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Olivia Business Centre team recognised with Office Building Manager of the Year award in the Eurobuild Awards competition.

Out of hundreds of applications in this year’s Eurobuild Awards competition, independent Jury selected and awarded personalities, companies and facilities, which have had the greatest impact on the Polish real estate and construction market.

– I would like to thank for this special award on behalf of the teams of the Relations with Residents, Management and Safety. Office Building Manager of the Year prize, awarded thanks to your votes, is not only the capstone of our everyday work, but most of all an extra motivation to ensure even higher standards of our services – said Konrad Danecki, who is responsible for Investor’s Supervision in Olivia Business Centre, at the final Gala.

The award makes us particularly glad because it proves that self-managed Olivia Business Centre is able to meet expectations, which result in Residents’ well-being and comfort.

– In Olivia we call our tenants Residents. Together we create and develop our centre, where we are connected not only by work, but also by passion. With them in mind we created the department of the Relations with Residents, which is in regular and close contact with the representatives of companies and which monitors the level of satisfaction with the services and gives the directions of development, which reflect the actual needs of companies stationed in the centre – explained Agnieszka Zglinicka, Head of Relations with Residents Department in Olivia Business Centre.

This dedicated team cooperates closely with other departments, which take care, among other things, of safety, the highest quality and the reliability of building and technical infrastructure, as well as the user-friendly aesthetics of the area. Facility Maintenance Department, that is licensed real estate managers, facility administrators and technical specialists, ensure comfort for companies and high standard of offices, as well as common areas.

– The role of Olivia Business Centre as a host goes way beyond administration and management – every day the above-mentioned teams do their best to meet the expectations of the Residents, while maintaining the acceptable level of costs – emphasised Monika Pietrzak Head of Facility Maintenance Department in Olivia Business Centre.

Such an operating model based on the unique team of specialists combined with state-of-the-art solutions guarantees the highest level of service, while close cooperation with other OBC departments makes it possible to provide optimal solutions, which – and that makes us happy – very often exceed established market standards.

Eurobuild Awards Gala is a meeting, which is considered by many experts to be a perfect opportunity to gain knowledge, share experiences and establish valuable business relations. This year’s final took place on the 3^rd of December in Warsaw.

This is how “Anieli played” in Olivia… This year, O4 Coworking hosted several hundred children with their parents and grandparents. We assure you, there was no boredom. It was possible to take part in scientific workshops: physics, chemistry, programming, robotics and technology. Colourful, delicious gingerbread and Christmas decorations were created in Christmas manufactories . There were tailoring and art classes. For lovers of delicacies – also culinary. We even built robots out of LEGO bricks, and in the mini-praline workshop we created amazing sweets. Of course, the highlight of the program was the visit of Santa Claus and, of course, the gifts! When the little ones were having their best time, their caregivers could chat for a while in a special relaxation zone for adults.

 

What a day it was! You could listen to unforgettable concerts. The OBC Choir performed together with the Children’s Choir of the Private Music School of the First Degree “Concertino” in Gdynia Orłowo and the Vocal and Instrumental Ensemble Genius LOci 4 High School in Gdańsk. The guests listened to Christmas carols, m.in. “Little Jesus” and “Lulajże, Jezuniu” and “Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town” (lyrics and music by J. Fred Coots and Haven Gillespie), “There Is Such a Day” (from the repertoire of the Red Guitars), “The lion sleeps tonight” (arranged by Anne Raugh). The grand finale was the song “Biegali” from the musical “Metro”, performed together.

See you next year!

We would like to thank our Partners

Do you think that using emojis is only for millennials, and you use an exclamation point or caps lock to express emotions? Catch up quickly, because as Dr. Owen Churches argues, the stamp activates the same areas in the brain as a real smile.

Smiling people evoke positive emotions in us and give the impression of being trustworthy. Film? Imagine if it worked the same way in cyberspace. Cyber psychology researchers have noticed that our brains are so used to using emojis that they perceive them as real faces. Emojis are a new language, and in order to understand it, we have created new patterns of activity in the brain.

