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F-INFORMATION is an information centre for women, created in Geneva in 1981.

It addresses a wide range of topics such as education, employment and career, social security, family matters, health, and gender discrimination.

Legal, professional, psychological and social consultations are provided to women in the Geneva Lake region.

Group activities, conferences and workshops are organised as well.

Its Library Filigrane is specialised on topics related to gender diversity. It displays documents focusing on women, family and equality. 

www.f-information.org

Dear Member,

This is a special invitation for you to visit the Nespresso factory in Orbe. 30 minutes from Lausanne.

Date: June 5th

Leaving from Lausanne at 3pm

Transport: car sharing

Program:

16:00 Start of the visit
16:15 Presentation & history of the production
16:30 DVD introduction
16:40 Start of the guided tour
17:45 End of the guided tour
17:55 End of the visit

Fee: free visit, car sharing covered by the participants

To participate, please add your e-mail to the doodle here.

This activity is reserved for members, accompanied by a spouse or a friend.

Come to discover how the capsules with the finest coffees in the world are produced!

For any questions, please send an e-mail to president@owit-lakegeneva.org

Exclusive to OWIT members!

As part of OWIT commitment to enabling professional development amongst our members, we are starting to pilot a mentoring scheme.  This is a dedicated service for OWIT members that puts people who want to mentor and those who want to be mentored in touch with each other.

Although people may see the benefit of mentoring for the mentee (the person who is being mentored) there are many benefits for the mentor too: such as increasing understanding of a different business environment; opening themselves up to new perspectives; personal satisfaction and the sense of providing a legacy.

For the mentee a mentoring relationship can provide feedback and coaching from someone who is not their boss, an opportunity to understand a different perspective and to develop new skills and expertise, enhancing their network and helping them in times of change or transition.

We have set up a framework that provides you with useful hints and tips, an outline for your first meeting and some guidance on skill development

As this is a pilot project, we are interested in hearing from people who want to be mentors and those who want to be mentees.  As each individual has different mentoring requirements we are looking to provide a personal “connecting” service between mentors and mentees

If you are interested in taking part in this exciting pilot project please contact Derwyn Cafferkey on e-vicepresident@owit-lakegeneva.org

OWIT International is seeking to reinforce its executive team. While any support is welcome, we're especially looking for volunteers in the areas of marketing, communications, social media and corporate sponsorships. If you're interested and would like to know more, please get in touch with Violette Ruppanner (vruppanner at strategos . ch)

Bring your friends and participate in the initiative organized by ICVolunteers on the 27th of August (1pm - 5 pm), meeting point at the rotonde du Mont-Blanc.

Forthis, the Green Voice program of ICVolunteers organises the first campaign "Let’s do it – Geneva!"

The aim is not only to raise awareness about water pollution among citizens of Geneva but also to reduce it by simply gathering and cleaning the bank of the Rhône river and the Lac Léman that currently contain a good deal of waste.

Here more about ICVolunteers.

· World-class plenary speakers
· Dynamic design: world, work & you
· 42 outstanding skill-building workshops
· Leading-edge working groups for senior leaders
· Coaching labs: free personalized coaching sessions

etc..

For more details, please visit the web-site.

The Geneva Communicators Network is pleased to announce its next workshop day to help communicators in the Geneva region brush up on specific communications tasks.

Friday 13 June 2014, 09h30-16h30
Location: International University in Geneva ICC 20, Rte de Pré-Bois – 1215 Geneva 15, Switzerland
Cost: 450 CHF for OWIT members / 580 CHF - normal entry - including
lunch and coffee/tea

Four one-day workshops will be run simultaneously, with a networking lunch to allow participants to mingle briefly. Each session will include a combination of theory and practice to help communicators improve their specific skills. The groups will be small (maximum 10) to allow instructors to address each participants specific needs.

For more information, please click here.

To get a discount as OWIT member, please send message to: co-president@owit-lakegeneva.org

(Jun 23, 17:30, Lausanne) 

Our web-site will be upgraded with a higher version on the 31st of May starting at 10am and will be offline for several hours. 

OWIT is happy to announce a new partnership with SCC Spouse Career Centre, offering our members  a 10% discount off all its services.

Services for corporate and individuals
The corporate service, works with multinationals throughout Switzerland to support their dual career employees. Swiss Career Connections offers services to proactive individuals who choose to further their career development, while understanding the challenges of doing this alone in a difficult job market.

Services include:

• Personal profile assessments
• CV and letter writing support
• interview preparation
• networking training
• personal branding
• Plug into our Network (very popular service)
  

SCC also provides standalone coaching (classic coaching, NLP, Sophrology and the Frameworks coaching process), entrepreneurial assistance and career reorientation. 

Helping the young to find a career path
Our youth workshops offer the Highlands Ability Battery test, where participants can learn about a future career direction.

Find out more about our workshops and other services.