It was festive, joyful, musical and delicious. And the Santa Claus Factory was working at full steam:) We present a short photo report from the Christmas Eve Family Meeting of Olivia Business Centre Residents.
We would like to thank the Organizers and Sponsors of the Meeting:)
The long-awaited screening of the “Ekipa” movie took place on Thursday, December 8. The Olivia Business Centre and Gutek Film invited everyone to the screening and a meeting with Aleksandra Pogorzelska, a psychologist, trainer and coach working for the business.
How to create a single team out of a group of individualists and outstanding characters? What do the sport and the business have in common? Do joint sport emotions translate into professional relations and how? Can a defeat also be our success? Monika Bogdanowicz from the Olivia Business Centre discussed these topics as well as the effective management, motivation and energy with Aleksandra Pogorzelska just after the screening.
Aleksandra Pogorzelska specializes in the coaching work with organization managements and with managers during the implementation of the operating strategy, motivational speeches and training related to soft skills. She is a class II swimming coach. She has been taking part in triathlon competitions for 20 years, as a winner of many medals at the Championship of Poland in triathlon and duathlon; she finished nearly 100 triathlons, including two IRONMAN competitions (swimming for 3800 m, cycling for 180 km, running for 42 km). On the basis of her experience in sports and business, she created prestigious programs: Business Champion Development with the participation of Olympic Masters, Masters in Sports and Motivation and the Business Strategy Program optimizing all levels of operation in organizations.
The project was implemented as a part of the Olivia Cooltura.
It was the Christmas mood, joyous, musical and private. And Santa’s factory was working at full speed 🙂 We are presenting a short photo report from the Christmas Eve Family Meeting of Residents of the Olivia Business Centre.
Our thanks to the Organizers and Sponsors of the Meeting 🙂
We would like to thank all participants in the contest for their commitment and creativity.
We are happy to announce the winners of the 2nd edition of the Christmas Decoration Contest
1st place – KOKU Sushi
Comments of the jury:
Tradition full on – tasty classic gingerbread with fantastic decorations made of icing. Icing crocheting like on snow white holiday tablecloths made with the precision of a 3D printer.
2nd place – Epam
Comments of the jury:
The decoration that fully conveys the essence of the holiday, i.e. the birth of Jesus. A beautiful accent of the nativity scene surrounded by the natural green of the moss and icy branches creates a harmoniously coloured whole.
3rd place – HK Finance
Comments of the jury:
So much joy, optimism, freshness and colour on one ball! A simple and beautiful material, the tissue paper, refers to traditional folk decorations that used to be made of it.
Companies such as Sii and Energa also deserve special distinction as they prepared so many decorations that Christmas trees in the Olivia Tower almost struggle under their weight! 🙂 Thank you very much for your passion and energy.
A few dozen decorations made by our Residents and by the children from the White Kitten kindergarten can be seen in reception halls. Just like last year, contest decorations will be stored to decorate Christmas trees of our centre in the years to come.
The winners will soon be informed of the date and place of the prize reception. Congratulations!
We would like to thank the Talent Development Centre, Competence Call Center, Energa, Epam, Hays, HK Finance, Job Office, Koko Sushi, Biały Kotek Kindergarten, Randstad, Sii and Starbucks.
Colliers International, a global real estate advisory firm, has published its Office 2016 report entitled “Office 2016”. “Christmas in the big city”, where, next to Warsaw, Katowice and Poznań, Olivia was indicated as an example of a Tri-City office project with an attractive December program of events engaging tenants.
– The Tri-City project of Olivia Business Centre in Gdańsk takes care of the festive atmosphere among the residents of the office complex by offering an extensive December programme of events. Starting from the Charity Christmas Fair, where the exhibitors are foundations and non-governmental organizations, through the Great Christmas Competition of Handmade Decorations, Santa Claus sweet surprises for every employee, to the Christmas Eve Family Meeting of Residents of Olivia Business Centre. Guests in Olivia Tower can enjoy music, concerts, caroling, delicacies, drinks, snacks and Santa Claus. A Christmas tree fair is organized in the parking lot in front of Olivia Point. The competition for the funniest Christmas sweater is also very popular. In the last days before Christmas, a choral concert of Christmas carols will be organized on the patio. – Colliers describes in its report.
The full report is available for download on the Colliers International website.
We are very happy with the award and thank you, dear Residents, for your involvement in Christmas attractions. Without you, it wouldn’t matter.
The entire list of Christmas campaigns is available on our website.
Pomerania Development Agency has announced call for applications within Sub-measure 2.2.1. profiled investments – grant support. The contest is addressed to micro, small and medium enterprises. Applications shall be submitted from February 1, 2017 up to March 15, 2017. The total financial envelope allocated to co-financing of projects participating in the contest amounts to more than PLN 66 million.
