AN ACADEMIC STAY 

Women in Politics

From 8-15 December, the Conrad Adenauer Foundation organized an academic stay in Germany for 8 women from Macedonia, active in politics or the NGO movement. The participants in this program visited Berlin and Bohn-two key political centers in Germany. The aim of this program was the exchange of experience with the women political representatives on local, provincial and national level in Germany, as well acquiring information and knowledge about the role of German women in the political processes there.

- In this way we wanted to give our contribution to motivate and encourage women to involve in the political life. The women participants in the program will further transfer their experiences and knowledge to their women colleagues. They talked to official women representatives on provincial and local level in the North Rajna Westfalia Province, they visited humanitarian organizations, institutions, and in Berlin they met with two women delegates, one of which was a former Bundestag president, with women from the economy, the syndicates union, and a reception was organized for them at the Macedonian Embassy in Germany. They arranged some further activities and meetings- said the official representative of Conrad Adenauer Foundation in Macedonia, Mr. Andreas M. Klein at the press-conference organized in this occasion.

M.I.