The Power of Olivia’s People

#Razem can we do more #Sercem with Ukraine

 

When planning events and campaigns for the current year, we did not know that we would have to face the need to organize rapid aid for war refugees from Ukraine. We were accompanied by feelings of uncertainty, sadness, and the incredible strength of our community!

 

We have been working intensively since the first days of the war. In response to the demand reported by the Polish Red Cross, we started collecting donations, brought the articles, sorted them, and finally, thanks to the courtesy of Omida, we transported them to the PCK warehouse, from where they were handed over to people in need. Together, we collected almost a ton of needed donations!

 

At the same time, we launched a fundraiser to equip nursing rooms for babies and mothers. The war in Ukraine has driven thousands of women and children from their homes. Many of them, in search of safety, reach our city, Gdańsk. Together, we collected almost PLN 12,000 to equip nursing rooms for the youngest war refugees from Ukraine! With the money raised, we bought and delivered comfortable baby feeding chairs, changing tables, cabinets, travel cots, soft blankets and a lot of necessary care trinkets to Gdańsk Helps Ukraine points.

 

You have trusted us. We received phone calls and e-mails asking what was needed, where to donate money and how to get personally involved in volunteering. And we responded. Everyone tried to help as much as they could: with their knowledge, talent, free time, helping hands. At that time, on the initiative of the Olivia Centre Choir, we started working on a charity concert “Heart with Ukraine”. We engaged artists, created a script, and organized a safe space. It was a touching and unique event – on March 28, 2022, on the stage of the 34. Almost 100 Polish and Ukrainian artists performed. Thanks to your generosity and commitment in the purchase of tickets for the “Heart with Ukraine” concert, we have collected over 180% of the necessary amount! We used it to buy layettes for Ukrainian babies and their mothers. Thanks to you, babies and their caregivers will have everything they need to be cared for and wrapped.

 

That’s not all! In cooperation with the City of Gdańsk and the UP Foundation, we have opened a charity shop called TAKE&GO, where war refugees from Ukraine can stock up on the most necessary things free of charge. Natka and Natka Bistro decided to donate vouchers for lunches to volunteers who are on duty at the point 6 days a week. The store is located on the ground floor of the Olivia Four building and is open every day, from Monday to Saturday, from 12:00 to 18:00. You can stock up on cosmetics, household chemicals and school supplies. If you feel that you want to support this initiative by providing articles in this field or in the form of service, we invite you to contact the coordinator Karolina Weiner at: karolina.weiner@upfoundation.pl.

 

Thank you for your trust, commitment, open hearts and helping hands. Although our initiatives for Ukrainian war refugees are noble and necessary, we fervently desire that as soon as possible… turned out to be unnecessary.

 

 

 

Eco Olivia: circular paper economy

We are the first business center in Poland where Tork PaperCircle is implemented – an innovative recycling service for used paper towels. Tork PaperCircle is the world’s first project to recycle recycled paper towels. It enables the implementation of circular economy in public facilities, which is crucial in terms of rational resource management.

 

Paper towels are currently the most popular method of drying hands, but only 1% of them are recycled today. After the implementation of Tork PaperCircle in Olivia, exactly 100% of the towels will be recycled and can be reused. The scale of the undertaking is considerable; Employees of companies with offices in similar facilities use more than 11 million paper towels annually. From now on, all towels that end up in the containers will be transported to Essity’s local factories and processed into new paper products.

 

This type of waste management has another important dimension. Thanks to its implementation, the reduction of CO2 consumption generated in connection with paper production will reach 40%.

 

– Olivia is eager to implement any innovations that are conducive to environmental protection, circular economy or improvement of the natural environment – says Bogusław Wieczorek, Plenipotentiary of the Management Board of Olivia Centre. – Tork PaperCircle is our next eco-friendly project. Recently, we have prepared a nesting house for the peregrine falcon, which has set its sights on the top of our tallest building, Olivia Star, and regularly lives there. Environmental responsibility is close to our hearts already at the design stage of each building; each of them is subject to strict BREEAM certification, obtaining grades ranging from Very Good to Excellent. -Adds.

 

“It is very important for us to promote such a policy among residents, hence the annual Olivia Eco award for companies whose projects contribute to the improvement of the natural environment. This year, the title was awarded together with the United Nations Global Compact. The awareness and activity of our residents in this area is impressive: in 2020, ABAX planted 100,000 trees, and in 2021, ZR Trade implemented a #ZeroWasteWorking project, assuming the introduction of good practices in everyday work, which not only contributed to more efficient management of resources, but also to the perfect integration of employees – says Bogusław Wieczorek.

 

Entre Gdańsk – let yourself be drawn into the city!

