Category: Events

Opening ceremony of the Torpedo Production Park and the final press conference of the project “Reconstruction and conversion of Hall 14 into a Technological and Educational Entrepreneurial Incubator Torpedo Production Park’ will take place Tuesday, 22 December 2020, starting at 10 a.m., in the premises of the Torpedo Production Park, Rijeka, Milutina Barača 60 (conference hall, 1st floor).

Torpedo Production Park is a new entrepreneurial infrastructure in the city of Rijeka thanks to the application of the EU project ‘Reconstruction and conversion of Hall 14 into a Technological and Educational Entrepreneurial Incubator Production Park Torpedo’, for which City of Rijeka received a grant from the European Regional Development Fund from the European Structural and Investment Funds in the financial period 2014-2020, in the amount of HRK 19,293,474.63. The total value of the project is HRK 22,691,480.39. The partner in the project is Rijeka Development Agency Porin Ltd.

With incubation and post-incubation programs and the possibility of using modern equipment in the field of additive technologies, the Torpedo Production Park enters the system of business incubators of the City of Rijeka as a one of the largest centres of its kind in the region. At the end of the speeches, there will be a tour of the Torpedo Production Park and a technology laboratory equipped with specialized industrial equipment for 3D modeling, scanning and printing.

On 26-27 November 2020, the final online event of the PoWER project “From ports to innovative hubs, from innovative hubs to network creation” took place.  The project aimed to support the transformation of ports into innovative hubs (inovation hubs) maximising its entrepreneurial potential.

The first day was a programme for PoWER Protocol signatories – a document in which the local stakeholders of each partner in the PooWER project supported their Adriatic ports on their way to becoming Innovation Hubs local economic systems, enabling them to become "transfer chains" of innovation and facilitating the emergence and development of entrepreneurial potential in their territories. Project partners presented the project objectives and achieved results related to the most important results: a joint PoWER Strategy and PoWER Methodology for building innovation supply chains.

Two round tables were held on the second day. The first roundtable focused on “The evolution of ports after the outbreak of the COVID-19 crisis”. The second round table focused on ‘Ports as logistical, digital, sustainable and economic hubs: Powers and challenges of the four PoWER transit routes for the development of ADRION ports’. These round tables were attended by representatives of partners and local stakeholders from Brcko (BiH), Durres (Albania), Ravenna (Italy) and Rijeka (Croatia) who presented their thoughts, challenges and new opportunities available for the future period of their port areas.

The project formally ends on December 31, 2020.

As part of the EU project LO.PA.Z. PLUS funded by the European Social Fund We invite you to the press conference that will be held on Friday, 9 October 2020 at 11 a.m. in the premises of the Information Centre of the City of Rijeka (RI-INFO), Korzo 18b, Rijeka, where the cooperation of local employment partnerships will be presented, namely the Labour Market Council of the Istrian County and the REI II project, as well as the Local Partnership for Employment of the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County and the LO.PA.Z. PLUS project, and news in the work of local partnership bodies at the Croatian level.

Projects LO.PA.Z. PLUS and REI II aim to contribute to the employment of vulnerable target groups in the labour market through their activities and ensure the sustainable functioning of local employment partnership bodies implementing Human Resources Development Strategies in counties as well as cooperation with other such bodies.

The following speakers will address the press conference:

• Elena Božac Čujić, Assistant Head of the Administrative Department for the Economy of the Istrian County and Chair of the Labour Market Council of the Istrian County,
• Dario Zoric, Director of the Rijeka Development Agency Porin d.o.o.,
• Doris Sošić, Adviser for Development Programmes and Promotion and President of the Local Partnership for Employment of Primorje-Gorski Kotar County.

Invitation to press conference

I'm wrong, so I'm learning: Domestic entrepreneurs share their ups and downs

Through learning, networking and exchange of experience to create a more favorable business environment as a basis for the establishment, growth and development of enterprises and society as a whole.

The Croatian Chamber of Commerce, with the support of Lean Startup Croatia, organizes the BizHack Startup Caffe from September to November. It is a cycle of five online meetings with domestic entrepreneurs with the aim of exchanging information, experiences and knowledge between entrepreneurs and participants and mutual assistance in facilitating the realization of entrepreneurial ventures. The theme of the first BizHack Startup Caffe is “I'm wrong, so I'm learning”, It will take place on 23 September at 5 p.m.

The events also aim to strengthen the local component and encourage the exchange of experiences of entrepreneurs from a particular area. Thus, the first BizHack Startup Caffe “I am wrong, therefore I am learning” will bring together host entrepreneurs from the Rijeka area, and the local partner of the project is the Rijeka Development Agency Porin. Participate in the event Maria Trcol, Founder of Wild Olive Oil, Dejan Radić, Director of Playrix Croatia, Saša Ivan Vrdoljak, partner in Alcina and Dario Zoric, Director of Porin.

The BizHack Startup Caffe “I'm wrong, so I'm learning” concentrates on the topic of learning from my own, but also someone else’s mistakes. He will play with a well-established interpretation of the proverb that whoever works is also wrong. It is true that the opportunity to learn is opened only through work, because then one can only learn from mistakes. Examples of failed projects will be presented and participants will be able to gain insight into the obstacles that stand in their way of developing a successful business venture. In the second part of the event "I succeeded, ask me how" the host entrepreneurs will share examples of successful projects and how they have achieved their success.

Participation in the event is free of charge and is open to participants from all over Croatia. It will be held on the Zoom platform in Croatian. Prior registration is required via the following link: https://bit.ly/bizhackscprijava. More information about the online meeting cycle is available at: http://leanstartup.hr/startup-caffe/.

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The BizHack Startup Caffe cycle was organised as part of the project ‘Promotion of Entrepreneurship (KK.03.1.2.24.0001)’, the purpose of which is to improve the negative perception of entrepreneurship in Croatia and thus enable the creation of a more favourable business environment as a basis for the establishment, growth and development of enterprises and society as a whole. The Croatian Chamber of Economy (HGK) is a partner on the project, and support in the organization of the cycle is provided by Lean startup Croatia, an organization that has been working on the development of the startup and entrepreneurial ecosystem for seven years and has been chosen as the implementer of the activities of this project due to its experience in the organization and implementation of over 50 different events for the startup ecosystem in Croatia and abroad.

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