Emojis help us communicate feelings that are often difficult for us to verbalize. They deepen the bond and arouse sympathy exactly as in real relationships. Without them, our virtual friendships would be devoid of feelings, our jokes would be incomprehensible, and our irony would go unnoticed.

However, pictograms are useful not only in private relationships, but also in marketing. Investigator’s team Simo Tchokini from Cambridge tracked half a million Facebook accounts and confirmed that users who use emojis frequently are more popular, get more likes, shares, and comments. Emojis can improve customer communication just as much as facial expressions or the right tone of voice in the real world. They are used not only in social media, but also in TV commercials for big companies like McDonalds.

Emojis aren’t just “fun.” Simple emojis can help clarify context and better understand or reinforce subtext. Their benefits go beyond improving our daily text messages and emails. Jenna Schilstra , a marketing analyst and passionate advocate of emojis, shows how pictograms can be used in completely new ways, such as in the therapy of abused children – emojis help them describe complex, difficult emotions – or in the processes of communication with people and people on the autism spectrum. For them, a pictogram is a very helpful communication tool. Eventually, Schilstra says, these new “signs” can make the phrase itself more accessible.

So don’t run away from emojis – smile back! 🙂

For those interested:

The expression of emotions in a written text has been thought about for a long time and has been tried in many different ways. The first fully confirmed attempt to introduce emoticons was an article published in 1881 in PUCK magazine. Their typographical proposals, however, were too complex for their use to become widespread.

The characteristic ” :-)” was first used in 1982 by an American scientist, Scott Fahlman, in response to a rather infantile joke of his colleagues. Normally serious, well-behaved gentlemen in white coats decided to spread a rumor that someone had inadvertently spilled poisonous mercury in one of the elevators of Carnegie Mellon University. Terrified workers avoided the deadly metal cage and were forced to run up the stairs of the multi-story building.

Fahlam appreciated the cabaret artistry of his colleagues, but at the same time appealed to ensure that in the future it would be easier to distinguish a joke from facts. If such jokes became commonplace, over time the information about the real threat would not be taken seriously either. So the professor sent a revolutionary message to the rest of the University’s employees, as it turned out later – with a request to mark jokes with the symbol “:-)”, and really sad messages with “:-(“

Regular emoticons depict ideograms of the human face, made up of characters available on the keyboard and rotated by 90 degrees. Here are the most commonly used emojis:

🙂 🙂 =) :3 – satisfaction, smile
:)) :-)) – joy, big smile, giggle
😀 😀 xD =D – happiness, very wide smile, laughter
😉 😉 – winking, winking
:’) :’-) – crying with happiness
🙁 🙁 =( – sadness, despondency
:(( :-(( – a lot of sadness, a lot of depression, (slight) crying
:C :-C =C xC 8C – very much sadness, very high depression
:'( :’-( – crying
😐 😐 – lack of emotion
:/ :-/ – skepticism, irritation, confusion, indecision
>>:) 🙂 – contentment (due to harm, pain, etc.), satanic smile
>:)) :-)) >- joy (because of harm, pain, etc.), satanic giggle
>>:D 😀 >xD – happiness (due to harm, pain, etc.), satanic laughter
>>:( 🙁 >x( – anger
😛 😛 xP :p :-p xp – ignoring, frustrating, showing your tongue
:O :-O 😮 😮 – surprise, fear, shock, surprise
:# 😡 – locking your mouth (“padlock”), “I won’t say anything”
|-) I-) |-O I-O – sleeping, falling asleep, yawning

There are also manga emojis derived from manga. These do not have to be turned to read the “expressions of their faces”, but in Europe they are less frequently used, and some are not understandable to us.

(n_n) (n.n) – contentment, smile
(••) (•^.^•^_^) (^.^) ^^ XoX – ea, big smile (^_^)
{-_-) {-.-) – secretive smile, tired, sleepy, sick
(^o^) (^O^) – joy, laughter
(*^o^*) (*^O^*) – happiness, excitement, big laughter
(u_u) (u.u) – sadness, sleeping
(O_O) (o_o) (o.o) (O.O) – astonishment, shock, surprise
(^_^;)– – laughing to hide your nerves
(^_~) (^_-) (^.~) (^.-) – winking, winking
(;_;) (;.;) ;; -crying
(>_<) (>.<) -anger
(∨_∨) (∨.∨) – lack of expression
(?_?) (?.?) – surprise, astonishment, confusion.

