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At Katalyst Education, we want an education environment which gives all students an equal chance to discover and develop their abilities and capabilities, to make their dreams come true, and to prepare for challenges emerging in the ever-changing world. As such, the foundation’s mission thus far has been to level the playing field for all Polish students by creating free-of-charge, digital, open-source and high-quality educational tools and by supplying services supporting their optimal use.

Katalyst Education has been achieving its mission by shepherding two active and highly successful projects: Pi-stacja (pistacja.tv) and Career Map (mapakarier.org). Both are open, free-of-charge, digital educational resources supplemented with additional materials for teachers, parents and students.

Career Map is one of the most widely used digital tools to support career guidance counselors in primary and secondary education in Poland. Over 500,000 users visited Career Map during 2021, and the application’s users have logged nearly 10 million page views just in the past 12 months.

Pi-stacja is an ever-growing set of online (and downloadable) 6- to 15-minute video tutorials which are precisely aligned with the Polish national educational curriculum. The collection of free tutorials currently comprises more than 1,000 videos and exercise sets, covering curriculum points in mathematics, chemistry, physics, and biology. Lessons for twelve other school subjects are planned over the next few years. Pi-stacja has become the number one free video lesson resource in Poland, with more than 37 million cumulative views of its tutorials (providing the equivalent of more than 83 million PLN (approximately $20 million) in free tutoring services for Polish students).

The quest for a level playing field is even more relevant in a wartime environment where refugee children are deprived of normal, unfettered access to teachers and content. Nearly 3 million Ukrainian refugees have fled to Poland. Among them are more than 1.1 million children. UNICEF estimates that each second another child is uprooted from Ukraine.

For this reason, Katalyst Education has committed to using Pi-stacja to support the children of Ukraine as well. Initial support is being focused on converting all existing Pi-stacja materials into Ukrainian. Ukrainian subtitles are already being added to the video lessons; other materials (lesson plans, exercises, etc.) are being translated in order to have dual-language versions. Shortly, the organization will begin creating original Ukrainian content for the full portfolio of core subjects in Ukrainian schools.