About our foundation
Enabler Foundation is a non-governmental organisation based in Rumia, Poland. We work in digital education: we teach children, teenagers, adults and seniors how to navigate wisely and safely through a world where technology is everywhere and, increasingly, starts talking back to us.
Our name is no accident. An enabler is someone who makes things possible. Someone who opens doors, provides tools and helps you take the first step. That is how we see our role: we don't do things for people, we don't scare them with technology and we don't admire it uncritically. We help people understand it, so that everyone can use it consciously and on their own terms.
What we do
At the heart of our work is education around new technologies, above all artificial intelligence, digital safety and digital wellbeing. We run workshops in schools, work with teachers and youth workers, organise classes for adults and seniors, and create our own educational tools and materials, which we then share with others.
We talk with young people about what happens on the other side of the screen: about mechanisms designed so that we can't stop scrolling, about disinformation and AI-generated content, about the pressure of a perfect online image, and about the fact that a relationship with an algorithm will never replace a relationship with another human being. We don't moralise. We show how things work and let people draw their own conclusions.
With adults and seniors, we work to turn technology from a barrier into a tool. We believe that age does not exclude anyone from the digital world. What excludes people is the lack of access to good, patient education. That is why our classes for older people are not a basic computer course, but real work on skills that matter in everyday life, including the use of artificial intelligence tools.
Neurodiversity is also close to our hearts. We look for ways in which new technologies can support the social inclusion of neurodivergent people and people with cognitive disabilities. We consistently work to make schools and public spaces places where different ways of thinking are the norm, not a problem.
How we work
We base our activities on data and research, not on hunches. Before we stand in front of a workshop group, we read reports, analyse statistics and verify sources, because it is easy to talk about the digital world in generalities and hard to talk about it accurately. The same principle applies to the materials we create: they need to be substantive, up to date and written in plain human language.
We work locally and internationally at the same time. We are deeply rooted in the Pomerania region of northern Poland. We cooperate with schools, local governments and institutions in and around the Tricity area, and the results of our work are visible in real classrooms and real workshop rooms. In parallel, we run projects in European partnerships, primarily within the Erasmus+ programme, exchanging experience with organisations from other countries and carrying proven solutions in both directions. Our work has already received recognition, but the greatest reward remains the moment when a workshop participant says: "now I get it".
Intergenerational work matters to us. The digital world is often portrayed as a battlefield between generations. We prefer to build bridges. Our experience shows that the young and the old have far more to offer each other than is commonly assumed.
Why we do it
Technology is developing faster than ever, and education, public debate, schools and families do not always keep up. Real problems grow in that gap: digital addiction, vulnerability to disinformation, digital exclusion, loneliness hidden behind a screen. We do not believe the answer is to cut ourselves off from technology. The answer is to understand it, and that understanding is what we try to build, workshop by workshop, conversation by conversation.
We believe that digital skills are civic skills today. A person who can assess the credibility of information, understands how algorithms work and makes conscious decisions about their screen time is simply more free. That is the freedom we care about: for children, for adults, for seniors. For everyone.
Let's talk
If you are a teacher, a school principal, a representative of a local government or an organisation that thinks about digital education the way we do, get in touch. If you represent an organisation from another country and are looking for a project partner, all the more so. The best things we have done started with an ordinary conversation.