Musical weekend is behind us! A concert of Polish and Ukrainian Christmas Carols by Trio “Motivo” was held last Friday. On Saturday, within the Olivia Camerata cycle, we could listen to the most beautiful Christmas Carols performed by the K. Szymanowski Singing Society Choir conducted by Józefa Siudaczyńska-Babicz. Thank you for your attendance and we invite you to future concerts at the Olivia Sky Club.
See the photo report:
Concert of Polish and Ukrainian Christmas Carols
We invite you to participate in the “Work out the Future” project, organised by the City of Gdańsk. Our Resident – Talent Development Centre is the partner in the project. The objective is to support the participants (students, university graduates, adult secondary technical school students) in gaining professional experience that may help them find a first job and stay in the local labour market, as well as to support companies looking for trainees or future employees.
The project is aimed at students and university graduates, as well as adult secondary technical school students and graduates of such schools. Internships are to be sponsored by companies, NGOs and other institutions who will undertake to accept trainees and pay them remuneration at the minimum level specified in the project regulations.
The project may be joined at any time throughout its duration. The sponsors may offer internships latest by 14 July 2017, while candidates may file their applications latest by 28 July 2017. The duration of the internship and form of employment will be individually agreed between the sponsor and trainee. The internship should last minimum 1 month.
The full text of the applicable regulations and participation enrolment form can be found on the project site.
The “Work out the Future” project has gained much interest among participants as well as companies and entrepreneurs. In the first edition, 108 internships were offered with 424 willing participants.
We cordially invite you to a lecture with elements of the workshop, inaugurating the Marriage Development Academy entitled: “Dare to be close”, which will take place on February 8 (Wednesday), at 6.00 p.m., in the O4 coworking space (Olivia Four building). Marriage Week is a social campaign promoting this special, complementary bond between a woman and a man, present in 22 countries, on 4 continents and taking place annually on the same date from 7 to 14 February. This year, its third edition will take place in Poland. The lecture will be conducted by psychologist and psychotherapist Agnieszka Kamińska.
All fairy tales about love, in which the characters in love overcome a lot of obstacles to be together, end with the longed-for wedding and the punchline: “they lived happily ever after”. In life, it is often the opposite – obstacles and hardships begin only after marriage. Our imaginations, dreams and fantasies about of a wonderful relationship are confronted with reality. The question arises: are the happy couple just pictures from fairy tales, movies and advertisements?
During the lecture “Dare to be close” we will try to understand where the desire for a happy relationship comes from and why it is so difficult for us to achieve it. Why, despite the fact that we both want it, is it so often difficult for us to achieve it? We will try to experience and understand what psychological mechanisms (both conscious and less conscious) we activate, which distance us from emotional closeness and often condemn us to loneliness in a relationship.
The lecture will also help those who have already dared to be close, but are still working on the quality of their relationship. It will help you understand what is hindering and what helps you achieve your goal of “living happily ever after”. It will show you what to avoid and what to do to build a close, intimate bond and be successful in your marriage.
Agnieszka Kamińska – psychotherapist, psychologist. She completed one of the first editions of Core Training in Poland – an advanced, comprehensive training in the field of ISTDP (Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy), obtaining an international ISTDP psychotherapist certificate, entitling her to independently conduct psychotherapy in this trend. Originator and co-founder of the Polish Institute of Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy – SENTIO. Ambassador of this innovative method of personal development and psychotherapy in Poland. For 16 years, she has been inspiring and helping people with personal development and emotional balance in life. She actively participates in an international project – a cyclical, annual social campaign “Marriage Week International” implemented in 22 countries on 4 continents, since 2015 she has been co-responsible for its Polish edition of “Marriage Week”, which takes place annually from 7 to 14 February. She is socially involved in the Association of Christian Psychologists, where she is the president of the Gdańsk branch. Her life motto: Be bold and act.
The program of the entire Marriage Week is available on the website.
Goyello, a Polish & Dutch IT company, plans its further dynamic development in the Olivia Business Centre. The company prolonged its agreement on the lease of office space in the OBC, decided to take up some additional area and move to the Olivia Star. The Goyello team has been a resident of Olivia since 2011, i.e. from the beginning of the centre’s existence.
Goyello: young and talented
Goyello specializes in the provision of IT solutions developed in line with the principles of the Agile methodology[1]. Customers of Goyello are enterprises from the B2B[2] sector. Distinctive features of the company include flexibility, openness and partnership relations within the team and with customers including companies from Europe and the United States.
Goyello celebrated its 10th birthday in November 2016. Throughout these years, the company has won numerous awards. Among others, it was awarded the prestigious Dutch-Polish Business Award, a distinction for the most innovative and responsible companies with a positive impact on the Polish-Dutch economic relations. Goyello also won the IT Leaders 2016 contest in the “Business Intelligence Trends” category.
