Tag: AWARDS

Meet the winners of the Oliwa Neighbourhood Budget!

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The fifth edition of the Oliwa Neighbourhood Budget is behind us. What is this budget? It is a programme initiated by the Olivia Centre, which supports social initiatives of the inhabitants of Oliwa and Przymorze Małe. This year, the pool of funds allocated for co-financed projects of the fifth edition of the Oliwa Neighbourhood Budget amounted to PLN 18,000, and we have already supported projects for almost PLN 100,000 in total. The award ceremony took place on October 13 during the event “Closing the Season Classically and Olivia Festival 2024”.

 

This year, the jury of the competition consisted of:

  • Andrzej Stelmasiewicz – Oliwa activist and social activist, Founder of the Gdańsk Community Foundation and co-founder of the Oliwa Neighbourhood Budget
  • Małgorzata Skwira – Principal of Primary School 35
  • Tomasz Strug – Chairman of the Oliwa District Council
  • Grzegorz Kidybiński – Member of the Management Board of Olivia Centre

Meet the winning projects!

 

Park ON Association – “Ceramic Adventure Neighbors”

The aim of the project is to activate seniors and adults – especially people with Parkinson’s disease – and to enrich the offer of creative leisure by organizing as many as 26 one-and-a-half-hour ceramic classes. The classes will be an opportunity to create handicrafts, and additionally exercises in fine motor skills. Joint workshops are an excuse to leave the house, meet people with similar experiences of the disease and a chance for mutual support.

Łukasz Heldt and the neighborhood community at 56, 58 and 60 Piastowska Street – “Farewell to Summer”

A neighbourhood project aimed at integrating residents while having fun together in the open air, at the book and toy market and having refreshments together.

Gdańsk Sports Academy Olivia Foundation – “Oliwa Floorball Tournament for school children”

The aim of the project is to play floorball tournaments for children of primary schools in Oliwa and Przymorze Mały, to popularize floorball as a form of movement, to promote active leisure and integration of the local community. The tournament takes place in the sports hall. The organizers take care of the appropriate setting, high-level judging and attractive prizes for the winners.

Michał Ślubowski Role-playing game “Abbot Hacki’s Cipher”

The aim of the project is to organize a role-playing field game “Abbot Hacki’s Cipher”, which aims to popularize the history of Oliwa through an attractive form of a role-playing game for all people interested in the history of Oliwa and exploration of the district through the game. Each participant will receive an envelope with a set of riddles, ciphers, fragments of old maps, postcards and prepared letters.

 

– Among many initiatives that are implemented with the support of Olivia, it is the Oliwa Neighbourhood Budget that gives us the greatest satisfaction – says Bogusław Wieczorek, the representative of the management board of Olivia Centre. – The very fact that we have been consistently supporting neighbourhood initiatives for five years now and that we have received positive feedback from residents and organisers of co-financed projects is of great importance to us, as we can see the real effects of our activities. Every year, we try to make these projects diverse, so that there is an opportunity to support different needs of residents, and we strongly encourage all interested parties to follow the next announcements about the launch of the next edition and submit their own projects, as we will certainly continue this project in the coming years.

 

 

More about the Oliwa Neighbourhood Budget

 

 

Olivia Gastro Park. Through the stomach to the heart of the residents

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The awarding of two restaurants from the Olivia Centre with the prestigious laurels of the Michelin culinary guide was widely publicized in the media all over the country.
The star, which is the highest distinction in the world of gastronomy, was won by the Arco by Paco Perez restaurant, and the Treinta y Tres restaurant won the Bib Gourmand distinction.
Both restaurants are located on the 33rd floor of Olivia Star and are run by internationally renowned chefs – the Spaniard Paco Perez and the Italian Antonio Arcieri.

 

However, managing gastronomy in a business center is a challenge that poses an even higher degree of challenge to managers on a daily basis than running a fine-dining restaurant.
Such restaurants provide the necessary prestige for such a place and are perfect for celebrating special celebrations, both corporate and private.
The key to culinary success in a business center where as many as 15 thousand people work.
The employees seem to be not only of high quality, but also diversity, allowing them to escape from everyday monotony and repetitiveness, which is why there are as many as 12 restaurants and smaller catering outlets operating in Olivia Centre.

 

At the heart of such a wide range of food and beverage products is the belief that its quality is one of the factors influencing the assessment of the workplace.
What’s more, good, quality nutrition and a varied diet are the basis of well-being and translate into work efficiency.
Certainly, providing this to 15,000 employees is not an easy challenge, but such a number of potential guests is a considerable market potential, and the example of Olivia Centre shows that it can be done well.

