The prize went to the Center for Citizenship Education Foundation. The objective of that prize is to popularize and support good practices of using digital tools and new media in everyday work of NGOs.
“The Center for Citizenship Education Foundation has been successfully improving the quality of Polish education for thirty years. An important element of that success has been the use of modern technologies. It allows scaling the activities benefitting some 40,000 teachers and almost 10,000 schools all over Poland annually,” says Polish-American Freedom Foundation Program Director and Chairman of the Prize Committee Radosław Jasiński.
“It has been the consistent implementation of ICT tools for their Internet activities – not only classical e-learning or blog, but also such projects as Election Lamplighter used by over 5.5 m users or the Young People Vote platform,” he adds.
The Prize Committee awarded the Winner for active and effective use of technology to reach the broad group of users, especially the young ones.
The prize is a grant of PLN 40,000 for the winner’s statutory activities and national promotion.
About the Winner
The Center for Citizenship Education Foundation is the biggest Polish educational public benefit organization supporting over 40,000 teachers and school directors of almost 10,000 schools annually. Its mission is to help students gain valuable school experiences. Among its most significant programs and initiatives are Learning School, Young People in Action, Ecological School, as well as:
- Election Lamplighter – a tool that in a simple way involved 5.5 m citizens to confront their views and values with election declarations of political parties or coalitions.
- The Young People Vote platform where hundreds of schools (in case of parliamentary election there were as many as 777 schools) run election simulations teaching young people how important the participation in public life is. Students can see how the election is run at schools in their neighborhood as well as in a distant place of Poland.
- The platform of online courses for teachers: an original platform that makes a central place for sharing experiences by 7,700 teachers from all over Poland. That tool allows teachers to get new skills, participate in online training sessions and share practical tips and guides.
- Support for librarians: our Foundation also actively supports the work of librarians with a special dedicated platform which allows experience sharing and networs active institutions.
- Under the Library Night program everybody can read about and get inspired with events held in their neighborhood. The program covers events held at over 1,500 institutions all over Poland.
The Sector 3.0 Prize has been awarded to Polish NGOs that use ICT in innovative ways for their operations and for achieving their statutory goals for ten years. The former winners of the Prize were the following: Visible Foundation (2013), Itaka Foundation (2014), Foundation Katarynka (2015), Foundation TUS (2016), We Give Children Strength Foundation (2017), Stowarzyszenie Inicjatyw Możliwych Rzeczjasna (2018), Sieć Obywatelska Watchdog Polska (2019), Virtual Dream Foundation (2020), Demagog Association (2021), Homo Faber Association(2022), and The Association of Little Brothers of the Poor (2023).
The Prize Committee is composed of: Radosław Jasiński – Chairman (Polish-American Freedom Foundation), Urszula Krasnodębska-Maciuła (ngo.pl/Stowarzyszenie Klon-Jawor), Michał Jaworski (Microsoft), Jacek Królikowski (Information Society Development Foundation) and Dr. Konrad Ciesiołkiewicz (Orange).
The Sector 3.0 program is an undertaking of the Polish-American Freedom Foundation managed by the Information Society Development Foundation.
