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We would like to invite you to a meet-the-author session within the Olivia Cooltura project. The meeting will be held on the 20 February (Monday) at 6:00 p.m. at Olivia Sky Club (Olivia Tower building, 12^th floor). This time we will be hosting Maciej Kosycarz – a photojournalist and an author of the series of albums entitled Fig. Reaper: How to Take Amazing Photos.

The program includes, among other things, a conversation with our guest and presentation of unpublished photos from Oliwa, which describe the history of people who live here, the history of places, which change dynamically before our very eyes and also the colourful history of Gdańsk and Pomerania from the archives of Zbigniew and Maciej Kosycarz. The session will be led by Monika Bogdanowicz (Olivia Business Centre).

Olivia Cooltura is an interdisciplinary project of Olivia Business Centre, dedicated to the promotion and popularisation of broadly understood culture in its every aspect. Olivia Business Centre wants to cooperate with people who are interested in artistic and cultural events – the residents of OBC and the inhabitants of Oliwa and the whole metropolis. We want to integrate our society, build and develop good relations. Every year, there are more than 300 events organised at OBC. Some of them are open for all residents of Tri-City.

Zbigniew Kosycarz (1925-1995) was one of the most popular figure in Gdańsk Coast. He came to Gdańsk in 1945. Initially, he was living in Sopot. He worked for Gdynia newspapers and from the very first days he was creating a photographic chronicle of the region. He was called a “flying reporter”. No event could take place without his presence. He was documenting also everyday life and did not part with his camera even for a moment. Although he was cooperating with “Głos Wybrzeże”, a daily newspaper from Gdańsk, throughout his professional life, he was also publishing for many other publishing companies. Press photography became for him not only a job, but also a hobby which filled all his life. Out of many awards and distinctions the title of “A citizen of Gdańsk of the year 1972”, which he won thanks to the votes of the readers of “Wieczor Wybrzeże”, was the most valuable for him. Since 1997 “Gdańsk Press Photo” – a Pomeranian press photography contest named after him – has been organised.

Maciej Kosycarz (born in 1964), a graduate of the University of Gdańsk. The author of several thousand photos published in press. He has been a professional photographer since 1990. Initially, he was working for “Nasz Tygodniki” and “Tygodnik Wieczor” (published mainly in Kashubia) and later on for “Głos Wybrzeże”. In May 1996, he established Kosycarz Foto Press KFP photo agency and continued his father’s work. More than 100 Polish and foreign titles and press agencies are KFP’s clients. He has presented his photos on several exhibitions and he has also published twenty photo albums. In 2001, he organised an exhibition “Ordinary City – Gdańsk in the Lens of Father and Son”, which could be seen in Budapest, Mostar (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Belgrade, Gdańsk, Kalmar (Sweden), Holbaek (Denmark) and Kaliningrad (Russia). Since 1997, he has been a co-organiser of “Zbigniew Kosycarz Gdańsk Press Photo” – a Pomeranian press photography contest. In the archives of his agency there are more than 640 thousand photos available on www.kfp.pl website, which are updated every day. It is currently the biggest local photo service in Poland. Just like his father, out of all awards won throughout his entire life, he values the title of “A citizen of Gdańsk of the year 2009” the most. In 2010, he received the Pomeranian Artistic Prize from the Marshal of Pomeranian Voivodeship. In 2014, he received Sint Sua Praemia Laudi Prize in the category of culture. In 2009, the City Council of Gdańsk awarded the chroniclers of the city – Zbigniew and Maciej Kosycarz – the Medal of Mestwin II for lifetime achievements in photography.

The entry is free. Please register via e-mail: events@oliviacentre.com The meeting will be held in Polish.

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On Monday evening, on the 20^th of February, another meeting in the scope of Olivia Cooltura project took place. OBC was hosting a famous photojournalist from Gdańsk – Maciej Kosycarz. His extraordinarily vibrant personality, charisma and unusual aptitude for telling stories – captured on the photos of his father, Zbigniew Kosycarz, and his own photographs – made this meeting memorable for a large number of guests who gathered in Olivia Sky Club.

