Foundation Women for Africa will have a brand new headquarters in the Basque Country. Thanks to the cession of a...
Madrid, 17th of February of 2023. “Ellas Investigan” "reaches the classrooms of secondary schools in Spain with its new pedagogical project: “Science by Women, a los Instis”, a proposal that...
Madrid, February 09, 2023. Launch & Grow started in 2014 with the goal of creating greater opportunities for women entrepreneurs in Kenya. The health crisis forced us to modify the...
Logroño. 26 January 2023. The Gabonese student Sally Estelle Mekame-Tiogo has obtained a doctorate degree from the University of La Rioja with a thesis that provides content related to the...
Madrid, January 17, 2023 Women for Africa now has a new sponsor. The Spanish food company of international dimension GBfoods, better known in our country because of brands such as...
Dakar, 24 de enero de 2023. The general director for Equality of Treatment and Ethno-Racial Diversity of the Spanish Ministry of Equality, Rita Bosaho, will be in charge of inaugurating,...
Madrid, 13 December 2022. You can now find out the 26 beneficiaries who will be part of the 8th edition of Science by Women. The call, which opened last July,...
Madrid, November 2nd. We have inaugurated the Obstetric Ultrasound Training Course for Nurses and Midwives taught by the General Nursing Council of Spain, with the collaboration of the Nurse Solidarity...
Madrid, October 27th. Jetro Njukeng and Assumpta Chinwe Nwanya are the two winners of the 1st "Science by Women" Contest. A wide variety of projects with high social impact in...
Madrid, September 15. Mujeres por África, through the program "Science by Women" and with the collaboration of Eurofins Foundation, announces the I Contest "Science by Women". The main goal of...
Madrid, July 26th. For the eighth consecutive year, the Women for Africa Foundation launches the call for the Science by Women program. This edition of the Foundation's long-running project will...
Madrid, 29th June 2022. This next Monday 4th of July, The Women for Africa Foundation (FMxA) by means of their program known as “Science by Women”, presents “African Women Scientists...
Madrid. 8th of July 2022. “The nets of Yemayá-Mozambique II” have began this week in the jurisdiction of Jangamo. This past January the first part of the project was concluded...
Madrid, June 23, 2022. With more than 25 years of history and having become a reference in astronomy at the European level, the annual meeting of the European Astronomical Society...
Madrid, June 6, 2022. For the tenth consecutive year, and also on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Women for Africa Foundation, the cinema exhibition Ellas Son Cine...
Madrid, June 22, 2022. On June 23, 24 and 25, the first congress of Cameroonian Hispanists will be held in Yaounde, organized by the Asociación de Profesores de Español de...
June 21, 2022. Three hundred young African women will be able to benefit from one of the online course to which they will be able to apply (starting tomorrow) from...
Madrid, May 5. Ellas Investigan will present the conference "African female scientists for sustainable development: proposals and challenges" on July 4 at the El Escorial Summer School. The main objectives...
Since 2015, the Fundación Mujeres por África has been organizing, with the support of Banco Santander, a forum for reflection on governance and strategic leadership at Yale University, which has...
Madrid, April 11th, 2022. From Tuesday 12th April until 26th April, African female graduate students can submit their applications to obtain one of the scholarships offered by Learn Africa, one...
Madrid, 17 March 2022. The "Science by Women" program, one of the Foundation's longest-running programs, has published the list of finalists for its seventh edition. In this call, a total...
Nador, January 27, 2022. The activities of the Avanz@! project, managed by our affiliate in Nador Femmes pour l'Afrique and financed by the Spanish Agency for Development Cooperation (AECID), have...
Madrid, November 30, 2021. The seventh edition of the Strategic Leadership and Governance Forum, which for the second consecutive year has been held exclusively online due to COVID-19, has come...
Madrid, 11 November 2021. African women scientists, beneficiaries of the Ellas Investigan programme, who in this edition are carrying out their research stay in prestigious centres in the Canary Islands,...
Madrid, November 8, 2021. Ellas son Cine celebrates its returns before Christmas. From the 14th to the 18th of December, our festival, featuring African women-directed films will be held for...
Madrid, 4 November 2021. The University of Lomé (Togo) and the Women for Africa Foundation have signed a framework agreement during a virtual meeting that brought together, on the one...
