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TEDxGdańsk University of Technology 2025. Whoever asks, does not err. Welcome!

Posted on by Katarzyna Halicka

We support our neighbors! So we cordially invite you to join the inspiring event now November 15 at the Gdańsk University of Technology! Meet visionaries, innovators and passionate people who are changing the world – locally and globally. Here Curiosity meets knowledge, and questions become the beginning of new discoveries. The leitmotif of this year’s edition – “Who asks, does not err” – encourages us to look for answers, challenge patterns and look at the world from different perspectives.

 

Through inspiring lectures and hands-on workshops, we will discover together how courage to ask questions can lead to innovation, building bridges between people and better understanding the reality around us.

 

This year, the organizers have also prepared a unique artistic part, which will refer to the leitmotif and stimulate the imagination in an unconventional way. A dose of inspiration, emotions and reflections await you, which will remain in your memory for a long time.

 

The conference is organized by students of the Interfaculty Scientific Club of Project Management, who combine passion and professionalism, creating a space for sharing ideas and experiences.

 

Don’t hesitate and book your place today! Buy your ticket here

 

www.tedxpolitechnikagdanska.pl


Olivia Centre is a partner of the event.


Speaker:


Tomasz Organek

Musician | Vocalist | Founder of the band Ørganek

Tomasz Organek is a musician, singer and prose writer who graduated in English Philology from the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń and studied at the Faculty of Jazz and Popular Music at the Academy of Music in Katowice. Leader and founder of the Ørganek band, winner of four Fryderyk Awards, the “Master of Polish Speech VOX POPULI” award and many other prestigious awards. Tomasz will talk about how the album “Save Us Love” is a bridge between the past and the present. How to use music and words to transport people in time to bring closer the history, values and fate of people who lived during the Warsaw Uprising.

 

 

Agnieszka Galarowicz

PhD student at AGH UST | Researcher | Local government official

Agnieszka Galarowicz is a PhD student at the Faculty of Management of AGH UST University of Science and Technology, a researcher and a member of local government. She started as a student who, apart from classes, was looking for space to act and people who want something more. She found it in scientific circles, which quickly became her place of development and inspiration. Although he is a marketer by training, he is developing with passion as a salesperson. In his scientific research, he deals with innovation, entrepreneurship and motivation to take action. It combines science with practice, but above all – with people and their stories.

 

Barbara Klaudel

AI in Healthcare | Forbes 25u25 | TheLion.AI

Barbara Klaudel is an expert in the field of AI, over 5 years ago she founded TheLion.AI – a research group creating artificial intelligence models specializing in the field of healthcare. In 2022, she was awarded the award for the best student at the Gdańsk University of Technology, in the same year she was included in the prestigious Forbes 25 under 25 list. A competition for extraordinary people under the age of 25, who in the future have a chance to influence the development of the Polish economy and society. Currently, Barbara combines her professional career with a teaching mission, conducting classes and lectures at the Gdańsk University of Technology.

 

Damian Stefańczyk

Journalist | Creator of the Damian’s Corner podcast,

Journalist and creator of the Damian’s Corner podcast, in which he breaks down language barriers by conducting inspiring conversations with Polish stars. He has always been inspired by people, and curiosity and the desire to understand other people have become the foundation of his work. Together with a friend, he created a documentary about Poles and the Polish diaspora in South America, touching on the topics of social inequality, social advancement and building a new identity on a foreign continent. At TEDxGdańsk University of Technology, she will share a reflection on what often accompanies us all – stereotypes. He will tell you why it is impossible to break them completely… and why it doesn’t have to be bad at all.

 

Kamil Brycki

Content Creator | Influencer Marketing | Men’s Fashion | Photography and film

An expert with many years of experience in the world of fashion, specializing in classic men’s elegance. Since 2014, she has been helping men find their way in the world of clothing, sharing knowledge about fabric quality, proportions, colors and ethical production. He has built his experience, among m.in other things, as a consultant, stylist and photographer, combining practice with a passion for promoting timeless style. She co-creates the Rewers magazine, which is a space for conversations about fashion, culture and conscious choices. At the same time, he is developing his own social media channels, where he has gathered a large and engaged community. It is there that he emphasizes that clothes are more than just protection against the cold – they are a message that we send to the world and that we can consciously shape.

 

Krzysztof Karwowski

Sino-Techno-Logist | President of SGH Doctoral Student Council | PhD Candidate

A graduate of the Gdańsk University of Technology, a participant of a research scholarship in China, a PhD student in the field of Chinese innovation economics as well as a popularizer of knowledge about Chinese characters, people and technologies. Krzysztof will tell us about the importance of China’s space program – once a third-class country, which now has its own space station. We will find out why it should be observed and not be afraid to imitate space powers to the best of its ability.

