EUROPA INCOGNITA - Novel Opportunities

2

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

3

4

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

5

6

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

7

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

10

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.

11

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

12

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

15

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