Madrid, October 21, 2021. Women are diverse. So are their approaches, perspectives and demands, and above all the environment in which they live, which inevitably marks their thinking and actions....
Two true pioneers, Kenyan rangers Everlyne Mornan and Purity Amleset Lakara, members of Team Lioness, or Kenya Lioness Patrol, visited the Women for Africa Foundation today. Both, along with the...
Madrid, September 8, 2021. Emanuela del Re, European Union Special Representative for the Sahel, visited our headquarters yesterday to hold an interview with María Teresa Fernández de la Vega, president...
Madrid, September 4, 2021. The Women for Africa Foundation has been awarded the Prize for the defense of human values granted annually by the International Press Club (CIP), an organization...
Madrid, September 1, 2021. The women beneficiaries of the Yemaya Networks - Mozambique project, in the province of Inhambane, held a virtual meeting yesterday with a group of women from...
In view of the situation in Afghanistan after the triumph of the Taliban and the withdrawal of international troops, the Women for Africa Foundation adheres to the manifesto launched by...
Madrid, 15th of July 2021. Women for Africa’s new project in the scientific field, FUERTES, has completed its first edition training phase with the leadership seminar for women in science...
Madrid, the 12th of July 2021. Women for Africa Foundation has just issued new invitations for two of its main programmes, Learn Africa Canarias’ third offer of courses designed by...
Madrid, the 30th of June 201. This afternoon, Science by Women International Scientific Committee’s third meeting consisting of a dozen renowned African and European women and men in science was...
Madrid, the 29th of June 2021. There were no women net menders in Morocco, the women who mend fishing nets, let alone an association bringing them together. And yet they...
7th of June 2021. Women for Africa’s new project has started today in the district of Jangamo, province of Inhambane, Mozambique. The aim of the project is to strengthen women's...
25th of May 2021. The University of Seville is celebrating today, under the presidency of its Rector, Miguel Ángel Castro, a celebration event for Africa Day in which Women for...
20 May 2021. The second session of the Women and Mediation Workshop in Mali and the Central African Republic, an activity set up by the Women's Alliance for Peace, which...
17th of May, 2021. From today until June 6, African women university students can submit their applications to access the scholarships of Learn Africa program of the Women for Africa...
7th of May. The closing ceremony of the public health emergency course for Ghanaian nurses was held today in a crowded online ceremony. It was promoted by Women for Africa...
6th of May. In November 2019, the great scientist Margarita Salas passed away. She was the godmother and supporter of our Ellas Investigan program since its inception. Her position on...
28th of April 2021. Today was the graduation ceremony of the fifth edition of our Launch & Grow project, aimed at Kenyan women entrepreneurs, which we organised in collaboration with...
27th of April 2021. Today, the Women for Africa Foundation has participated in a meeting of NATO's Civil Society Advisory Panel to examine the review process of NATO's Policy on...
23th of April 2021. Yesterday, the former Moroccan Minister of Family Nouzha Skalli, in charge of women's affairs in Morocco, presented an online lecture as part of the Digital Teaching...
21st of April 2021. The Women for Africa Foundation and the Institute of Health Carlos III (ISCIII by its Spanish acronym) have signed an agreement under which the ISCIII will...
Madrid, 14th of April 2021. The seventh edition of the Strategic Leadership Forum at Yale, organized by Women for Africa in collaboration with the University of Yale and with the...
Madrid, 17th of March 2021. María Teresa Fernández de la Vega, President of the Women for Africa, has attended this afternoon the series of conferences organized by the Karama Organization...
Madrid, 9th of April 2021. Pedro Sánchez, President of the Government, accompanied by Cristina Gallach, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and for Ibero-America and the Caribbean, and Olga Cabarga,...
Nador, 30th of March 2021. At our African headquarters in Nador has finished the Unidas y Poderosas project which, for two years, has worked with more than 50 women in...
Madrid, 22nd of March 2021. This afternoon, the Governing Committee of the Science by Women project, which is now in its seventh edition, has held an online meeting, chaired by...
Madrid, 22nd of March 2021. This week, the Ministry of Economy, Knowledge and Employment of the Government of Canarias and the Women for Africa Foundation have opened the second application...
