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Goyello, a Polish & Dutch IT company, plans its further dynamic development in the Olivia Business Centre. The company prolonged its agreement on the lease of office space in the OBC, decided to take up some additional area and move to the Olivia Star. The Goyello team has been a resident of Olivia since 2011, i.e. from the beginning of the centre’s existence.

Goyello: young and talented

Goyello specializes in the provision of IT solutions developed in line with the principles of the Agile methodology[1]. Customers of Goyello are enterprises from the B2B[2] sector. Distinctive features of the company include flexibility, openness and partnership relations within the team and with customers including companies from Europe and the United States.

Goyello celebrated its 10^th birthday in November 2016. Throughout these years, the company has won numerous awards. Among others, it was awarded the prestigious Dutch-Polish Business Award, a distinction for the most innovative and responsible companies with a positive impact on the Polish-Dutch economic relations. Goyello also won the IT Leaders 2016 contest in the “Business Intelligence Trends” category.

Direction: development. In the Olivia Star

The company’s office is currently located in the Olivia Gate building. Goyello signed its first contract for 500 sq.m in 2011. The company doubled its team in five years. The new Polish office of Goyello on the 9^th floor of the Olivia Star building occupies 1300 sq.m. and more than 100 people will work there. According to Goyello’s motto: THINK, CREATE, CARE, the new office will have a place to focus, place for creative work, creativity, substantive and social meetings as well as for relaxation.

“We are proud that Olivia became a place where companies such as Goyello develop so dynamically. Olivia is a place that facilitates the daily operations of companies, establishment of contacts and relations. A half of the Goyello business activity period falls to the time spend in the OBC. It is inspiring to see how the firm that has been with us from the very beginning is developing and attaining its goals, gaining recognition on global markets”, stresses Maciej Kotarski, the Lease Director in the Olivia Business Centre. “Goyello will move to the Star, the most modern high-rise in Poland. The building has a lot to offer to tenants. I am sure that, thanks to unique technological solutions and the unique surroundings, Goyello acquired a place in the Star that guarantees the comfort of work, promotes creativity and co-exists with the philosophy of the company and its values”, adds Kotarski.

Actively in the Olivia Business Centre community

As a resident of the Centre almost since the beginning of its development, Goyello has been taking an active part in the life of the community of the Olivia Business Centre. The team welcomes Olivia residents coming to work with tulips, the most Dutch ones of all flowers each year on the King’s Day.

It also successfully participates in the Olivia Sports program.

“We believe that people and good relations between them are most important to make good business. We are intent on the best quality of relations; this is why we care for our employees, our customers and partners. An appropriate environment such as in the OBC is also very helpful here”, says Katarzyna Szemro, the Marketing Director at Goyello.

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Agile methodology – Agile is a set of values and principles promoting an effective and adjustable creation of projects, among other things, software.

^{[2] B2B – business-to-business}

Next Tuesday (31.01), at 1.00 p.m., in Olivia Sky Club (Olivia Tower building, 12th floor) there will be another meeting of the Dessert with HR series. The organizers of the event are Olivia Business Centre and Sii Gdańsk, and the partner is Radisson Blu. The meeting is dedicated to HR specialists and managers.

The goal of Dessert with HR is to exchange knowledge about HR tools and processes and, in fact, to get to know this environment from the proverbial inside out. These events were created for specialists from the HR, EB and marketing industries – says Alicja Sawicka, the originator of the initiative. The series of meetings is also a platform for networking and, above all, conversation. Thanks to the substantive program and inspiring guests, Dessert with HR attracts nearly 100 specialists from the largest companies in Pomerania and companies from the BPO/SSC area.

PROGRAM Dessert with HR #3

1:00 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. – welcome coffee with Radisson Blu

13:15 – 14:15 – Why do we need crises? Changing jobs, divorces, restructuring in an organization, losing a loved one, laying off employees… in a word, it’s a crisis. Perverse questions – why do we need crises? The aim of the meeting is to encourage the audience of Deser z HR to look for personal potential, to cope with difficult life and professional situations. This question and many others will be answered by Małgorzata Mickiewicz – business psychologist, owner of the training company Studio HR. She conducts managerial trainings and coaching. She organizes a series of meetings for the HR industry – HR Eagles. It accompanies people and organizations in their development, also in crisis situations.

2:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. – discussion – Crisis management, or how to extinguish a fire.

3:15 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. – networking

Sign up and register on the site. The number of places is limited. Each of the invited companies can designate two people to participate in the meeting.

We cordially invite you!

 

We are pleased to announce that our Resident, Rödl & Partner, is organising another event in the “Let’s meet at Rödl & Partner” series and invites you to a meeting devoted to significant changes in law and taxes in 2017. The training will take place on 7 February, from 9.00 a.m. to 2.00 p.m. in Olivia Sky Club (Olivia Tower building, 12th floor).

PROGRAM:

09:00 – 09:15 Registration, welcome coffee

09:15 – 10:15 Discussion of selected changes in the law in 2017 (entry into force of the amendment package – “100 changes for companies”)

• Employment law (m.in. minimum monthly and hourly wage)
• Contract law – recording the number of hours of performance of an order or provision of services (plus exclusions of this obligation)
• Civil law (m.in. inappropriate joint commercial proxy, Saturday as the last day of the deadline)
• Commercial law (m.in. control proceedings of entrepreneurs)
• Companies (m.in.: Increasing transparency in the event of a conflict of interest, Improving the protection of minority shareholders, Changing the rules for determining and paying dividends in joint-stock companies)

10:15 a.m. – 11:15 a.m . Selected changes in income taxes

• The most important changes in CIT and PIT
• Amendments to other acts affecting tax settlements of entrepreneurs

11:15 a.m. – 11:30 a.m . Coffee break

11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m . Selected amendments to the VAT Act

• Changes in VAT settlements
• New liability rules under the VAT Act

1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m . Cold buffet and talks

Teacher

Monika Spotowska – Attorney-at-law, tax advisor, graduate of the Faculty of Law at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) and the Faculty of Law and Administration at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. A graduate of postgraduate studies in “International Tax Strategies” at the Warsaw School of Economics. He specialises in issues related to double taxation treaties, income taxes and social insurance, with particular emphasis on the issue of cross-border employment of employees and optimisation of tax burdens. She is also interested in issues related to investments in Special Economic Zones. Co-author of books entitled “Work of foreigners in Poland”, “Functioning of enterprises in a special economic zone” and “Clause against tax avoidance”. Author of many publications on legal and tax issues.

Iwona Łaska-Rutkowska – A graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw and postgraduate studies in “Taxes and Tax Law” at the University of Warsaw. Erasmus scholarship holder at the Technical University of Dresden. A specialist in the field of value added tax (VAT), corporate income tax, as well as an expert in the field of Special Economic Zones. He regularly participates m. in numerous Due Diligence and tax reviews. She is the author of many publications on tax law.

Piotr Mrowiec – A graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Adam Mickiewicz in Poznań and the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), where he obtained the title of Master of German & Polish Law. He specialises in providing comprehensive legal advice to companies with foreign capital, cross-border redress, as well as securing the interests of Polish entities investing abroad, in particular in Germany. Piotr Mrowiec also advises entities from the renewable energy sources industry. Since 2012, he has been entered on the list of mediators at the Regional Court in Poznań. Piotr Mrowiec is the author of many publications, as well as a frequent speaker in Poland and abroad.

Applications should be sent to Marta Sikorska-Kierst at the following e-mail address: marta.sikorska-kierst@roedl.pro

The deadline for submissions is 1 February 2017. The cost of participation is: PLN 200 + 23% VAT per person. For clients of Rödl & Partner, members of AHK, SPCC, “Employers of Pomerania” and the Kashubian Employers’ Association, as well as residents of OBC, the cost of participation is PLN 100 + 23% VAT.

The organizers provide coffee breaks and a cold buffet for the participants. The number of places is limited, and the condition for participation is to receive an e-mail confirmation of registration.

We cordially invite you!

