Empower women-owned small businesses to go global.

What if there were a way to boost the global economy and create between 288 million to 433 million new jobs worldwide? According to a March 2022 report by Citigroup Inc., parity among men and women entrepreneurs worldwide could do just that.

A study conducted by McKinsey Global Institute further reports that gender parity would lift the economy by nearly a third by 2025. To work toward these goals, education and mentoring programs that empower and connect female talent play a crucial role in changing the current situation and help to enrich countries and communities around the world.

Looking to unlock your exporting potential?

In 2018, UPS, together with UPS Foundation, launched the Women Exporters Program (WEP). The aim of the program is to address inequality in education and market participation between men and women by providing targeted support to women-owned small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) worldwide.

With a series of webinars, WEP encourages women entrepreneurs to trade across borders and helps them expand their business to global markets — from sharing cross-border e-commerce trends, to learning how to create a sustainable packaging strategy for their goods, to understanding customs regulations and complex logistics concepts.

In February 2023, UPS will launch the program in the DACH region and is offering female entrepreneurs and female-led start-ups in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland the opportunity to connect with each other and acquire knowledge and skills to take their products across borders, export around the globe, and increase their market share.

The webinars (all held in German), are taking place via Microsoft Teams and are free of charge. All you have to do is register for the respective webinar via the links below:

Mehr Infos zum UPS Women Exporters Programm