Have you ever thought that while walking through the main streets of Gdansk, you passed a lion devouring a man, or a guy resting with a skull under his arm? We talk to Mikołaj Witkowski, the creator of the first app in Poland for exploring the city using riddles, about an unusual view of the city.

Mikołaj Witkowski – Master of Science in Automation and Robotics, graduate of the Gdańsk University of Technology. Currently, he works at Olivia Center at Speednet as a Java Developer. An amateur of basketball and volleyball, after hours he creates mobile applications that are hard to break away from.

 

Małgosia Szumała, Olivia Centre: Entre Gdańsk is your first mobile app?

Mikołaj Witkowski, Entre Gdansk: Yes! Whenever I wanted to get to know an unknown city and see what it could see, I was guided by maps, not even knowing how many interesting things I passed on the way. I thought it would be nice if someone prepared such a map “step by step” so that I wouldn’t miss anything important. I’ve always wanted to grow, so I started acting. It quickly turned out that the work was going in the right direction, then Sylwia and Łukasz joined the team, whose advice was invaluable.

 

Why Entre Gdansk? Where did the idea for the name of the app come from?

 

I was inspired by the recently popular escape rooms, in which the player’s goal is to get out. In my app, it’s the other way around – the goal of the game is not to get out, but to enter the city even more carefully. Hence the “entre”. I really like this way of exploring the city, so I thought maybe there are more people who will like it too.

 

Is Gdańsk your hometown?

 

Almost. I moved here when I was a toddler. I feel like a citizen of Gdansk, so it often happened to me that I was showing my friends around who were visiting our city for the first time. When I told them about Gdansk, mentioning monuments such as the armoury or the torture chamber, it turned out that they had never heard of them. Overall, while working on the app, I listened very carefully to my friends’ suggestions. I’ve always been like that myself, paying attention to details and I thought that this is the kind of attention to detail I want to promote in my application.

 

Details can be time-consuming. How long did it take you to work on the app?

 

I’m a Java Developer and in order to create an application I had to learn the right technology first. Of course, I thought it would be a good idea to make an app for two platforms at once (Android and iOS at the same time) so that even more people could use it. I became interested in the Flutter technology and it was in it that I created the app. I also needed time to figure out from A to Z how interesting it should look. The first version wasn’t perfect, but we saw that it made sense and that people enjoyed exploring the city through puzzles. I sat on the application after working hours, in the evenings. Simply out of passion. I also consulted with my team. It’s an app that I knew from the beginning that I wasn’t creating for a drawer, that I wanted to show it to the world. I can’t imagine such a project not consulting with other people, not checking other points of view. Sylwia and Łukasz’s perspectives were very important to me. Sometimes I found them paying attention to things that I wouldn’t have thought of at all.

 

What was it like to work on each puzzle?

 

I wanted to show popular places in Gdansk, but from a slightly different point of view. I had to take the time to learn about the history of the places and, of course, consult the riddles with a professional guide. A nice example of a new point of view is Neptune. In the game, I don’t ask what he’s holding in his hand, because we all know what he’s holding, but what Neptune’s trident is pointing to. I had a lot of fun preparing puzzles myself. I also read books and articles about Gdansk. Of course, I already knew a lot, but I still had to read more. The riddles are formulated in such a way that it is not enough to look for the answers on the Internet. You have to look carefully and find a solution yourself. The city is full of ambiguities. One time I walked up to the Green Gate to take a closer look at it, and suddenly I saw a relief of a lion eating a man — I thought: who even came up with this? I go on and look, and at the entrance to the tenement house there is a sculpture of a guy lying there holding a skull. I love walking through streets that I’ve looked at hundreds of thousands of times and looking at them in detail. In the Entre Gdańsk app you will find puzzles that make you just have to move. The app motivates you to be active outdoors.

 

 

Was that the most important goal of your application? Motivate users to be smart?

 

There were several goals. The aim of the application is to show the points of the city, already known to tourists and Gdańsk residents, but from an unusual side, to encourage people to be mindful and to show that learning history can have a very interesting form. After solving the puzzle, we get information about the monument. It’s nice that we can both read and listen to it, both in Polish and English. I want to show Gdańsk in an interesting way. In Entre Gdansk there are both the most important monuments and places that I would simply like to recommend. It can be an attractive way of sightseeing for a tourist, or someone who wants to spend time in an interesting way.

An additional goal for me and my team was to create something that we would be proud of, that would allow us to learn something new, broaden our horizons. I also wanted to have an interesting project in my portfolio. For now, I’m treating app development as a developmental one, it’s my passion, but I don’t rule out that in the future creating will be a source of income for me.

 

Who is the Entre Gdańsk app intended for (what kind of recipient is it aimed at)?