 

– We are fully aware that the vast majority of Olivia’s employees regularly use the offer of catering facilities that await in our centre, which is why this is one of the areas that we are trying to take care of.
Even if not on an ongoing basis, at least at the stage of selecting culinary concepts, we want to ensure the greatest possible variety and quality – says Maciej Kotarski from Olivia Centre.
– We are aware that tastes are very diverse, but they can also be changeable, which is why we try to ensure that the proposals available in Olivia allow us to provide interesting culinary options not only in terms of dishes, but also the forms and times of the day in which they are offered.
We have managed to provide original breakfast, lunch and evening concepts, as well as a variety of formulas: from casual bars, confectioneries and classic cafes to prestigious restaurants awarded by the Michelin guide.

 

 

 

The latest of the points that are available in Olivia is Zachcianki – a café combined with a bistro, where original breakfasts, lunches and desserts are offered.
As Ewa Kowalska, co-owner of Zachcianki, emphasizes , their offer is unique on the Tri-City market: Dishes are prepared on the spot, and cakes are baked in a workshop in Wrzeszcz.
We use simple, natural ingredients that everyone has at home, but what distinguishes us is that we show the full ingredients – so that the customer knows exactly what they are eating and we do not do it only for desserts, but we also show the full ingredients and nutritional values for savoury dishes.
This is an unusual approach on the Tri-City market for now, but we hope that this will change.
We wanted Wanting to be a place where you can slow down for a moment, take a breath and remind yourself that you have to take care of yourself, that you have to be kind to yourself.
That it is worth fulfilling your whims.
And we can see that it works well – despite the holidays, we have more and more guests.
They drop by for specifics, for a cake with coffee and for informal meetings.

 

Olivia offers such food outlets as KOKU sushi bar, Natka bistro, Starbucks, Lobster restaurant, Work Cafe Santander and Gorąco Polecam café combined with coworking space.
As Maciej Kotarski emphasizes, the variability of preferences requires the creation of a well-thought-out and diverse, but also flexible offer: In Olivia, the answer to this is the multitude of premises and the selection of proposals, which takes place already at the stage of signing their lease agreements.
After years of operation, we already have experience that allows us to predict what the reception of individual proposals may be, and we also make sure not to create internal competition that may affect the situation of our existing tenants.
Therefore, we would certainly not launch two sushi establishments or two pizzerias.

 

Olivia Centre sets the development of attractiveness for the inhabitants of the Tri-City and tourists 7 days a week and after 5.00 p.m. as one of its goals.
It is for this reason that attractions such as observation deck at 32 floors. Olivia Star, Olivia Garden or the conference and event center on the 34th floor of the tallest building in northern Poland.
Thanks to this, Olivia quickly became a destination for trips, a place where you can spend a Friday evening at a disco, shanty or jazz concert.
The largest Polish business centre already has theatre performances and concerts by such stars of the Polish scene as Krystyna Janda, Leszek Możdżer, Daria Zawiałow, Mrozu and Krzysztof Zalewski. Over 1700 events take place annually in Olivia , so it can be considered that Olivia has already become one of the most attractive places not only for work, but also for the cultural and entertainment life of the Tri-City. This is also confirmed by the award of the Marshal of the Pomeranian Voivodeship, awarded to Olivia on the occasion of the International Tourism Day for expanding the tourist offer of Pomerania with non-obvious projects at an exceptional level.
It is the only award that has been awarded to office buildings for the development of the tourist offer of a given region.

 

The new buildings of Olivia, the construction of which is already being prepared, will additionally increase the demand for services offered in Olivia, so it is possible that the proposals in this largest Polish business center will expand even more.
The most important thing, however, is that Olivia remains a friendly center, open to residents and guests from all over the world, not only during the center’s opening hours.

 

 

Olivia Prize 2023 handed out!

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On Wednesday, January 31st, the fourth award ceremony in the Olivia Prize competition took place. Awards for projects carried out by the Residents of Olivia Centre, the largest business centre in Poland, have traditionally been granted in the following categories: Olivia Impact, Olivia Biznes, Olivia Eco and Olivia Pro Bono. From among the projects submitted by mid-January, the jury selected 4 winners and awarded 5 honorable mentions.

 

The choice was made by a jury consisting of representatives of companies operating in Olivia. This year’s winners were: Marta Moksa (O4 Coworking), Grzegorz Borowski (Infoshare), Remigiusz Wojciechowski (Bayer), Marcin Perkowski (Capgemini) and Mateusz Kusznierewicz.

