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EUROPA INCOGNITA - Novel Opportunities
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Well placed
Lviv Region At A Glance
• Area: 21,800 km² (comparable to Slovenia, nearly half the size of Netherlands)
• Population: 2,6 million• Major city and capital: Lviv• Distance to EU border from Lviv: 75 km • Time zone: GMT+2• Main industries: IT, automotive production,
food processing, agriculture, tourism
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European Crossroad
Lviv Region At A Glance• People: educated, open-minded and mobile • Location: 280km border with EU (East of Poland)• Environment: green and clean• Innovation: many traditional enterprises with
unconventional approaches, more than 100 IT-companies
• Diversity: home for different cultures and religions • Livability: vibrant social and artistic life
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Preserved Nature
• Carpathian mountains: 2 hours drive from Lviv
• Forests cover 25% of the area
• Century-old health spas & resorts
• 400 nature preserves, including 2 national parks
© Vitaliy Hrabar
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Recreation, SPA & Resorts
• More than 200 mineral springs• 136 spas and resorts• Well-developed ecotourism:
hundreds of facilities throughout the region
© Vitaliy Hrabar
• Euroregions are associationscreated by local and regional self-governments
• Euroregions from 1996 are managing
EU programmes
• Euroregions are subjects of the policy
of regional development and foreign policy of Poland
KARPACKI
Euroregions
OPPORTUNITY – FORMING OF ALPINE-CARPATHIAN
TRANSNATIONAL SPACE
Commons spheres of interest:
- Common history within Austrian-Hungarian empire,- Alpine Convention – Carpathian Convention- Natural resources (mountains and river basins)- Cultural exchange
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Lviv Forum of Innovation and investition
• Since 2012 Lviv holds annual forum of innovations and investments on which latest innovative projects are presented and different contest of startups are conducted.
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Lviv International Economic Forum
• The main annual economic event in Western Ukraine with high profile business leaders, experts and incumbent officials
• The forum in October 2012 was dedicated to future prospects of transborder cooperation.
http://economicforum.com.ua
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Diversity
– Traditions of tolerance and multiculturalism – Home for Ukrainian, Polish, Jewish, Armenian
shrines– 4,000 historic and architectural relics
from the 12th to 20th centuries– Lviv city center is a UNESCO World Heritage Site
Marketing:- promotion- popularization
Preservation:development of the concept of its utilization
FORTE CULTURA
Johann Georg Pinsel
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Lviv State Administration
18, Vynnychenko Str.
Lviv, 79008
Ukraine(032) 261-20-93
(032) 261-28-70, 261-23-99www.loda.gov.ua
THANK YOU FOR ATTENTION
AND WECOME TO LVIV REGION
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