 

Michał Leksiński

Traveler | Himalayan climber

Michał Leksiński is a traveler who has visited over 50 countries around the world and climbed on all continents (including Antarctica). Collector of the world’s highest bungee jumps. The creator of the charity project “7 Happy Summits” – the Crown of the Earth for the Happy Kids Foundation – has already conquered 8 of the 9 highest peaks of individual continents in an extended version (including Mt Everest). Author of the book “Project: Expedition #travelmarketing” about combining the world of extreme expeditions with business. A political scientist by education and a graduate of several fields of postgraduate studies in the field of psychology, writing and business intelligence. TEDx speaker. Trainer and lecturer at Collegium Civitas. Lecture title: Every step is an answer. My way to Everest. (this can be an additional title, but you don’t need to use it).

 

Paweł Lęcki

Teacher | Tutor | Columnist | Photographer

Paweł Lęcki is a Polish language teacher with twenty years of experience, tutor, columnist and photographer. She has been working with young people for years, looking closely at how education and the assessment system affect their choices and self-esteem. Lecture title: How do you know why you are in this study? That is, about the pitfalls of exams, assessments and recruitment. During his talk, Paul will ask questions that concern us all: – Why do we make such decisions and not others? – How do school grades and exams shape our choices? “What if a system we trust gives us the wrong data?” It will show how not to lose yourself in the maze of numbers, grades and recruitment thresholds, as well as what the school can (or should) do to help instead of hinder.

 

Paweł Węgier

Mental Coach

Paweł was educated at the Academy of Mental Trainers – a place that develops the idea of mental training and uses knowledge in the field of psychology, sociology and neuroscience to effectively help in personal change and unleash human potential. He currently runs his own business, where he helps people undergo a change in thinking leading to peace through individual consultations, training, webinars and programs for companies. Lecture title: Are your happiness and peace like your feet in the shower? Paul wants to show us that happiness and peace are a state of mind that everyone can achieve, to which everyone has the right and what we should do to consciously create it in ourselves.

 

Radek Hoffman

The Illusionist | Author

Radosław Hoffman is one of the most outstanding Polish illusionists, the first Pole to be a member of the prestigious Magic Circle in London and the vice-president of the Polish Illusions Association. He has been performing on international stages for 18 years, and his experience combines the show of illusion with inspiring stories. He is also the author of three books on mentalism and the creator of the only event in Poland dedicated to mentalism – Mental Day. Radosław will tell you how to discover your own passion, how to nurture it and how it can change your life. His speech will show that it is never too late to find what really drives our actions.

 

 

WELCOME!

 

Buy your ticket here

 

 

 

Let’s relive it! “Stać nas na spokój” – performed by 200 voices at Olivia!

Posted on by Katarzyna Halicka

On 12 September, the Olivia Centre became the scene of a unique event. On Olivia’s patio, the song “Sobě i Wam” by Katarzyna Nosowska and Marcin Macuk was sung, sung by almost 200 people! Eight amateur choirs from Pomerania took part in the project.

 

The piece was performed in a premiere arrangement prepared especially for the Olivia Centre Choir. The combined choirs were led by Wiktoria Pagieła – conductor, founder and artistic director of the Olivia Choir. The performance was graced by professional musicians: Karolina Krzyżanowska (piano), Hubert Baumann (guitar), Krzysztof Hnatiuk (bass) and Tomasz Hoffman (drums).

 

” We wanted to convey through music that instead of constant rush and consumerism, it is worth surrounding yourself with wise people and experiencing holy peace ,” says Marta Moksa, choir member and organizational director of the event. – We believe that singing together with several hundred people can move even those who do not expect it.

 

Artist

Olivii Centre
Choir Chamber
Choir Sopot Continuo
Chamber Choir Fahrenheit Alumni Choir “Non Serio”
Choir of the Oliwa Neighbourhood House “Po Sąsiadach”
Association Lira
Choir SANS Mundus Festival Choir Cantat
Choir at the PARK ON Association

 

Listen for yourself!

 

About the Olivia Centre Choir

The Olivia Centre Choir has been operating for seven years and brings together 40 singing enthusiasts who work in various companies located in Olivia Centre – a prestigious business centre in Gdańsk. The band brings together people from different backgrounds who find time after working hours to develop their talent and enjoy making music together. The choir has performed on numerous stages in the Tri-City, participated in cultural and charity projects, and in 2022 released its debut album “Dobre tony”, containing interpretations of well-known songs from the repertoire of m.in. The Beatles, Eurythmics and Męskie Granie Orkiestra.

 

The choir has won prestigious awards, m.in. the Golden Band in the XVIII National Competition of Christmas Carols and Pastorals and the Bronze Diploma in the VI Baltic Competition of Choirs Pomerania Cantat. The participation of the Olivia Centre Choir in the prestigious Philharmonic under the Stars project, during which they performed Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana together with choirs from Poland and Germany and a symphony orchestra, was a unique artistic event confirming the high level of the ensemble and its presence on the national and international music scene.

