al. Jerozolimskie
93
02-001 Warsaw
Poland
- Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Venture Café Warsaw is a nonprofit organization that seeks to grow Warsaw’s innovation community by working to make it more diverse, inclusive, accessible, and better connected locally, nationally, and globally. Venture Café Warsaw is a member of a growing global network of organizations – each with the shared mission and a local flare. Venture Café Warsaw works closely with its partner, CIC Warsaw, to build a vibrant innovation community. Strategic partners: Microsoft, Samsung, Grupa Azoty, Polish Development Fund.
The team consists of 7 people and cooperates with around 30 partners, depending on a project, from local selfgovernmental, corporate and start-up sector.
yearly budget: 300 000 PLN/ 71500 Euro
sources of founding: CIC Warsaw, partners, donations.
Venture Café Warsaw’s mission is connecting innovators to make things happen by working to make our community more diverse, inclusive & accessible. We are creating the major innovation community hotspot, the first touchpoint for all the innovators from Warsaw, Mazovia Region and other parts of Poland to gather, mingle, exchange ideas and share the innovation spark. What’s more, our goal is to enrich Warsaw’s community and make it better connected: locally, nationally, and globally.
core programmes:
- Thursday Gatherings - events on a regular basis to connect innovators
- Trend House - innovators club
- District Hall - open to the public center for innovation in Warsaw
- Innovation Visitors Bureau; inclusion of foreign innovation into Warsaw’s ecosystem.
- Corporate Innovation Playbook - a collection of good practices and ideas for implementation of innovation in a corporate environment. A handbook with ready-made paths for identifying needs and implementation innovations that meet these needs in the shortest way possible.
As an operator of District Hall - space for social innovation we could host interesting events on social innovation organized together with other members of the ALF Network. We would also like to build local and international partnerships and get involved in Network's projects. We could share our experience and knowledge based on many years of international activity.
We would like to join ALF, because diversity inclusion is one of our core goals and our mission is to promote innovation and build more inclusive business societies. We value a lot work of the Anna Lindh Foundation and would like to be part of it. Building international partnerships and implementing intercultural, cross sectorial projects is in the scope of our interest. We think that we could add a lot of value to the network and be an important partner in Poland for many other organisations. We would like to participate in the Foundation's events and share knowledge and experience with other members.