Madrid, 8 March 2021. Today, on the emblematic date of 8 March, the course on acting on public health emergencies for nurses in Ghana begins, in which around 130 professionalsfrom...
Madrid, 3th of March 2021. Next Monday is 8th of March, International Women’s Day, and we will celebrate it with one of our most loved initiatives. Collaborating with the Cervantes...
23/02/2021. The first seven African scholarship holders of the Learn Africa Canarias programme, promoted by the Women for Africa Foundation and the Ministry of Economy, Knowledge and Employment of the...
Madrid, 18 February 2021. The Alliance of Women for Peace, an initiative born out of the partnership between the United Nations Alliance of Civilisations and the Women for Africa Foundation,...
Madrid, 28 January 2021. Suzi Carla Barbosa has come to Spain on a working visit. Relations between the two countries are growing closer every day, contacts and economic exchanges are...
Madrid, 23 December 2020. The list of African women scientists selected for the sixth edition of the Science by Women program has been made public today. There are 20 female...
Madrid, 15 December 2020. The sixth edition of the Yale Strategic Leadership Forum, organised by Women for Africa in collaboration with Yale University and with the support of Banco Santander...
Madrid, 15th December 2020. The Director of the Cervantes Institute, Luis García Montero, and the President of the Women for Africa Foundation, María Teresa Fernández de la Vega, signed this...
Madrid, 15th December 2020. The sixth edition of the Strategic Leadership Forum at Yale, organised by Women for Africa in collaboration with the University and with the support of Banco...
Madrid, December 14th, 2020. Today a virtual conference was held to open the Elearning course for teachers at the Mohamed I University of Oujda. Training promoted by Mujeres por África...
The grants, worth a total of 170,000 euros, are aimed at African female university students who wish to take one of the online courses offered by the two Canarian public...
On the 23rd of November, a conference will take place on "The future of the Women's Peace and Security Agenda", in which the Minister of Defence, Margarita Robles, the President...
Madrid, November 13, 2020. Mitigating the Economic Impacts of the Pandemic on African Women is the title of the new Women for Africa and Yale University webinar, to be held...
Madrid, November 6, 2020. On November 9, 2020, the webinar “The power of women and good governance in the COVID-19 era” will take place. The Women for Africa Foundation, the...
Barcelona, 29th September 2020. The President of Grupo Planeta, José Creuheras; María Teresa Fernández de la Vega, President of the Mujeres por África, and Carlos Giménez, CEO of Planeta Formación...
Madrid, October 14th, 2020. The General Council of Nurses (CGE) and the Women for Africa Foundation (FMxA) have signed a collaboration agreement to work together on various agreements in the...
Madrid, October 26, 2020. Despite the coronavirus, despite all the restrictions imposed by the pandemic, the eighth edition of Ellas son Cine has been a great success with the public....
Madrid, september 2, 2020. Since September, the Mujeres por África Foundation has become a member of NATO's Civil Society Advisory Panel. This panel was created in 2016 to promote a...
Madrid, October 7, 2020. The different training programs that take place in Nador, our African headquarters, in order to support women's cooperativism, continue to develop despite the coronavirus. At the...
Madrid, 5th October. Once again, and this year for the eighth time, Ellas son Cine returns to the screens to present the work of African directors to the public. And...
Madrid, 28 September. On Thursday, 1 October, the Women for Africa Foundation and Yale University will be holding a webinar on the subject of “African women as pillars of resilience....
Madrid, 16th of July. Today, after five editions of great success, The Women for Africa Foundation (FMxA), in line with its mission of contributing to the development of Africa through...
Madrid, 8th July. Today, the NOWISAFRICA network (Network of Women Scientists Innovating in Africa) has been formally constituted in its first plenary meeting, which brings together more than 40 women...
Madrid, 1st July. Since the 1st of July the call for Learn Africa scholarships for the 2020-2021 academic year is open. This program is addressed to African female university students...
Madrid, 30th of June. This afternoon was held a virtual meeting with the leaders of the Alliance of Women for Peace. Miguel Ángel Moratinos, High Representative of the Alliance of...
Madrid, June 29. Today, the sixth edition of the Strategic Leadership Forum organized by Women for Africa has begun, in collaboration with Yale University and with the support of Banco...