 

Have a nice day!:)

 

 

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What do you perhaps not know about the Polish Film Festival in Gdynia?

For the first time, the film festival was held – theoretically – in Gdańsk in 1974. The opening and closing of the event took place in the Leningrad (later Neptune) cinema, but all screenings took place in Sopot.

The Polish Film Festival (1974–2011 and since 2017) was also organized under the name Gdynia Film Festival (2012) and Gdynia Film Festival (2013–2016).

In 44 years, the festival has not been held twice (in 1982 and 1983).

Four times the main prize was not awarded (1976, 1989, 1991, 1996).

Only four women have won the highest laurels in the 44 years of the festival. The Golden Lions went to Agnieszka Holland in 1981. for “Fever” and in 2012 for “In Darkness”; Magdalena Piekorz (2004: Welts), Małgorzata Szumowska (2015: Body) and Joanna Kos-Krauze (she received the award together with her husband in 2006 for Saviour’s Square).

The creators of the festival, referring to the experiences of their colleagues from overseas, in 1996 They decided to reward the worst domestic production. In the United States, the Golden Raspberries are awarded, in Poland the Golden Peacock was awarded. Its only winner in history was Wiesław Saniewski’s film “The Rain Soldier”.

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The year 1977 was a great festival scandal. Andrzej Wajda does not receive any distinction for “Man of Marble”. The decision is purely political. Unable to officially present their award to the master, journalists present him on the stairs. Janusz Kijowski brings… a brick with a dedication to “To Andrzej Wajda – journalists”. The Gdańsk Lions win Krzysztof Zanussi’s “Protective Colours”. The director, in an act of solidarity with Wajda, does not accept the award.

A new one is coming, and in 1980 the chairman of “Solidarity”, Lech Walesa, appears at the festival. The Golden Lions go to Kazimierz Kutz for “Beads of One Rosary”, which fits the climate of the then Polish. “It can be said that Wałęsa somehow anointed Kazia Kutz for the Grand Prix,” said Janusz Zaorski. – The topic was topical, the film fit perfectly into the landscape of Gdańsk. The authorities gave in and did not interfere this time.” In “Piekiełko”, the famous festival club, Agnieszka Holland talks to the head of cinematography, Michał Misiorny, about “Fever”, a film about revolutionaries from 1905. To her great surprise, the official, who was under the so-called influence, he agrees to let her direct it. A year later, the film won the Golden Lions.

In 1987. the festival moves to Gdynia. The authorities want to cut off the event from the atmosphere of freedom and solidarity prevailing in Gdańsk. “The idea was to lock us up in some luxurious ghetto – judged Janusz Kijowski – far from the Shipyard, far from the youth of the Tri-City, somewhere off the beaten track, between the Navy Garrison Club (cheap vodka) and Piekiełko (expensive vodka). And it worked.”

After the breakthrough year of 1989, such diverse filmmakers as Juliusz Machulski (“Girl Guide”), Jan Jakub Kolski (“History of Cinema in Popielawy”) and Krzysztof Krauze, who in 1999 made a new film in the Polish Film Festival, became famous for his work in 1999. he receives the Golden Lions for “The Debt” – a poignant story about a new world. After the ceremony, he goes to the aforementioned “Hell” to fail his success, argues with his wife in the hotel and throws the prize out of the window in anger. The lions then have the form of a heavy badge. “I was lucky because it hit the tarred roof over the pool, not someone’s head ,” he says. ” God has given me peace on the right side.” In the morning , “(…) The last ball-goers returning from “Piekiełko” saw Krzysztof Krauze looking for his badge on the lawn in front of the hotel on all fours” – reported Maciej Karpiński.

An unpleasant surprise awaits Olaf Lubaszenko and the cast of the film “E=mc²” during the 24. edition of the event in 1999. During the premiere, the cinema staff confuses the order of the tapes from which the production is shown. Outraged by this fact, Cezary Pazura, who plays in the film, demands that “E=mc²” be replayed. “The lack of sense in the development of the plot, the breaking of plots and the general chaos were accepted as typical for Polish film. No one was surprised (…).” – Tomasz Raczek later wrote in “Wprost”.

