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Re_Enter is a series of free export seminars at Fabryka Grohmana. In one morning you get to know the rules, the business culture and the partners of one market, before you spend a złoty on entering it.
What Re_Enter is
Each edition is one market and three hours of specifics: what sells there, which rules you have to meet, what the logistics look like and who to talk to on the ground. We run it with the Polish Investment and Trade Agency.
The programme has a fixed shape. We start with a presentation of the market prepared by a PAIH Foreign Trade Office, a bilateral chamber or an embassy. Then a lawyer goes through the formal requirements, and experts talk about cultural differences and transport. At the end the floor goes to the practitioners: companies from the region that have already entered that market say what worked and what cost too much. Time is left for networking, at the larger editions in a Business Mixer format.
Re_Enter is a series of knowledge seminars. We organise no trade missions and no one-to-one advisory, but you do get a chance at contacts that take months to reach on your own. Taking part is free, and the Zone finances the series from its own funds.
The markets we have covered
The series started on 30 March 2022 with a seminar about the United Kingdom, just after Brexit, and has come back every quarter since.
After the United Kingdom came Germany (June 2022) and Ukraine (October 2022, with a mixer for around 100 companies). In 2024 participants got to know North America, with the American Chamber of Commerce and the Polish-Canadian Chamber of Commerce, and Japan in the autumn. 2025 opened with Spain, with the Foreign Trade Office in Madrid, the Embassy of Spain and the agencies of Catalonia and Andalusia, and closed with Brazil, the first edition with PAIH as co-organiser.
In 2026 the tenth meeting of the series took place, devoted to Rwanda, with the ambassador and Cardinal Antoine Kambanda, and an edition about France that drew around 180 people. We share the materials from earlier editions, the partners’ presentations included, with participants after every meeting.
What you gain
Re_Enter spares you the most expensive part of entering a market: learning from your own mistakes.
The presentation is given by a PAIH Foreign Trade Office or a bilateral chamber from that country. These are the people who help Polish companies there every day.
A lawyer and a freight forwarder explain which documents, certificates and rates apply to your goods, and where exporters most often come unstuck.
After the seminar you have cards from the trade office, the chamber and the embassy. B2B meetings or a mission are your decision, but you have someone to write to.
The practitioners’ panel is made up of exporters from the region. They talk about prices, payments and the partners worth checking twice.
Registering for the event is enough. The Zone finances Re_Enter from its own funds, so there are no state aid rules and no settlements.
Re_Enter in numbers
since 2022
- 11editions of the series
- 3 hrsone seminar, one market
- 180participants at the edition about France
- PLN 0cost of taking part
Frequently asked questions
Nothing. Re_Enter is the Zone’s own programme, paid for from its own funds. You register for the event and come.
No. The seminars are open to every company thinking about exporting. Most of the people who come are from small and medium-sized companies in the Łódź Voivodeship.
Usually once a quarter, at Fabryka Grohmana in Łódź. We publish the dates in the Zone’s event calendar.
Yes. Write to the programme’s account manager and say which country your company is interested in. We plan the next editions from those suggestions and from the partners PAIH has available.
Re_Open UK was a grant programme for companies hit by Brexit, and it ended in 2024. Re_Enter is a series of knowledge seminars with no grants; it is still running and opens another market every quarter.
Questions about Re_Enter? Write to the account manager of the series
The account manager will tell you whether the next market fits your company, and put you on the notification list for the following editions.
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