Olivia Business Centre congratulates ThyssenKrupp on 2 years of operation in Gdansk! The company started its work in September 2014 on the 2. Olivia Gate floor, and now they occupy the entire 2 floors of Olivia Six. We believe that this is just the beginning. We congratulate you on all your amazing achievements and wish you every success and endless energy to act.
Olivia Business Centre Team
On October 14, at 7 p.m., at Olivia Sky Club, there will be a special evening – the fifth birthday of the Between Heaven and Earth Foundation combined with a charity auction for terminally ill children.
The ceremony will be hosted by TVN24 journalist Marcin Żebrowski. During the birthday evening, there will also be a premiere of a charity book entitled Life is a Journey and an artistic performance.
The Between Heaven and Earth Foundation provides comprehensive assistance to families with terminally ill children who have been accepted as the Foundation’s wards. The assistance provided concerns activities for the benefit of children by covering the costs of rehabilitation, stays and treatment. They also purchase rehabilitation equipment: rehabilitation beds and wheelchairs, standers, medical equipment, mattresses, lifts, stairclimbers and all other equipment. They also help the parents of the children in their care by, among other things, covering the costs of psychological assistance, support in legal matters or renovation of houses and apartments. Siblings of sick children are also not omitted by the Foundation – they help to cover the costs of school starter kits and organize trips and holidays.
On October 12 (Wednesday) from 6.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m., in the O4 space, there will be a free workshop entitled “On-screen encoding”. If you are thinking about starting to learn programming and work in IT, this is the meeting for you.
During the two-hour workshop, you will learn:
– Where do I start learning to code?
– What is the situation in the IT industry?
– Why become a programmer?
– Why employers need people like you!
– You will take part in a free JavaScript workshop and see how easy it is!
The organizer of the event is the Programming Academy – Coderspro. Their main goal is to change their working lives for the better and help those who are at the beginning of their professional journey.
Sign up on the Coderspro website.
Welcome!
The training offered by BPO Education Center and the Job Office was terminated on Friday, 30 September 2016. Due to the collaboration of those two agencies based at Olivia Business Centre, 14 people were employed as junior accountants. The all had changed their previous professions. Another edition of the training will commence at the beginning of November 2016.
The free-of-charge Corporate Accounting training, financed by the Gdańsk Labour Office, started in mid-June 2016. Run by BPO Education Center at the Sopot University of Applied Science, the course was divided into a didactic part and a practical part in the form of placements at the shared service centres of Bayer Service Center Gdańsk and thyssenkrupp Group Services Gdańsk, located at Olivia Business Centre.
The fifteen people selected during the enrolment at the Gdańsk Labour Office had 240 hours of theoretical classes and learned accounting as well as the structure and procedures of BPO/SSC companies (shared services), financing and accounting systems (SAP ERP) and advanced use of spreadsheets. Further, the training attendees participated in as many as 60 hours of a German course. A good command of the language, in particular accounting-related vocabulary, was a prerequisite for the successful completion of the training. There was an exam at the end of each course included in the training.
After two months of study, the course participants began 320-hour placements with Residents of Olivia Business Centre: Bayer SCG and thyssenkrupp GSG. All the attendees received course completion certificates on September 30th and on October 3rd they started working with the above-mentioned companies, which had been involved in the training process from its beginning.
BPO Education Center is an entity of the Sopot University of Applied Science, which has been helping the inhabitants of the region gain competence and skills required at financial service centres for over 3 years. With measurable effects, as so far 90% of the graduates of the Corporate Accounting course found jobs immediately after its completion, said Sylwia Broda, the Sopot University of Applied Science. The subsequent, ninth flight of the project differs from the other ones in that several entities residing at Olivia Business Centre have cooperated so successfully for the first time, thus presenting a new image of “good neighbourly practices”. For the most ambitious participants, the training will be the starting point for their career development. We have already heard from some graduates that they would like to continue studying at our university, at prestigious postgraduate courses in ACCA Finance and Accounting (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants).
