Empowering rural women, strengthening families: Community-based solutions in practice
Date: 3 March 2026, 9.30-11.00 CET
Speakers
- Margit Batthyány-Schmidt, President, Union of Hungarian Women Association
- Viktória Szeri, Coordinator, Union of Hungarian Women Association
Description
In the run-up to the UN International day of women’s rights (8th March), this webinar will focus on rural women, families, and community-based good practices, and with speakers from the Union of Hungarian Women Association (UHW). The main objective of UHW is to empower rural women, enhance their role in the family, improve their quality of life, maintain their physical, mental and emotional health and encourage them to become entrepreneurs. They believe that family well-being can be ensured by strengthening the social, economic and cultural role of women.
During the webinar, participants will learn about the TalentA Programme run by UHW in order to support women entrepreneurs in rural areas, a programme previously developed in cooperation with Corteva Agriscience (an international agricultural science and technology company that focuses on helping farmers produce food more sustainably and profitably). The programme is aimed at women who tend to be underrepresented in business leadership, and has a sectoral focus on agriculture and more specifically on green and digital transition in farming, aligning it with EU’s twin transition agenda and key innovation goals. The TalentA Hungary Programme has been included among the best practices of the EU Interreg Europe programme.
In parallel, they also focus on the right to health for rural women, with a new National Health Promotion Programme launched in January 2026. This programme focuses not only on physical health, but also on mental and emotional wellbeing, with a strong family and community perspective. Additionally, they participate in European projects like the CERV project called Grapes of Change focusing on care, mental health, and community resilience.
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