Madrid, 25th June. In Women for Africa, one of the goals we set when the coronavirus pandemic broke out was all our projects could go ahead. So, we are in...
Madrid, 2nd June 2020. The Women for Africa Foundation held a virtual meeting today, with the first ten researchers to benefit from the project FUERTES (Femmes Unies Ensemble dans la...
Madrid, May 28. In November 2019, the Intermares marine vessel of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries of the Government of Spain landed at the Moroccan city of Nador for...
Madrid, 22nd May. Since the start of its activities in 2012, the Women for Africa Foundation has dedicated most of its health efforts to care for obstetric fistula. A neglected,...
Madrid, May 19. Women for Africa is adapting its projects to the new situation created by the coronavirus pandemic. The goal is to ensure that women, particularly African women, are...
Madrid, May 14. On the afternoon of this date, a videoconference meeting was held by the Advisory Council of the Women for Peace Alliance, an initiative promoted by the Women...
The Women for Africa Foundation, together with its African advisers, has published an institutional statement with the main objective of not stepping back on Equality and making women, and especially...
Madrid, April 1, 2020. Today is the 80th anniversary of the birth of Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to receive a Nobel Prize, the Peace prize, for her contribution...
Madrid, March 17, 2020. As many people and entities are doing to contribute to a more enriching use of time in these days of confinement, Women for Africa makes the...
In compliance with the State of Emergency declared by the Spanish Government, all workers and collaborators of the Foundation Women for Africa are tele-working in all our projects and programs....
New York, November 5, 2019. Yesterday was constituted at the headquarters of the Alliance of Civilizations, the Women's Alliance for Peace, an initiative promoted by the Women for Africa Foundation...
The ceremony, headed by H.M. the Queen of Spain, will be attended by Moroccan and Spanish personalities from political, economic and academic spheres. Madrid, 28th June, 2018. Next 3rd July the Phare Nador project...
25th May, 2018. To celebrate Africa Day, the Women for Africa Foundation (MxA) is holding its annual “African Women in Spain” photography contest, whose purpose is to document and raise awareness...
17th May, 2018. In the coming weeks, Women for Africa plans to present its big project for the immediate future. The Nador Lighthouse is to be a space dedicated to education...
New Haven, May 11th 2017. In May 2015, ten African women political leaders from five African countries inaugurated an area for debate at Yale University to delve into big global matters...
The actress starring in I Am Not a Witch, the film directed by the Zambian filmmaker Rungano Nyoni, has won the award for best actress at the African Film Festival FCAT,...
The prestigious Boston business school, Babson College, has bestowed the 2018 Lewis Institute Community Changemaker Award upon our president María Teresa Fernández de la Vega. This award, which was handed...
There are two first prizes of 2,500 euros in the categories of narrative and research work. 23rd April, 2018. Once again this year, the Women for Africa Foundation (MxA) is joining...
Tuesday, 18th April. The Spanish Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries, Food and Environment (MAPAMA), Isabel García Tejerina, and the president of Women for Africa, María Teresa Fernández de la Vega, today signed...
The agreement will be signed tomorrow by Bonet and Fernández de la Vega, with a talk. Madrid, 2nd April, 2018. The director of the Cervantes Institute, Juan Manuel Bonet, and the...
Madrid, 9th March 2018. Accra, the capital of Ghana, will host next Sunday March 11th the inaugural reunion of the alumni of the Yale Forum for Strategic Impact, the first meeting in...
Madrid, 8th March, 2018. On International Women’s Day, this 8th March the women who work and collaborate with the Women for Africa Foundation will be supporting the feminist strike organised by the...
Madrid, 30th January, 2018. The Women for Africa Foundation and the NSIA Foundation (Nouvelle Société Interafricaine d’Assurance) have today signed a collaboration framework agreement by which the two entities will foster...
Madrid, 17th January. The Spanish Professional Medical Associations Organisation (Organización Médica Colegial, OMC), through its Foundation for International Cooperation (FCOMCI), has signed a collaboration agreement with the Women for Africa Foundation...
Madrid, 16th January. María Teresa Fernández de la Vega, the president of Women for Africa, and Gloria Campos García de Quevedo, the founder and director of the event management school ISEMCO,...
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