Applications in paper form shall be submitted in person in the headquarters of Pomerania Development Agency S.A. (Olivia Six building) from Monday to Friday between 8:00 am and 3:00 pm, or sent to the following address:
Pomerania Development Agency S.A.
Al. Grunwaldzka 472 D, 80-309 Gdansk
Submission procedure
In the first place, application form shall be filled in and sent via Application Generator available on the website www.gwa.pomorskie.eu.
Afterwards, an application consisting of a signed application form together with necessary attachments in paper form shall be submitted to Pomerania Development Agency in person or sent to the aforementioned address.
Detailed rules concerning the procedure of submitting applications for co-financing are stated in point 11 of the contest regulations.
Types of projects covered by co-financing
Investments in enterprises which enable:
and consist in:
More information available at Pomerania Development Agency’s website.
On January 13, 2017 at 6 pm, a special meeting with Marek Kamiński – Polish polar explorer, traveller and entrepreneur – will be held in O4 co-working space. In 2015, Marek Kamiński covered 4000 kilometres in 100 days on a legendary Camino pilgrimage route called St. James’s Path. Kamiński calls this pilgrimage “a journey inside yourself” and “the most important expedition in life”. During the meeting, we will have a chance to find out why.
Although Kamiński reached two poles, the expedition to the third pole turned out to be the most difficult one. Where is the third pole? In our heads. At the meeting, Marek Kamiński’s book entitled “Trzeci biegun” (Third pole) will be presented as well. The meeting will be conducted by Monika Bogdanowicz.
Traveller, polar explorer and entrepreneur. The first and the only man in the world who reached two Earth poles within one year. He took part in expeditions to Antarctica and Greenland. He travelled across the Atlantic Ocean two times by yacht, walked through the Gibson Desert and in 2004 he reached two poles together with a disabled boy – Jasiek Mela.
He is an expert in the area of motivation and leadership. He is the founder of the Marek Kamiński Institute – a training company – and the owner of Invena S.A. – a leading company in the heating and sanitary industry. In 1996 he established the Marek Kamiński Foundation, which deals with implementing big social projects addressed to chosen groups of people in need, with particular focus on disabled people. The Foundation organises European Camps of Pole Conquerors for sick, disabled children, or children in difficult life situation.
Marek Kamiński is a winner of numerous awards: for his outstanding contribution to Poland’s promotion worldwide. For example, he was awarded with the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.
Marek Kamiński is the author of many books. Currently, he is developing his authorial method (called Metoda Biegun) based on self-development, which teaches how to reach goals. He implemented this programme during his expedition to Santiago de Compostela.
Everyone is warmly welcome! Admission is free. You can register here: events@oliviacentre.com
Partners of the event:
Next Monday (16.01), at 5.00 p.m., the Opening Conference of the Tri-City Financial Education Center EuroCash will be held at Business Link (Olivia Gate A building, 1st floor). We cordially invite you, the conference is free of charge.
The organizers want to change the world by helping and raising public awareness in the field of financial education. The Euro Cash game is not only entertainment, but also an amazing educational tool, thanks to which people discover their own financial habits, get out of debt, develop their businesses and start investing consciously!
During the conference:
Do you want to be financially independent? Take advantage of the opportunities that are now opening up for you!
New year usually brings new plans and objectives to be accomplished. Often such plans are converted into real events, experiences and successes. But as often ambitious intentions remain just a trace in our memory. How to convert such concepts, ideas, dreams into projects that could change us and our surrounding we talked at the author’s meeting at the Olivia Business Centre with Marek Kamiński, a traveller, polar explorer, businessman. The event took place on 13 January at O4 coworking space of the Olivia Business Centre within the interdisciplinary OBC project, Olivia Cooltura.
The book “The Third Pole” and the film “Pilgrim. Camino by Marek Kamiński” directed by Jan Czarlewski, are excellent sources of knowledge of the expedition, a “pilgrimage between the poles of faith and mind”, as Marek Kamiński calls the space between Kaliningrad and Santiago de Compostela. This is an extraordinary tale on the way, people, contemporary Europe. The story happened in 2015. Marek Kamiński walked then 4000 km in 100 days following the legendary Camino pilgrimage route, called St. James’s Path. Kamiński calls the travel “a journey inside himself”, “the most important expedition in life”.
The numerous audience at OBC (a record number of guests, over 130 people!) listened to Marek Kamiński’s lively account in his mental preparations to the expedition that gave the traveller a different, new dimension. At the beginning, when he started to think about the route (over 13 years ago), he had only one goal in mind: “Go to Santiago”. Afterwards, a strong need for personal development arose – during the trip and conversations with the people he met on he way.