The musical weekend is behind us! On Friday, there was a concert of Polish and Ukrainian Christmas carols performed by the “Motivo” trio. And on Saturday, as part of the Olivia Camerata series, we could hear the most beautiful Christmas carols performed by the Choir of the Singing Society. K. Szymanowski under the direction of Józefa Siudaczyńska-Babicz. Thank you very much for coming and we invite you to the next concerts at Olivia Sky Club.

See the whole photo report:

Concert of Polish and Ukrainian Christmas carols

Olivia Camerata 8

 

We invite you to take part in the “Work Out the Future” project, organized by the City of Gdańsk. The partner of the project is our Resident – Talent Development Centre. The aim is to enable participants (students, university graduates, adult technical school students) to gain professional experience, making it easier for them to find their first job and stay on the local labour market, as well as to support companies looking for interns and often also new employees.

The project is addressed to students and graduates of higher education as well as adult students of the last years of technical schools and their graduates. Internships can be funded by companies, NGOs and other institutions that undertake to host interns and pay them remuneration in the minimum amount specified in the project regulations.

You can apply for the project at any time during its duration. Founders of the internship will be able to submit an internship offer no later than 14 July 2017, and candidates for the internship will be able to submit their applications no later than 28 July 2017. The duration of the internship and the form of employment will be determined individually by the founder in consultation with the intern. The internship should last at least 1 month.

The full rules and declaration of participation can be found on the project website.

The “Work Out the Future” project met with great interest from the participants, as well as companies and entrepreneurs. In the first edition of the project, 108 internship places were offered, for which 424 applications were recorded.

We cordially invite you to the #TweetupAcademy meeting, which will take place on January 28, at 12:00 in the O4 Coworking Space. In the 3city Tweetup formula, they have been meeting for several years. The topics of conversation always touch on technological innovations, share knowledge and examples of interesting functioning in social media.

3city Tweetup is a gathering of Twitter users. It is informal, organized in order to get to know people in person who have so far only known each other from the Internet. People with different interests, ages, views, related to different industries. Often, the only thing that unites participants is the tool they use to communicate with others and their love of the Internet. Tweetups are frequented by Twitter celebrities with thousands of followers, as well as new users for whom Twitter is something completely new.

In a group of artists (Katarzyna Michałowska, Damian Jarosz, Sebastian Drausal) we came up with the idea of the first meeting and took advantage of the hospitality of the Pomeranian Science and Technology Park in Gdynia. The first meeting of the Tweetup Academy took place on February 27, 2015. We have discovered that our group has a high potential for knowledge about new media, marketing strategies, and news appearing in social media. We wanted to start sharing this knowledge systematically – says Katarzyna Michałowska. – We want to share our knowledge in an accessible, workshop form to teach people how to become specialists in using social media. We want to share our knowledge wisely, as well as advise those who want to try to find their way in this field.

A new initiative – Tweetup Academy – is growing out of the formula of the Tri-City tweetup. 3city Tweetup is centered around Twitter and consists of visiting different places together, feasting, chatting or having an adventure together, in order to get to know each other better and become friends. Tweetup Academy, on the other hand, is a space for everyone to share their knowledge in an open formula.

On January 13 at 6:00 p.m., in the O4 coworking space, there will be a unique meeting with Marek Kamiński, a Polish polar explorer, traveler and entrepreneur. In 2015, Marek Kamiński walked 4000 km in 100 days along the legendary Camino pilgrimage route, known as the Way of St. Paul. Jacob. Kamiński calls this journey “a journey into the depths of oneself”, “the most important journey in my life”. We will be able to find out why during the meeting.

Although he had previously conquered both poles of the earth, the most difficult expedition in his life turned out to be the expedition to the third pole. Where is he? In my head. Marek Kamiński’s book “The Third Pole” will also be presented. The meeting will be moderated by Monika Bogdanowicz.

Traveller, polar explorer, entrepreneur. The first and only man in the world to reach both poles of the Earth in one year. He participated in expeditions to Antarctica, Greenland, crossed the Atlantic Ocean twice on a yacht, crossed the Gibson Desert, and in 2004 reached both poles with a disabled boy – Jasiek Mela.