Maciej Kosycarz is a person who is known by the majority of people from Gdańsk. He can be boldly deemed as a “Man: cultural institution of Gdańsk”, but he prefers to introduce himself as a “Son of his own father”. It is because of huge respect for his father Zbigniew and his professional achievements, the salvaging of which became Maciej’s life mission. He is most of all a chronicler of changes occurring in our reality and tradition, who captures – with the help of his camera – constant and persistent things, as well as the ones that are evanescent. What is more, he organises exhibitions and Pomeranian press photography contest “Gdańsk Press Photo”. In the course of last dozen years, he has issued twelve albums from the series “Fot. The Scythe”. On an everyday basis he is a photojournalist and the owner of Kosycarz Press Foto agency. Since last year, he has also been the co-owner of Galeria Sztuki Różnych (Gdańsk, Ogarna 101 Street).

The first part of the meeting was almost an hour-long conversation with Monika Bogdanowicz from Olivia Business Centre (the author of the project Olivia Cooltura). Maciej Kosycarz talked about how, from his early age, he had manifested entrepreneurial spirit and had been creatively developing his own, sometimes astonishing, business projects. In a hilarious way he shared with us his memories from youth and told a few words about his life of a photojournalist full of unique experiences. There was also some time for reflection on the development of media, new technologies and tools of communication which change the way we perceive photography. Kosycarz talked, among other things, about the influence of the above-mentioned factors on our “photo-behaviour” and the way we capture pictures every day. Our guest appealed to the audience to capture, in any form, their relatives and the immediate environment: places of residence, way to work, walking routes etc. Basing on his own experience, he described some meetings from the past, for example with the future Miss World Aneta Kręglicka and a musician and satirist Krzysztof Skiba.

The elusiveness of moments can be captured forever thanks to taking pictures of the things that are important for us or which we would like to pass to our loved ones or future generations.

In the second part of the meeting, Maciej Kosycarz presented his amazing collection of photos from his father archives – Zbigniew Kosycarz – as well as his own photos, which became a part of the history of Polish and global reportage. The screen in Olivia Sky presented a range of social, political and cultural situations, along with important historic events, such as the visit of Pope John Paul II in Oliwa, the president of the USA George Bush or Lechia Gdańsk vs. Juventus Turin football match.

In the final part, we could see unique photos from pre- and post-war Oliwa. It has been a district of Gdańsk for 90 years and its intensive economic development reached its height, especially in the last decade. In fact, though – taking into account the rich history of this place – Oliwa has always been a people-friendly place, open to the world and ready for new challenges. After all, in 60’s, in this area of Gdańsk there were built the highest blocks of flats and the biggest sport stadium.

The meeting ended, it could not have been otherwise, with the conversation with participants. There was also some time for photos and special dedications in Maciej Kosycarz’s albums.

We would like to thank all participants for their presence. Special thanks to Danuta Poczman (President of the Association “Moja Oliwa”), Tomasz Strug (StaraOliwa.pl) and Ewa Kowalska (IBedeker.pl).

We would also like to thank the Regional and Municipal Public Library in Gdańsk and Gdańsk Community Foundation for sponsorship, as well and Lobster Restaurant for delicious food and drinks.

Soon we will invite you to the next meet-the-author sessions.

Monika Bogdanowicz

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We would like to invite you to a “We Lead!” meeting to be held on 7 March from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm at the Olivia Sky Club (Oliva Tower building, 12th floor). Entrance is free, pre-registration is required.

We Lead, because no organisation exists without a team and a leader. The meeting is dedicated to all those who wish to create and develop responsible and committed teams. The speakers will tell us what’s important on the path to develop efficient organisations of the future, based on trust, where human beings are the superior value. They will lead us through the meanders of a turquoise organisation theory, show us what isn’t successful within such organisations and why, to leave the participants with a positive message that leader development is the first step towards developing an organisation of the future.