 

It’s definitely not just for tourists. Entre Gdańsk has a clear element of fun – I didn’t want to make a typical informational application, I wanted a project that would give the audience fun, but also have added value. Since we visit cities with phones in our hands anyway, why not use them for a more educational purpose. I recommend our app to people who want to show the city to children, I recommend it to residents who want to get to know the city and its history well. There are a lot of people who work here, but they haven’t found the time to explore the city properly. We have tried to make the application as intuitive as possible – readable for children and adults, and even the elderly who also use smartphones on a daily basis. I can also recommend an app to use during an unusual history lesson. After all, the goal of parents and educators is to inspire. The game can be played together, in a group, as a duo or solo. Of course, there are also other apps designed to visit cities. However, I didn’t notice that there was the element of the game that Entre Gdańsk provides.

 

What tools did you use to create the app?

 

I used the cross-platform Flutter technology. It’s called “cross-platform” because one code can be translated into Android and iOS at the same time, and even into web apps. I was intrigued because I’d never written in anything like this before and it would be good to give it a try. I really enjoyed working with this framework.

 

Do you already have plans for the next apps or is it time for a firecracker?

 

The worst thing is that I have a lot of more ideas I just don’t have enough time! I also have an idea for an app to inform users about very mundane matters that we sometimes don’t think about at all. I’m going to tell you a little bit about it, but I can’t reveal too much because I hope that one day I’ll really be able to make this app. However, I’m sure it will be an educational app again. As pathetic as it may sound, it is by creating such applications that I feel a mission. I want my apps to have added value, to be something interesting for both me and the users of my apps. I’d also like to make a similar game for Warsaw (the cool thing about my app is that it’s very scalable). When my friend and I were walking around Warsaw, inventing riddles, she told me that after using Entre Gdańsk she would never look at the city in the same way again. This app simply teaches you to be mindful, you immediately have a different focus on monuments, details, bas-reliefs, or paintings. I hope to spread this way of looking at the city a bit. Recently, someone in the city centre asked me what to visit in Gdansk, because the old town is boring. But I think that Gdańsk is incredibly interesting, not only because it differs in the construction of streets from other old parts of cities in Poland. I think that our streets simply have their own character and unique atmosphere. If my interlocutor had paid attention to the details of the old part of Gdansk, he would certainly not have said that it was boring. It may not be an innovative way of looking at the city, but it’s very satisfying.

 

 

In that case, I wish everyone to pay attention to detail when visiting cities and have as much fun developing their passions as you do!

 

I think working on the app was a lot of fun for me and my friends, even though it cost us a lot of work, sleepless nights, and after-hours commitment. I often didn’t start work until my fiancée went to bed. I also had to make sure I didn’t work on the app all the time. It just gave me a lot of fun, especially since I did it on my own initiative, no one imposed it on me. Working on the app was very inspiring for me.

 

Are you planning to expand the Entre Gdańsk app then?

 

Yes, absolutely! I have a feeling that it will be a continuous work. I would also like to make such an application for other cities, and my little dream is to make such a game abroad. Because why not? I also have some base for coming up with puzzles, now I would like to transfer the idea to other places, to other cities, districts. This is not a closed project.

 

We are looking forward to the next editions of the Entre Gdańsk app and your next apps!

 

 

Olivia Festival 2022 will take place on September 15. Participate!

We’re ending summer with a bang! It’s going to be a ho, ho! You have to be in Olivia Park on September 15 from 5:00 p.m. Write down the date in whatever you can (notebooks, notepads, post-its, mobile phones, online and offline calendars, etc.), and the best thing to do is to sign up for this event right now – on this website or in My Olivia – to have your ticket at hand! A QR code will guarantee entry to the event, a lot of unforgettable experiences and a delicious surprise!

 

We won’t write too much here, just check it out for yourself. Let you be encouraged by dances, revelry, frolics, concerts and performances, something to eat and something for your throat, games and fun zones and a beach volleyball tournament.

 

Short timetable:

 

SOMETHING TO MOVE YOUR LEG

  • DJs
  • Olivia Centre Choir
  • Watermelon Crash
  • A Hit Dance Party

 

GRAB A BITE TO EAT

  • Food Trucks
  • Pizza
  • Bonfire with sausages
  • Prosseco and other beverages: carbonated and non-carbonated

 

ADDITIONAL ATTRACTIONS

  • Revelry dances
  • Gaming Zone
  • Beach volleyball tournament
  • Weaving wreaths
  • We’re working on more, so there’s more to come!

