The Citi Handlowy Leopold Kronenberg Foundation won the "Faces of Entrepreneurship" competition organized by the Global Entrepreneurship Week Foundation. It came in first in the "Institution supporting entrepreneurship" category. It competed among 10 state institutions and NGOs supporting the development of entrepreneurship, innovativeness and broadening economic knowledge.
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The "Faces of Entrepreneurship" competition is held as part of the 7th edition of the Global Entrepreneurship Week. It is a continuation of a social campaign started this July under the same title. Awards are also granted in two other categories: "Young Entrepreneur" (business owners aged under 30 who have been conducting business activity for less than 6 years) and "Company Supporting the Young" (businesses which employ and provide development opportunities to young employees aged under 30). |
 The award was received by Krzysztof Kaczmar, President of the Board of The Citi Handlowy Leopold Kronenberg Foundation |
The "Microentrepreneur of the Year" is the Foundation's flagship project, currently celebrating its 10th anniversary. Over the last decade, more than 2,000 companies competed in the contest and 103 of them received awards. They include entities which also enjoy international success. One such example is the winner of the 9th edition - Digital Core Design, which specializes in designing modern central processing units and integrated circuits which can now be found in more than 270 million devices all around the world.
Moreover, during the two years of the "Be Entrepreneurial" program, co-organized by Junior Achievement Poland, we have shared knowledge and practical tools related to managing an independent business. The project is addressed to almost 20,000 students from middle and secondary schools. Every year, almost 500 students and graduates of universities participating in the "Business Startup" project have the unique opportunity to test their business ideas. The program has been implemented for three years in cooperation with Academic Business Incubators to enable young people from all over Poland to establish their own company and face market competition. This year, two new projects joined the Foundation's portfolio. The first edition of the "Business in Women's Hands" program, organized in cooperation with Foundation for Women's Entrepreneurship, brought together 200 ladies. The project is intended to provide its participants with material support to set up their own business, but also to create a cluster of companies run by women within the Warsaw agglomeration. The crowning element of the activities undertaken in the field of entrepreneurship is the "Emerging Market Champions Award", which promotes Polish companies expanding into foreign markets.
The organizers of the "Faces of Entrepreneurship" competition, the Global Entrepreneurship Week Foundation, seek to support the development of entrepreneurship and enhance the business knowledge and skills of Polish people, while also supporting local communities and improving the situation of the young and people excluded from the labour market. Global Entrepreneurship Week, celebrated in 143 countries of the world, was the driving force behind the creation of the Foundation. It is an international event organized since 2008, which was established to ensure a positive climate for entrepreneurship and to build a social environment friendly to young, creative people.
