MISSION
We inspire, connect and support women in technologies, 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 the 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.
Why all this?
We believe in women and their great potential. We believe that the world in which they have more to say in key areas, such as politics, business, and technologies, will be wiser and more balanced. Thanks to women, their competence, the values they bring and the new approach to problem-solving, the world has a chance for a new history. Co-creating this history is our privilege, mission and great pleasure
ACTIVITES
For 14 years we have been supporting young women in selecting technical and science studies with our campaigns Girls As Engineers! And Girls Go Science!. 200,000 young women participated so far, and the share of women at technical universities increased by 10%. We also conduct many inspirational activities for young women in technologies and science: IT for SHE, Lean in STEM, Girls Go Start-Up! Academy, Shesnnovation, Girls Go Science!, and a special grant program for female IT students: “New Technologies for Girls” (jointly with Intel). In 2021, we also launched the LeaderSHEp in Tech Academy program. We include a mentoring element in most our activities – we believe in the value of a relationship in which persons with experience are willing to share it with young women with potential.
We also organise the Perspektywy Women in Tech Summit – the biggest event for women in technologies in this part of the world – drawing 8500 participants from 100 countries.
In the Eastern Partnership countries and Central Asia, we are promoting Poland as an IT Hub and a program of 400 grants for talented female IT students to come to the “Perspektywy Women in Tech Summit.” We base our activities on research, which we then publish in the form of valuable Reports.
ABOUT THE PERSPEKTYWY EDUCATION FOUNDATION
Perspektywy Women in Tech is a part of the Perspektywy Education Foundation It is a non-profit NGO existing since 1998, specialised 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, 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 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 counselling, building an innovation ecosystem in Poland and in Europe, and extensive talent promotion in the STEM area.
AWARDS
AWARDS are to us a proof that what we do is needed and that someone may want to learn from us the solutions we have developed. We are happy to share this knowledge. These are the most important ones:
– European Digital Skills Award 2017 by European Commission for the “IT for SHE” program for female IT students – considered the best activity for women in technologies in Europe.
– Digital Shapers 2019 by Digital Poland – for educational activities in the area of digital competence
– Excellence in Mentoring Award of the Year 2019 (nomination) by Technologia w Spódnicy – for 500 mentoring pairs in technical sciences in the Perspektywy Women in Tech programs
– Lumen 2017 by PCG – for excellent long-distance cooperation of the Foundation and 16 Polish universities at the “Girls As Engineers!” campaign
Marlena Piotrowska
Koordynatorka
„Dziewczyny na politechniki”
„Nowe Technologie dla Dziewczyn”
„Shesnnovation”
m.piotrowska@perspektywy.pl
Joanna Lisiecka
Dyrektor Programowa
j.lisiecka@perspektywy.pl
696 483 349
Sandra Wiktorko
Partners Angel
„Perspektywy Women in Tech”
s.wiktorko@perspektywy.pl
Magdalena Machal
Social Media Manager
m.machal@perspektywy.pl
Diana Kidacka
IT for SHE Coordinator
d.kidacka@perspektywy.pl
791 359 698
Elżbieta Wyraz
Coordinator
“Shesnnovation Academy”
“Program wolontariacki IT for SHE”
e.wyraz@perspektywy.pl
