On 24 May, representatives of business, science, education, local government and beneficiaries of projects implemented by organizations located in Olivia Business Centre met in Olivia Business Centre. They discussed the strength of relationships and the importance of cross-sectoral and cross-industry projects. The participants of the meeting ” The Power of Relationships, Cooperation as a Response to Challenges” proved that joint actions m.in. On the business-science-local government line, they allow to create significant competitive advantages and have a significant impact on strengthening the position of the Pomeranian region. An opportunity to exchange experiences was the anniversary of the Olivia CONNECT project, dedicated to broadly understood cooperation, relations and mutual inspiration. The event was attended by 120 people.
Maciej Grabski, The President of Olivia Business Centre, opening the meeting, said m.in. We are in a place where history harmonizes with the present, where, here I look at our closest neighbour, Hala Oliwia, I can feel the power of joint action that can change reality. I’m sure we can always do more together than we can do separately.
“From the very beginning of our operation, Olivia Business Centre has focused on the cooperation of sectors, industries and companies. We believe in the power of cooperation and in the fact that an out-of-the-box view of business and current and potential partners gives rise to interesting and inspiring projects – says Agnieszka Zglinicka, Head of Olivia CONNECT at Olivia Business Centre “We try to instill these ideas in our residents and create optimal conditions for them to build mutual trust and develop joint initiatives. Many of them are already changing Pomerania. According to us and our speakers, cooperation, knowledge sharing and relationships are essential today to achieve a market advantage.
During the event, Dr. Tomasz Kalinowski from the Sopot University of Applied Sciences talked about the broadly understood cooperation. He presented m.in. analysis of the Tri-City’s business position as well as competitive values and advantages, m.in. location of the metropolis in relation to other Polish and European agglomerations. He also pointed out the most important challenges that Pomerania is currently facing. – Our capital is the synergy of all cooperating entities. The Tri-City entrepreneurship brand is created by an ecosystem of synergy: business, regional authorities, business-oriented higher education sector and business environment sector; I mean the real estate market, the banking system, recruitment companies, NGOs. Already today, the Tri-City brand is worth 15 billion dollars – emphasized Dr. Kalinowski.
During the event, the projects that OBC residents have completed together so far within the CONNECT space and in the Olivia Business Centre itself were also presented.
The Power of Relationships
Krzysztof Kunicki from the Job Office, a unit of the Gdańsk Labour Office, and Sylwia Broda from BPO Education Centre, a project of SSW, spoke about a non-standard approach to recruitment processes. The “Corporate Accounting” course is an example of effective and effective cooperation between enterprises and business support institutions. It was developed by Job Office in response to the specific needs of companies in the BPO/SSC sector – thyssenkrupp, Fujifilm and Kemir, looking for junior accountants. Candidates for these positions were trained by the BPO Education Center and the graduates of the training, immediately after its completion, started working in the above-mentioned companies cooperating within the project. Companies.
A comprehensive offer dedicated to entrepreneurs was presented by Magdalena Raczyńska and Jarosław Filipczak from the Pomeranian Regional Chamber of Commerce. RIGP, an organization of economic self-government, brings together entrepreneurs conducting business activity in the Pomeranian, West Pomeranian, Warmian-Masurian, Kuyavian-Pomeranian and Greater Poland Voivodeships on a voluntary basis.
Andrzej Kiesz from InfoShare and Izabela Diesterheft from Interizon also talked about the power of cooperation. They presented the results of the Digital Health Care project, proving that health care is an area where technology has more and more to explore. Jolanta Szydłowska, President of PZP Lewiatan, together with Jarosław Jarocki from PPT PKS Gdańsk Oliva SA presented the results of the implementation of the “Strategic Support for SMEs” program.
Agnieszka Zglinicka and Leszek Szmidtke talked about the mission of the Inspiring Examples Foundation, supported by the Olivia Business Centre. – We want to bring young people closer to the idea of entrepreneurship by presenting them with good, or even the best, examples of business activity in Pomerania – said Leszek Szmidtke – In this way, we intend to help them make good career choices. Almost 60 companies already cooperate with us.
There was also time for networking, which is so important for building new relationships and strengthening existing ones. After the official part of the event, individual meetings were held at the residents of Olivia CONNECT as part of the “open doors”.
– We talked about what we can do together to develop our Region, using the potential of residents, business and science. We hope that by showing how much can be achieved together, we will encourage a wide range of Pomeranian entities to cooperate. Already, our partners, m.in, play an extremely important role in creating an atmosphere of cooperation and in the development of relations. Pomeranian Employers and the Pomerania Development Agency. – sums up Agnieszka Zglinicka.
Olivia CONNECT – Olivia Business Centre project initiated in 2015, dedicated to stimulating and facilitating cooperation between all OBC Residents. Its overriding goal is to create an environment conducive to business development and to initiate projects, the joint implementation of which is conducive to the development of the Pomeranian region. At the same time, CONNECT T is a space where chambers of commerce, associations, employers’ associations, clusters integrating enterprises and entities focused on education and innovation have their headquarters. So far, Olivia CONNECT has been home to, m.in the following countries: Pomeranian Chamber of Commerce, Pomeranian Association of Entrepreneurs Lewiatan, GUP Job Office, ICT Cluster Interizon, BPO Education Centre – Sopot University of Higher Education; infoShare Foundation. A resident of the Olivia CONNECT space is also the Inspiring Examples Foundation, which runs the educational project “Inspirations”.
