Be closer to Polish customers. Get closer to Polish Industry 4.0. Get closer to implementation. Join KPT ScaleUP.
If you are developing industrial solution and look for customers in Poland – KPT ScaleUP is an accelerator for you.
The KPT ScaleUP Accelerator creates favorable conditions to support foreign startups who want to expand their business to the Polish market.
“We are looking for companies that want to develop Industry 4.0 based on such technologies as IIoT, VR, AR, AI, big data and others that help digitise business processes. Such products and services need Polish factories that are seriously considering strengthening their market position “- says Malgorzata Chmielewska, project manager of KPT ScaleUP.
We offer such start-ups to EUR 66,000 in grants. In addition, at the very beginning we provide direct cooperation with a large industrial company that is our partner. “- adds Malgorzat Chmielewska.
The Rijeka Development Agency Porin d.o.o. is a partner in the Blue Green City (Interreg Europe) project, which aims to increase awareness and knowledge of the concept of ecosystem services and the value of green and blue infrastructure through interregional learning and cooperation in the direction of finding solutions to common challenges of climate change. In the second phase of the project implementation, the implementation of the document Action Plan for the City of Rijeka is monitored, which defines the tools and methodology for the development and implementation of the blue and green infrastructure strategy. In 2020, the City of Rijeka produced a Study of Green Infrastructure, which also defined problems and discrepancies in the spatial plan compared to the vision of the development of green infrastructure, so it was pointed out:
The size and quality of the green areas in the city is caused by the configuration of the terrain, but also by the historical industrial development of Rijeka in the immediate vicinity of the current city center.
The urban coastal zone occupied by port facilities, economic zones and brownfield sites poses the biggest challenge in the planning of green infrastructure and the establishment of a coastal green corridor due to the difficulty of connecting urban tissue with the marine landscape and green hinterland.
Consequence: Unconnected and fragmented ‘green infrastructure’.
The action plan shall include the following activities:
Monitoring the development of the new strategic document Green Infrastructure Development Strategy of the City of Rijeka 2022-2027, initiated by the Department for Development, Urbanism, Ecology and Land Management of the City of Rijeka. The City of Rijeka has chosen the contractor for the service of drafting this strategic document, which is the company Zelenastruktura d.o.o. from Zagreb. The first activities to analyse the situation and review all elements of the conceptual plan identified in the above-mentioned Study have been initiated.
The Rijeka Development Agency Porin d.o.o. will provide local stakeholders with training related to mutual cooperation with the following topics: Scenario for the planning of the strategy on adaptation to climate change; Green and Blue Infrastructure and Evaluation of Ecosystem Services. The first part of the training is planned for July this year.
Monitoring the implementation of the Rijeka Local Partnership Programme 2022 tender published by the Department of Municipal Self-Government and Administration of the City of Rijeka and monitoring 7 approved projects, which will be co-financed in the amount of HRK 142 730.28, namely:
1. Quarterly Composting, Citizens' Group Rijeka Transition Initiative and City Quarter
2. Circular 2022, Association Urbani separe with partners
3. With small steps to safety, Podmurvice Kindergarten Parents' Group
4. New face of school and street, Citizen's Group Mlak (Podmurvice Elementary School)
5. Magical Forest of Knowledge-Students in Nature Group of Kozala Citizens (Kozala Elementary School)
6. Refresh neighbourhood, Citizens' Group City Quarter
EIT Jumpstarter It is one of Europe's most famous pre-acceleration proramas and will soon start in 2022!
This year, they invite candidates to submit their innovative ideas in six thematic categories:
healthcare;
raw materials,
agri-food,
energy;
manufacturing;
urban mobility
The program is intended for scientific project teams, innovators, scientists, doctoral students or students of master's studies with a product or idea, from thematic categories, that they want to market.
What does EIT Jumpstarter offer?
During the eight-month program, innovators will find and confirm the best business model for their innovative idea, i.e. gain knowledge about business improvement, offering value to the customer, market segmentation, finances, investment bases, legal bases. Courses are based on methodology lean start-up from Silicon Valley adapted to the European environment.
During the program, participants will be provided with travel and accommodation support, and the best teams in each category will have the opportunity to win €10,000 A valuable cash prize.
Why is it unique?
The EIT Jumpstarter is a highly selective, competitive programme and participation in it opens the door to European markets and connects the best teams with the six major industrial partners of the EIT Communities such as: GE Healthcare, Siemens, Philips, Roche, Bosch, Nestlé, Pepsico and Maspex, among others.
Jumpstarter has trained more than 348 teams since 2017, and the program itself won the Best Association Training Initiative Award of the European Association Awards in 2019.
Applications are open to 10 April 2022 and you can apply at link.
Today, February 8, 2022, the Rijeka Development Agency Porin and the Torpedo Production Park visited British Ambassador to Croatia, Simon Thomas.
As he said in his welcome speech this summer, the British and Croatians share a love for football, Wimbledon, music, new technologies… New technologies can be found in the Torpedo Production Park, namely industrial equipment for additive technology, i.e. 3D scanners, 3D printers and 3D modeling equipment.
Dario Zorić, Director of the Rijeka Development Agency Porin, gave a presentation about the Rijeka Development Agency Porin and the Torpedo Production Park, but also about the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Rijeka.
After the presentation, Dario Zorić also demonstrated industrial equipment in a technology laboratory, and then visited the premises of the incubator where the entrepreneurs are located.
How is it British Robert Whitehead, marine engineer, perfected and made operational The world's first torpedo In Rijeka, in our industrial street, it was interesting to walk to the launch ramp of the torpedo.
The visit ended with a tour of Villa Whitehead, which was built by Robert Whitehead, after whom it was named, and in which there is a part of the incubator for service activities of the Rijeka Development Agency Porin.