 

AND ALSO:

  • Chill and fun
  • Blankets, deckchairs, umbrellas

 

WHEN? 15.09 from 17:00 to 22:00

WHERE: Olivia Park (also known as Planty Hala Olivia)

 

 

SIGN UP FOR THE EVENT ❮

 

 

 

Excellent first half of the year in Olivia. We’re going for a record!

All the data indicate that Olivia will also go for a record in terms of signed lease agreements this year. In the first 6 months of this year alone, lease agreements covered more than m.kw 22,000, which, in the light of almost 40,000 leased space throughout 2021, allows us to forecast another good result for the whole of 2022. As a reminder, the entire Olivia is 175,000 sqm. GLA – is the largest office project in Poland.

 

In line with Olivia’s policy, the contracts include companies from very diverse sectors of the economy. This allows us to ensure a wide tenant mix, and thus room for cooperation between tenants of this largest business center in Poland. New residents include the finance, IT, consulting, transportation, HR, and even… Agricultural.

 

Among the new tenants of office space there are the largest and most innovative companies in the world, as well as start-ups that have been developing to become leaders in their segments over the years. Olivia’s new resident is Capgemini , a global leader in transformation and business management consulting with a group budget of €18 billion. Ultimately, up to 1000 employees will provide services in the field of operational tasks and data aggregation and analysis systems in its offices.

 

The new tenant of the space is also one of the most innovative companies in the world – the British Graphcore, which develops computing systems for artificial intelligence. The company has designed a processor called the Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU), whose architecture allows researchers to apply new methods and algorithms in the field of machine learning. Graphcore’s R&D center works directly with R&D units, universities, and companies around the world.

 

In the first half of the year, the clothing giant Nike opened its first technology center in Poland and the third in Europe, which will implement projects in Olivia in the areas related to data streaming, data processing and analysis, as well as technological innovations, which the American company will implement in brick-and-mortar stores in the future.

 

Olivia is conducive to the development of many companies from the IT sector, which makes it a real hub of this industry. In the earlier months of this year, companies such as Softserve, Acaisoft, and Sentila opened their offices in Olivia. The first one is one of the most dynamically developing companies in the industry, with headquarters in Austin, Texas and Lviv, Ukraine. They have been operating on the Polish market since 2014, currently employing about 1000 people, and their development is associated with new contracts m.in. FinTechs operating in Southeast Asia. Acaisoft has been on the market since 2015 and has its offices in two locations in Poland and California in the United States. Sentila B.V. is a company specializing in unique software solutions for financial markets and blockchain technology.

 

In Olivia’s newest building, in Olivia Prime, an office with a spectacular roof terrace will be taken over by the most dynamically growing recruitment company in the IT industry, i.e. Just Join IT. The portal created by her is visited by over 0.5 million Polish programmers every month. The same group also includes RocketJobs.pl and HelloHR.pl portals, which focus their recruitment activities in the marketing, sales, finance, engineering, HR, BI & Data and many other industries.

 

New tenants are also companies from the food industry: Polish Agro (member of an international group of 80 companies operating in 80 countries with a turnover of more than 4.4 billion euros) and MIK Food, specialising in the export, trade and import of fish and seafood from countries such as Iceland, Norway, the Netherlands, Indonesia, Vietnam and Chile.

 

Importantly, more than half of the contracts signed were contract extensions or space selection by Olivia’s existing residents. This confirms the high attractiveness of this office center on the Northern Polish market. O4 Coworking operating in Olivia is also breaking records of popularity. The reservation rate of shared spaces reaches 100% in each of the 4 buildings in which O4 has its offices. In the first half of this year alone, 32 companies joined O4 – traditionally, most of them represent new technologies and software, but among the new Residents there are also businesses related to interior finishing, rental of clothing and hygiene equipment, or energy production.

 

“We are pleased with both the number of new O4ians and the fact that the existing customers not only stay with us, but often grow and develop ,” says Marta Moksa, director of O4 Coworking. Thanks to the strong synergy with Olivia Centre, we have always We can find a much larger area for them – if they are ready for it. We are also very satisfied with the results of recent surveys conducted among our residents, which clearly show that being in O4 is much more than an office. Above all, it’s the people who make every job more bearable!”

 

“The first half of the year allows us to look at the whole of 2022 with optimism ,” says Maciej Kotarski, Commercialization Director at Olivia Centre. The Tri-City has been on everyone’s lips lately, and our partners often emphasize that their employees are very often thinking about moving to the Tri-City. The most frequently mentioned advantages are access to the sea and the beach, high-quality air, the vast Tri-City Landscape Park and extensive infrastructure, which makes the Tri-City simply a good place to live: the moraine hills surrounding the agglomeration allow you to develop your sports passions. The sea is a perfect stimulus for all kinds of water sports, and an extensive network of bicycle paths allows you to choose an eco-friendly way of commuting to work. We also draw from all this and run passion development clubs, perfectly integrating the Olivia community.