The Conductor: Wiktoria Pagieła

Wiktoria Pagieła – conductor and founder of the Olivia Centre Choir – is an outstanding figure of the Polish choral scene. Born in Zhytomyr, Ukraine, she comes from a family with rich musical traditions. She is a scholarship holder of the Government of the Republic of Poland and a graduate with distinction of the Faculty of Choral Conducting and Music Education at the Academy of Music in Gdańsk. St. Moniuszko and the Faculty of Philology of the University of Gdańsk. She has many years of experience as a conductor, organizer and leader of vocal and choral workshops, m.in. cyclical meetings in Gdańsk “Saturday Vocal Workshops” and the National Liturgical Music Workshops Music of the Soul in Gdańsk.

 

She is a laureate of many awards, including the Fryderyk 2014 Phonographic Academy Award in the Album of the Year category for the preparation of the University Choir of the Academy of Music in Gdańsk. She was the president of the Gdańsk Branch of the Polish Association of Choirs and Orchestras. Wiktoria is known for her ability to combine professionalism with passion, and her artistic and educational work influences the development of choral music in the region. He is actively involved in promoting contemporary popular choral music in the academic and business environment.

The winners of the sixth edition of the Oliwa Neighborhood Budget announced

Posted on by Katarzyna Halicka

Intergenerational workshops, a concert, photography workshops, a publication about the Gate House and a flash mob. Such projects will be implemented as part of the sixth edition of the Oliwa Neighborhood Budget, financed by Olivia Centre, Andrzej Stelmasiewicz and Przemysław Skokowski – councillor of the Przymorze Małe district.

 

The Oliwa Neighborhood Budget is a local program to support initiatives that develop Oliwa and Przymorze Małe and strengthen ties between the residents of two districts located at Olivia Centre. The initiative has been consistently implemented since 2020. Its aim is to enable the implementation of projects submitted by residents and for residents. The results of this year’s edition were announced on October 26 during a ceremony in the main hall of Olivia Star.

 

In the sixth edition of the budget, as many as 15 initiatives were submitted. The jurors decided to co-finance or provide comprehensive support for the implementation of 5 projects.

 

The first of them is a concert for the residents of Oliwa and tourists, which will take place in July 2026 in the Adam Mickiewicz Park in Oliwa. The event continues the tradition of summer concerts and responds to the need to participate in culture for people of all ages and with different health abilities. Based on the attendance from previous years, the organizers estimate the attendance of about 250-300 people. The location and time of the concert are conducive to the participation of a wide range of recipients – you can participate in it on a blanket with a pet, in a wheelchair or together with children, who will also get to know live music.

 

The second project that has received funding is a continuation of the initiative implemented so far in other districts of Gdańsk. Project “Time and image of Gdańsk: Olive oil and the Little Littoral” It includes workshops on creating collages from old postcards and combining them with images of everyday life of the inhabitants of both districts. The initiative strengthens intergenerational and intercultural dialogue, drawing on the diverse history of Oliwa and the involvement of participants of different ages, countries and backgrounds. 4 workshops for 50 people are planned. The project is complemented by meetings in other parts of the city, which are ultimately to enable the creation of a historical map of places and their transformations over the years.

 

The project of the Regional Centre for Information and Support of Non-Governmental Organisations “Oil in the Objective of Word and Image” – workshops combining education and creative activity of residents – also received funding. As part of them, classes will be held on creating reportages and photographs documenting the life of the district. The meetings will be led by an experienced journalist, and participants will learn the basics of reportage, preparing questions, collecting materials and building a story. A field workshop on reportage mobile photography is also planned, devoted to the use of a smartphone as a reporting tool, the principles of composition and visual narration, and capturing the daily rhythm of Oliwa.

 

Among the projects selected for implementation there was also a publication on the history of the Gatehouse in printed form, with distribution among residents. The Gatehouse is an important meeting point for the inhabitants of Oliwa and the oldest gem of brick Gothic at Stary Rynek Oliwski Street. The building from the 15th century, despite its location in the center of the district, remains relatively unknown. Enthusiasts of the history of Oliwa were involved in the process of creating the publication: volunteers and seniors, who take part in the classes in the Neighborhood House on a daily basis. For centuries, the building served as the entrance gate to Oliwa for Polish monarchs: Jan III Sobieski, Jan Kazimierz, Sigismund III Vasa, Queen Louise Maria Gonzaga and deputies negotiating the Oliwa Peace after the war with the Swedes. The publication will also present the history of the Cistercians of Oliwa and contemporary initiatives carried out in the building.

 

Thanks to funding from the Oliwa Neighborhood Budget, children from Primary School No. 23 in Oliwa will organize a flash mob as part of the nationwide National Reading. On an October Sunday, the participants of the project will promote Jan Kochanowski’s poetry in Oliwa Park, reading his works to the guests of the park. The event will be recorded and edited into a short film, which will support the promotion of the school and the popularization of the poet’s work.