Direction: development. In the Olivia Star
The company’s office is currently located in the Olivia Gate building. Goyello signed its first contract for 500 sq.m in 2011. The company doubled its team in five years. The new Polish office of Goyello on the 9th floor of the Olivia Star building occupies 1300 sq.m. and more than 100 people will work there. According to Goyello’s motto: THINK, CREATE, CARE, the new office will have a place to focus, place for creative work, creativity, substantive and social meetings as well as for relaxation.
“We are proud that Olivia became a place where companies such as Goyello develop so dynamically. Olivia is a place that facilitates the daily operations of companies, establishment of contacts and relations. A half of the Goyello business activity period falls to the time spend in the OBC. It is inspiring to see how the firm that has been with us from the very beginning is developing and attaining its goals, gaining recognition on global markets”, stresses Maciej Kotarski, the Lease Director in the Olivia Business Centre. “Goyello will move to the Star, the most modern high-rise in Poland. The building has a lot to offer to tenants. I am sure that, thanks to unique technological solutions and the unique surroundings, Goyello acquired a place in the Star that guarantees the comfort of work, promotes creativity and co-exists with the philosophy of the company and its values”, adds Kotarski.
Actively in the Olivia Business Centre community
As a resident of the Centre almost since the beginning of its development, Goyello has been taking an active part in the life of the community of the Olivia Business Centre. The team welcomes Olivia residents coming to work with tulips, the most Dutch ones of all flowers each year on the King’s Day.
It also successfully participates in the Olivia Sports program.
“We believe that people and good relations between them are most important to make good business. We are intent on the best quality of relations; this is why we care for our employees, our customers and partners. An appropriate environment such as in the OBC is also very helpful here”, says Katarzyna Szemro, the Marketing Director at Goyello.
Agile methodology – Agile is a set of values and principles promoting an effective and adjustable creation of projects, among other things, software.
[2] B2B – business-to-business
Next Tuesday (31.01), at 1.00 p.m., in Olivia Sky Club (Olivia Tower building, 12th floor) there will be another meeting of the Dessert with HR series. The organizers of the event are Olivia Business Centre and Sii Gdańsk, and the partner is Radisson Blu. The meeting is dedicated to HR specialists and managers.
The goal of Dessert with HR is to exchange knowledge about HR tools and processes and, in fact, to get to know this environment from the proverbial inside out. These events were created for specialists from the HR, EB and marketing industries – says Alicja Sawicka, the originator of the initiative. The series of meetings is also a platform for networking and, above all, conversation. Thanks to the substantive program and inspiring guests, Dessert with HR attracts nearly 100 specialists from the largest companies in Pomerania and companies from the BPO/SSC area.
PROGRAM Dessert with HR #3
1:00 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. – welcome coffee with Radisson Blu
13:15 – 14:15 – Why do we need crises? Changing jobs, divorces, restructuring in an organization, losing a loved one, laying off employees… in a word, it’s a crisis. Perverse questions – why do we need crises? The aim of the meeting is to encourage the audience of Deser z HR to look for personal potential, to cope with difficult life and professional situations. This question and many others will be answered by Małgorzata Mickiewicz – business psychologist, owner of the training company Studio HR. She conducts managerial trainings and coaching. She organizes a series of meetings for the HR industry – HR Eagles. It accompanies people and organizations in their development, also in crisis situations.
2:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. – discussion – Crisis management, or how to extinguish a fire.
3:15 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. – networking
Sign up and register on the site. The number of places is limited. Each of the invited companies can designate two people to participate in the meeting.
We cordially invite you!
We are pleased to announce that our Resident, Rödl & Partner, is organising another event in the “Let’s meet at Rödl & Partner” series and invites you to a meeting devoted to significant changes in law and taxes in 2017. The training will take place on 7 February, from 9.00 a.m. to 2.00 p.m. in Olivia Sky Club (Olivia Tower building, 12th floor).
PROGRAM:
09:00 – 09:15 Registration, welcome coffee
09:15 – 10:15 Discussion of selected changes in the law in 2017 (entry into force of the amendment package – “100 changes for companies”)
10:15 a.m. – 11:15 a.m . Selected changes in income taxes
11:15 a.m. – 11:30 a.m . Coffee break
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m . Selected amendments to the VAT Act
1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m . Cold buffet and talks
Teacher
Monika Spotowska – Attorney-at-law, tax advisor, graduate of the Faculty of Law at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) and the Faculty of Law and Administration at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. A graduate of postgraduate studies in “International Tax Strategies” at the Warsaw School of Economics. He specialises in issues related to double taxation treaties, income taxes and social insurance, with particular emphasis on the issue of cross-border employment of employees and optimisation of tax burdens. She is also interested in issues related to investments in Special Economic Zones. Co-author of books entitled “Work of foreigners in Poland”, “Functioning of enterprises in a special economic zone” and “Clause against tax avoidance”. Author of many publications on legal and tax issues.