In a conversation with the moderator of the meeting, Monika Bogdanowic of the Olivia Business Centre, Marek Kamiński told us why being active physically and mentally is our internal choice and that it is worth following your heart in life. As usually, very vividly and in an interesting way he spoke about his thoughts concerning Camino. He revealed that the trip was not only a great adventure and an opportunity to meet magnificent people but also a unique lesson of history, humility, patience, resilience. It turned out that the most important experience and the most important lesson Marek Kamiński learned from the trip was a spiritual lesson, the realisation that the trip gave him what he had been looking for, gave him sense and peace of soul. Finding new objectives and new roads to walk.
The route that Marek Kamiński intended to cover seemed uncomplicated at the beginning to those that he had already made. It led through easy lowland regions of Central and Western Europe; however, finally it proved to be for Marek Kamiński as exhaustive physically and mentally as his polar expeditions. Due to the fact that the pilgrimage was demanding, the traveller was able to fully live through his spiritual transformation. And find a sense of a real pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela.
During the expedition, Kamiński met many interesting people: students who supported him with finding a place to stay overnight, shared their modest resources or supported him on the route accompanying him for several kilometres, people associated with science and church, to other enthusiasts, travellers and pilgrims. The meetings gave a lot of good things to the traveller, unselfish help and interesting and inspiring conversations.
Full photo report from the event
We invite you to the next meeting in the Olivia Cooltura cycle to be held on 20 February at 6 p.m. at the Olivia Sky Club. We will host Maciej Kosycarz, a photojournalist, associated with Gdańsk and Pomerania.
Enrolment at events@oliviacentre.com
A new year usually means new plans and goals to achieve. Often, plans can be turned into real causes, experiences and successes. But just as often, ambitious intentions remain only a trace in our memory. We talked about how to translate concepts, ideas and dreams into projects that can change us and our surroundings – during the author’s meeting at Olivia Business Centre – with Marek Kamiński, a traveller, polar explorer and entrepreneur. The event took place on January 13 at the O4 Olivia Business Centre coworking space as part of the interdisciplinary project OBC, Olivia Cooltura.
The book “The Third Pole” and the film “The Pilgrim. Marek Kaminski’s Camino” directed by Jan Czarlewski are excellent sources of knowledge about the expedition, “a pilgrimage between the poles of faith and reason”, as Marek Kamiński calls the space between Kaliningrad and Santiago de Compostela. It is also an extraordinary story about the road, people, and contemporary Europe. The event took place in 2015. Marek Kamiński walked 4000 km in 100 days along the legendary Camino pilgrimage route, known as the Way of St. Paul. Jacob. Kamiński calls this journey “a journey into oneself” and “the most important journey in my life”.
A large audience of the meeting in O
BC (a record number of guests, over 130 people!) listened to Marek Kamiński’s colorful story about mental preparation for the expedition, which gave a traveler’s life a different, new dimension. In the beginning, when he started thinking about the route (and it was more than 13 years ago), he only had a goal in mind: “Go to Santiago”. Later, there was a strong need for personal development – during the journey and conversations with the people I met on the way.
In an interview with Monika Bogdanowicz from Olivia Business Centre, who hosted the meeting, Marek Kamiński talked about why being physically active and… Mentally, it’s our inner choice and it’s worth following our heart in life. He spoke, as always, in a colorful and interesting way, about his thoughts on the Camino. He revealed that the trip was not only a great adventure and an opportunity to meet amazing people, but also an unusual lesson in history, humility, patience and endurance. It turned out that the most important experience and the most important lesson that Marek Kamiński learned from the expedition was a spiritual lesson, the awareness that the journey brought him what he was looking for, gave him a sense of meaning and peace of mind. Finding new goals and new ways to go.
The route that Marek Kamiński had to take at the beginning seemed not too complicated, compared to the previous ones he had taken. It led through quite simple, lowland regions of Central and Western Europe, and in the finale it turned out to be as physically and emotionally exhausting for Marek Kamiński as his polar expeditions. Thanks to the fact that the pilgrimage was demanding, the traveler was able to experience his spiritual transformation to the fullest. And to find the meaning of a true pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela.
During the expedition, Kamiński met many interesting people: from students who provided him with accommodation support, regaled him with modest supplies, or supported him along the route, walking several kilometers together, through people associated with science and the church, to other enthusiasts, travelers and pilgrims. These meetings brought the wanderer a lot of good, selfless help and interesting and inspiring conversations.
Full photo report from the event
We cordially invite you
to the next meeting of the
Olivia Cooltura series, which will take place February 20 at 18.00 at Olivia Sky Club. Our guest will be
Maciej Kosycarz
, a photojournalist associated with Gdańsk and Pomerania.
Registration for events@oliviacentre.com
