The Center of Women’s Studies and Policies kindly invites all its colleagues and friends to the Sofia Forum: “Gender equality within the context of the EU enlargement process”, which shall be held on 18^th of May 2006 from 18.00 p.m. to 20.00 p.m. in the Rectorate of the Sofia University, third floor, Auditorium 65.

The Sofia Forum is organized by CWSP under the project “Young women are building bridges for European partnership”, in cooperation with CEDIF (France) and Flying Broom (Turkey).

Short documentary will show to the forum’s audience the level of knowledge and interest of young people from Bulgaria, Turkey and France in gender equalityisuues within the context of the EU enlargement process and the perspectives of Turkey for candidacy for EU membership.

The focus of the Sofia Forum shall be a discussion on the results of the inquiries, made by the partner organizations on young people’s opinions and awareness of gender based discrimination and anti-discrimination legislation, gender roles and the opportunities of EU membership to influence positively national legislation.

The Sofia Forum is the second forum under the project “Young women are building bridges for EU partnership” The first one was held in Ankara on the 20^th  of April, 2006. Our ambition for the Sofia Forum is to inform and raise the awareness of the public on the opinion of young people in Bulgaria on gender equality and young people’s expectations from the EU membership with regard to gender equality.