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24 May 2016 At 9:30 a.m. in Olivia Tower, in the Olivia Business Centre complex, a gala summarizing the GOal EKONOMIK project will be held. The project was organized by Tri-City companies representing various business branches: GBS Partners, HK Finance, InvestGda, Olivia Business Centre and Wipro.

“It is not often that companies cooperate so intensively with our school. HK Finance believed in the students of the Schools of Economics and Commerce in Gdansk. I will remember the words of Mrs. Anna Łabęcka-Milewska, who, after six months of cooperation with the graduates of our school, said: “You educate economic technicians who have excellent professional knowledge. If the young people of SE-H also learn German and improve their skills in Excel, they will find a job without any problems.” We believed and we don’t regret it – says Donata Kucal, the school’s principal.

The GOal EKONOMIK program is addressed to students of the School of Economics and Economics Educational Society in Gdańsk and aims to prepare young people to take up professional work and enable them to acquire qualifications attractive to a potential employer.

“I think that the knowledge gained during the interesting classes of the GOal EKONOMIK project will make it easier for me to find a good job in the future. Currently, I use the acquired skills in practical classes at HK Finance – says Patrycja Dunajska, a student of SE-H.

Skills such as advanced use of Microsoft Excel, the basics of speaking and writing in German, and exercises in professional CV creation and interview preparation are just some of the information that program participants can learn.

I learned a lot in German and Excel classes. The knowledge I have gained will definitely be useful to me in the future – says Monika Myśliwiec, a student of SE-H.

Students can benefit from the knowledge and experience of professional teachers and lecturers. The GOal EKONOMIK Gala will be an opportunity to summarize the achieved goals of the project and to jointly plan its next editions.

“We are glad that we were able to support the education of young people who consciously want to prepare for entering the labour market and gain the necessary competences by participating in additional classes conducted by practitioners. Especially those who want to learn German, because it is the second most popular language after English, which foreign investors are looking for in our region – says Alan Aleksandrowicz, CEO of InvestGda.

“The Goal EKONOMIK project gives young people the opportunity to get to know employers, their expectations, and to change their ideas about the labour market into real knowledge based on their own observations. This is a valuable capital that can be decisive in getting that dream job in the future. Wipro is planning a very dynamic development in the coming years. We want to attract young, committed employees who already know what they want to do at the first stage of their professional career development – Aleksandra Peszek, HR Manager at Wipro.

JOB OFFICE and Perfect Consulting invite you to a free meeting, the aim of which is to exchange knowledge and experience in the field of good practices in recruitment and selection of employees, building the employer’s image and creating training plans.

Nowadays, a strong employer brand increases the effectiveness of the recruitment process, significantly affects the level of retention of key people and talents, increases productivity, loyalty and employee engagement, and consequently leads to better financial results.

“Joining forces is the beginning, it will remain
Together is progress, working together is success”
Henry Ford

Participation in the meeting will be an opportunity for you to develop effective solutions adequate to the needs of various types of organizations operating in the Polish economic reality.

The special guest of the meeting will be Hanna Kąkol – Managing Director of Perfect Consulting, ICC Certified Coach

31 May, 10:00 – 12:00
Olivia Business Centre, O4 (Olivia Four building, entrance from the patio)

The program includes:
10:00-10:15 Registration of participants, welcome coffee

10:15-10:45 Welcoming the guests and presentation of the services of JOB OFFICE, Business Client Advisor at the District Labour Office in Gdańsk

10:45-11:30 Lecture “Good practices in recruitment” – Perfect Consulting, Managing Director, Hanna Kąkol

11:30-12:00 Networking and refreshments

Participation is free of charge , the number of places is limited, the order of applications decides. Please register for the meeting by 27 May 2016. to the e-mail address: kkunicki@joboffice.pup.gda.pl / ahryniewicz@joboffice.pup.gda.pl.

thyssenkrupp intends to have taken on eighty IT specialists by the end of the year. The new tenth floor office space in the Olivia Six building will be for the specialists and managers of the newly formed team.

thyssenkrupp is a world leader in advanced industrial technologies; it delivers components to such sectors as automotive, aviation and maritime. Furthermore, it manufactures cranes and lifts as well as industrial equipment for special applications. In total, the company employs over 160,000 people around the world. The Gdańsk centre provides services for more than 1,500 companies in the thyssenkrupp group all over the world.

At present, the company employs over 100 people in Gdańsk who work mainly in IT, Finance and Accounting, HR and Property Management Divisions. The Gdańsk centre continues to develop its services department. The new offices will be occupied by system and application administrators, SAP software specialists, IT infrastructure engineers, IT processes support specialists and project teams. thyssenkrupp is looking for qualified professionals in these areas and those who would want to improve their skills and obtain attractive new qualifications. The condition is a good command of English. The command of German would be an advantage; besides, the company offers specialist language courses for its employees. In addition, it assists in employee development by offering training and the opportunity to pursue certificates as well as practical learning through work with experienced professionals from Germany, the US and other countries. Future employees may also expect training programmes in the technologies, processes and IT solutions the company uses.