 

The history of the Oliwa Neighborhood Budget dates back to 2020, when a platform to support local initiatives for the development of Oliwa and Przymorze Małe, two districts of Gdańsk located directly at the Olivia Centre, whose residents very often work in Olivia, was created. “In this way, we want to support all initiatives that are important for residents and contribute to the development of the environment in which we operate” – says Bogusław Wieczorek, Representative of the Management Board of Olivia Centre. „As the largest business center in Poland, we support the development of Gdańsk and Pomerania, offering jobs and space for business development. However, the micro-community of which we are neighbors is equally important to us. We want to help organize extracurricular activities, activation workshops for seniors and people in need, as well as support the development of common spaces with new facilities or elements of small architecture. Experience shows that the Oliwa Neighborhood Budget works well where support is needed on a daily basis, and other sources of financing are sometimes unavailable. We are happy that we can improve the quality of life and be good neighbors to the local community.”

 

The Oliwa Neighborhood Budget is an initiative of Olivia Centre, which has been supported from the beginning by Andrzej Stelmasiewicz, a local entrepreneur, cultural activist and long-time Gdańsk councillor. From 2024 , Przemysław Skokowski, a councillor of the Przymorze Małe district, also a Gdańsk entrepreneur, has also joined the group of partners. The jury deciding on the selection of co-financed initiatives includes: Małgorzata Skwira – headmistress of Primary School No. 35, Tomasz Strug – chairman of the Board of the Oliwa District, Przemysław Skokowski – chairman of the Przymorze Małe District Council, Andrzej Stelmasiewicz – a resident of Oliwa and a social activist, Grzegorz Kidybiński – a member of the board of Olivia Centre and Bogusław Wieczorek – a representative of the board of Olivia Centre for the protection of the Olivia Centre. public relations.

 

Concert in the park with James P. and a hat in the background
Park ON Association

 

The Time and Image of Gdańsk project. Oliwa and Małe Przymorze
Atelier Jerszow Foundation

 

Oil in the lens of words and images
Regional Centre for Information and Support of Non-Governmental Organisations

 

Print a folder about the Gatehouse
Stara Oliwa Association

 

Kochanowski in the park – FLASH MOB action
Primary School No. 23, Children of the World

 

 

Maltese Christmas Wafer at Olivia Centre. Become a volunteer!

Posted on by Katarzyna Halicka

On December 1, 2025, Olivia Centre will host a special event – the Maltese Christmas Wafer  (Opłatek Maltański) –  marking the 24th edition of this festive gathering and the fifth time it will take place in Gdańsk, on the highest floors of Olivia Star. Each year, the event brings together several hundred invited guests. The organization of this exceptional celebration is an initiative of the Polish Association of the Knights of Malta.

 

The Order of Malta: over 860 years of tradition and over 100 years of helping those
The Order of Malta began its mission in 1154. In Poland, it has been providing aid to those in need for over 100 years through the Polish Association of the Knights of Malta. As part of its charitable work, numerous initiatives are organized – among them one of the most significant, the Maltese Christmas Wafer, which in 2025 celebrates its 24th anniversary.

 

The Maltese Wafer: History and Purpose
Malta from Kraków, with the support of His Eminence Cardinal Franciszek Macharski. Each year, the event brings together thousands of people in the spirit of Christmas, offering moments of joy, a sense of community, and material support to those facing difficult life circumstances.

 

This year’s edition
In 2025, the Maltese Christmas Wafer will take place in over 30 towns and cities across Poland. In addition to traditional Christmas Eve gift packages containing toys for children, food products, and personal care items, participants will receive emotional support. The initiative focuses not only on material aid but, above all, on shared time together — bringing companionship to those who are lonely or in need during the festive season. One of its most important aspects is creating a truly special atmosphere. For many guests, it is not just a Christmas Eve dinner, but also a chance to pause, breathe, and step away from everyday challenges. In Gdańsk, it also offers the opportunity to enjoy the breathtaking views from the 34th floor of Olivia Star — the tallest building in Pomerania.

 

At the Christmas Eve table in Olivia, families with children, seniors, individuals living alone, and people with disabilities will once again gather together. The table will be filled with traditional holiday dishes, served to the sound of carols. It is a time spent in warmth and togetherness — filled with conversation, celebration, and a sense of community.

The Tri-City edition of the Maltese Christmas Wafer will take place on December 1, 2025, on the 34th floor of Olivia Star. The event will host several hundred guests in need from Gdańsk, Gdynia, and Sopot. Olivia Centre will also welcome, among others, the Mayors of Gdańsk, Gdynia, and Sopot, as well as His Excellency, the Metropolitan Archbishop of Gdańsk.

 

Become a Volunteer!
It is only thanks to the incredible dedication of our Volunteers that we can create such a special event — one that fills the Tri-City with kindness, festive warmth, and joy.
If you’d like to be part of this Christmas gathering and join as a Volunteer, please contact Monika Tarnowska, Coordinator of the Maltese Christmas Wafer in the Tri-City.

 

Preliminary Volunteer Schedule

Friday, November 28 – Transport to Olivia Star
Deliveries of equipment and gifts will arrive from various locations.
Help will be needed with loading and unloading.

Sunday, November 30 – Gift Packing
Location: Olivia Star

Two volunteer groups:

  • Group 1 (conceptual) – from 11:00 a.m.
    Preparation of workstations and sorting of gifts.