 

The Football League is starting! Register your company team

We’re back withOlivia Centre’s Football League. We know that there are football enthusiasts among us. And many of them! Therefore, we would like to invite teams from companies residing in Olivia to participate in this sports project.

 

 

Initial declarations of participation in the League should be sent to us by
7 September
to the following address:


komunikacja@oliviacentre.com


. In order to run the League, a minimum of 8 teams must participate in it.

 

 

Here are some highlights.

 

  1. The league will start in October.
  2. The entire infrastructure of the year-round football hall will be available

    at ul. Hallera 16/18 in Gdansk and professional judges.

  3. Matches will be played on Wednesdays and Fridays.
  4. A team must have a minimum of 5 players (four players in the field and a goalkeeper) and a maximum of 20.
  5. Cost of participation in the League: 2500 PLN.

 

Our Olivia Football League has already had 9 editions. In the last season of the League , 17 teams played matches! They were followed by as many as 144 games, which took up 7200 minutes of play. There were 1607 goals scored by licensed football referees, who were “headed” by Kamil Kalinowski.

 

In the “Grande Finale” of the season, the defending champions CityFit and the Dream Team Indestructible Energa competed. After an extremely exciting match, DTN Energa won 5:3, causing a surprise and winning the third championship title in its history.

 

Let’s relive it!

 

Sport after regaining independence

Independent Poland 1918-2022

 

Regaining independence by Poland was not only an opportunity, but also a challenge. All areas of everyday life had to be rebuilt, or even created from scratch: the economy, the armed forces, culture, science. There is also a new aspect: sport. This field quickly began to provide us with emotions and reasons to be proud.

 

When Poland returned to the world map after 123 years, Polish sport was not in a very good place and form. Within the borders of the reborn state, there were only a few clubs, m.in. in Łódź, Poznań, Warsaw and Lviv. (The colours and name of the latter, Lechia Lwów, are referred to by Lechia Gdańsk, founded in 1945). Poland’s regaining of independence in 1918 was the proverbial “spark” resurrecting Polish sports activity. Sports associations were quickly reactivated, and new ones were formed. Polish sport was to return to the international arena as soon as possible. The independent government even planned to accept an invitation to the Olympics, which was to be held in 1920 in Antwerp, but due to the approaching hostile Bolshevik army, our country’s participation in this event was canceled. For the first time, Poles officially took part in the Olympics 4 years later, in Paris. It was from the French capital that they brought their first Olympic medals. Silver medals in Paris were won by track cyclists: Jan Łazarski, Franciszek Szymczyk, Tomasz Stankiewicz and Józef Lange. Adam Królikiewicz, on the other hand, won the bronze medal in equestrianism.

 

In the interwar period, the Polish national football team was formed. They played their first match against Hungary in 1921, unfortunately lost 1-0. The coachof the white-and-red team was Major Józef Szkolnikowski, one of the founders of the Polish Football Association. Archival reports show that the Poles were close to a draw. One of our best players, Wacław Kuchar , did not take advantage of a situation in which he could have scored into an empty goal – instead, he bent over the Hungarian goalkeeper who had been fouled a moment earlier…

 

Archery, fencing and horsemanship. These three sports were very popular in the Commonwealth. Historians have often referred to these fields as “Polish”. The interwar period was also marked by the flourishing of sportRailwaymen, postal workers and military personnel competed in the competition. Events were organized to activate the population and encourage physical activity. The “Run Along the Borders” or the bicycle race around our country were very popular. Outstanding sports results were awarded State Sports Badge. By the outbreak of World War II, it had been captured by approx. 800,000 people, and it was available to women from 16 years of age and men from 14 years of age.

 

Fig. State Sports Badge

 

Muniu, the best striker of the interwar period

According to many experts, the best striker of the interwar period was Leon Sperling. He came to Cracovia from Jutrzenka Kraków. In the colors of “Pasy” he played 381 matches and won the title of Polish Champion three times. He played 16 matches in the national team, and made his debut in the first historic match of the Polish national team against Hungary. Sperling was also one of the few Poles who competed at the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris.

 

Józef Kałuża wrote about Sperling “An excellent left-winger, a top-class technician, a great individualist. Similar in style of play to Mielech – he was inferior to him in speed, but he beat him with the maneuverability of his movements and the quality of his shot.”

 

Henryk Vogler added: “A tiny left-winger Sperling, called Muniu, who was able to manoeuvre his opponents so cleverly with his dribbling that the whole audience cackled with laughter.”

