• Women claim their share of society’s resources
• Women’s competence is utilised in society
• Women’s and men’s efforts are valued equally in society

• strengthen the role of Women Resource Centres (WRCs) as key actors of regional growth and support the participation of women in regional development increasing thereby Europe’s competitiveness and achievement of the Lisbon Strategy goals;
• assist the implementation of the objectives of the European Union in the employ-ment and social affairs area, as set out in the Roadmap for equality between women and men (2006-2010) and the European Pact for Gender Equality and the European Social Agenda;
• enhance a gender equality perspective in co-ordinated strategic use of European, national and regional resources;
• be actively involved in policy making processes and communicate women’s experiences in EU Member States and the candidate countries;
• increase women’s influence and participation in the labour market and the society as a whole, on European, national and regional level;
• contribute to create new permanent jobs for women by supporting women’s own ideas, innovation and entrepreneurship;
• promote the empowerment of women and their social inclusion
• enhance women’s use of ICT and their active participation in the Information Society.

The Annual General Meeting – AGM is the Association’s highest decision-making organ which elects the Board of WINNET Europe consisting of the president, eight full members and eight proxies. The President of WINNET Europe Ms.Britt-Marie S Torstensson was elected at the AGM on the 29th of January 2007 in Brussels.

The Association’s Secretariat is in Gävle, Sweden. The work of the Association is assisted by Central Sweden’s regional office in Brussels. The Association is managed with the assistance of the Secretariat and the virtual office in WINNET Europes innovative network portal - www.winneteurope.eu - serving as a communication platform between the members of the Association and the European Commission and its institutions and other global, national, regional and local stakeholders.

The work of the WINNET Europe Association is assisted by a Scientific and Political Advisory Committee which consists of 50 % national, regional and local politicians from the EU Member States and 50 % researchers.

Britt-Marie S Torstensson
President WINNET Europe