Leading the 31. In 2006, the Polish Film Festival was entrusted to Maciej Orłoś and Anna Musza. The choice of the actress turned out to be controversial. Mucha’s crude jokes resulted in the organizers’ decision to replace her with Tamara Arciuch. The change of host took place only once in the entire history of the event.

On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the festival in 2015 A competition for the Diamond Lions, the most beloved Polish films, has been announced. The audience turned out to be faithful to the classics. The winners were “Nights and Days” by Jerzy Antczak, beating “The Deluge” by Jerzy Hoffman and “The Promised Land” by Andrzej Wajda. “Nights and Days” star Jadwiga Barańska was named Best Actress, ahead of Krystyna Janda (“Interrogation”) and Danuta Szaflarska (“Time to Die”). The best actor award went to Janusz Gajos (memorable performances in “Interrogation”, “Escape from the Liberty Cinema” and “Millionaire”). He was followed by Tomasz Kot (“Gods”) and Jerzy Bińczycki (“Nights and Days”). Cinema lovers liked Wojciech Kilar’s music from “The Promised Land” the most.

 

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Let’s start our short but concise story with Maciej Kotarski, Sales Director at Olivia Business Centre, who in an interview* with Dagmara Rybicka: “At Olivia Prime, we focused on nature, arranging the interior with wood, plants and furniture that you can sit on without fear. All the furnishings are close to modern everyday life, so the popular ivy and furniture from the doorstep do not give young people a sense of distance, there is no question of whether it is allowed to use them. Prime is all about joy, colour, art and an appetite for life. The art dimension is also following this path.”

Looney’s appetite for life

We present to you the first of several artists (of which you will find out soon) who filled the interiors of our office building with themselves and their works. Marek Looney Rybowski is a graffiti artist whose work has brought incredible energy, color, pace and, according to the building’s residents, a truly childlike joy to Prime. So there are murals on the walls where circus artists reign supreme, and of course there are also children, playing with lightness and innocence with whatever they happen to have at hand – a feather, a yo-yo, a ball. There are accompanying animals – a joyful dog, a curious cat… There are musicians, skaters and dancers. Energetic, spinning, disenchanting office corridors and halls. All this in cooperation with the Design Anatomy design studio in Olivia Business Centre, whose architects from the very beginning referred to Olivia Prime as “ART”, so they focused on playing with colours, playing with form, geometry taking us into the world of pop-art and the presence of modern art, the one close to every recipient.

So, who is behind it?

Marek Looney Rybowski is a co-founder of the first Tri-City group associating graffiti artists (DSC) and a member of the legendary EWC group. He has been painting since 1995. His works have been published in the following magazines: Dos Dedos, Concrete Magazine, Brain Damage, Note, Liderzy, Slide, Visual Communication. They can be seen primarily on the streets – also in Gdańsk, but also in individual and group exhibitions in Poland and abroad. In 2008 graduated from the Faculty of Painting and Graphic Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. She paints on walls and canvases using spray, stencil and brushes. Before graffiti became Marek Rybowski’s way of life, he had a career in the hip-hop band Deluks. For the curious: the nickname Looney was suggested to Marek by a colleague: he came from the Looney Tunes cartoons and a flair for painting characters.

Last year, Olivia Prime hosted artistic workshops for children. Looney played the unusual role of a teacher to inspire young people to create works using sprays and paints. “The Great Painting with Looney” was one of the projects carried out by Olivia in connection with the 100th anniversary of Poland regaining its independence. See for yourself.

We recommend you to watch the interview with Marek Rybowski in trojmiasto.pl – “The Man Who Coloured the Streets of Gdańsk”.