Every employer based in Gdańsk or the Gdańsk County may report its demand for employees for specific jobs to the Gdańsk Labour Office. If searches for people with the specified job profile are futile, the Labour Office may organise training provided there is an employment guarantee under trilateral agreements. Such projects are aimed at job seekers changing their professions studied, said Anna Hryniewicz, the Job Office. The finished training was prepared for the purposes of Bayer and thyssenkrupp, which had looked for employees for the jobs of junior accountants. With the branch of the Gdańsk Labour Office at Olivia Business Centre, i.e. the Job Office, companies may report their requirements in a simple manner.
We are very happy that thanks to the decisions made several years age we are able to establish better and better conditions at Olivia Business Centre for our Residents to carry out recruitment, said Agnieszka Zglinicka, the Project Manager at Olivia Business Centre. The presence in one place of large, international enterprises, HR companies and the Job Office and Talent Development Centre – which are branches of the Gdańsk Labour Office opened this year – brings about the desired effect. We believe activities aimed at extending the talent pool and creating new jobs will be appreciated not only by global companies, but also by the enterprises and inhabitants of the region.
Another edition of the training will commence at the beginning of November 2016. For more information on the training, visit the website of the Sopot University of Applied Science: http://www.ssw-sopot.pl/bpo/
From the very beginning, Olivia Business Centre in Gdańsk Oliwa held multi-functionality as its key objective, including recruitment support for its Residents. At present, there is a total of 10 (commercial and local-government) entities at the centre, whose core operations are Human Resources.
The team of Olivia Business Centre also provides for the work-life balance of all those who work at the centre: business, education, cultural and sport events are held on a regular basis. A modern, two-storey, 24/7 fitness club, CityFit, was opened in April 2016. All the visitors of the centre may already use e.g. 3 conference centres, a healthcare centre with a pharmacy, 3 restaurants, 2 cafés, a kindergarten and nursery, 4 banks, a modern junior high school, beauty salon, notary public and electric vehicle charging point. There are nearly 2000 parking spaces, over 200 bicycle racks and 5 changing rooms with showers beside Olivia Business Centre.
Over 100 entities operate at Olivia Business Centre. They include global corporations, SMEs, start-ups as well as self-government and non-governmental organisations. Residents of Olivia Business Centre include Allianz, Alior Bank, Amazon, Bayer, Energa, Epam, Generali, Hays, Medicover, Noble Bank, PKO Bank Polish, PwC, Sii, T-Mobile, thyssenkrupp, as well as Pomerania Development Agency, Pomeranian Regional Chamber of Commerce, Pomeranian Employers’ Association Lewiatan and BPO Education Center.
The Centre has been extended systematically since 2010, one building a year. The foundation stone for a skyscraper, Olivia Star, was laid ceremoniously in June 2016. It will be the highest building in northern Poland and one of the ten highest buildings in the country.
The Olivia Six building, located in the Olivia Business Centre, has been visited by a new organization supporting entrepreneurs, the Regional Chamber of Commerce of Pomerania (RIGP). From now on, the new Resident will work for the development of the Pomeranian economy in a modern office in one of the most ecological buildings in this part of Europe. Welcome aboard!
The Regional Chamber of Commerce of Pomerania (RIGP) is an organization of economic self-government, currently associating over 250 companies of various sizes operating in the Pomeranian, West Pomeranian, Warmian-Masurian, Kuyavian-Pomeranian and Greater Poland Voivodeships. Its main tasks include representing the economic interests of its members, establishing cooperation and exchanging experience with domestic and foreign business support organizations, shaping and disseminating ethical principles in business activity or giving opinions on the functioning of the economy to relevant bodies and organizations.
– Our presence in Olivia Business Centre is closely related to the profile of our business. We cooperate directly with enterprises, and thanks to our presence in Olivia CONNECT, we have even better contact with them than before. Often it is no longer a matter of a phone call or an e-mail, but a meeting in the complex. We live here in such a symbiosis – having direct access to the life of Pomeranian companies, we can respond to their problems even better. On the other hand, it is easier to reach us and get help – says Magdalena Raczyńska, Head of the RIGP Office.
The RIGP office is located at 13. on the first floor of the Olivia Six building, in the Olivia CONNECT space designed specifically for business support institutions and non-governmental organizations. The aim of shaping this space was to create a place where, through the immediate vicinity, diverse communities integrate and develop important social and economic projects.
