Adapting Women to Digital Economy

Preparing people of Ukraine for the formidable task of rebuilding and refocusing the economy while the war is still ravaging their country is the ambition of the project "INCUBATING FREEDOM for Ukraine - Adapting Women to Digital Economy". For this purpose, approximately 30,000 women will be trained, most of them refugees from Ukraine temporarily staying in Poland. This will help in solving the socio-economic problems of refugees, will ultimately strengthen the economy of Ukraine and will also have important implications for the Polish IT market, where 150,000 IT specialists are already missing. The project will be announced publicly at the international conference "Post War Innovative Transformation of Ukraine" under the honorary patronage of the wife of the President of the Republic of Poland, Agata Kornhauser-Duda in Lublin on December 1, 2022

The war drove millions of Ukrainians, majority of them women, to migrate to Poland and, in lesser numbers, to other European countries. This causes a need for adaptation and training of the newcomers to the realities and requirements of the European economy and society. Polish labor market already suffers a deficit of workers with sufficient IT, digital, and language skills. Well prepared immigrants from Ukraine can make a valuable contribution to the economy of the host country. However, it is equally important that by acquiring digital skills and experience, these women will be able to make a significant contribution to the innovative transformation of their country upon return home in the post-war time.

A good framework for the project provides the Declaration of cooperation in the field of education recently signed by the Ministries of Education and Science of Poland and Ukraine at the UN Transforming Education Summit on September 17, 2022.

Even though Ukraine has already made significant progress in digitalization, it will need to accelerate this process after the war. It is necessary to restore the ruined economy of Ukraine the way it used to be, as it had been built at a different time, and based on different resources and technologies. Transformation and digitalization call for workers with IT and digital skills on different level equally in Ukraine as in Poland.

The goal of this project is to train, educate, and retain specialists from Ukraine and Poland in accordance with the needs of the economies of these countries. Project participants will provide the most necessary highly professional courses and trainings to both Ukrainian and Polish professionals to help resolve and new socioeconomic issue of displaced population.

The professional courses and trainings provided under the project will cover but will not be limited to basic and more sophisticated IT disciplines. Given that most of the displaced Ukrainian population are females, the first goal and focus of the project will focus on women and their adaptation to the new society.

Retraining of personnel will be based on the use of the latest corporate teaching and learning methods, with the involvement of practitioners working in domestic and international companies. Training will take place online but with the onsite elements by highly qualified specialists and lecturers in the form of master classes, trainings, projects, case studies, and seminars.

Services will be also provided for companies, organizations, and enterprises in Poland and Ukraine to find employees with the most appropriate professional skills and education.

For students with an advanced level of general education and professional business training, the project offers interdisciplinary MBA programs that are based on a bachelor's degree or full higher education and provide business knowledge and knowledge in the field of information technologies, and as well as acquiring competencies in the field of technological engineering, innovation, entrepreneurship, management and transformational leadership.

The project “Incubating Freedom for Ukraine” will be implemented by the Polish-Ukrainian consortium PERSPEKTYWY ACADEMY, led by the Educational Foundation "Perspektywy" (PL) with recognized competences and achievements in promoting women in the field of IT and STEM, and a Ukrainian partner the Ukrainian Talent Foundation with experience and a wide range of courses in the field of IT in Ukrainian and English languages. The implementation of the activities will be supervised by the Project Council composed of individuals of public trust from both countries.

The project will be announced publicly at the international conference "Post War Innovative Transformation of Ukraine" to be held in Lublin on December 1-2, 2022. The first training sessions will start in February 2023. It is assumed that in the first five years of the project some 50,000 women will be trained, at least half of them Ukrainian refugees residing in Poland.

 

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Dr. Bianka Siwińska, Fundacja Edukacyjna Perspektywy (PL), Ten adres pocztowy jest chroniony przed spamowaniem. Aby go zobaczyć, konieczne jest włączenie w przeglądarce obsługi JavaScript.
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