 

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Is it possible to prepare for changes in the changing world, how to find oneself in digital team management and what affects the awareness of information security among staff were explained by experts during the GFKM Leadership Conference – Challenges for Business 4.0

Treating the breathtaking view of the Olivia Sky Club in Olivia Business Centre as a unique inspiration, the participants and experts jointly attempted to work out answers to the questions of what competencies will be key for leadership 4.0 and what opportunities the market of tomorrow opens up for us. Business theoreticians and practitioners presented their points of view describing the changes that will take place in the labour market as a result of continuous digital development. They also proposed a recipe for how to prepare the organization’s managers for them in the most effective way.

– According to the participants, the meeting strongly revised a number of views, at the same time being the best prognosis that equipped with the right tools we do not have to be afraid of the market of tomorrow – says Dagmara Rybicka, Communication Manager at Olivia Business Centre, a partner of the second edition of the conference.

The second edition of the “GFKM Leadership Conference 2019: Challenges for Business 4.0” took place on 20 September 2019 in the largest business hub of the Tri-City, Olivia Business Centre.

President of Olivia Business Centre among 10 particularly involved in the co-creation of the Pomeranian Economic Griffin. Valued and prestigious statuettes of the “Griffin” awarded by business organizations represented in the Pomeranian Entrepreneurship Council deservedly went into the hands of the enterprising winners.

Maciej Grabski, The President of Olivia Business Centre received a commemorative medal for merits and commitment to co-creating the 20-year history of the Pomeranian Economic Griffin Award. Among the honorees were Zbigniew Canowiecki, President of the Pomeranian Employers; Jan Zarębski, First Marshal of the Pomeranian Voivodeship; Henryk Ćwikliński, prof. University of Gdańsk and long-term chairman of the competition committee; Piotr Jarocki, Pomeranian entrepreneur, long-term organizer of the competition; Włodzimierz Szordykowski, long-term director of the Department of Economic Development at the Marshal’s Office of the Pomeranian Voivodeship and secretary of the Pomeranian Entrepreneurship Council; Adam Mikołajczyk, Director of the Corporate Branch of mBank SA in Gdańsk and Gdynia; Anna Gast – Director of the Corporate Branch of mBank SA SME branch in Gdansk; Anita Sasim , Head of the Northern Region Office at mBank SA and Ewa Rojek, Head of Northern Region marketing, communication and business development at PWC.

Over 100 entities applied for this year’s edition of the competition. The work of the Committee selected 33 finalists who competed in 8 categories. The Special Award “for visionary character and consistency in the creation and development of the ecosystem of cooperation between new technologies and business” was awarded to the Infoshare Foundation, which is becoming more and more present in Olivia Business Centre day by day. The Media Griffin, awarded by radio listeners, readers and Internet users of the Pomeranian media, went to the Lubiana Porcelain Tableware Factory, which this year celebrates its 50th anniversary of the Lubiana Porcelain Tableware Factory. years of activity.

_{The film report is presented thanks to the courtesy of the Pomerania Development Agency.}

The jubilee award ceremony at the Baltic Opera in Gdańsk was preceded by a debate on current trends in the economy with the participation of Prof. Witold Orłowski, Chief Economic Advisor to PwC and Dr. Ernest Pytlarczyk, Chief Economist at mBank.

More on the official website of the competition

The Charity Christmas Fair at Olivia Business Centre is behind us. We were together, we gave concerts, we bought unique, handmade gifts and we helped. What could be more important? There was no shortage of decorations and Christmas cards, wreaths, wreaths, aromatic soaps, clay products, scented candles and calendars made by the children Special Schools Complex No. 2 in Gdańsk, the Foundation for Environmental Education and Health Promotion in Gdańsk, the Mikrostyk Station Foundation in Gniew, the Gdańsk Social Cooperative, the Sprawni Inny Foundation and the Nielada Historia Foundation. The ZeroBan Project proved that an advertising banner can have a second, very practical life – it can be changed into an incredibly colorful… Bag. Treats, jewellery, baubles, wooden reindeer, fabulously colourful gift bags are the works of people from the Sunny Hill Foundation, the Wandering Women Foundation, the Social Cooperative Is Spinning in Tczew, the charges of the Polish Association for People with Intellectual Disabilities Circle in Gdańsk, the Plaster Foundation and the Sensitive World Foundation.