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Fig. Leon Sperling, National Digital Archives, public domain

Halina Konopacka, a precursor of fashion for women’s sport

It is not without reason that she is called the “first lady of Polish sport”. Konopacka won the title of Polish champion as many as twenty-six times – and in various disciplines. She was an excellent athlete – she set records not only in the discus throw, but also in the long and high jump, javelin throw and shot put. She also played tennis and handball, and skied…

 

On July 31, 1928, Halina Konopacka won the first Olympic gold medal for Polish. She threw the discus at a distance of 39.62 meters, setting a new world record. It was an extremely moving moment, as Dąbrowski’s Mazurka was performed in Amsterdam. When the gold medalist returned from the Olympics, she was received by the Poles with great enthusiasm. Crowds gathered along her route, she was showered with flowers, and a congratulatory telegram was sent to her by the President of the Republic of Poland, Ignacy Mościcki.

 

Konopacka started her sporting adventure with skiing and it was only a coincidence that she found herself in the athletics section. As many as 7 times she became the world record holder in discus throw, as well as the 56-time Polish record holder, contributing to the popularization of sport among women.

 

Fig. Halina Konopacka, National Digital Archives, public domain

 

 

Archery World Championships

Archery was a discipline in which Poles could claim the status of pioneers. It was popularized by Mieczysław Fularski and Apoloniusz Zarychta. Fularski and Zarychta began to organize competitions, which met with great interest among Poles. Soon the Polish Archery Association was established. Poland hosted the first World Archery Championships in Lviv in 1931.

 

Olympic Twenty

Polish Olympians won 20 medals in the interwar period. The achievements of the Poles included three gold medals (Halina Konopacka, Janusz Kusociński, Stanisława Walasiewicz), six silver and eleven bronze. We won all the medals at the Summer Games; the first medal in winter was won for Polish only after the war by Franciszek Gąsienica-Groń (Cortina d’Ampezzo, 1956). Fencer Adam Papée, who took part in all the Summer Olympics of the interwar period, can be considered an Olympic veteran. Papée was a two-time bronze medalist in team sabre (1928, 1932).

 

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Gdynia – a city from the sea

Ignacy Mościcki. How did the king of nitrogen become president?

 

 

Origin:

https://muzhp.pl/pl/c/1142/pierwsze-polskie-zloto-olimpijskie

https://dzieje.pl/ksiazki/sportowcy-dla-niepodleglej

https://dzieje.pl/content/wprowadzenie-2

https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lechia_Lwów

https://cracovia.pl/aktualnosci/cracovia/siedemdziesiata-rocznica-smierci-leona-sperlinga/

https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecz_piłkarski_Węgry_–_Polska_(1921)

https://muzhp.pl/pl/c/1142/pierwsze-polskie-zloto-olimpijskie

https://niepodlegla.gov.pl/o-niepodleglej/popularnosc-sportu-w-ii-rp/

https://sportowcydlaniepodleglej.pl/sport-ktory-wyprzedzil-niepodleglosc-o-kulturze-fizycznej-w-ii-rzeczypospolitej/

Gdynia – the city from the sea, where Poland begins

Independent Poland 1918-202

 

On 23 September 1922, the Sejm of the Republic of Poland passed a law on the commencement of the construction of a seaport in Gdynia. When we look at the photos of this great port city from the beginning of the 20th century, we can see a modest village, with a few large summer houses, where there are not even paved roads. Some historians note that if the Sejm had not adopted the law on the construction of the port, Gdynia would have been simply a seaside holiday resort today. However, the fate of Gdynia changed dramatically at the end of World War I. The seaside city neighbouring Gdańsk became one of the most important social and economic initiatives of the Second Polish Republic.

 

Gdynia’s landscape at the beginning of the 20th century is not only holiday villas, but also fishermen’s huts and farms. This is what Marcelina Kulikowska said about Gdynia “The houses are mostly single-storey, brick and clad, tiled or thatched. On the street, you can see fisherwomen carrying large baskets made of woven baskets on their backs. […] Several women carry bundles of flounder tied in their hands.” At the beginning of 1920, thanks to the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles, Poland gained access to the Baltic Sea, which had been lost earlier. The 140-kilometer coastline was mostly places without infrastructure or industry. Gdansk, which at that time was not within the borders of the reborn Polish state, was a complete port city. The Commonwealth, on the other hand, badly needed a port.

Fig. Construction of Gdynia, 1925, NAC

Tadeusz Wenda, an experienced engineer, came to Pomerania with a mission to mark out a place where a modern military port would be built, and he chose a village called Gdynia. Then the authorities conducted a census in Gdynia, according to which Gdynia in 1921 was inhabited by 1268 people. Five years later, when Gdynia was granted city rights, there were about 12,000 inhabitants, while just before the outbreak of World War II, 127,000 people lived in Gdynia.