“We believe that the presence of the Pomeranian Regional Chamber of Commerce in our centre inspires action and effective cooperation with other Residents. Currently, RIGP is developing, together with its neighbour, the Pomerania Development Agency, an important project “Pomeranian Export Broker”. RIGP undoubtedly supports the development of the regional economy and will certainly bring further additional benefits to all our Residents. In this situation, it does not matter whether you represent a global company or a fledgling startup. At Olivia Business Centre, we create a space for development for companies at various stages of their operations – says Agnieszka Zglinicka, Project Director at Olivia Business Centre.
Contact:
Regional Chamber of Commerce of Pomerania
Office Manager – Magdalena Raczyńska
Olivia Business Centre, Olivia Six building
Al. Grunwaldzka 472D, 80-309 Gdansk
Tel. +48 58 305 23 25
E-mail: biuro@rigp.pl
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About Olivia Business Centre
Over 110 companies work in Olivia Business Centre, including m.in. Allianz, Amazon, Bayer, Energa, Epam, Generali, Hays, PwC, Sii, T-Mobile and thyssenkrupp, as well as the Pomerania Development Agency. Olivia Business Centre is home to global corporations, and has also prepared an offer for small and medium-sized enterprises, non-governmental organizations, business environment and startups. The centre has been expanding steadily since 2010 at the rate of one building per year. In June 2016, the cornerstone for the Olivia Star skyscraper was ceremoniously laid.
Everything in place
From the very beginning, one of the main assumptions of Olivia Business Centre in Gdańsk Oliwa was multifunctionality. The institutions present here offer training, support in obtaining funds needed for the development of the company, legal consultations, HR support, and much more.
The centre’s team takes care of the work-life balance of all those who work here: the 3 conference centres available on site regularly organise business, educational, cultural and sporting events.
The Olivia Six building located in the Olivia Business Centre, is now home of an organisation supporting entrepreneurs – Regional Pomeranian Chamber of Commerce (RIGP). The new Resident will support the development of economy in Pomerania, being located in a modern office in one of the most ecological buildings in this part of Europe. Welcome on board!
The Regional Pomeranian Chamber of Commerce (RIGP) is a local government economic organisation grouping now over 250 companies of various sizes, operating in the Provinces of Pomerania, West Pomerania, Warmia-Masuria, Kujawy-Pomerania and Wielkopolska. Its core tasks include representation of economic interests of its members, establishing cooperation and exchange of experiences with domestic and foreign business support organisations, development and dissemination of ethical business principles or providing opinions on the functioning of the economy to competent bodies and organisations.
“Our presence in the Olivia Business Centre is closely related to our business profile. We cooperate directly with enterprises and due to our presence at Olivia CONNECT, we have better contact with them than ever before. Often this is not just a telephone call or an e-mail message, but meetings at the complex. We live in a symbiosis here – we have direct access to the daily business of companies from Pomerania and thus we are better positioned to respond to their problems. And also we are easier to reach and resort to our assistance”, says Magdalena Raczyńska, RIGP Office Manager.
RIGP Office is located on the 13th floor of the Olivia Six building, in the Olivia CONNECT space, designed specifically for institutions supporting business and for NGOs. The objective of the space was to develop a place in which important social and economic projects integrate and develop as a result of close location of various environments.
“We believe that the presence of RIGP at our Centre inspires for acting and effective cooperation with other Residents. Now RIGP is developing an important project “Pomeranian Export Broker” with its neighbour – Pomerania Development Agency. RIGP effectively supports the development of regional economy and is certain to generate additional benefits to all our Residents. In the situation, it is of no importance if it represents a global company or just a brand new start-up. At the Olivia Business Centre we create space for development at various stages of their activity”, says Agnieszka Zglinicka, Project Manager at the Olivia Business Centre.