 

OLIVIA BUSINESS

 

This year’s edition of the competition was attended by 22 projects that were implemented by companies operating in Olivia Centre over the past year. In the Olivia Business category, projects with the greatest business potential, characterized by innovation and responding to real market demand are awarded. This year, in this category, the award went to the Pomerania Development Agency for

the Pomeranian Export Broker

 project, the aim of which was to support Pomeranian enterprises in business contacts abroad. The project covered more than 6 thousand. people with 2.5 thousand. Enterprises. As part of the project, 15 economic missions, 42 trips to trade fairs and 58 trips to other international economic events were carried out in countries such as China, the United States, the United Arab Emirates, Australia and many other parts of the world. The project also enabled Pomeranian companies to participate in selected economic events through 614 project grants and 47 individual, “tailor-made” B2B meetings, prepared with the use of specialized market reports from m.in. in the United States, the United Kingdom, Scandinavia, the United Arab Emirates, or Kazakhstan.

 

In the Olivia Business category, a distinction was also awarded, which this year went to the

Black Pearls VC

 fund, which supports young technology companies operating in the Baltic Sea basin. The fund’s activity consists in providing financial support to start-ups at an early stage of development and searching for strategic investors for them after achieving strong market positions. Last year, Telemedi and Solwit reached this level, and in the previous two years, this process covered 6 other companies. In 2023, the fund provided its investors with a 252% increase in return on capital compared to the previous year. As part of its investment portfolio, the Black Pearls VC fund holds shares in a company known as unicorn, valued at over EUR 2 billion, and as much as 57% of the latest portfolio is made up of foreign startups. The fund has invested m.in. in Ondato (Lithuania), Autenti (Poland), insly (Estonia), Swotzy (Latvia), Fluentby (Poland), infoshare Academy (Poland), Enso (Poland/USA), eAgronom (Estonia) and Heavy Finance (Lithuania).

 

 

OLIVIA IMPACT

 

In the Olivia Impact category, awards are given to companies and projects with the greatest impact in the area of corporate social responsibility. In this category the statuette was awarded to
Energa, a member of the Orlen Group
 for the two projects submitted this year: implementing a wide-ranging ESG agenda and supporting important initiatives in the region, Poland and around the world, including through programmes Houses of Good Energy and
Planet of Energy
. As part of the first one, Energa provided 18 institutions (including 15 orphanages in Poland, the St. Brother Albert Home for the Homeless and Needy Aid Society in Gdańsk and one school in South Sudan) with access to efficient and environmentally friendly energy sources. The project provides clean and energy-efficient energy sources, but also workshops, educational meetings, excursions and holiday trips. The second project is Energia’s original educational program, which includes the promotion of knowledge about electricity, its sources and safe and rational use of electricity among the youngest. During the deliberations, the jury also took into account numerous initiatives implemented by the company during all previous editions of the competition.

 

In the Olivia Impact category , a distinction was also awarded to

Bayer

 for creating a climate for the implementation of social and ecological innovations by employees and for being open and encouraging cooperation with other Olivia Centre Residents.

 

 

OLIVIA ECO

 

Bayer also won this year’s statuette in the Olivia Eco category, for the Eco Floral project by Edyta Bieniasz-Krzywiec, one of the company’s employees, who transferred her family’s daily eco activities to the company. It is based on the principle of circular economy and education with the possibility of reusing everything that employees in the office and at home have at their disposal. Edyta Bieniasz-Krzywiec defines it with the motto “We do what we can, with what we have, where we are”. At the threshold of Olivia Centre project Eco Floral visited as part of the event Eco Family Days, organized by and for Bayer employees, when Edyta Bieniasz-Krzywiec and her husband brought their machine used to process waste from various types of plastic at home and trained other employees in the field of household waste management and what products can be created from plastic waste.

 

In this category, the award went to

EPAM Polska

 for the Green Sweep Gdańsk project, involving over 30 employees from the company’s Gdańsk branch in a nationwide initiative to clean up illegal landfills.