  • Group 2 (packing) – from 1:00 p.m.
    Packing of gift boxes and preparing them for distribution to event participants.

 

Monday, December 1 – Event Day
Start: 11:00 a.m., Olivia Star
This is the moment when we come together to brighten the day with smiles, energy, and heart.

 

Become a Donor!

The organization of the event in the Tri-City would not be possible without the support of Sponsors and Donors who make it possible to prepare Christmas Eve meals and gift packages for invited guests. If you’d like to become a Donor, please contact Monika Tarnowska, Coordinator of the Maltese Christmas Wafer in the Tri-City.


Contact for Volunteers and Donors:
Monika Tarnowska
Coordinator of the Maltese Christmas Wafer in the Tri-City
Tel. +48 695 452 102
E-mail: monika.tarnowska@zakonmaltanski.pl

 

Institutional
The initiative is co-financed by the City of Gdańsk and supported by the cities of Gdańsk, Gdynia, and Sopot.

 

How can you help?

Individuals and companies wishing to support the Maltese Christmas Wafer can make contributions to the account of the Polish Knights of Malta Foundation:

PKO Bank Polski SA | Account number: 39 1020 2892 0000 5102 0523 8771
Please include the note: “Maltese Christmas Wafer”

The Maltese Wafer in Olivia 2023, photo: Bogusław Wieczorek, oplatekmaltanski.org

We invite you to the opening of the LEGENDS exhibition and the award ceremony in the Oliwa Neighborhood Budget!

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On Sunday, October 26, 2025 at 1:00 p.m., a unique exhibition will open at Olivia Star. Their works will be presented by retired professors, retired professors and teachers of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. A meeting with such excellent Gdańsk residents is an ideal opportunity to present awards in the Oliwa Neighborhood Budget competition.

 

The exhibition inaugurated with Sunday’s vernissage is entitled LEGENDS, because each of the exhibitors deserves this designation. For many years, they and they created the everyday life and mythology of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk.

 

ARTISTS

  • Krystyna Andrzejewska-Marek
  • Kęstut Bereźnicki
  • Roman Gajewski
  • Stanisław Gierada
  • Teresa Klaman
  • Mariusz Kulpa
  • Hugon Lasecki
  • Henryk Lula
  • Jadwiga Okrassa
  • Mieczysław Mieto Olszewski
  • Cezary Paszkowski
  • Janina Rudnicka
  • Janina Stefanowicz-Schmidt
  • Andrzej Śramkiewicz
  • Czesław Tumielewicz

 

The exhibition was organized by the Gdańsk Community Foundation in cooperation with Olivia Centre.

 

Visit the exhibition in the Olivia Star lobby – open until the end of the year! Free admission.

 

The Oliwa Neighborhood Budget is a program initiated by the Olivia Centre, supporting social initiatives of the inhabitants of Oliwa and Przymorze Małe. In 2025, for the sixth time, we will help Neighbors in the implementation of projects serving both districts. Who will receive funding for the implementation of their project this time? Read more about the project…

 

“We can afford peace.” How eight choirs sang an amazing message

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“To yourself and to you”. Eight choirs joined forces to bring a positive message to the world and sing the words of Katarzyna Nosowska.

 

Great emotions accompanied the choir members in creating a music video and a short documentary with a message to the world about support in times full of fears, uncertainty and hate. Eight choirs from the Tri-City and the surrounding area performed together on stage with a common idea: We wish you and you to be able to afford peace of mind.

 

Katarzyna Nosowska’s song became an inspiration for the preparation of the recording for a reason – the aim of the action was to promote self-care and mental health. The protagonists of the recording are, m.in, people who struggle with health problems on a daily basis, work with the sick, and therefore they set themselves the goal of recording the song and creating a message about the importance of health, peace and emotional balance.

 

Our body remembers stress, and people with Parkinson’s disease know how much harm it can do to our body, so our presence here is also a reminder of how important distance and peace are for our health – says Urszula Wyrwińska from the Park On Association, who organizes workshops for people suffering from Parkinson’s disease on a daily basis.

 

Tomasz Przypaśniak from the Sans Mundus Cantat Festival Choir, taking part in the event, emphasized the importance of good emotions for the people around us: This recording is a good opportunity to remind ourselves that the goodness and peace in the heart that we have is a value that we can also offer to other people. When we carry them within us, we open up to other people, we are able to listen more to their needs, and each of us has these needs: to love and be loved by others.

 

Preparations for the recording and the concert lasted several weeks, which required a lot of discipline and commitment on the part of people who sing in various choirs and remote parts of the Tri-City on a daily basis. Shortly after the performance, one of the organizers, and at the same time a choir member Marta Moksa from Olivia Centre, shared her emotions: Now I feel mainly gratitude and incredible joy that so many singers responded to the appeal, learned and came to record on the patio of Olivia Centre The most beautiful, because musical wishes for everyone who wants to listen. Katarzyna Nosowska wrote wise words and a beautiful song, and we united people who have music in their hearts to carry them once again into the world. I am filled with unique emotions and I am glad that in people singing in choirs there is a sense of mission to come and let the world know that you have to surround yourself with wise people and you have to love.