 

Fig. Tadeusz Wenda, NAC

In 1923, President Wojciechowski officially opened the port, and a few months later the first ship, the “Kentucky”, sailing under the French flag, arrived at the port.

 

Until 1926, the export of goods through Gdynia amounted to 404 thousand tons, while in 1938 it was 7414 thousand tons. It accounted for nearly 50% of Poland’s foreign trade. As a result of World War II, the city did not suffer as much as Gdańsk, but the port of Gdynia and the shipyard were destroyed. However, the inhabitants of Gdynia suffered the most, as they were deported to concentration camps or resettled, and of course many also died at the front. After the “liberation” of the city in 1945, people returned to Gdynia, looking for places to start their lives anew. However, it was not only the inhabitants who decided to “set a course” for Gdynia, but also the inhabitants of Warsaw, Vilnius, Lviv and Poznań. After the war, the port of Gdynia became the largest repair base for the Polish naval fleet. In 1951, the first ship named “Melitopol” was launched in the port.

 

Fig. Gdynia, 1935, NAC

December 1970, the time when the shipyard workers of the ports of Gdynia and Gdansk rebelled against the people’s government, a puppet of the USSR. This event remains to this day as one of the most tragic, as a consequence 45 people died and 1165 were injured. There were also joyful days of rebellion and hope in August 1980, when Solidarity was born. Gdynia is currently home to the second largest seaport in Poland in terms of transshipments. The port specializes in container handling. It is considered by specialists to be the most versatile port on the Polish coast. It is also the main passenger port of the Tri-City.

 

Some of them had their origins in working-class circles. The post-war generation experienced the tragedy of the bloody events of December 1970, when the Gdynia shipyard workers, just like the Gdańsk shipyard workers, rebelled against the people’s government on behalf of the entire nation. It was the most tragic event during the pacification of workers’ protests on the coast by the communist authorities. As a result, 45 people were killed and 1165 were injured. Gdynia remembers them. There are two monuments in Gdynia dedicated to the victims of December 1970. There were also joyful days of rebellion and hope in August 1980, when Solidarity was born.

 

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Tri-City Sailing League 2022 is over

The 2022 Tri-City Sailing League is over. For the third year in a row, the League championship goes to the resident of Olivia Centre. At the same time, it is the second time in a row that the champion is the consulting company PwC.

 

Balex Tri-City Sailing League is a combination of sports competition with training and business aspects. Each round of the regatta is accompanied by theoretical training and practical training. In addition, the crews have yachts at their disposal almost throughout the season, so they train intensively between regattas. This format of the project means that the business environment has the opportunity to integrate, develop competences and group motivation in the waters of the Gulf of Gdańsk, which is a unique distinguishing feature on the map of Polish.

 

In this year’s edition, the weather conditions were good and we managed to hold all the planned races during 5 regattas. The general classification after the 2022 season included the results of as many as 30 races. Between the regattas there were also 5 group training sessions, which served to improve the competence and knowledge of the participants, as the majority of the regatta is attended by amateurs. In total, over 60 people took part in the regatta.

 

In the fight for victory, the crews of Dynatrace, Hear Studio and PwC Poland fared the best, for which for the second year in a row there were no strong ones. The vast experience of the skipper of this team, Borys Malinowski, who has been competing in the league in various teams for five years, meant that the impressive league cup will remain at the PwC headquarters in Olivia Centre for another year.

 

I’m very happy that we managed to defend the title, especially looking at the amount of training that the competitors did. With us, experience and swimming in the league format paid off, so the cup stays with us. One more win and it will be ours forever – says Borys Malinowski, helmsman at PwC, with a smile.

 

It is worth noting that the first two teams – Dynatrace and Hear Studio – are newcomers to the competition, but their level of commitment was huge and they quickly matched or even surpassed the skills of other crews. Especially the attitude of the helmsman of the Hear Studio crew was admirable, as he commuted to Sopot from Warsaw for training almost week after week. As a result, he went from last place in the first round to an excellent second place. This shows that a sailing adventure awaits everyone, and the formula of integration and motivation on the water is a perfect solution for the development of your own contacts and your own business.

 

This is the third time in the history of the regatta that the crews of Olivia Centre have won it. This is the result of the constant presence of sailing enthusiasts on the water as part of the Olivia Yacht Club project – an informal club of water sports enthusiasts, gathered around Olivia and the main promoter of the club, Maciej Kotarski. Olivia Yacht Club is a project that was created together with the Olympic gold medalist Mateusz Kusznierewicz, and among the instructors there were also medalists of the Polish, European and world championships, so the adepts of water sports had the opportunity to develop their passions under the supervision of professional sailing staff.

