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Curriculum vitae Maria Liapi

Maria Liapi, studied Business Administration at the University of Athens and received a Honours degree in Sociology from the South Bank Polytechnic of London. She has carried out a number of sociological research projects on educational and urban development problems in underpriviledged areas of the metropolitan region of Attika. In the framework of the Centre for Research on Women’s Issues (founding member) she was responsible for research carried out on the implementation of equality policies through vocational training. Designing, coordinating and leading several transnational researches, studies and projects in the context of the European Programmes/Initiatives NOW, HORIZON, SOCIAL EXCLUSION, FORCE, ADAPT, TSER and LEONARDO. Maria Liapi has worked on the issues of gender equality (in European small enterprises), accomplished at pioneer work on the processes of establishment and support of women´s cooperatives as well as enterprises, aiming at becoming independent from public support. In this framework, she has given lectures on equality issues and developed curricula in relation to the development of skills needed in the women´s cooperatives. Her publications refer to small enterpreneurship, Counceling methods, evaluation methods and self-employment of women. In the last year she is engaged with an EQUAL project referring to the Development of a National Quality System for delivering Support and Social Integration Services targeted to social groups threated by social exclusion.