Within the next few years, thyssenkrupp plans to employ 700 people in Gdańsk.

“Gdańsk is becoming a very important centre for IT services to the thyssenkrupp group. Similar centres have also emerged in other places in the world, but this location would be a leading one in terms of headcount. A great diversity in the nature of business of the group companies is the opportunity to gain unique experience and work with different technologies. We promote employee development and encourage our people to contribute to a friendly office atmosphere“, says Robert Góra, President of the Board, ThyssenKrupp Group Services Gdańsk Sp. Ltd.

“The newly created team in Gdańsk is full of energy to work and activities, after work hours as well, e.g. the participation in sports events, care for the environment initiatives or sector conferences“, adds Rafał Grabowski, IT Team Leader, ThyssenKrupp Group Services Gdańsk.

“The most important development plans for the centre are expanding the existing team of SAP system specialists and consultants in all the areas from 20 to 100 people within the next one and a half years. Therefore, we are looking for people with vast experience who want to develop their career in SAP consulting, leaders ready to take responsibility for creating their own teams and people without any particular experience but eager to learn“, sums up Łukasz Narojczyk Manager of the Application Support and Development Department.

Since its early days, the project has been supported by the Invest in Pomerania initiative, in particular by the Pomerania Development Agency and the Gdańsk Economic Development Agency (INVESTGDA).

“I congratulate thyssenkrupp on such a dynamic growth and on new ideas. I am also pleased with the company’s plans to employ specialists from the broad IT sector, which proves that the market in the Tri-City is prepared for the expectations of such companies as thyssenkrupp. I can assure you that as the President of INVESTGDA and partner to Invest in Pomerania I will make every effort for ThyssenKrupp to have favourable conditions for the further development of its project in Gdańsk”, said Alan Aleksandrowicz, President of the Board, INVESTGDA.

See the job offers at thyssenkrupp>>

On the occasion of Children’s Day, on Saturday, 4 June, a Play Town will be created at Olivia Business Centre! For the youngest residents of Oliwa and other nearby districts, as well as for the children of Olivia Business Centre residents, there will be many attractions (m.in. a theatre performance, dance and sports classes, an inflatable playground, a show of scientific experiments). Admission is free.

We invite all children and their parents to have fun on the occasion of Children’s Day. The Play Town opens on June 4 at 10.00 a.m. at the stadium of the University of Gdansk, behind the buildings of Olivia Business Centre, and will remain available for young adventurers until 10.00 a.m. 14.00. Please bring comfortable clothes, blankets for picnic rest and good humor. 🙂

For the third time, Olivia Business Centre and the Residents of the Centre are jointly organising a family picnic, to which they invite local residents and employees of Oliwa office buildings. The games are held in compliance with all safety rules.

The programme of attractions on the stage of the Play Town:

“Hourly” attractions:

10.00 a.m. – theatrical performance by the KOPEREK and KMINEK groups

10.30 a.m . – SING! – mini playback show with children

11.00 – YOU CAN DANCE! – dance show

11.30 a.m. – SCIENCE SHOW – demonstration of “blood-curdling” experiments

12.00 – STAMP GAME – interactive adventure game for children and parents

12.30 – BIG SOAP BUBBLES – surprise the Clown and create the biggest soap bubble!

13.00 – JUDO

1.30 p.m. – SPORTS COMPETITIONS for parents with children

“Permanent” attractions (available throughout the picnic):

• INFLATABLES – two slides and a bouncy castle, which is a real treat for jumping fans!
• A STAND FULL OF EXPERIMENTS – discover the world of experiments and see for yourself that the impossible can become real!
• CHILDREN’S CORNER – games for the youngest participants
• FACE PAINTING – fantastic characters on children’s faces
• MONOPOLY – Winning Moves invites the youngest to play Monopoly on a special, large board with the adventures of Peppa Pig!
• DRAW – take part in a game where every ticket wins!
• DIY, OR THE LITTLE ENGINEER’S WORKSHOP – use wood, hammer and other tools to conjure up fantastic equipment and take it home!

Organizer: Olivia Business Centre

Gold Sponsor: Energa Group

Partners: PwC, Staples, Winning Moves, Lobster Restaurant, Medicover, White Cat Kindergarten

Media patronage: Trójmiasto.pl, Radio Gdańsk, StaraOliwa.pl

We would like to invite you to a free information meeting on the Loan for technological innovation, i.e. EU support for innovative projects of the Smart Growth Operational Programme. The meeting is addressed to micro, small and medium-sized enterprises.

