What is Quo Vadis?

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2. “The movement was founded on the idea of providing its participants with the unique opportunity to network, exchange innovative ideas and gain leadership skills from inspirational speakers and interactive workshops. Quo Vadis aims to focus on three key areas:Heritage, Leadership and Unity.” http://quovadisconferences.org.au/web/ Whatis Quo Vadis? … and also: “The Quo Vadis Conference Series aims to foster a world-wide network of motivated Polish youth. The main goals of these conferences are to promote an active Polonia, explore our Polish identity and culture, develop new local and international projects, increase the visibility of our community, and the transmission of knowledge from current Polish leaders to the next generation.“ http://quovadismontreal2013.com DawidWawrzyniak www.polishcooperation.net wawrzyniak@polishcooperation.net

3. UNITY • Millionsof Poles in the USA unable to abolish visas for Polish citizens. • Secondbiggest ethnical minority in Germany have no minority rights. • Poles in the Eastern Borderlands (former territory of the eastern provinces of Poland - western Ukraine, western Belarus and eastern Lithuania) arepersecuted • How many of you have heard about previous QV conferences? • Whoknows what issues and projects were talked about? • Whoknows what the result was? POLISH COOPERATION NETWORK DawidWawrzyniak www.polishcooperation.net wawrzyniak@polishcooperation.net

4. LEADERSHIP We learn and improve duringconferences. No other place where we canshareknowledge, experience and ideas We arenot able to do iton a daily basis. Do we knowourmistakes? POLISH COOPERATION NETWORK DawidWawrzyniak www.polishcooperation.net wawrzyniak@polishcooperation.net

5. PROJECTS Conferences– greatatmosphere and drive to work together. Just fewresultsafter. And also big failures. POLISH COOPERATION NETWORK DawidWawrzyniak www.polishcooperation.net wawrzyniak@polishcooperation.net

6. We havebeentrying… Localand international umbrella organisations. Many various conferences. Conferencesare not very open. Websites, Polishpress and radio. We arestillin the 20th century. POLISH COOPERATION NETWORK DawidWawrzyniak www.polishcooperation.net wawrzyniak@polishcooperation.net

7. Biggest problem - communication Differentreports – the same problem again and again – communication. Withoutcommunicating we cannot cooperate, develop, or be united. Let’s do worldwide conferences over the whole year, 365 days, 24/7. POLISH COOPERATION NETWORK DawidWawrzyniak www.polishcooperation.net wawrzyniak@polishcooperation.net

8. Solution Use a proper medium – INTERNET Plug in our organisations by having a professional websites. Give themfor free and providefree technical support. Organisationswho have already websites could swap them to ours. For othersprovide differentsolutions so they could use at least some part of our system. The most important part - connect all that into one huge network. Create various databases which all of you could access from your own websites. POLISH COOPERATION NETWORK DawidWawrzyniak www.polishcooperation.net wawrzyniak@polishcooperation.net

9. Capabilities of our system PCN national website Polish organisations Polish organisation POLISH COOPERATION NETWORK MEDIA Yourown contacts DawidWawrzyniak www.polishcooperation.net wawrzyniak@polishcooperation.net

10. Capabilities of our pages - event calendar Calendar with all the holidays Polish organisation Polish organisation POLISH COOPERATION NETWORK Polish organisation Calendar PCN national website Polish organisation DawidWawrzyniak www.polishcooperation.net wawrzyniak@polishcooperation.net

11. Comparison of todays and tomorrows operational methods POLISH COOPERATION NETWORK Pic. 1 Currentcapabilities to share information Pic. 2 Capabilities of our system DawidWawrzyniak www.polishcooperation.net wawrzyniak@polishcooperation.net

12. Effects of working together • Results of workingtogether: • A map with Polish places with Memoriale in Lithuania • An international library with the Federation of Polish Scouts in Germany • Correcting false information about Poland such as “Polish death camps” with Polish Media Issues – a worldwide organisation. • Researchmodules with Szkoła Liderów and Instytut Naukowo-Badawczy im. ZygmuntaWojciechowskiego in Poznań. POLISH COOPERATION NETWORK DawidWawrzyniak www.polishcooperation.net wawrzyniak@polishcooperation.net

13. Effects of working together • Easierto find each other. • Easierto coordinate different kinds of actions. • Simpler and faster promotion of what we want to convey. • Commondatabaseslike: address databases for the press or of other organisations. • Diversity – the key to our success. • Mutual motivation. • Lower cost. • Easierand cheaper to introduce new features. • The more people join the faster we alldevelope. POLISH COOPERATION NETWORK DawidWawrzyniak www.polishcooperation.net wawrzyniak@polishcooperation.net

14. PolishCooperation Network • Our branches are in: • United Kingdom • Germany • Canada (started by PISK after our presentation during Quo Vadis in Vancouver August 2014) • almost 70 organisations from 8 countries. POLISH COOPERATION NETWORK Please join us. Help us. DawidWawrzyniak www.polishcooperation.net wawrzyniak@polishcooperation.net

15. Dane kontaktowe PolishCooperation Network Reg. Number 1145973 (United Kingdom) POLISH COOPERATION NETWORK www.polishcooperation.net Chairman: Dawid Wawrzyniak wawrzyniak@polishcooperation.net +44 77 379 22 065 (United Kingdom) DawidWawrzyniak www.polishcooperation.net wawrzyniak@polishcooperation.net