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Partners of NordicHouse and members of SPCleantech, BLOK Architects and Bjerg Arkitekter have concluded a cooperation agreement combining their complementary competences in creating an innovative architecture based on Scandinavian experience. Bjerg Arkitekter is a Danish architectural firm based in Warsaw, and architects from BLOK Architects from Krakow have many years of experience as architects in Denmark.

On 12.03.2018, the next meeting of the VR, AR and MR companies was held at the headquarters of NordicHouse, who is the coordinator. After signing the Letter of Intent regarding the creation of the Virtual Cluster, Augmented and Mixed Reality Cluster – Presence VR / AR / MR Cluster, it went on to the next phase of creating the Cluster Statute. During the meeting, the participants agreed on the final text of the Statute covering the scope of the cluster’s activity, its authorities and issues related to financing the cluster’s activities.

NordicHouse participated on 05.03.2018 in the XIII meeting of the IATI Monday Business Meeting (IATI MBM) entitled “The road to a circular economy through industrial symbiosis” organized in cooperation with the Marshal’s Office of the Małopolska Voivodship. The subject of the meeting were barriers in the pursuit of industrial symbiosis.

Janusz Kahl, CEO in NordicHousehas been chosen by the European Commission as member of the Steering Committee for the project „Skills for smart industrial specialization and digital transformation” for Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, EASME acting under the powers delegated by the European Commission EASME / DG GROW, which has been granted to PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in Luxembourg.

On 27.02.2018 NordicHouse organized as Pre Acceleration Point as part of the NordicHouse Café a networking meeting for start-ups “Why start need Business Angels? How to get them?”

NordicHouse participatedon 31.01.2017 in the 5th Interregional Exchange of Experiences – Workshops for the Local Group of Stakeholders. The event is organized as part of the REBUS project co-financed from the Interreg EUROPE program (http://pnec.org.pl/pl/rebus).

NordicHouse and SPCleantech organized on 01.03.2018 in cooperation with the Association of Municipalities and Districts of Małopolska (SGiPM) and a member of the cluster Danish architectural company BJERG Arkitekter from Warsaw, seminar “Healthy building = healthy inhabitants = a healthy city. The healing role of architecture in public buildings “.

A group of VR, AR and MR companies took the first step towards the creation of the first VR, AR and MR cluster in Central and Eastern Europe by signing on 15.01.2018 at NordicHouse, the headquarters of SPCleantech a Letter of Intent.  

One of the most important tasks of NordicHouse is to promote and facilitate cooperation with partnersand active participation in ongoing projects. A great example of this type of cooperation is the project carried out by our partner, Palettenwerk in cooperation with the founder of the cluster, Cracow University of Technology represented by the Małopolskie Centrum Budownictwa Energooszczędnego (MCBE) and SPCleantech – “Development of innovative modular construction technology, prefabricated on wood base by PalettenWerk Kozik Spółka Jawna”.

On 08.01.2018, Dominik Darasz, on behalf of the architectural firm Horizone (member of SPCleantech) and NordicHouse, handed over a three-dimensional model of the newly established BLOXHUB headquarters, of which NordicHouse and SPCleantech are a members. The BLOX building, located in the very center of Copenhagen above the main canal, will be officially taken into use on 01.05.2018 and will also be the headquarters of NordicHouse and SPCleantech in Copenhagen.