Contact:
Regional Pomeranian Chamber of Commerce
Office Manager – Magdalena Raczyńska
Olivia Business Centre, Olivia Six building
Al. Grunwaldzka 472D, 80-309 Gdansk
Tel. +48 58 305 23 25
E-mail: biuro@rigp.pl
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About Olivia Business Centre
There are over 100 companies at the Olivia Business Centre, including for instance: Allianz, Amazon, Bayer, Energa, Epam, Generali, Hays, PwC, Sii, T-Mobile or thyssenkrupp as well as the Pomerania Development Agency. Global corporations have their offices at the Olivia Business Centre; the Centre has also developed an offer for SMEs, NGOs and business environment organisations and start-ups. The Centre has been growing regularly since 2010, adding one building annually. In June 2016 a cornerstone was ceremoniously laid down for the Olivia Star skyscraper.
Everything in one place
One of the core assumptions underlying the idea of the Olivia Business Centre in Gdańsk Oliwa has always been its multi-functional character. The institutions present here offer trainings, support in acquiring funding for development, legal consultation, HR support and much more.
The team of the Centre cares to maintain balance between work and personal life of all the people who work here: in 3 conference centres available here business, educational, cultural and sports events are held regularly.
On 13 and 14 October, in the O4 space (Olivia Four), the 2nd Nutrition Conference entitled “Nutrition Conference” will be held. “The Challenge of Healthy Upbringing”. The event is dedicated mainly to parents, and the subject matter focuses entirely on children. The main topic will be the proper development of the child in terms of 3 pillars: nutrition, mental health and physical activity.
During the 2 days of the conference:
Practical advice will also be provided:
A detailed program of the event, the agenda and all information can be found on the We Think Healthy website.
The conference is organized by the We Think Healthy group, which brings together a community of experts in the field of dietetics, parents and people who want to have a real impact on the nutrition of children in schools and kindergartens. The event is co-created by the Macherki Association, which organizes various workshops, meetings and conferences supporting social activities and the O4 space.
We cordially invite you!
We cordially invite all male Residents to celebrate Boy’s Day! At 3 p.m., on the 1st floor of the O4 coworking space, there will be a one-of-a-kind table football tournament and FIFA on PS4. Interesting prizes await the winners. We encourage you to have fun with us!
Registration: on the O4 website
Good luck!
We would like to invite you to the next chamber concert – Olivia Camerata – at the Olivia Sky Club (Olivia Tower building, 12th floor, al. Grunwaldzka 472A, Gdańsk), which will take place this Saturday (i.e. 8 October) at 5.00 p.m.
The program of the concert will include the following works:
Excellent artists will perform: Anna Liszewska & Anna Mikolon – piano duo, and as part of the promotion of young talents, we will hear: Sara Mocarska – violin – student of the Secondary School of Music in the second degree. in Gdańsk – Wrzeszcz and Benjamin Brzozowski – tuba – student of the Primary School of Secondary Education. in Gdynia.
PIANO DUO – ANNA LISZEWSKA and ANNA MIKOLON
The artists’ acquaintance dates back to the time when they studied together at the State High School of Music in Łódź. Anna Liszewska is a graduate of the Academy of Music in Warsaw in the piano class of prof. Lidia Kozubek and postgraduate chamber music studies in the class of prof. Barbara Halska. She obtained her PhD in Łódź (supervisor – Prof. Cezary Sanecki). Anna Mikolon studied at the Academy of Music in Gdańsk under the supervision of Prof. Bogdan Czapiewski and Prof. Andrzej Artykiewicz and at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw (artistic internship in piano chamber music with Prof. Katarzyna Jankowska-Borzykowska) and has recently been awarded the title of habilitated doctor. Both pianists have separate artistic achievements, and they treat making music together as a continuation of their friendship, a confrontation of musical experiences, an opportunity to learn about chamber literature and its public presentation. Their interests include transcriptions of songs and arrangements of operas for four hands in the form of fantasies or potpourri (Carmen, Faust, Samson and Delilah, Werther, Il trovatore). The repertoire also includes works by F. Chopin, S. Rachmaninoff, P. Tchaikovsky, I.J. Paderewski, M. Moszkowski, F. Schubert, F. Liszt, J. Brahms, C. Saint-Saëns, C. Debussy, A. Dvořák, C. Chaminade, E. Kania, Z. Noskowski and others. In 2014 they took part in the International Piano Duo Festival in Gdańsk. They performed as a duo m.in. at the Baltic Philharmonic, the Academy of Music in Łódź, the Sierakowski Manor House in Sopot, and the Ecumenical Centre in Oliwa. In addition to their artistic activities, the pianists are also involved in pedagogical work – Anna Liszewska is an assistant professor at the Department of Chamber Music at the Academy of Music in Łódź at the Faculty of Piano, Organ, Harpsichord and Early Instruments (she is the Deputy Dean), and Anna Mikolon – at the Faculty of Vocal and Acting of the Academy of Music in Gdańsk.
