Croatian – Norwegian Maritime Innovation Centre in Sibenik / iNavis
The purpose of the project is to contribute to the creation of a favourable and recognizable environment for co-operation by increasing the interaction between Norwegian and Croatian institutions and businesses in the maritime sector where City of Sibenik can in future define itself as a city with an attractive Maritime Business Innovation Centre in a global maritime world.
With realization of this project companies in the field of shipbuilding, transport, energy, engines, ICT technologies in maritime aspect, innovations, research of sea and undersea world and other activities related to the sea will be gathered at one place. Centre will provide advising, institutional and financial support and will actively participate in conducting and realization of different projects. For that purpose a building within former military campus has been given by Republic of Croatia to the City of Sibenik for further management.
The Centre infrastructure will be divided as follows:
- 50 % occupied by commercial companies, creating new development activities for new products, services, etc.
- 25 % for service providers – internal market where tenants get services what they need “at hand” (accounting, ICT, PR, Legal, etc.) along with support conference and meeting infrastructure
- 25 % innovation area – CroNoMar; providing support for innovative ideas, start up phase, business development , networking, courses, market perspective, financing, etc.
- Building refurbishment has been divided in 3 Phases. Presently, Phase 1 of the refurbishment is in finalization where some 20 offices along with support infrastructure will be available for tenants. Expected date for opening of the Phase 1 of the Centre is primo July 2012.
First phase of the Centre will be oriented to innovation activities under management of CroNoMar where CroNoMar will focus on creating attractive, supportive business environment and infrastructure for development of new business activities/models, products and services by providing Norwegian scientific, technical support and assistance, including access to Norwegian industry and markets.
CroNoMar`s objective is conversion of deal flow of business opportunities into real and prosperous new innovative products, services, sustainable business models and companies.
The full functionality of CroNoMar will be operated within iNavis as a business consultancy and innovation service available to whole Croatia in the marine/maritime sector.
The whole concept has been well accepted by market (future tenants). As result, CroNoMar has got signed letters of interest for 2/3 of the area.
Concrete results and benefits from joint cooperation on Maritime Innovation Centre iNavis are already visible through work of CroNoMar within different projects like building fishing vessels for Norwegian aquaculture sector at NCP shipyard in Sibenik, building leisure boats at Sas Vektor in Zadar and Ad Boats in Solin where results are calculated all together in more than 30 mill kn of export value. With these great results CroNoMar is “sailing” with full speed ahead in order to create many more concrete results and successful projects.
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BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF OUR STAFF
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Gordan Polonijo, Technical supervisor
M: +385 91 214 00 28
gordan.polonijo@cronomar.hr
Technical supervisor in CroNoMar, Croatian. MSc in Mechanical engineering - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture Zagreb, 17 years of experience in shipbuilding on various new building such as Cutter suction dredger, Jack Up platform, Chemical tankers, Livestock carrier, Car Carrier, Fisherman vessel, Bulk carrier, LPG tanks, Cable layer, Suction Hopper dredger, etc. In Uljanik Shipyard I was Head of QA/QC dept. I’m also playing a role as a member of Board of the director in Croatian society of Nondestructive testing HDKBR. -
Malvin Villabø, CEO
P: +47 92066640
malvin.villabo@predichem.noCEO of CroNoMar, Norwegian. 19 years of experience in management of innovation company in Norway. 20 years of experience as researcher and manager in MARINTEK - The Norwegian Marine Research Institute. 2 years in Shipping. MSc in Automation Engineering.
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Ana Zajc - Senior Project Consultant
M: +385 91 124 00 22
ana@cronomar.hr
Senior Project Consultant in CroNoMar, Croatian. Educated in Economics and Criminology science. Certified for implementation of EU projects. 15 years of experience on development projects as senior consultant, 4 years of experience as technical director (export, transport, construction company), 6 years of experience as office manager (marketing, tourism, architecture).
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Željko Ninić, Senior Project Consultant
M: +385 91 214 00 25
zeljko.ninic@cronomar.hr
Senior Project Consultant in CroNoMar, Croatian. MSc in Mec - Faculty of Naval Architecture and Mechanical Engineering Zagreb, started engineering career from a workshop floor (CAD/CAM machining) in duration of 2 years, next 5 years as a product designer in R&D department (healthcare industry), 11 years of experience in project management (water supply and waste water engineering, marina installations and HVAC). -
Zdenko Jerković, Technical supervisor
M: +385 91 214 0024
zdenko.jerkovic@cronomar.hr
Technical supervisor in CroNoMar, Croatian. MSc in Naval Architecture - Faculty of Naval Architecture and Mechanical Engineering Zagreb, 22 years of experience in ship building,ship repair and off-shore from construction engineer position through the positions of project engineer, project manager, Seling dpt. manager, site manager, surveyor and consultant. Employments in companies Brodosplit, Vulkan, Brodoremont Vranjic, Viktor Lenac, RLE,ZIT, Adria-mar, TE Marin and on a contract base for foreign companies TTS, Songa offshore, Willtech… -
Marko Kelava, Technical supervisor
M: +385 91 214 00 26
marko.kelava@cronomar.hr
Technical supervisor in CroNoMar in CroNoMar, Croatian. Bsc in Naval Architecture – Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture Split, 11 years experience in ship building and ship repair trough the positions of Surveyor, Head of Assembly workshop, Project manager and Head of New building department. previous employee of Brodotrogir d.d., R.L.E. t.p., Solinbrodogradnja d.o.o. - Shipyard Vranjic. -
Dalibor Varnica, Technical supervisor
M: +385 91 214 00 27
dalibor.varnica@cronomar.hr
Technical supervisor in CroNoMar, Croatian. BSc in Mechanical engineering – University of Split- Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture. More than 20 years of experience in shipbuilding on various new building such as Frigo ship, Bulk carriers, Juice carrier, Heavy lifters, Ro Pax ferry, Yacht, Polar cruisers, Military patrol vessels and off shore projects through the positions of foreman, Workshop engineer, Workshop manager, Assembly manager, Ship manager and PM assistant, Head of preassembly and outfitting workshop and Project manager. All within the Brodosplit shipyard. -
Zdenka Stošić, Administrative referent
M: +385 91 124 00 21
zdenka.stosic@cronomar.hr
Administrative referent in CroNoMar, Faculty of Economy, 4 years of experience as sales manager in Plodine - managing and monitoring sales, employment management, 4 years of experience as sales manager in Jolly - managing sales and assortment, 2 years of experience as accounting administrator – calculations, P&L account, 5 years of experience as external co operant in Prva stambena štedionica, Zagrebačka banka d.d. – Loans, savings, insurances, collaterals.