 

OLIVIA PRO BONO

 

The main prize in the category Olivia Pro Bono, awarded to pro-social projects, won the Gdansk Foundation for Management Development per project GFKM Masters – Pomeranian Tournament of Decision-Making Games. The project is aimed at Pomeranian students of high schools, technical schools and vocational schools and includes supporting education in the field of management, entrepreneurship and teamwork, as well as supporting young talents in their search for paths of their own development. The project is based on the use of a tool used to conduct business simulations, and assumes showing young people the challenges associated with running a business. This program is usually used as part of the Executive MBA classes and is aimed at middle and senior management representatives. As Krzysztof Jędrzejowski, a representative of the Gdańsk Foundation for Management Development, emphasizes, GFKM Masters is a project that is to give young people a chance for favourable conditions for development and gaining practical professional skills: In all school corridors there are many leaders, both present and future. The potential of these young people is enormous, and we do not want to miss the opportunity to support their development. We try to provide them with the opportunity to gain experience even before they enter the job market, which will make it easier for them to have a good start in their careers. We decided to create an initiative aimed exclusively at students, knowing that they will soon be able to work in our environment and make key decisions. We want to equip them with competences and skills that will allow them to meet modern market requirements.

 

In the Pro Bono category, two companies received awards: Bayer and

O4 Coworking

. The first of them was awarded for the

Jump High for Santa Claus

 project, which integrates employees from 14 companies around a charity volleyball tournament supporting the Hospice Foundation in Gdańsk, and the second for the O4-ians help project, under which the coworking community regularly and systemically engages in social and charity campaigns.

 

– This year’s edition of Olivia Prize applications included projects at a very high level, which makes us happy, because its intention is to distinguish and promote the most valuable projects in all categories – says Bogusław Wieczorek, Olivia Centre Representative. ” What’s more, the awards are given to projects that companies usually do not talk about publicly, but which bring great business, social and environmental value, so we feel obliged to emphasize the social benefits of their implementation and help the authors of the projects to publicize the beneficial initiatives that are carried out in the Olivia Centre.

 

The winners of each category received statuettes by Dr. hab. Tomasz Sobisz, Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Sculpture and Intermedia at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk.

 

 

The special guest of the Olivia Prize 2023 award ceremony was Marcin Piatkowski, professor at Kozminski University in Warsaw and economist at the World Bank in Washington. He gave a lecture Pt. “The Golden Age. How did Poland become a European leader in growth and what does the future hold for it?”

 

 

Excellent Olivia Star!

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Olivia Centre wins more laurels. 2021 was marked by awards related to safety, well-being of residents, tourist offer and design, and at the beginning of 2022 the project received further awards.

Olivia Star’s rating at the Excellent level has been awarded to the greatest extent for Energy-efficient solutions available in the building (lighting zoning, use of LED lighting), availability of alternative forms of transport (parking spaces for bicycles and scooters with charging stations, availability of public transport – Fast Urban Railway, Pomeranian Metropolitan Railway, tram and bus network) and highly efficient technologies for the management of water resources. As-built certification means that all initial assumptions specified in the project are met.

When analysing the building, the assessors took into account the fact that Olivia Star is one of the most modern high-rise buildings in Poland with an all-glass triple-glazed façade. The use of a triple-glazing unit and good insulation of the profiles allowed to achieve very high thermal insulation parameters. The building is also equipped with tilting elements of the façade, which create a natural ventilation system serving all office spaces with fresh air. The above factors contribute to the high energy efficiency of the building. At the same time, it is the first high-rise building in Poland with a natural ventilation system.

The heating system with a heat pump installed in the building, using geothermal sources from as much as 95 meters below the lowest floor of the building, was also highly rated. In this way, Olivia Star draws heat from the aquifer in the Paleogene sediments (Oligocene Tertiary). Importantly, this system does not produce harmful gases and is one of the most environmentally friendly installations.

High efficiency, low operating costs, long service life, environmental protection through the use of renewable (alternative) heat sources are the most important conclusions from Olivia Star’s assessment.

The BREEAM as-built certificate at the Excellent level is yet another distinction that has been awarded to Olivia Centre in recent months. The most important of these was the Well Health Safety Rating certification , carried out by 600 scientists from all over the world, cooperating with the International Well Building Institute in New York. 9 months ago, the institute gave Olivia the maximum score of 25 points out of a possible 25, in 22 basic and 3 additional categories related to innovations in the field of employee safety and well-being. No other facility in the world has received such high marks so far, which has allowed Olivia to be called the safest business center in the world. Such a result was only possible thanks to the commitment to the implementation of state-of-the-art safety solutions: the air handling units were equipped with air ionizers that continuously purify the air in the buildings from fungi, viruses and allergens. Active titanium coatings have been used in the common areas, creating surfaces free of pathogenic microorganisms, and in addition, the level of air filtration has been raised to the highest available level (from G4 to F7 class). More…