 

“I am bursting with pride that I was able to take the first step in this spectacular chain of victories as the helmsman of the Olivia Centre crew in 2019. It should be added that we were trained for 2 years by the amazing Mateusz Kusznierewicz, who was the captain of the crew, and we always had a professional navigator on board. Remigiusz Wojciechowski from Bayer Global Business Services Gdańsk, Bartłomiej Glinka from Omida S.A. were also regular members of our team. Michał Krzepkowski from EPAM Polska and a professional navigator Mikołaj Staniul – says Maciej Kotarski, who is also the director of commercialization of Olivia Centre.

 

– The Bay of Gdańsk and its values are one of the most important distinguishing features of the Tri-City, which attracts people from all over Polish to the sea like a magnet. – emphasizes Bogusław Wieczorek, Plenipotentiary of the Management Board of Olivia Centre. – It would be a sin not to take full advantage of it, which is why for years in Olivia we have been trying to integrate the business environment around sailing, and not only in the season, and it must be admitted that there are fewer cruises in the season. The sea and the bay have meant that Gdańsk has been on the rise for years. Companies are increasingly moving their headquarters here. Moreover, it is easier for employers to recruit professional staff from other parts of Polish not only because of professional prospects, but also because of the high quality of life, and access to the beaches, sea and mountainous forests of the Tri-City Landscape Park is one of the key reasons why research shows that the happiest Poles live in the Tri-City – adds Bogusław Wieczorek.

 

 

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The third edition of the Oliwa Neighbourhood Budget has ended!

Another pool of money goes to the inhabitants of Oliwa. We have completed the third edition of the Oliwa Neighbourhood Budget.

 

Projects in the field of neighbourhood integration, public recreational infrastructure and creative workshops for children are the projects that received funding from this year’s edition of Olivia’s neighbourhood budget, the results of which were announced on 15 September during the Olivia Festival.

 

The Oliwa Neighbourhood Budget (OBS) is an initiative to support projects important to the residents of Gdańsk Oliwa. Since 2019, residents of the district, educational institutions and public benefit organizations have been submitting their ideas for the development of Oliwa – the place where the Olivia Centre is also located. OBS was established on Olivia’s initiative, but its fund also includes one of the Gdańsk councillors, a local cultural animator Andrzej Stelmasiewicz. All previous editions of the neighbourhood budget have made it possible to co-finance projects with a total value of nearly PLN 50,000. Golden.

 

In this year’s edition of the Oliwa Neighbourhood Budget, a wide variety of projects were submitted, which covered areas such as integration, physical activity and education. Their initiators were both local social activists, scientists and residents of the district joined in groups.

 

The jury, consisting of councillors of the Oliwa district, teachers, cultural creators, local entrepreneurs and representatives of the Olivia Centre, decided to co-finance three projects: Sportowy Gaj, Neighbourhood in the Gate and Puppet Making Workshops. The first one involves the installation of publicly available physical exercise equipment on the premises of Primary School No. 35, providing training equipment for both the school’s students (during lessons) and other residents of Oliwa during non-school hours. The second one involves the organization of integration meetings in the autumn and winter period, providing an attraction for the youngest residents of the district, seniors, as well as guests from Ukraine who have settled in Oliwa. The third project that received funding is a puppet making workshop for a puppet theatre, which will take place in the Oliwa Library, Primary School No. 35 and the First Social Primary School at ul. Polanki 11 in the period from September 2022 to May 2023.

 

  • Sportowy Gaj is an infrastructure project submitted by Primary School No. 35 with Sports Departments in Gdańsk Oliwa.

 

  • Neighbourhood in the gate – a project submitted by Aniela Zienkiewicz, councillor of the Oliwa district, and Maja Grabkowska, social geographer, assistant professor at the Institute of Socio-Economic Geography and Spatial Management of the University of Gdańsk.

 

  • Puppet making workshops dedicated to the youngest inhabitants of Oliwa. It is an open art project aimed at children of early school age, which will be carried out periodically in the Oliwa Library, schools and a temporary home for Ukrainian children and their mothers at ul. Wita Stwosza 23.

 

“This year’s edition of the Oliwa Neighbourhood Budget was full of very well-thought-out and well-prepared projects ,” says Bogusław Wieczorek, Olivia Centre’s plenipotentiary, a member of the jury of the Oliwa Neighbourhood Budget. – During the jury’s deliberations, we had to devote a lot of time to discussing their importance for the local community, because, as every year, we wanted to co-finance projects that were diverse in their nature, and at the same time important for the residents of Oliwa. I believe that, as in previous years, this year’s selected projects will be noticed by the residents and will significantly contribute to meeting their needs.