June 20, 2016 Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego will announce another competition under Measure 3.2.2 Loan for technological innovations. Support will be available for the implementation of technological innovations.

During the meeting, entrepreneurs will learn m.in.

• what are the competition requirements for entrepreneurs by Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego and commercial banks,
• what expenses can be qualified as part of the investment,
• how to properly construct a project budget,

i.e. how to effectively obtain support under Measure 3.2.1 Loan for technological innovations.

The meeting will be held at the Pomerania Development Agency in Olivia Business Centre, Olivia Six Building at al. Grunwaldzka 472 D in Gdansk, in the conference room (floor 12), May 19, from 14:00 to 16:15.

Applications until places are filled. More information and application form>>

History of Oliwa (; Òlëwa or Òléwa, Latin and German: Oliva) is full of interesting events. The oldest document related to the monastery in Oliwa is the foundation document issued on 18 March 1186 by the son of Subisław Sambor I. From that time on, for seven centuries, the development of Oliwa was closely connected with the Cistercian Order. Cistercian monasteries were important centers of culture, science and medicine in the Middle Ages, the monks also introduced a new agrarian culture and enormous technical progress in crafts and agriculture. The unquestionable contribution of the Cistercians to the development of Oliwa and the richness of their cultural and material heritage creates an opportunity to draw an analogy between such a rich, colourful history and today’s dynamic development of a new place for the inhabitants of Gdańsk and the inhabitants of the metropolis, and to combine them into one creative story. We are connected by Oliwa and its history, tradition and culture.

“Olivia’s name day” is a new cultural and social initiative undertaken by Olivia Business Centre, which will take place on 12 June 2016 in the Oliwa Archcathedral (Mass at 1.00 p.m.) and on the Square in front of the Cathedral (from 9.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m.), in cooperation with the Parish of the Archcathedral in Oliwa and the Marshal’s Office, which is preparing the 10th edition of the Pomeranian Traditional Product Festival, organized by the Marshal’s Office of the Pomeranian Voivodeship.

Our goal is to celebrate the name day of the patron saint of the Oliwa district – St. Olivia. It is thanks to the Cistercians that St. Olive oil*. We want this event, in a place important for all residents and guests – in the Cathedral and on the Cathedral Square, to contribute to the preservation of the memory of such a historically important figure associated with our district. We feel that we are continuators of the multi-layered economic, cultural and social tradition of Oliwa and the Cistercian Order, which is why we want to refer to it creatively.

A 11. June on Saturday at 12.00-16.00 we also invite you to the Olivia Business Centre stand as part of the VIVA OLIVA event, the Oliwa Festival at the War Invalids Square and Jacek Rybiński.

OLIWIA’S NAME PROGRAM:

12.06.2016 | SUNDAY – 9.00 -16.00

Olivia Business Cen tre standat the 10th Pomeranian Traditional Product Festival in front of the Cathedral in Oliwa. At the stands of Olivia Business Centre: sweets, balloons, photo wall/monidło

13.00 – 14.00 Holy Mass with artistic setting – Ewelina Wojciechowska (soprano)

Moreover:

Guided walks, “Lazy in Oliwa”, iBedeker (Ewa Kowalska) and Arkadiusz Zygmunt (history enthusiast and orator) invite you!

Three walks “Lazy around Oliwa” (all of them will lead along the same route), led by Arkadiusz Zygmunt, will start at 10:00 a.m. 3.00 p.m. – 4.15 p.m. – 5.30 p.m. on the square in front of the entrance to the Oliwa Cathedral. Cicerone will invite guests to the Old Market Square in Oliwa, under the parish church of Our Lady Queen of the Polish Crown at 131 Polanki Street, he will tell where the Cistercians of Oliwa have gone, he will lead the group along Polanki Street to show the modern face of Oliwa at the end.

We cordially invite you to celebrate the name day of the patron saint of the Oliwa district! We invite you to the Oliwa Cathedral and the Cathedral Square!

*Our Patroness – St. Anagni Olive Oil

In Poland, on June 15, we celebrate Olivia’s name day, which name comes from Latin, where it was alternately used as Olivia or Oliva, and most likely its genesis is the olive tree.

For centuries, Oliwa was associated primarily with the Cistercian Abbey, which existed here continuously for 643 years, until 1831. And it was thanks to the Cistercians that St. Anagni Olive Oil (known as St. Olivia of Anagni according to some sources).

About St. Many facts cannot be found in Oliwa. To this day, it is speculated that she lived between the 5th and 6th centuries, in the Italian town of Anagni, located about 70 kilometers from Rome. One version says that she was a nun in a Benedictine monastery who gave her life fully to God. The second is that she lived in a hermitage inhabited by “holy virgins.”