This summer, during the jubilee 20. In the edition of CIJ Awards Poland , the jury consisting of experts in the field of ecology, commercial real estate, design and property management awarded the new project in Olivia Centre – Olivia Garden, the award in the Best Interior/Exterior Design category. Olivia Garden is an exotic garden, covering 8720 m³ of green space, filled with 3000 plants. Plants up to 11 meters tall represent as many as 150 species and come from 4 continents. Importantly, Olivia Garden is a place that was inspired by the Residents. In 2018, during a workshop, employees of companies from Olivia indicated that it is such a natural, green oasis that they need to be able to fully regenerate their strength, regain energy and stimulate creativity during breaks at work. 2021 was the date of finalization of these plans and in May this year the first guests arrived at this unique space.

Olivia Garden is located in Olivia Star, which on its top floors also offers other public attractions contributing to the recognition of not only the environment related to commercial real estate. In the autumn of 2021, Olivia Star’s managers received the award of the Marshal of the Pomeranian Voivodeship for the prepared tourist offer, which shows how multidimensional this project is and how modern thinking about office projects it implements.

We are aware of how many potential tenants of space in Olivia take into account the urban, multidimensional character of our centre, which offers their employees much more than just a space to work – says Konrad Danecki from Olivia Centre. Nowadays, practically everyone verifies environmental responsibility, ecology, wellbeing and additional services that await them in their new workplace. Well Health Safety Rating, BREEAM certification and other awards allow us to objectify and confirm to our business partners the level of our commitment to providing them with the highest level of service in the world. Such high marks are also a great satisfaction for us, confirming that what we do on a daily basis is recognized by independent experts with extensive knowledge and an appropriate perspective on an international scale.

Olivia Garden awarded the prestigious 2022 European Property Awards!

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Our phenomenal Olivia Garden, the only exotic garden in Poland located in the heart of the business center, has been awarded the prestigious 2022 European Property Awards, in the “Landscape Architecture” category. The winners were: Malinowski Design Urban & Landscape, which he is the author of the project and Olivia Centre – the investor and operator of the garden.

 

The competition, which dates back to 1993, brings together the best projects from all over Europe. Every year, several thousand investors from all over the world submit their applications, and the winning projects are selected by a jury consisting of real estate market experts, architects, journalists and investment advisors. The projects compete in four categories: investment, architecture, interior design and the real estate market, where the achievements of industry leaders are awarded.

 

Olivia Garden is a carefully designed space with an area of nearly 800 m2, filled with thousands of tropical plants, representing over 150 different species of plants from such exotic countries as Indonesia, Australia, New Guinea, Madagascar, Malaysia, Borneo, Costa Rica, Venezuela, and the tropical forests of the Amazon. In addition to numerous plants reaching 2-3 meters in height, more than 30 large trees have been planted in the garden, the largest of which reach up to 11 meters above the ground.

 


Olivia Garden
 is the result of innovative thinking about the nature of the workplace, where the proximity of nature has a positive effect on well-being and work efficiency. The project was created in response to the needs of the residents of the business centre and for the residents of the Tri-City, for whom it is another attraction and a proposal to spend their free time.

 

Olivia Garden has been divided into 4 zones to offer space for various activities. In the shade of the Bucida Bucerasblack olive nestled in the vast mezzanine, there is a TiKi-style bar, serving fresh cocktails and light oriental cuisine. The garden is perfect as a space for social and business meetings, independent work and rest, as well as for lectures, workshops or concerts, as it has an amphitheatre, tables hidden among dense vegetation and comfortable relaxation areas.

 

“I am very pleased that the work we have done together is so highly appreciated, this time by the jury of the European Property Awards ,” says Dariusz Malinowski from Malinowski Design Urban & Landscape. – It also shows that such solutions are expected by users. Guests who have already visited our garden know that it is an extraordinary “jungle” in which a person feels full comfort and plants develop luxuriantly. It is a truly living organism in which we have provided the plants with ideal growing conditions. This is evidenced literally and figuratively by the fruits of our labor, as we more and more often harvest papaya, pomegranate or cocoa fruits growing on trees in the garden. And they are not at all there just for decoration, because once they are ripe, they end up in the kitchen or Tiki bar, where exotic cocktails are prepared to make them. I would like to thank everyone who took part in the project for their passion for work and determination.

