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Rijeka Development Agency Porin d.o.o. is a partner in a newly approved project EMOUNDERGROUNDS –’EMOtional technologies for the cultural heritage valorization within transnational UNDERGROUNDS’. EMOtional Technologies for the Valorisation of Cultural Heritage within Transnational Territories is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund and IPA II funds from the Interreg V-B ADRION Programme for a total value of EUR 2,605,497,06. The project holder is the Municipality of Nardò from Italy, while the other partners are the Municipality of Carpi, Italy; Municipality of Andravida-Killini, Greece; Municipality of Ivančan Gorica, Slovenia; Kukes Municipality, Albania, Koper Regional Development Center, Slovenia; Tourist Board Bar, Montenegro; Institution for the Development of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Public Institution in Culture Fortress of Culture Šibenik and Rijeka Development Agency Porin d.o.o. from Croatia. This project is supported by the Rijeka Tourist Board.

On 25 June 2020, the first partnership meeting took place via video conference for travel restrictions and the COVID-19 crisis. The partner meeting presented the overall activities of the project and the partners with an emphasis on the location of the project implementation. Thus, representatives of RRA PORIN and the Rijeka Tourist Board presented Gradina Trsat and Rijeka.

The challenge of the EMOUNDERGROUNDS project is to make a concrete contribution to valorizing the extraordinary wealth and potential of targeted cultural places that will enable sustainable, smart and inclusive growth of the entire ADRION area. The implementation of the project activities will provide innovative solutions for virtual reality, smart mobile applications, holographic demo data and various interactive organized projections. For the area of Rijeka, the above will be implemented for Gradina Trsat. The project lasts 30 months.

 

VersusVirus or Viral action against viruses – online hackathon Starts April 17th, sign up and participate!
The COVID-19 virus has caught us unprepared, caused the pandemic and the global “closure” of everything – people, cities and the economy. But perhaps most importantly, he showed us that overnight change is possible. The coronavirus crisis is not the last in a row, nor is it separated from other crises, such as economic, health and climate. They are all linked together in a single major crisis. 

The question arises: What can we do for our community? 

We invite you to find answers together within 48 hours, on the online hackathon VersusVirus. Hackathon is an intense activity of short duration, where various stakeholders come together to solve the problem. 

VersusVirus is a viral hackathon aimed at exchanging and rapidly developing ideas for urgently needed solutions at the time of this crisis, as well as for building post-pandemic resilience and restoring the economy and the community. 

Anyone interested can apply, from individuals to government representatives, students, companies, scientists, workers, adventurers, employees, the unemployed, activists, institutions and anyone who does not even know that they have a potential solution in their heads. Log your idea on the web link https://versusvirus.hr by 17 April 2020, 12.00. If you do not have an idea, but you have the necessary knowledge and skills, you can apply as a mentor or you can support this initiative as a sponsor.

 

The VersusVirus Hackathon initiative was created as a voluntary partnership between different types of organizations and individuals to jointly address the challenges related to the coronavirus pandemic, but also any future crisis. This partnership brought together organisations involved in dialogue, decision-making and implementation of the responses that participants will offer, to make it better for everyone.  The organisers underline: “Now we have the opportunity to rethink what is happening next, what will happen after the passage of the COVID-19 crisis, we have a unique opportunity to restart and re-create our common future, the future we want. It is time for action.’

 

Hackathon starts on April 17, 2020 by registering participants, division into teams and elaboration of ideas. Saturday and Sunday (18th). - 19 April) teams will develop ideas under the guidance of a mentor and the event will close on Sunday evening. The winners will receive mentoring support to further develop their ideas. 

Hackathon will take place entirely through online tools such as Slack and Zoom. 

 

Some of areas on which participants can focus and for which they can offer solutions are:

• Response to the coronavirus pandemic
• Education
• Health 
• Media and entertainment
• Economy and economy 
• Environment and climate
• Art and Creativity

 

Find out more about this challenge and sign up via the web link: https://versusvirus.hr/. 

 

The organizers of VersusVirus hackathon are: Rijeka Development Agency Porin, Impact Hub Zagreb, Technology Park Varaždin, Green Energy Cooperative, Lean Startup Croatia, Terra Hub, EIT Climate KIC, Northwest Croatia Regional Energy Agency, Ivy Digital, Mohacho and Enfinita. 

Following the planned activities in the project LO.PA.Z. PLUS (www.lpz-pgz.com), we invite all long-term unemployed to participate the Introductory Seminar Systematic Entrepreneurship which will take place 13 February 2020 from 9.30 a.m. to 3 p.m. as well as activities Entrepreneurial Potential (Entrepreneurial Potential) Tests.
The target group is the long-term unemployed: young people up to 29 years of age over 6 months of unemployment, people over 29 years of age over 12 months of unemployment (includes women, people aged 50 and over, national minorities and members of other vulnerable groups). The project has been approved from the Operational Programme Efficient Human Resources 2014-2020, which is financed by the European Social Fund.

 

Content of the seminar:
▪ Introduction to Systematic Entrepreneurship
▪ Procedures for setting up a company and a craft business and their difference and operation
▪ Recruitment procedure and activities and recruitment obligations
▪ Business planning and preparation of a business plan
▪ Funding, co-financing and incentive opportunities for beginners and companies
▪ Network of supporting institutions
Venue: Rijeka Development Agency Porin d.o.o., Milutina Barača 60/I.
Objective of this seminar it is that participants get knowledge of what entrepreneurship is, how to start entrepreneurship, what modalities of business are available. After this part, participants will fill out a short questionnaire. This will be an important moment to achieve the goal of self-employment or employment with others. Finally, interviews with project participants are planned to discuss entrepreneurial ideas. During these project activities, all project participants will be provided with information, counselling and mentoring in the period before starting their own business and after starting it. Such assistance also relates to the preparation of a business plan to obtain support for self-employment at the CES.

The deadline for registration is 10 February 2020 at 3 p.m.
Contact person and registration: Doris Sošić, registration at: e-mail: doris.sosic@porin.hr or tel. 634 331.

Free education “Business in the digital age – Creating a website and visual identity for start-ups” is intended for unemployed persons who are in the process of starting a business and intend to self-employed and offer their services or goods on the market. During the training, you will learn what abbreviations such as CSS, CMS mean, how to create and edit a website for your company, and what to think about when preparing content for it. In the second part of the education, you will develop a visual identity for your business idea, a book of standards and the design of promotional materials that you will use when placing your services and goods on the market. The education is led by an experienced computer scientist and graphic designer who will surely have a lot of good tips and tricks to share with the participants.

Four-day education will be held on 18, 20, 25 and 27.  1 February, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. To register, you need to send an e-mail to mjeremic@ctk-rijeka.hr No later than Friday, February 14th. Education is part of the project activities LO.PA.Z. PLUS financed by the European Social Fund. More details can be found here: https://www.lpz-pgz.com/izradi-internetsku-stranicu-i-vizualni-identitet-za-svoju-poslovnu-ideju-2/.