Programme

6:00 pm – 6:30 pm Registration of participants

6:30 pm – 7:00 pm Monika Zubrzycka-Nowak, “How to act fast in a changing world – TheoryU (or practiceU) – an outline”

7:00 pm – 7:30 pm Jakub Marchwicki, “Everybody has a choice, even a manager”

7:30 pm – 8:00 pm Monika Rychcik-Leyk, “Leader with a heart”

8:00 pm – 9:00 pm Networking, coffee and cake 🙂

Speakers

MONIKA ZUBRZYCKA-NOWAK

For many years, I have been accompanying people in developing their self-awareness, developed relations, responsibility for the quality of created life. As a coach and trainer, I have been watching the evolution process of beliefs – both on individual and team levels. Turquoise organisations may develop solely in conditions where people who develop them are prepared for it. I am willing to share my knowledge and experience leading to this preparedness.

JAKUB MARCHWICKI
An IT programmer for over ten years, an architect for several years, occasionally an analyst, a consultant – if required, a manager by choice, a trainer out of passion, a wannabe entrepreneur – out of his dreams, a leader of Java User Group in Gdańsk – there is a major chance that I don’t do well any of the above. But I keep trying… and I draw conclusions from my failures.

MONIKA RYCHCIK-LEYK
A passionate leader, a coach and mentor focused on Team development and their achievements, as the best way to accomplish goals. I want to share my experience with others on how to develop smart and efficient Teams in which communication is above all. My dream is that participating organisations, based on trust, collective intuition and wisdom, where people are the supreme value, replace all soul-less, process-based and bureaucratic structures. I believe that this is possible!

Attendance is free but due to a limited number of participants, pre-registration is required.

The Olivia Business Centre together with the Lewiatan Confederation invite to a workshop titled “EU funds 2014-2020 for entrepreneurs – chances, opportunities, methods to acquire”, to be held on 7 March, from 9.00 to 17:00, in the Focus Gdańsk Hotel (85 Elbląska Street). The workshop will be moderated by Małgorzata Janczarek and Małgorzata Józwik.

We invite to the workshop entrepreneurs who:

• Hold knowledge on the support principles and funding sources in 2014- 2020 and are looking for detailed information on the subject
• Have an idea for projects and are interested in drafting an application

During the workshop, the participant will find out about:

• innovation and possibilities of cooperation between science and business in the context of EU Funds;
• possibilities of EU Funds with respect to selected objectives of enterprises;
• planning and performance of selected project types;
• current competitions – financial support of development in selected types of economic operations with the support of Funds

Program – Atlas for entrepreneurs Gdańsk

After the workshop, the entrepreneurs will have an opportunity to consult their ideas with coaches individually.

Enrolments will be accepted electronically via site. In order to enrol to the workshop you have to be registered and also create and account on the know-how exchange platform./ The workshop is free of charge. The number of participants is limited. The order to enrolment will be decisive if compliant with the requirements to participate in the workshop. Only one person from each company may participate in the workshop.

At Olivia Business Centre, under the aegis and at the invitation of the Pomeranian Regional Chamber of Commerce, Pomeranian entrepreneurs and investors met today.

The meeting was opened by Sławomir Halbryt, President of the Management Board of RIGP. The topic “How to raise capital for development?” was discussed by Małgorzata Zaleska, President of the Warsaw Stock Exchange, as One of the possibilities of financing the development strategy is by presenting the stock exchange. This is a form of redistribution and efficient allocation of capital. Investors with surplus capital can invest it in companies with significant growth potential.

The special guest of the event was Marek Rybiec, President of the Management Board of Skarbiec SA, who shared his m.in. his experience in financing the company’s development by means of a bank loan, equity cooperation with a private equity fund and the issue of securities.

The partner of the event was Olivia Business Centre.

 

We cordially invite you to the second meeting of the Exporter’s Club, which will take place on March 3 at Olivia Business Centre.

The topic of the speaker’s speech, Wojciech Wołoszyk , will be “Translation error as a significant risk in running a business on the domestic and international market”.

During the presentation, you will learn m.in. What is professional legal and financial translation, you will learn about examples of translation errors and their consequences, as well as examples of contractual clauses that partially eliminate the effects of lack of precision.

