Good practice Imported

Polish Businesswomen Opportunities

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Aim: The Polish Businesswomen Opportunities initiative is designed to support and empower women in leadership and entrepreneurship by: Addressing the key challenges faced by modern female leaders and presenting female management styles as innovative leadership models. Inspiri

Details

Promoter: Business Women and Life - Poland — website
Power domain: Social Power, Economic Power
Methods / tools: Competence development, Awareness-raising
Region (NUTS): PL91
Keywords: female management, leadership, coaching, work-life balance, new investment

Context

The Business Woman Congress in Poland is an initiative supporting women in leadership and entrepreneurship, run under 'Polish Businesswomen Opportunities'.

Objectives

Address challenges faced by women leaders and present female management styles as innovative leadership models; inspire entrepreneurial women to grow businesses and profitability; transfer practical knowledge from international speakers, trainers and coaches; build networks and mutual support among women leaders.

Activities

Congress sessions addressing work-life balance; promotion of strategic partnerships between Polish and global markets to open investment opportunities for women across sectors (tech, finance, sustainability, innovation).

Implementation

Indicative cost: Medium (€50k–€500k) — Congress format with international speakers/trainers implies moderate event costs; no budget figures disclosed.
Time to results: Short (< 1 year) — Recurring congress/event rather than a multi-year phased programme; no duration figures given.
Staffing & skills: International speakers, trainers and coaches, Gaudete Foundation as partner organisation

Conditions for success

Recurring placement on the agenda of international business events
Cross-border partnerships opening investment opportunities for women

Commonly funded by

ESF+ — European Social Fund Plus

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Data sources

Where this practice's information was retrieved from, and when.

ProPEGE — Equal Leadership catalogue — accessed 2026-06-14
Practice website — accessed 2026-06-14
Promoter website — accessed 2026-06-14

Attachments

Quality score: 96/100

How is this calculated?

Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported

Top 13% in this catalogue (719 scored practices)

Scores cluster high, so position within the catalogue is often more telling than the number alone.

Evaluation

Evaluated by ProPEGE consortium (Equal Leadership)

Score profile — the dimensions behind the score — how it's computed

Transferability / replicability2/3

How readily the practice can be replicated or transferred to other contexts (graded 0–3).

Impact on gender equality1/1

Whether the practice demonstrably improved gender-equality outcomes.

Effectiveness1/1

Whether it achieved its intended objectives.

Efficiency1/1

Whether results were achieved at a reasonable cost and effort.

Evaluated outcomes1/1

Whether the outcomes were formally evaluated or measured.

Achievement / evidence1/1

The strength of documented evidence that the practice worked.

Sustainability1/1

Whether the practice is ongoing or has lasting institutional structures.

Gender-mainstreaming embedding1/1

How well gender equality is embedded across strategy, continuity and financing.

Curator validation1/1

The ProPEGE curators' validation of quality, scope and final approval.

Cite this

Evidoria. Polish Businesswomen Opportunities. Persistent ID: e8055b8c-02a9-47a7-9242-07ef5db0bdb5.

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