 

The idea to perform this piece and organize the concert arose among the musicians of the Olivia Centre choir, who encouraged other bands from the Tri-City and the surrounding area to perform together. Eventually, nearly 150 people from choirs associating singing enthusiasts from the following bands stood on the stage:

 

Olivia Centre
ChoirChamber
ChoirSopot Chamber Choir Continuo
Fahrenheit Alumni Choir “Non Serio”
Choir of the Oliwa Neighborhood House “Po sąsiadach”
Lira
Choir AssociationSANS Mundus Cantat
Festival ChoirChoir at the PARK ON Association

 

The amateur choir members were accompanied by professional musicians: Karolina Krzyżanowska (piano), Hubert Baumann (guitar), Krzysztof Hnatiuk (bass) and Tomasz Hoffman (drums).

 

The artistic director of the event, who also undertook to lead the combined choirs, is Wiktoria Pagieła – the conductor of the Olivia Choir, who combines passion, professionalism and many years of musical experience. Research shows that singing in a group improves mental health, reduces stress, strengthens the sense of belonging and happiness – says Wiktoria Pagieła. Music and making music together allow us to find balance and peace in a busy world, and at the same time connect people across divisions.

 

We at Olivia were not about the stars, but about the message and the effect. I deeply believe that when people see and hear these emotions, these words, this power in the film, they must feel better – emphasizes Marta Moksa. On Friday, those who responded to the appeal and came to sing and those who decided to see our work on the live recording were happier. These 8 choirs are an incredible variety – they are senior choirs, ensembles supporting people with Parkinson’s disease, choirs built around universities or companies. Very large choirs and chamber choirs. A total of 150 people performed on the patio of the Olivia Centre. For me, it’s an amazing action, built from the pure, selfless goodwill of all of us. The essence of the source of happiness.

 

Such events are much more than music – emphasizes Bogusław Wieczorek, Olivia Centre’s Board Representative. It is proof of the power that cooperation brings, sharing passion and passing it on to others. At the same time, we want to give a strong signal that everyone is invited to Olivia and can find something for themselves: both in restaurants, tourist attractions or family attractions, but also during various events, of which nearly three thousand take place in our spaces every year.

 

The Olivia Centre Choir has been operating for seven years and brings together 40 singing enthusiasts who work in various companies located in Olivia Centre, the largest business centre in Poland. The band brings together people from different backgrounds and companies operating in the Olivia Centre, who find time after working hours to develop their talent and enjoy making music together. The choir has performed on numerous stages in the Tri-City, participated in cultural and charity projects, and in 2022 released its debut album “Dobre tony”, containing interpretations of well-known songs from the repertoire of, m.in The Beatles, Eurythmics and Męskie Granie Orkiestra.

 

Meet people of passion! We invite you to watch a short video about the event.

 

 

 

Listen to the whole performance

The 2025/2026 Football League season starts! Assemble a team and report it to us!

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It’s coming back, it’s coming back! Olivia Centre Football League! Season 2025/2026
We invite all football lovers to the competition.
Gather teams and participate!

 

 

After the holidays, energy is boiling? Instead of circling the office at a sprint pace and nodding to your co-workers or boss;), bring that power to the pitch! The Olivia Football League is back – and for the thirteenth time! You say “13”? We say: happy thirteen. And since 1+3=4, we have four cosmic reasons for you to join right now.

 

 

The Cosmic Four, or why it’s worth it

  1. The joy of the game – nothing resets your head like 50 minutes of running after the ball and that one lace action that you will talk about over coffee until the end of the season.
  2. Team spirit – the league binds teams together better than many trainings. On the pitch, you learn to trust faster than in all the workshops combined.
  3. Health and endorphins – fitness increases, stress decreases, and the banana does not leave the face. This is the most pleasant “benefit plan” you can get.
  4. Sports competition at ease – we play seriously, but with a smile. Fair play is our basic tactic.

 

Gather a team and apply

Gather a team and report to us.

  1. Step 1. Stand up to the captain.
  2. Step 2. Choose a squad (reserves are welcome – the season is long!).
  3. Step 3. Fill out the form (BELOW!) and send your application to dzial.komunikacji@oliviacentre.com
  4. Step 4. Receive confirmation, refuel with endorphins and… See you on the pitch.

 

 

FAQ (Really Attractive Q&A)

  1. Level of advancement? Different – from “I’ve been playing since forever” to “I bought corks yesterday”. Everyone has their own minutes of glory here.
  2. Equipment? An outfit, shoes, a bottle of water and a desire to play. You will take care of the rest in the team.
  3. Terms? We start in October 2025, play until June 2026 – WE ACCEPT APPLICATIONS UNTIL SEPTEMBER 19TH!
  4. Safety? We play fair, we respect our rivals and our knees. Simple.

Below are the current Regulations and Application Forms.

