Perspektywy Education Foundation (Fundacja Edukacyjna Perspektywy)

We inspire, connect and support women in technology, science, and innovation. We encourage them to choose education in the STEM area (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics). We help them enter the job market and build spectacular careers - in industry, science, or by developing their own tech startup. This way we support the emergence of a generation of self-aware women leaders who will change the tech world. We fight the stereotypes about the role of women in society. Thanks to our activities no little girl will ever be thoughtlessly excluded from STEM inspiration. We create platforms and coalitions allowing cooperation between academia and the most innovative high-tech industry. ... read more We inspire, connect and support women in technology, science, and innovation. We encourage them to choose education in the STEM area (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics). We help them enter the job market and build spectacular careers - in industry, science, or by developing their own tech startup. This way we support the emergence of a generation of self-aware women leaders who will change the tech world. We fight the stereotypes about the role of women in society. Thanks to our activities no little girl will ever be thoughtlessly excluded from STEM inspiration. We create platforms and coalitions allowing cooperation between academia and the most innovative high-tech industry. Our activities go beyond the Polish borders, we are becoming more active in the East - all the way to Central Asia. Perspektywy Women in Tech Summit is a large-scale event with global ambitions. Young women from our programs also participate in the country-wide IT for SHE volunteering program, where they can teach programming to children from small towns - understanding that knowledge and competencies oblige them to engage more deeply. Perspektywy Women in Tech is a part of the Perspektywy Education Foundation which is a non-profit NGO existing since 1998, specializing in supporting young people in making their most important life decisions, such as selecting a profession, school, and university and in building the quality of Polish high school and university education. The Foundation creates prestigious education rankings -- such as the National High School Ranking, University Ranking, and Study Fields Ranking. Since 2005, in cooperation with the Conference of Rectors of Polish Academic Schools, it has been conducting a campaign to promote Polish universities abroad - "Study in Poland". Together with the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, it implements two systemic projects financed from the "Dialog" resources (2020-2021): The "Visibility Project" and the promotion of Poland in the East as the place of excellent IT studies and research "Poland - IT Hub for You." The pro-women activities implemented as part of the Perspektywy Women in Tech are an integral part of the mission of the Perspektywy Foundation, focused on career counseling, building an innovation ecosystem in Poland and in Europe, and extensive talent promotion in the STEM area. In 2020 we started cooperation with Motorola Solutions Foundation. An important result of it is a cutting-edge mentoring program -- "LeaderSHEp in Tech Academy" and Women in Tech Camp extension. A brand new project developed for 2020 was "Women in Tech Days" - the first online festival for women in Tech & IT. In 2021 we started the "Girls in game dev industry" program. On the 12th and 13th of June 2024 we organized the biggest event for women in Tech in Europe - Perspektywy Women in Tech Summit 2024. It is the biggest Technological Conference in Poland and one of the biggest events of this kind in Europe. We have gathered over 14 000 participants from over 80 countries. It was also the climate-positive event in Poland that set standards not only for our country but for events worldwide. As the Educational Foundation Perspektywy, we have been supporting, uniting, and inspiring women in new technologies for over a dozen years, watching them grow stronger, build spectacular scientific and professional careers, and above all, become part of the women's revolution that is changing the face of the modern world. Now we want to share this strength with Ukraine and support it in the post-war reconstruction of the country. "INCUBATING FREEDOM for Ukraine - Adapting Women is the Digital Economy", the aim of which is long-term assistance in the post-war reconstruction of Ukraine and support for Ukrainian society in the era of upcoming changes in the area of technological competencies. But above all - to strengthen Ukrainian women living in Poland - because it is in them that the power to create the future of a new, ultra-modern Ukraine lies.