 

The aim of Olivia Garden is to provide a new quality of spending time, work and relaxation in direct connection with nature, regardless of the season and weather conditions. The glazed body has a characteristically sloping roof, referring to the architecture of the top of the Olivia Star building, at the base of which it is located, and the historic body of the Olivia Hall, with which Olivia is adjacent. The Malinowski Design Urban & Landscape studio is responsible for the interior design design, and the Design Anatomy studio was responsible for the implementation. Work on the final concept lasted many months and involved not only architects and botanists, but also an interdisciplinary team of specialists, consulting solutions with the residents of Olivia Centre.

 

– After months of operation, Olivia Garden has already become a mature project, and the plants have already undergone full acclimatization, so they are growing lushly, creating a unique impression on all guests, who can try sweet and juicy papayas – says Bogusław Wieczorek, Olivia Centre’s representative. It is very important that this space is appreciated by our residents, who use it on a daily basis as a place offering respite, relaxation, but also a space that allows for concentration and stimulates creativity. It is an absolutely unique project, which is also appreciated by numerous Tri-City residents and tourists. This is particularly important to us, because we want everyone to feel at home in Olivia. That’s why we’ve been developing features that appeal to a wide audience for years and that attract guests all day, 7 days a week. Particularly popular is the observation deck, which is located on the 32p. Olivii Star, prestigious restaurants of 33p. or the conference and event center from the 34. Floors. It is worth recalling that these spaces have already been awarded in the European Property Awards competition in 2020, and previously won the award of the Marshal of the Pomeranian Voivodeship as the event of the year.

 

  • Residents of Olivia Centre, owners of the My Olivia application, use Olivia Garden and the Observation Deck free of charge.
  • Guests buy a ticket, which provides an extraordinary experience in Olivia Garden and allows them to visit the Observation Deck.

 

Olivia Prize 2022: the call for applications for the third edition of the competition is now open!

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We are looking for companies, teams and individuals from Olivia Centre whose activities in 2022 stood out for their effectiveness, innovation and real impact on the environment. Submit your company or project by February 28, 2023! With the Olivia Prize competition, we want to reward outstanding ideas and their implementations. The winners are selected by experienced representatives of the management staff of companies based in Olivia Centre. Together we appreciate, motivate and inspire!

The Olivia Prize will be awarded in four categories:

  • Olivia Business – for an economic or business project, carried out individually or in teams by Olivia Centre Residents.
  • Olivia Pro Bono – for a social project, carried out individually or in teams by the Residents of Olivia Centre.
  • Olivia Eco – for an ecological project, carried out individually or in teams by Olivia Centre Residents.
  • Olivia Impact – for the project that in 2022 had the greatest positive impact on the environment, in the business, social or ecological area.

Applications can be submitted until 28 February using
this form.
 The official announcement of the results will take place on March 22, 2023, during the award ceremony.

“The third edition of the Olivia Prize competition is ahead of us. We are very impressed by the many useful and important projects carried out by our Residents in 2021 – says Bogusław Wieczorek from Olivia Centre. – So far, the applications have included initiatives in the field of ecology or support for charitable organizations. However, special recognition should be given to business projects carried out despite the difficult, dynamically changing situation on global markets. The year 2022 presented us with many challenges that required us to react quickly and confront the changing conditions of doing business. This makes it all the more important for us to be able to appreciate valuable initiatives implemented in an unfavourable economic situation. Importantly, the jury is composed of representatives of Olivia companies, so each award is an expression of appreciation from the business community –Adds.

The Olivia Prize has been awarded since 2020. The nominated projects will be evaluated by a jury composed of managers of Olivia Centre’s resident companies. Last year, the jury considered 36 applications. The Olivia Prize was awarded in 3 categories:

  • Business – awarded to Omida for introducing intermodal transport to a new market.
  • Pro Bono – for volunteers from Energa for the project Pier(w)si win!
  • Eco – for ZR Trade for the #ZeroWasteWorking project.
  • The Olivia Impact Special Award went to the Regional Volunteer Centre in Gdańsk – for its current and subsequent comprehensive activities for refugees from war-torn Ukraine.

The Jury will award each winning initiative with a prize – a voucher to be used to organize an event in one of the spaces of Olivia Centre. The winners will be able to choose whether it is a lunch for the whole team at the Vidokówka restaurant, an exclusive dinner at Treinta y Tres or Arco, a conference with a view of the Bay of Gdańsk from the 34th floor or in the most popular coworking space in Poland, O4 Coworking or maybe exotic drinks in Olivia Garden. The deadline for submissions is February 28, 2023.

FILL IN THE APPLICATION