Agenda of the event:
9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. – Magdalena Raczyńska RIGP, Katarzyna Graczyk ARP
9:10 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. – Wojciech Wołoszyk
12:30 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. – Networking

DATE: 03.03.2017
TIME : 9:00-13:00
PLACE: Olivia Business Centre, Olivia Four building, O4 conference room

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The 7th edition of Transport Week – one of the biggest transport and logistics conference in Central Europe – will take place from 7th to 9th March in Gdańsk. This time, the event will be devoted to modern solutions in the scope of environment-friendly technologies in the maritime, port and logistics industries. Nearly 300 guests from nearly 100 companies and institutions localised in 21 countries announced their participation in the conference. They will listen to over 70 speakers who will take part in more than 50 speeches and 7 panel discussions.

The partner of 2017 Transport Week is the biggest business centre in northern Poland, Olivia Business Centre, which on the 8th March, under the motto “Hosting The World”, will host top European representatives of transport and logistics companies. On that day, at Olivia Sky Club, the Baltic Trendsetters Club Certificates award ceremony will take place. The awards are presented by the Baltic Transport Journal editorial board. Award winners are companies which drive the development of the Baltic Sea region and implement unique and bold projects which have a sustainable impact on logistics and transport industries.

At the Transport Week conference, the key representatives of the European transport sector, the biggest market players in the industry, investors and representatives of authorities, as well as experts met annually. Among the participants of the event there are the owners of shipping and container lines, ro/ro operators, port and terminal authorities, rail operators, as well as representatives of administrative offices in Poland and abroad along with the representatives of European transport and logistics organisations.

– In Gdańsk we have the biggest port investment in the Baltic Sea Region, that is why we are coming back to our marine transport roots. The vicinity of a motorway, modernised airport, developed railway and many institutes of higher education which educate qualified employees make Gdańsk a relevant business player in this part of Europe which drafts top companies and institutions in. They find their place at Olivia Business Centre – a centre which offers a comprehensive support in business development thanks to the presence of top HR, IT, financial and consulting companies – says Agnieszka Zglinicka, Project Manager at Olivia Business Centre.

– Transport and logistics industry in the Baltic Sea region is in an interesting and very complex situation. Intense competition between sectors and a wide range of environmental regulations concerning shipping on the Baltic Sea require TSL sector to make dynamic decisions, which enable to adapt to frequent and often rapid changes. Transport Week is a platform which enables experiences and information exchange, thanks to which we can meet these demands. This year, meetings are devoted to green solutions, modern technologies and innovative development strategies, innovative logistics, as well as legal regulations and the methods of financing current and new projects. We are proud that together with the partners of the event we can create the future of TSL industry – said Alan Arent, Event Director at Actia Forum which organise Transport Week.

The honorary patronage of the event was taken, among others, by the Minister of Infrastructure and Construction – Andrzej Adamczyk, the Minister of Maritime Economy and Inland Waterways – Marek Gróbarczyk, the Mayor of the City of Gdańsk – Paweł Adamowicz and key European institutions – among others The Baltic Ports Organization (BPO), European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO) and International Port Community Systems Association (IPCSA).

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What did Women’s Day look like in Olivia? Every lady we met received a rose from our exceptional Gentlemen from OBC. Our Residents have also prepared a number of surprises dedicated to the ladies on this special day.

We invite you to watch the video summarizing the Women’s Day in Olivia Business Centre:)

 

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On this special day, we wish all ladies nothing but splendor.

This video is for you, Dear Ladies:) We present to you wishes from our, wonderful and exceptional, gentlemen from Olivia Business Centre.

Come and join the MBA classes. We invite you to the open days on April 8, from 9.00 a.m. to 10.30 a.m. at the Mercure Gdańsk Posejdon Hotel (30 Chapel Street). Participants will have a unique opportunity to participate in an open session of the MBA program and play the role of a student of an elite faculty.

We invite you to participate in an open session of the MBA program!

• See how program participants develop their competencies
• Hear about the most effective tools of modern management
• Find out how the MBA program will help you achieve your professional and personal goals
• Talk to your lecturer, students, MBA program director
• Find out more about the organization of the program, the scope of the program and the rules of admission
• Take advantage of the classes, assess their practical value, feel the atmosphere of joint creative work

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