What is known for sure is that she was very pious and modest from her childhood. She lived on the sidelines, in seclusion. She treated her own home like a hermitage – despite the fact that she came from a wealthy family, she avoided a lavish life. Moreover, when her parents found a suitable husband for her, she ran away from home because she believed she was already married to God. She died on 3 June, which is why she is commemorated on that day in the Catholic Church.

How did a local saint, venerated since the 12th century in several Italian towns, become the patron saint of Oliwa? First of all, thanks to the efforts of Abbot Michał Antoni Hacki, who at the beginning of the eighteenth century decided to bring the “dove of peace”, as St. Olivia, to the convent. The main cause was the Third Northern War in Pomerania. The abbot received permission from the then pope, Clement XI, to bring the relics (part of the arm) and celebrate the indulgence of St. Paul. Olive oil from Anagni, however, died several days before her arrival. It happened in 1703, when the relics were laid to rest in the church of St. Jacob.

However, this was not yet the moment of introducing the cult of St. Olive oil. This happened only after the end of the War of Succession to the Polish throne, between Stanisław Leszczyński and Augustus III of Saxony, which broke out in 1733. Oliwa was in favour of Saxon, while Gdańsk was in favour of the former. The war was eventually won by Augustus III. In gratitude for the fact that the hostilities bypassed Oliwa and the abbey, finally in June 1739, after Abbot Jacek Rybiński and Prior Iwo Roweder obtained permission from the Cistercian authorities, the cult of St. Olivia was introduced, and her relics transferred to the monastery church.

With the fall of the abbey, the relics of St. The oil was lost. Her cult also disappeared, but it was never officially abolished. 182 years after the dissolution of the abbey, Archbishop Sławoj Leszek Głódź sent a letter to the Bishop of Anagni, with another request to hand over the relics, which was granted. As of today, the relics of St. Anagni oils are stored in the post-Cistercian Marian Sanctuary in Łęgów, near Gdańsk, from where they were brought in 2013.

The next meeting as part of the Startup Masters Academy, organized by Coworking O4 in Olivia Business Centre, will take place on 15 June 2016. from 16:00 to 19:00. This time, the residents of O4 will have the opportunity to meet Mr. Andrzej Lubowski – an expert on American souls and wallets.

Andrzej Lubowski, an experienced financier and management expert, residing in the USA, has worked for 20 years with the largest American corporations. He is a member of supervisory boards of companies in Poland and the United States. He is also a great publicist, journalist and writer. Privately, he is a friend of Zbigniew Brzeziński and Condoleezza Rice.

He was born in 1949 in Warsaw. In 1982 he moved to California, USA. He is a graduate of the Warsaw School of Economics, the University of Berkeley and Stanford University. For nearly 20 years, he has gained experience in the American financial sector: for 10 years he held managerial positions at Citicorp/Citibank in California and New York, and for 8.5 years he was the head of strategy at Visa USA. He is also a valued advisor to non-profit organizations. He regularly publishes in Gazeta Wyborcza, Polityka and Wprost.

He cooperates with O4 as a mentor as part of the e-learning platform for startups and small and medium-sized entrepreneurs – residents of the O4 coworking space. The program enables participants to gain dedicated competencies and qualifications, thanks to which they will be able to effectively develop their business abroad, e.g. in Silicon Valley.

The aim of the meeting is, of course, to present to the local community the extraordinary figure of Mr. Lubowski and his path to success, as well as to present Pomeranian business, science and development to the mentor. The organizers hope to inspire entrepreneurs to think about themselves in global terms.

Admission by invitation only.

Book:

2007 “A Wounded Power: America’s Strengths and Weaknesses.” – http://www.polityka.pl/tygodnikpolityka/swiat/230837,1,trudny-pacjent.read

2011 “ZBIG. The man who undermined the Kremlin.”

http://kulturalnysklep.pl/ZBIG/pr/-zbig–czlowiek–ktory-podminowal-kreml–andrzej-lubowski.html#description

2013 “World 2040. Does the West have to lose?”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjL-gOGwuAE

2015 American alphabet.

http://moje-recenzje-ksiazek.blog.onet.pl/2015/12/01/alfabet-amerykanski-andrzej-lubowski/

Articles:

List of articles in Polityka magazine:

http://archiwum.polityka.pl/autor/andrzej-lubowski,0,8879.html

List of articles in Gazeta Wyborcza:

http://info.wyborcza.pl/temat/wyborcza/andrzej+lubowski

Video:

Lubowski at TEDEX 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHtm56GvVsY

TVN24

http://www.tvn24.pl/inny-punkt-widzenia,37,m/andrzej-lubowski,412231.html