The musical setting of the event was taken care of by exceptional artists. On the stage in the lobby of Olivia Star we heard Daria Zaradkiewicz and Wojciech as well as the Olivia Business Centre Choir.

It’s great that we can be together on this most beautiful Christmas. We would like to thank the Artists, Exhibitors and Visitors of the Fair.
See you next year!

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This year’s first meeting of experts gathered in the HR Club operating at Olivia Business Centre is behind us. This time, they talked about benefits and shared experiences in this area. So, how do we define them? What do employees think of them? Which benefits are important to them and which is the biggest one? How to appreciate those who work with us so that the company’s offer is attractive and effective? Is it possible to reward in a different way, e.g. through social involvement?

Aleksandra Kruszyńska from Intel talked about how we define benefits and how we change the perception of rewards at work. Case study “Let’s appreciate! What awards are important for Polish employees, what is the biggest benefit today?” presented Iwona Grochowska from Nais. “How to reward differently – thanks to social involvement” revealed Leszek Szmidke and Kinga Dąbrowska from the Inspiring Examples Foundation. The topic of employee volunteering as a benefit and a tool for building commitment was presented by Agnieszka Buczyńska from the Gdańsk Volunteer Centre. The meeting ended with a debate of specialists.

The mission of the HR Club is to support its members in shaping the highest standards of work and constantly improving the competences of HR managers in the era of progressing digitization. The club is a space for talking, exchanging experiences and gaining knowledge. During the meetings and workshops, difficult challenges facing today’s HR are discussed, good practices are presented, modern solutions and trends are presented.

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Join the HRBP CLUB now or contact us:

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ENGLISH VERSION

On February 10, 1920 , a solemn act of marriage between Polish and the Baltic Sea took place in Puck. Representing the Republic of Poland, Gen. During the ceremony, Józef Haller said: “Today is a day of honor and glory! It is a day of freedom, because the White Eagle spread its wings not only over the Polish lands, but also over the Polish sea. Now free worlds and free countries lie ahead. A Polish sailor will be able to reach everywhere today under the sign of the White Eagle, the whole world is open to him.”

By virtue of the Treaty of Versailles , which ended World War I, the reborn Republic of Poland received a 147 km long coastal strip – from the borders of Gdańsk, which as the Free City of Danzig remained under the protectorate of the League of Nations, to the vicinity of Karwia. Although it was not much for the aspirations of the reborn state, we should remember that this part of the coast has always been extremely important for our country. The mouth of the Vistula River into the Gulf of Gdańsk was of great importance for the economy. The whole bay was a convenient place for the establishment of ports.

The fate of Gdańsk Pomerania was turbulent. At least since the times of Mieszko I, it had been in the possession of the Piasts. The knights of the Order wrested them in 1308. From 1466, after the victory over the Teutonic Knights in the Thirteen Years’ War, it belonged to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. We lost it in 1772. in the first partition in favor of Prussia.

September 23, 1922 The Sejm of the Republic of Poland adopted a law authorizing the government to build a seaport in Gdynia. Within a dozen or so years, the fishing settlement transformed into one of the largest and most modern ports in Europe, around which a city of over 240,000 people was created. Residents.

On the importance of access to the sea and its economic role, Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski (whose name is most strongly associated with the construction of the port and the city of Gdynia, the Polish “window to the world”), published in 1931. book “Disproportions. A Thing About Poland Past and Present”, he wrote: “Every new metre of coastline, every new crane, every freight depot, every new commercial post in Gdynia, every improvement in communication, every new ship, every new factory on the coast, every bank, every new bond cementing Gdynia with Pomerania, and the entire Pomeranian Voivodeship with the rest of the country, is a great achievement, it is a serious asset of our state achievements. Here is the only practical merchant academy of Polish, here stands the surest and shortest way for equalizing the value of man in Poland with the value of man in Western Europe, here the border of cooperation with the nations of the whole world converges, and finally all differences of opinions, all clashes of thoughts and programs of the whole Polish are automatically harmonized.”

ENGLISH VERSION

 

More information:

Wedding of Polish with the Baltic Sea

April 29, 1923 the port of Gdynia was officially opened

History of Gdynia

Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski – two-time builder of Gdynia