 

 

 

Olivia Football Regulamin_Liga Centre_2025-2026

Form zgloszenia_Liga Football Olivia_2025_2026

Form zgloszenia_Liga Football Olivia_2025_2026_sklad

 

10 years of O4 Coworking at Olivia Centre!

Posted on by Katarzyna Halicka

Our O4 Coworking celebrates its tenth birthday today and still has the same attractive rhythm: you come in “for a while” and you stay for a very, very long time. Desks and meters? Sure, there are. But it’s the coworking community that makes you really want to be here – harmonious, kind, helpful, “just ours”.

 

Today, I think we can say that ten years have passed like one day. Because everything was happening so fast! And over the past decade, something has emerged that is the hardest to plan in a business plan: a close-knit community. Companies and freelancers, startups and mature teams – they all say the same thing: it’s just good to work here. Because in O4, desks, rooms and meters are just the beginning. The most important thing happens between people.

 

What makes the difference on a daily basis?

  • conversations in the kitchen, after which projects are created,
  • random meetings from which you leave with contact and a plan for tomorrow,
  • Networking without spin – wise, supportive, strengthening business and mood
  • short relaxation on the grass, deckchair, swing;
  • Celebrating small and large holidays together

 

Fig. Olivia Centre Archives

 

O4 also offers a specific offer, including: offices, desks, hot desks, registry addresses, workshops, meetings, conferences, webinars, opportunities for networking, spending time together, meeting rooms, webinar corner and much more. Because, as the team emphasizes, O4 is much more than just an office. It is, above all, an inspiring community, combining knowledge, passion, serving cooperation, exchange of experience, knowledge and development. One that combines business and purely human potential.

 

O4 has been focusing on personal and business development for years. Competencies, employer branding, business development, mentoring. The numbers speak for themselves: 97% of O4 members appreciate the offer “outside the office and desk”, almost half actively use workshops, sports, recruitment speed-dating and team-building events, and 98% think that the O4 community is friendly and helpful. What’s more, 70% see a connection between being at O4 and their own success – and the same number treat O4 as a business partner.

 

Today, O4 manages 86 offices for almost 700 people and operates in four buildings of the Olivia Centre. In total, there is about 6000 m² of very diverse space – from a prestigious zone overlooking the city to budget, “atmospheric” options on the lower floors, or even a compact 4 m² in shared spaces. In addition, full kitchen facilities, integration spaces and – to be fully used – the entire residential offer of the Olivia Centre!

 

And that’s exactly what Olivia’s ecosystem is of great importance here: events organized here, interesting guests, inspiring meetings and conversations (including those “At the Top” by Olivia Star, cooperation with universities (UG, PG, WSB Merito), recruitment offer, projects carried out together with local entrepreneurs. For many, it is important that O4 is the largest local coworking community – you join and are immediately online Ok. 500 entrepreneurs.

 

 

O4, happy 10th anniversary!
Thank you for your energy, agency and daily “hey” in the corridor. We wish you and all Oczterian residents another decade full of inspiring meetings, bold projects, great recruitment and – simply – happy work in good company.

It is for you that today we will display the O4 logo at the very top of Olivia Star!
Have a good time, have a good time!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Billiards brings office workers together on their lunch break

Posted on by Katarzyna Halicka

Since the beginning of the summer holidays, the Olivia Centre has boasted the first outdoor pool table. It is a unique attraction available free of charge to all those interested. Olivia also has Omida Billiard Corner – a space on the first floor of Olivia Star, where two professional tables for playing this unusual sport await billiard lovers.

 

Since the beginning of the project, Olivia Centre has been developing the so-called passion clubs – informal clubs associating lovers of photography, sailing, football, volleyball or much less obvious passions, such as flower care. The most visible club is made up of singing enthusiasts, gathered in the Olivia Centre Choir, which recorded its own album and last year began participating in ticketed concerts in the Pomeranian Voivodeship. Recently, a pool lovers’ club has been added to the list of opportunities to develop passion in Olivia. One of Olivia’s tenants, Omida Group, offered to make a billiard table available to all interested parties in Olivia’s common areas.

When I found a billiard table in our warehouses, I immediately thought of putting it in a public place and making it available to Olivia Residents ,” says Maciej Kotarski, director at Olivia Centre. I decided to get involved in the project Bartłomiej Glinka from Omida Group, who plays billiards very well and is happy to talk about it. This is our specialty – to find an enthusiast among the residents who will want to support a given project. By joining forces, it was possible to complete this project successfully and make a beautiful table available for all fans of this extraordinary game.

I immediately liked this idea – emphasizes Bartłomiej Glinka, Member of the Supervisory Board and co-founder of Omida Group. Thanks to the great cooperation with Olivia’s administration department, we were able to organize the space on the first floor of Olivia Star very quickly. We invested in it, arranged it in a way that ensured safety and immediately launched a league of enthusiasts of this sport from all over Olivia. Her tutor was Grzegorz Lasota, a billiard player, coach, member of Omida-Kmicic Starogard Gdański . On the basis of the first group of fans of this sport, in the first year it was possible to organize a billiard league, in which 30 players took part, and in the second edition there were already over 40 of them. The popularity of this idea caused Omida to supplement the Billiard Corner with a second table. This year, thanks to the cooperation with Starmax, the first outdoor billiard table appeared on Olivia’s patio, which is a kind of novelty in Poland.


