L’Oreal honors Arab women scientists and Total women entrepreneurs 

During a ceremony held last Wednesday at ESA, Beirut, and in the framework of supporting entrepreneurship, the 5th edition of L'Oreal-UNESCO under the title ‘For Women in Science’ honored six women researchers from Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan, Iraq and Palestine. The young laureates were among 100 candidates for this year, noting that L’Oreal program for women in science seeks to ensure that scientific research, no matter the field, is also the product of the intelligence, creativity and passion of women around the globe. The laureates are: Aseel Mahmoud (Iraq), Faten Abu Shoga (Palestine), Hanan Khalil and Shaza Abed (Jordan) and Maya Attiyeh and Leila Mousawi (Lebanon). (For more information, kindly visit the following link: https://goo.gl/DXVf54). Concurrently, Total Group launched its ‘Startupper Challenge’ 2018-2019, in over 60 countries around the world, as part of its efforts to support young people and encourage them to implement their projects in line with the theme, ‘Because ideas need energy to become something great’. The three winners will receive financial assistance and professional mentorship, in addition to a marketing campaign to promote their undertakings. And in a special initiative to support women entrepreneurs, Total introduced a top women entrepreneur category in each participating country to encourage larger involvement of women. Online registration for the competition has started on October 9 and continues until November 13 on startupper.total.com . (Al Akhbar, October 16, 2018)