An expert in the field of motivation and leadership. Founder of the Marek Kamiński Institute – a training company and owner of Invena SA, a leading company in the heating and sanitary industry. In 1996, he founded the Marek Kamiński Foundation , which implements large social projects addressed to selected groups of people in need, with particular emphasis on people with disabilities. The Foundation organizes European Camps of the Conquerors of the Poles for sick, disabled and disadvantaged children.

Winner of many awards: for outstanding contribution to the promotion of Polish in the world. Decorated m.in. Knight’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta Polish.

Marek Kamiński is the author ofnumerous books. Currently, she is developing her own Pole Method, based on self-development, which teaches how to achieve goals. He put this program into practice during his trip to Santiago de Compostela.

We cordially invite you! Free admission, registration at events@oliviacentre.com

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The Pomerania Development Agency announces a call for applications for co-financing projects under Sub-measure 2.2.1. Profiled investments – subsidy support. The competition is addressed to micro, small and medium-sized enterprises. Applications must be submitted between 1 February and 15 March 2017. The general envelope of funds allocated to co-financing projects under the call That’s over PLN 66 million.

Paper applications should be submitted in person at the headquarters of the Pomerania Development Agency S.A. (Olivia Six building), from Monday to Friday at 8.00-15.00 or send to the following address:

Pomerania Development Agency S.A.
Al. Grunwaldzka 472 D, 80-309 Gdansk

How to apply
The application form must first be completed and sent in the Application Form available on the www.gwa.pomorskie.eu website.

Then, you should submit an application to the Pomerania Development Agency, which consists of a signed application form with the necessary attachments in paper form, in person or sent to the address indicated above.

Detailed rules for submitting applications for funding are set out in point 11 of the Competition Regulations.

Types of projects for which funding is intended

Investments in enterprises to:

• expanding the markets or the range of products/services offered or significantly improving their quality – projects that fit into the areas of smart specialisation,
• improving efficiency through the use of information and communication technologies,
• reduction of water, raw material, material, transport and energy consumption of production processes, i.e. Including. saving raw materials and energy and reducing emissions of harmful substances into the environment,

and consisting of:

• construction and development of infrastructure (m.in. facilities, machinery, installations, equipment),
• modernization of fixed assets necessary to conduct and develop business activity,
• implementation of fundamental changes in the production process or changes in the way services are provided (including services provided electronically), introduction of organizational changes consisting in the implementation of enterprise management systems, including environmental management systems, computerization of production processes.

 

More information is available on the website of the Pomerania Development Agency.

Contest Rules

 

The next Metropolitan Job Fair (MTP) will be held on 2 March, from 10.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m., at the AmberExpo conference and congress centre in Gdańsk. The organizers of the event are: our Resident Gdańsk Labour Office – Job Office and the Provincial Labour Office in Gdańsk. We invite all job seekers to visit the Fair today – not only offers from Tri-City employers, but also trainings and workshops are waiting for you.

Olivia Business Centre and our coworking space O4 will be present at MTP (details soon), look for us at Amber Expo:)

We also encourage our Residents to take part in the event. This is a great opportunity to present your company and attract new staff:)…

At the fair, there will not only be an opportunity to talk directly with your future boss, but also to gain many practical tips on how to talk about the future. Recruitment. Participants will be able to learn, for example, how to use network monitoring and social media in recruitment, how to create interactive applications and business strategy. A wide range of free training courses will also be presented.

In the Recruitment Alley , experts will tell you what are the most common mistakes made when sending a CV and what you should do to avoid many months of searching and get your dream job right away. There will also be an opportunity to take photos for application documents and professional business photography. If your job requires knowledge of a foreign language, you will certainly need a short training session with qualified teachers before talking to the employer.

For those who dream of being their own boss, there will be a special Entrepreneurship Zone. Here you will learn where to get funds to start your business, how to develop your idea into a thriving business, as well as where to look for an affordable and professional place to base your business. There will also be an opportunity to test your strength as a future entrepreneur in a special role-playing game, where the secrets of marketing, negotiation and management will be revealed.

A special stand of the Talent Development Centre will be prepared for pupils and students, where they will be able to discover their professional predispositions and determine their further career path.

More information, registration for trainings and workshops are available on the Metropolitan Job Fair website.