We are very happy when residents get involved in Olivia’s life,” says Maciej Olszewski, Director of the Communication Department at Olivia Centre. We actively support their ideas and initiatives, and Omida Bilard Corner is a great example of this. A few weeks in 2024 were enough for Omida Billiard Corner to be built on the 1st floor of Olivia Star. So far, three billiard tournaments have been played here. Importantly, apart from the tournament emotions, the zone is available to all employees of the center, and admission to it is free. It is often used by employees of other companies who come to play a 10-minute game as part of a break from work.

However, this is not all that is happening around billiards in Olivia – says Maciej Kotarski. At the beginning of 2025, one of the residents came up with the idea of providing Olivia’s employees and guests with an outdoor pool table. We got in touch with a Polish manufacturer of such tables, found a suitable place on the patio and now you can play Olivia’s billiards in the open air. The table surface has a special structure that provides almost identical playing conditions as on a cloth-covered table. We haven’t seen an outdoor billiard tournament in Olivia yet, but the table attracts fans of this entertainment, especially during the lunch break or during our events from the Summer on the Patio series.

 

Fig. Piotr Połoczański

 

Fig. Omida

Olivia Centre has been supporting local initiatives for 6 years

Posted on by Katarzyna Halicka

Olivia Centre, Andrzej Stelmasiewicz and Przemysław Skokowski, councillor of the Przymorze Małe district, invite all interested parties to apply for funds from the Oliwa Neighbourhood Budget – a local programme to support initiatives developing Oliwia and its residents.

 

This year is the 6th edition of the initiative, which since 2020 has aimed to support projects important to residents. Initiatives are submitted by them, as well as by charities and non-governmental organizations. This year’s pool of funds from the Oliwa Neighbourhood Budget amounts to PLN 24 thousand and was funded by the Olivia Centre business centre, Andrzej Stelmasiewicz, an entrepreneur, activist and culture lover from Oliwa, and Przemysław Skokowski, a councillor of the Przymorze Małe district. Together, they funded funds that can be applied for until 14 September this year.

 

The history of the Oliwa Neighborhood Budget dates back to 2020, when a platform was created to support local initiatives aimed at the development of Oliwa and Przymorze Małe – two districts of Gdańsk, located directly at the Olivia Centre, and whose residents most often work in Olivia. In this way, we want to support all initiatives that are important for residents and contribute to the development of the environment in which we operate ,” says Bogusław Wieczorek, Olivia Centre’s Board Representative. As the largest business center in Poland, we support the development of Gdańsk and Pomerania, offering jobs and contributing to many investments that permanently change the economic face of the region and Polish, but the micro-community, of which we are a part on a daily basis, is also important to us. We want to support the organization of extracurricular activities, activation workshops addressed to seniors and people in need, but also the development of common spaces with new facilities or elements of small architecture. Experience shows that the Oliwa Neighborhood Budget works well where support is needed on a daily basis, and other sources of financing do not provide such a possibility or it is necessary to supplement them. We are glad that in this way we can contribute to improving the quality of life and be good neighbors for our local community.

 

From the very beginning, the initiative has been supported by Andrzej Stelmasiewicz, a local entrepreneur, cultural activist and long-time Gdańsk councillor. The Oliwa Neighborhood Budget, which includes two districts: Oliwa and Przymorze Małe, i.e. the former Oliwa za Torami, is a model to be followed by entrepreneurs from other districts. I dream of such initiatives appearing in other Gdańsk districts, and we have as many as 35 of them. I am glad that our Oliwa budget is developing, but I encourage other entrepreneurs from Oliwa and Przymorze Małe to join this great initiative – emphasizes Andrzej Stelmasiewicz.

 

Since 2024, Przemysław Skokowski, Councillor of the Przymorze Małe district, also a Gdańsk entrepreneur, has also joined the activities of the Oliwa Budget: As one of the donors of the Oliwa Neighborhood Budget, I have a simple motivation: to give back a part of what I receive from our community. In the sixth edition, there is PLN 24 thousand in the pool, and the residents of Oliwa and Przymorze Małe can submit their ideas until September 14 in a very simple and very simplified path of awarding funds to receive them if the jury likes the idea. I keep my fingers crossed for projects that connect neighbors and leave a lasting mark on the community. In previous years, we have seen how great initiatives work – from ceramic workshops, through floorball tournaments for children, to field games that reveal the history of Oliwa. As a resident of Przymorze Małe and the Chairman of the District Council, I hope that this year there will also be initiatives from our district and I will strongly support their implementation.

 

Projects can be submitted via the form available on the OBS website. The selection of co-financed projects is decided by a jury consisting of District Councillors, city activists, representatives of public institutions and one representative of the Olivia Centre. The winners are chosen through democratic voting, in which each vote has equal weight.