Iwona Łaska-Rutkowska – A graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw and postgraduate studies in “Taxes and Tax Law” at the University of Warsaw. Erasmus scholarship holder at the Technical University of Dresden. A specialist in the field of value added tax (VAT), corporate income tax, as well as an expert in the field of Special Economic Zones. He regularly participates m. in numerous Due Diligence and tax reviews. She is the author of many publications on tax law.
Piotr Mrowiec – A graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Adam Mickiewicz in Poznań and the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), where he obtained the title of Master of German & Polish Law. He specialises in providing comprehensive legal advice to companies with foreign capital, cross-border redress, as well as securing the interests of Polish entities investing abroad, in particular in Germany. Piotr Mrowiec also advises entities from the renewable energy sources industry. Since 2012, he has been entered on the list of mediators at the Regional Court in Poznań. Piotr Mrowiec is the author of many publications, as well as a frequent speaker in Poland and abroad.
Applications should be sent to Marta Sikorska-Kierst at the following e-mail address: marta.sikorska-kierst@roedl.pro
The deadline for submissions is 1 February 2017. The cost of participation is: PLN 200 + 23% VAT per person. For clients of Rödl & Partner, members of AHK, SPCC, “Employers of Pomerania” and the Kashubian Employers’ Association, as well as residents of OBC, the cost of participation is PLN 100 + 23% VAT.
The organizers provide coffee breaks and a cold buffet for the participants. The number of places is limited, and the condition for participation is to receive an e-mail confirmation of registration.
We cordially invite you!
The musical weekend is behind us! On Friday, there was a concert of Polish and Ukrainian Christmas carols performed by the “Motivo” trio. And on Saturday, as part of the Olivia Camerata series, we could hear the most beautiful Christmas carols performed by the Choir of the Singing Society. K. Szymanowski under the direction of Józefa Siudaczyńska-Babicz. Thank you very much for coming and we invite you to the next concerts at Olivia Sky Club.
See the whole photo report:
Concert of Polish and Ukrainian Christmas carols
We invite you to take part in the “Work Out the Future” project, organized by the City of Gdańsk. The partner of the project is our Resident – Talent Development Centre. The aim is to enable participants (students, university graduates, adult technical school students) to gain professional experience, making it easier for them to find their first job and stay on the local labour market, as well as to support companies looking for interns and often also new employees.
The project is addressed to students and graduates of higher education as well as adult students of the last years of technical schools and their graduates. Internships can be funded by companies, NGOs and other institutions that undertake to host interns and pay them remuneration in the minimum amount specified in the project regulations.
You can apply for the project at any time during its duration. Founders of the internship will be able to submit an internship offer no later than 14 July 2017, and candidates for the internship will be able to submit their applications no later than 28 July 2017. The duration of the internship and the form of employment will be determined individually by the founder in consultation with the intern. The internship should last at least 1 month.
The full rules and declaration of participation can be found on the project website.
The “Work Out the Future” project met with great interest from the participants, as well as companies and entrepreneurs. In the first edition of the project, 108 internship places were offered, for which 424 applications were recorded.
We cordially invite you to the #TweetupAcademy meeting, which will take place on January 28, at 12:00 in the O4 Coworking Space. In the 3city Tweetup formula, they have been meeting for several years. The topics of conversation always touch on technological innovations, share knowledge and examples of interesting functioning in social media.
3city Tweetup is a gathering of Twitter users. It is informal, organized in order to get to know people in person who have so far only known each other from the Internet. People with different interests, ages, views, related to different industries. Often, the only thing that unites participants is the tool they use to communicate with others and their love of the Internet. Tweetups are frequented by Twitter celebrities with thousands of followers, as well as new users for whom Twitter is something completely new.
In a group of artists (Katarzyna Michałowska, Damian Jarosz, Sebastian Drausal) we came up with the idea of the first meeting and took advantage of the hospitality of the Pomeranian Science and Technology Park in Gdynia. The first meeting of the Tweetup Academy took place on February 27, 2015. We have discovered that our group has a high potential for knowledge about new media, marketing strategies, and news appearing in social media. We wanted to start sharing this knowledge systematically – says Katarzyna Michałowska. – We want to share our knowledge in an accessible, workshop form to teach people how to become specialists in using social media. We want to share our knowledge wisely, as well as advise those who want to try to find their way in this field.
A new initiative – Tweetup Academy – is growing out of the formula of the Tri-City tweetup. 3city Tweetup is centered around Twitter and consists of visiting different places together, feasting, chatting or having an adventure together, in order to get to know each other better and become friends. Tweetup Academy, on the other hand, is a space for everyone to share their knowledge in an open formula.