Sara Mocarska graduated from the State Music School. in Gdańsk-Orunia in the class of Krystyna Przybylińska-Zgaj, MA. During her studies, she was a laureate of many competitions (distinction at the 1st National Violin Competition in Grudziądz, 3rd and 2nd place at the Slavic Music Festivals in Tczew, 1st place at the 10th Sopot Violin Competition, 2nd place at the 11th Gdynia Violin Competition, 1st place at the 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th Oruń Violin Competition, 2nd place at the 1st National Violin Competition in Elbląg). Currently, she is a student of the Secondary Music School. in Gdańsk-Wrzeszcz in the class of the outstanding violinist and pedagogue Anna Śliwa. Despite her young age, she has already given concerts in Germany and Finland. Sara’s recent achievements include: fourth place at the National String Instrument Competition in Elbląg and third place at the First Violin Confrontations in Gdynia.
Beniamin Brzozowski was born in 2005 and as a child of musicians, from the beginning of his life he grew up surrounded by the sounds and sound of instruments. As a four-year-old, already showing musical talents, he announced without much hesitation that he intended to play the tuba in the near future. After reaching the age allowing him to learn, he began to learn to play the tuba, in the trombone and tuba class of the excellent musician and teacher Marek Sikora, M.A., at the Primary and Secondary Music School. Zygmunt Noskowski in Gdynia. At the moment, Beniamin is learning to play the tuba for the second year and is a laureate of the Young Sheet Music Competition “Szansa na sukces” in Gdynia, where students of Pomeranian music schools present their skills. In March 2016 he took part in the Regional Workshops for teachers and students of trombone and tuba classes in Kwidzyn, which were led by ace. Krzysztof Mucha from the Academy of Music in Poznań. He actively participates in school and community concerts as a soloist and chamber musician.
Admission to the event is free. On-site registration is required.
Artistic director of the concert series: Anna Mikolon, Anna Sawicka
We cordially invite you!
On October 15, 2016, the largest conference will be held in Gdansk again. NETowa in Northern Poland – GET.NET. The program will include 11 speeches by well-known and respected experts from around the world. The keynote speaker of the event will be a special guest from the United States – Mathias Brandewinder. We invite you to Amber Expo – it will be the 6th edition!
GET.NET is a cyclical programming conference that is organized twice a year in Łódź and Gdańsk on the initiative of Sii. So far, more than 1500 participants have had the opportunity to take part in the events of the GET.NET series. This group is growing steadily from year to year, and the conference itself is becoming more and more popular in the IT environment in Poland and Central Europe. InThere are well-known and respected .NET experts such as Udi Dahan, Oren Eini, Iris Classon, and Maurice de Beijer. The audience consists of experienced programmers, testers, project managers, as well as IT students and all enthusiasts of new technologies.
In the upcoming edition, the star of the GET.NET will undoubtedly be Mathias Brandewinder from the USA – author of many books, F# authority. In addition, the participants will take part in English-language speeches by Glenn Henriksen from Norway and Sebastien Lambl from the United Kingdom. In addition, speakers from Polish will provide participants with a solid dose of technical knowledge. On stage, presentations will be given by such Polish stars as: Tomasz Kopacz, Michał Smereczyński, Grzegorz Rycaj, Sławomir Sobótka, Tomasz Onyszko, Szymon Kulec, Szymon Komorowski, and Piotr Kątny.
You can sign up for the conferences and register on the website. The number of places is limited.
Detailed program of the conference.
We cordially invite you!
