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As part of the Action Plan for Youth of the City of Rijeka for 2021, City of Rijeka – Department of Entrepreneurship is organising an online lecture for students on “Entrepreneur Beginner‘.

The lecture will be held by the director of the Rijeka Development Agency Porin, Mr. Dario Zorić, on Monday, 29 November 2021, starting at 2 p.m.. The lecture will discuss how to turn your business idea into a profitable business, how to recognize the market and effective sales channels, which legal form of the business entity to choose, and how to finance all this. The goal of the online meeting is to provide relevant information to students who are thinking or intend to start an entrepreneurial initiative. The estimated duration is up to 3.30 p.m., and it also provides time for participants' questions and discussion.

Interested students, as well as other young people, can ensure their participation by logging in to the link registration of participants. The deadline for applications is 28 November 2021., and all registered links to the online lecture will be sent to the email address in a timely manner.

As of 16 November 2021, entry into the official premises of the Rijeka Development Agency Porin d.o.o. is allowed upon presentation of an EU Digital COVID Certificate or other appropriate proof of vaccination, recovery or testing.

For the purpose of the TEMPUS project, work package 4 entitled Telling stories of port cities for entrepreneurial innovations of heritage management, activities are planned to get ideas based on history, which is shown at a virtual exhibition that can be viewed at My Port Heritage. This exhibition provided historical highlights of the development of pilot city ports in Ravenna, Solin and Rijeka on the flows of materials, culture, people and technology. Each partner publishes a call inviting all local stakeholders active in the cultural and creative industry to apply for ideas related to the heritage of the respective ports with the aim of managing their heritage.

The Rijeka Development Agency Porin d.o.o. published the Call for Pilot Rijeka on 21 July 2021 on its website and it was open until 1 October 2021. The call was intended to enable creative people to submit ideas based on the construction, restoration and evaluation of cultural and natural heritage related to the port of Rijeka.

The purpose of this call is to establish a core of local entrepreneurial ecosystems aimed at supporting the cultural and creative industries through selected ideas. The choice of ideas makes it possible to highlight them in further project activities and contributes to the creation of a common entrepreneurial ecosystem as an effective and necessary entrepreneurial activity in the field of the Rijeka pilot project, i.e.TUA Rijeka (Temporary Uses Action – Temporary Benefit Actions).

At the end of the call's application period, 11 ideas involving flows of technology, people and culture were received. The jury evaluated each idea based on the set criteria and created a ranking list of submitted ideas. The best rated ideas are the Cultural Time Machine through the Past of the City of Rijeka of the applicant Institution for Adult Education Dante from Rijeka, the Man in the Center of Life and Work in Rijeka of the applicant LAG Terra Liburna from Opatija and the Memorial Room MARINA of the applicant Arhipelag d.o.o. from Mali Lošinj. The other ideas that came up are: Production of models M/B Trebinje and Models of Rijeka cranes applicants Croatian Ship Modelling Association from Rijeka, Bajos smoked sardines in the oil of applicants Arca Craft Food from Rijeka, Hydraulic steering systems for pleasure boats, sailboats, small working boats and fishermen up to the length of 30 m applicants Scam-marina d.o.o. from Viškovo, Digitization of the heritage of the Rijeka port applicant M&production - craft for promotion from Rijeka, JGL Museum of Pharmacy applicants JGL Museum of Pharmacy from Rijeka, Rijeka cranes - tourist attraction Rijeka applicants craft Trifora from Rijeka and Production of souvenirs torpedo with the application of additive technology applicants Production park Torpedo Rijeka development agency Porin d.o.o. from Rijeka.

All the ideas received will be shown at the next exhibition organized by the Maritime and History Museum of the Croatian Littoral Rijeka, a partner in the TEMPUS project. The exhibition will be available in Rijeka, on stage in Korzo Street.

The results of the published calls in Solin and Ravenna and their exhibition of received ideas related to the heritage of their ports are expected, and all together will contribute to TUA Rijeka, TUA Solin and TUA Ravenna of the TEMPUS project.

EIT Manufacturing Innovation Challenge (EITMIC) is a project that aims to connect manufacturing companies and innovative teams (students, startups, independent teams of interested professionals and enthusiasts) and encourage open innovation in the manufacturing industry. In order to present the project more closely to the interested parties, experts from the organizational team will present the challenges and rules on October 28, 2021 at 3 p.m. live in Rijeka, which will be possible to follow online.

Objective EIT Manufacturing Innovation Challenge is solving challenges in leading production organizations in Croatia, i.e. in companies Podravka, VERTIV, JGL and Ferro-Preis. By sharing knowledge, networking and under the mentorship of leading experts in a particular field, the teams compete in creating the best solution that will help solve one of the given challenges. An additional motivation to participate in this event is certainly the rich cash prizes prepared by companies for the best teams. Defined challenges are published on the EITMIC website here.

This innovative challenge provides a unique opportunity for cooperation with successful manufacturing companies, education and mentoring through a structured innovation creation program with the support of experienced mentors and the opportunity to meet colleagues, potential partners, clients or employers.

You can find out all the details of this attractive event at the presentation that will be held in hybrid form, 28.10.2021. at 3 p.m.. The project will be presented to the interested parties by experts from the organizational team, and the interested parties will be able to attend the event Online via Zoom (link will be sent after registration), and live in Rijeka (Torpedo Production Park, Conf. Hall (1st floor), Milutina Barača 62, Rijeka).

Your participation in the presentation (online or in person) must be confirmed by filling out the form available at LINKS.

Applications for EITMIC are open until 4 November 2021 and the competition itself will be held from 10 November to 9 December 2021 in hybrid (online/live) form. During the competition, the teams work on creating the best solution and present it internally to the companies that have defined it. The top-rated team from each group will present their solution at the final event.