In November, we travelled to the Portuguese capital to visit the Web Summit. This largest technology festival in Europe combines technology, innovation and networking into an unforgettable experience.

Timea Klopčeková was awarded in the IT Student of the Year category as part of our new Woman in IT Award. She is currently studying electrical engineering in high school, runs her own startup, and is passionate about graphic design.

We love to learn, even more if it involves getting to know new places and people – this time we were exploring similar organisations in the capital of Poland with an Erasmus grant. In the third week of June, members of our team visited Warsaw, Poland, where they met with the organisation Cyfrowy Dialog and visited the Women in Tech 2024 Summit.

We are changing the country for the better and that’s why we came up with another project – the 1st Women in IT Award. Its aim is to deepen the idea of women entering IT and supporting them in this sector. At the same time, we want to express public recognition and thanks to all those who help this idea in Slovakia.

At the beginning of the summer, as part of our internal Erasmus learning and inspiration-seeking, we went to the Netherlands, where we first visited the big European Women in Technology conference in Amsterdam and then met with representatives of Stichting Netwerkpro, an association that, like us, focuses on women’s education.

We didn’t take a break from networking abroad and gaining new experiences even at the end of the summer. In August, part of our team visited Denmark, a popular Nordic country for Slovaks.

May is quite busy for all of us in Aj Ty v IT. Schools are finishing up the year and we are finishing up with them. Everyone in our team knows they need to save a lot of energy for May.

The European Innovation Council and the Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises have ranked You in IT among the world’s best examples of good practice with the highest benefits for individuals. They selected from 47 activities in 36 countries.

On the occasion of International Women’s Day, we took part in a panel discussion on “Women in the Digital” organised by the European Commission in Brussels, with the participation of Commissioner Thierry Breton and MEP Lina Gálvez Muñoz. For the first time in our organisation’s history, we presented our mission and examples of good practice at the highest European level.

Thanks to this project, sustained by UniCredit Foundation and UniCredit Bank, we are supporting girls to enhance not only their soft skills but also their technical skills.