The Warsaw leg of the Wolves Summit CEE took place on May 8-9. The start-ups that offered the best technological solutions were awarded at the Great Pitch Contest event, where Saventic, Proofminder, and FleetFox took the top three prizes. The Wolves Summit, which started in Warsaw in 2015, continues its integrated deal flow creation and…
Every festival is characterized by the soul that moves it and in the European panorama, one of the most open to the themes of social inclusion and innovation is the WeMakeFuture festival, which this year will be held in Bologna on 13-15 June. Italy is certainly not the first country that springs to mind if…
LOT Polish Airlines has contracted 11 new Boeing 737 Max 8 airplanes for 186 passengers from The Boeing Company. The first one is to be delivered in the beginning of May and two others during this summer holidays. Now LOT has 11 such two-engine narrow jets and the delivery of 11 new ones is to…
Building shell of Olszynki Park complex in Rzeszów has just been completed. It contains 220-metre tower with 41 overground levels that is the highest residential building in Poland and the second 78-metre tower with 18 levels. The complex has been designed by S.T. Architekci and developed by Deweloper Apklan. Borth towers contain 292 apartments, the…
From simple transactional tasks to complex knowledge-based processes – the business services sector will tell the story of growth-oriented transformation On June 3-5, in the ICE Kraków Congress Centre, the ABSL Summit will bring together more than 1,400 business leaders, government officials, experts and economists from around the world. Dozens of debates and meetings will…
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) launched the world’s first regional Clean Energy Training Center in Warsaw to help start Poland’s domestic nuclear energy program. The center will serve Poland and broader Central European region as a training hub for countries considering new or expanded nuclear reactor deployment. The first training session was launched at Warsaw Technical University in cooperation with the…
Poland’s elections to the European Parliament will take place on June 9, the third in an electoral marathon, following parliamentary elections last fall and local elections in April. If April’s elections were a mini-plebiscite on the first few months of the post-Law and Justice (PiS) government, a coalition led by Civic Coalition (KO) leader, Donald…
Sylwia Ziemacka talks to Dr Fabian Elzanowski, an attorney with over 12 years of experience in M&A and corporate law and a founding Partner at Elzanowski & Partners, where he leads M&A, Corporate, and ESG practices. We hear that companies are recognising the importance of ESG in their strategies. Usually the pressure to comply with…
Poland and Korea were both ruled by foreign powers at the start of the 20th century, Poland partitioned between Austria, Germany and Russia, and Korea under Japanese rule. Such shared histories of external oppression are clearly a factor that brought the two nations closer together after the Cold War. Today Korea and Poland have a…
Terra Electrorecycling, part of the Elemental Group, has opened a modern e-waste processing plants in Poland in Grodzisk Mazowiecki. The new installation will enable the processing of 100 refrigerators per hour, regardless of the type of refrigerant used in the construction of the device. The older technology allowed for the processing of 60 freon or…
Age no longer bothers companies Every fifth employer (22%) plans to employ seniors, according to a study by the Progres Group. This number may increase if the Polish government’s plans to offer subsidies to companies for employing an older person looking for a job, e.g. a retiree, come into force. There is no shortage of…
Warsaw Chopin Airport was established 90 years ago. For years, it has remained a window to the world and the main Polish transfer hub. It is also the largest airport in Central and Eastern Europe. What are the biggest challenges it has to face and what will its future look like? The management board of…
