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A path of nine lessons on financial habits, with exercises, tasks to complete and a quiz closing each stage. Access through a personal account, with progress saved across devices.
Longa Vista Foundation · Kraków
An education foundation shaping long-term thinking – in finance, technology, conscious decisions and entrepreneurship. For adults at every stage of life.
Based in Kraków, we are building cooperation with partners across Central Europe.
Our missionArea 01
Changing financial behaviour through the psychology of habits – from spending to long-term thinking.
Area 02
Responsible, conscious use of digital tools, automation and artificial intelligence.
Area 03
Building the ability to make conscious decisions in financial and digital life.
Area 04
Design thinking, mentoring and practical tools for people who want to turn an idea into action.
"Longa Vista – the long view. Because the future is built in everyday choices."
The Longa Vista Foundation works where education truly changes lives – not by transferring knowledge, but by changing the way people think.
We believe the biggest barriers – financial, technological, decision-making – are mental. They do not come from a lack of information, but from a lack of habits and patterns that make long-term thinking possible.
We work online, without geographical barriers. We care especially about people from smaller towns, who less often have access to environments that shape long-term thinking.
Our work is addressed to adults aged 18–40 – both those starting out on their own and those who want to consciously redesign their habits and their approach to the future.
Statutory objectives of the foundation
Financial education for adults grounded in the psychology of habits and behavioural economics. We guide participants through three stages: spending awareness, the saving habit and long-term investing. Not advice – behaviour change.
Education on the responsible use of digital tools and artificial intelligence. We show how technology can support conscious decisions – and where it calls for critical thinking. Both as a working tool and as a subject of education.
Building the capacity for conscious, calm decision-making amid information chaos and short-term pressure. Levelling educational opportunities – especially for people outside large cities.
Project thinking, mentoring and practical tools for people who want to turn an idea into action. Design thinking, lean canvas, pitch – not theory, but workshop. For those who want to build, not just plan.
We do not start with investing or with theory. First we help participants understand their own behaviour, then turn knowledge into simple habits, build greater resilience to impulsive decisions, and only on that foundation develop long-term thinking.
Understanding your own financial behaviour and decisions before any strategy comes into play.
Turning knowledge into simple, repeatable actions that hold up without constant motivation.
Building a safety buffer and resistance to impulsive and risky decisions.
Developing long-term thinking only on the foundation of the earlier stages.
Financial habits are the foundation of everything we do. We work with the psychology of money and behavioural economics – not through lectures, but through small steps, exercises and the context of everyday decisions. We guide participants along a path: spending awareness → the saving habit → long-term investment thinking.
Technology and AI are for us both a working tool and a subject of education in its own right. We use AI-based tools to personalise each participant's path – and at the same time we teach how to use them consciously and critically. It is a skill that matters more and more in everyday financial and professional decisions.
Decision-making skills are the glue holding the other areas together. We build the ability to act calmly and consciously amid information chaos and short-term pressure – especially among people outside large cities, who less often have access to environments that shape a long horizon.
Entrepreneurship is the practical dimension of design thinking. Not theory – workshop. Design thinking, lean canvas, pitch, mentoring. For those who want to turn an idea into action and need tools, not another online course.
What we are not
Short, practical educational materials — one for each pillar of the Foundation's work. No theory, no certificates. Just concrete exercises and tools for working on your own.
Diagnostic tool · Financial habits
15 questions · 5 levels · a description of habits, not of wealth
Most people do not know exactly where they stand financially. This test shows your starting point — across five areas: spending habits, emergency fund, the saving habit, long-term thinking and net worth. Each level comes with concrete next steps.
Five levels
Pillar 01 · Financial habits
5 behavioural exercises
A spending map, the 1% rule, the 24-hour rule, a letter to your future self, an automatic transfer. Each exercise takes less than 10 minutes and is grounded in the psychology of habits.
Download for freePillar 02 · Technology and AI
5 principles of conscious use
Verifying sources, AI context, algorithmic neutrality, AI as a thinking tool, a week without autopilot. How to use technology so that it supports your decisions.
Download for freePillar 03 · Decision-making skills
5 tools for better choices
A 60-second pause, the 10-year question, a weighted pros-and-cons list, an opinion filter, a trial decision. Tools for acting calmly amid information chaos.
Download for freePillar 04 · Entrepreneurship
5 steps from idea to action
A problem statement, 5 customer interviews, an MVP, a Lean Canvas, a 60-second pitch. No theory — just concrete steps you can take without an investor or a large budget.
Download for freeThe foundation is young, so we separate what is already available to participants from what is still being built. We do not describe plans as completed work.
A path of nine lessons on financial habits, with exercises, tasks to complete and a quiz closing each stage. Access through a personal account, with progress saved across devices.
Five free guides — one for each area of our work — and a fifteen-question diagnostic test that shows your starting point across five habit areas rather than your wealth.
A cross-border educational programme on financial habits, financial resilience and the responsible use of AI tools. We are developing it as a Polish–Slovak initiative and considering submitting it to an international grant programme. We are looking for partners to design the programme together.
Co-founder · Board Member · Content Lead · CTO
Technologist and educator. Currently CTO and director of development at a large organisation. He led R&D work on a publicly co-funded project (NCBR, the Polish National Centre for Research and Development), which was completed successfully.
He comes from a small town near Rabka-Zdrój and still lives there. He grew up in an environment where investing was seen as "black magic". That experience shapes his understanding of the mental barriers facing young people outside large cities.
His career path was not linear: manual work, his own educational business, and eventually the role of a technology leader. He works actively with AI-based tools, treating them both as an instrument of work and as a subject that calls for responsible education.
Co-founder · Board Member · Technology Lead
Technologist and leader of technology development. He serves as Deputy Director of Development at a large organisation, responsible for building capability in artificial intelligence, DevOps, data warehousing and process automation platforms.
He comes from Kraków. He has been involved with technology since his earliest years. He has taught at Cracow University of Technology. He believes that consistency and regularity are the foundation of long-term growth – professional and financial alike.
At the Foundation he shows how technology and analytical tools can support conscious financial decisions – reducing impulsiveness and building responsible habits.
Subject-matter expert · Science and commercialisation
Researcher and academic lecturer. PhD Eng. at the Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Cracow University of Technology. As project manager she secured and settled grants from NCBiR, NCN and the Foundation for Polish Science with a combined value of over ten million zloty. Holder of 6 patents and several dozen publications in international journals.
She comes from Kraków. Her achievements go beyond research – she won a gold medal at PRIX EIFFEL in Paris, the Grand Prize in the Student Inventor competition and the title of Ambassador of Polish Invention. She teaches at the university and has supervised more than 18 diploma theses – master's and engineering.
At the Foundation she brings the perspective of a researcher and of a practitioner in managing complex projects. She shows that systematic work, the courage to pursue ambitious goals and the ability to commercialise knowledge – whether in science or in personal finance – lead to measurable results.
The challenges of money, technology and the quality of everyday decisions do not stop at national borders.
We are looking for partners in Central Europe to design and run educational activities for young adults and local communities together.
We are interested in cooperation based on a real division of competences, joint programme design and measurable impact — not a partnership that exists only on paper for an application.
Who we want to work with
Non-governmental organisations, foundations and associations, schools and universities, educational institutions, local authorities, youth organisations and local learning centres.
What we bring to a partnership
We invite institutions, schools, organisations and anyone interested in cooperating on financial, technological and entrepreneurship education to get in touch. We correspond and talk in Polish and English.
a.radwan-praglowski@longavista.org Aleksander Radwan-Pragłowski zbigniew.cichanski@longavista.org Zbigniew Cichański