Olivia Centre and O4 Coworking, with the first coworking space for women in Poland – O4 Flow, start cooperation with the Fregata Primary School for Girls from Gdańsk Oliwa. The aim is to inspire young women who are just making their first important educational decisions – e.g. about major classes in secondary schools. Thanks to meetings with leaders from large, international corporations and from the world of ICT, students will have a chance to believe that the world of new technologies, engineering and programming is waiting for them and needs them very much.
The first meetings with Beata Stramska from FinestMedia and NordHR and Anetta Lasota from thyssenkrupp aroused enthusiasm from both sides! With great conviction and heart, Beata and Aneta showed how much good awaits women who dare to enter the world of new technologies. And the great attentiveness, class and interest of the girls encouraged the speakers to declare their willingness to continue their support!
– Polish girls still lack real “heroines”. There are not enough female engineers, programmers and bosses in the public space. A live meeting of women who are coping in this world, know it and see how much more women are needed in it, is our work at the grassroots level. There are still many ideas for cooperation ahead of us – we will be able to announce something more soon. It’s great that Fregata cares about promoting the idea among female students that they can become anything they want: a lawyer, a full-time mom, or an IT specialist. The most important thing is that they choose consciously. O4 Flow and Olivia will be very happy to help them by showing them various interesting stories of women from our community – says Marta Moksa, O4 Coworking.
– A few conversations with young people are enough to discover that the concept of authority has become very distant for them. In a world focused on highlighting flaws, they must learn to relearn how to separate what is valuable from what is ideal. To discover that successful people, just like them, face difficulties, moments of doubt, or drops in form. Get to know fascinating biographies and mentors whose experiences they can draw on to build their identity, which doesn’t necessarily mean following the same path. That is why I cared so much about the “Successful Woman” project for students in grades 7-8. These young women are on the threshold of their maturity and the first important choices about their future life path. I am very happy that thanks to the cooperation with Olivia Centre and O4 Flow they can meet so many amazing women, full of passion and having different criteria of success, and yet happy and fulfilled in what they do. Years of support from teachers are not the same as seeing with their own eyes that the world really is their oyster and it is up to them to decide who they will be. And we’ll be looking back on it with pride, and we’re very grateful for this cooperation. – says Monika Wierzbicka, director of Fregata.
We will keep you informed about the next stages of the project.
