© Zonta District 29 | photos: Jochen Müller

Registration & Credentials

Opening – Get together

Business Session 1 + 2 | Welcome | Flag Parade | Memorial Service | Reports

Chartered: 2nd of June 2025 | 3rd from right: Christine Mousset, Chair of District 29 Club Creator Committee

Musical accompaniment by Anne-Isabel Meyer | Zonta Club of London, Area 03

Business Session 2 + 4 | Nominating Committee Report and Election Results

on the left: Nominating Committee Chair Siska Kooi (Zonta Rotterdam aan de Maas | Area 04)  | on the left (left to right): voted as Treasurer 2026/28 Jolanda von Hout (ZC Rotterdam | Area 04), Lt. Governor 2026/28 Jeanne de Loos (ZC Eindhoven | Area 04) and District Governor 2026/28 Anne-Li Stjernholm (ZC London | Area 03) | below: Lt. Governor Anne-Li Stjernholm and Elections Committee chair Dr. Susanne von Bassewitz 

Business Session 3 | Keynotes and Panel Discussion with Awardees

1st row – left to right: Keynote Speaker Prof. Dr. Nicole Lefort
Acknowledgement of new Awardees (1): Young Women in Leadership Award District 29 winner 2025: two representatives from the Zonta Clubsof the District 29winners | 3rd from left: District29 2nd prize winner Özlem Baygeldi (Zonta Club Hamm/Unna, Area 05) | 3rd from right: District 29 3rd prize winner Lilly Lohmann (Zonta Club Krefeld, Area 02) | 2nd from right: Susanne Wedewer-Pampus (Zonta Club Leverkusen, Area 02)
Panel Discussion with Awardees and Jeanne de Loos (Zonta Club of Eindhoven, Area 04, Chair of the District 29 STEM Committee) and: Dr. Anouk Hubrechsen, Zonta Women in Technology scholarship 2019, CEO of Antennex, Sara Langeveld, Zonta Jane M. Klausman Women in Business Scholarship 2024, student, Dr.-Ing. Cornelia Hillenherms, Amelia Earhart Fellowship 2002/2003, Managing Editor of the CEAS Aeronautical Journal

2nd row – left to right | Keynote Speaker Norina Gerlach, President of Zonta Club Essen, Area 05 | Acknowledgement of new Awardees (2): District 29 Women in STEM Scholarship 2025: Jeanne de Loos (see above) and the first District 29 Women in STEM Scholarship winner: Nuraiym Zhusupbekova (Zonta Club Siegen, Area 05) as well as D29 Governor Snežana Ćuruvija and a representative of her club. 

Zonta Foundation for Women | FRI/SAT/SUN

Zonta District 29 Foundation Ambassadors Mechthild May-Hügemann (ZC Münster), and Martine Schilte-Gevaerts (ZC Drenthe) with D29 Treasurer Elke Vonderhagen (ZC Oberhausen/Rheinland) | short-term unable to attend: Foundation Ambassador Lydia Chaillou (ZC Meaux et Region)

Market place | SAT / SUN

Zonta Spirit | Music & Dinner | Dance floor open 

Music: Tetiana Muchychka, accordion | Kathrin Eckhoff (ZC Dortmund Phoenix) and Ben Scholz (DJ Team)

Workshops | Worldcafé A and B | Advocacy and Membership 

Business Session 5 and Closing Words

photo on the right: Dr. Susanne von Bassewitz in conversation (via video call) with Dr. Ursula Sautter (vice chair of the UN women committee, honory major of the city of Bonn)

© Zonta District 29 | photos: Sabine Buß, Roswitha Theis, Andrea Wistuba

A hearty thank you to the generous sponsors and donors
of the Zonta District 29 Conference in Essen!