Viborg Is Proud of Its History and Is Looking Forward to an Equally Exciting Future! Living in an Increasingly Globalised World
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Welcome to Viborg Municipality – The Business-Friendly Municipality Viborg is proud of its history and is looking forward We believe that sustainability and further to an equally exciting future! development of the co-operation between the Municipality, businesses, education and research Living in an increasingly globalised world, companies institutions are fundamental when it comes to and investors choose locations where world class growth and development. competencies are readily available. Therefore I am pleased that you are considering Viborg Municipality This co-operation has for example lead to the for your operations. fact, that Viborg Municipality is known to have an excellent entrepreneur environment and in 2010 we On behalf of Viborg City Council I would like to were elected ’Entrepreneur City of the Year 2010’ in welcome you to Viborg Municipality. Be assured that Denmark. we will do our best to accommodate your wishes. When it comes to business development, our main In Viborg Municipality we are very focused on partner is Viborg Business Development Center. business development - we have for example drawn Viborg Business Development Center’s objective is up the Municipality’s ’Common Enterprise Policy’ to ensure both a high quality as well as an in co-operation with our business organisations, individualised service to businesses located in Viborg our further education institutions and our tourism Municipality. sector. I hope that you will find the enclosed material The aim of the ‘Common Enterprise Policy’ is twofold: interesting and please do not hesitate to contact me in order to set up a meeting to discuss the 1) To be a municipality which, through dialogue with possibilities you have for relocating to or setting up our businesses, will ensure that our services can in Viborg Municipality in the future. We can for and will be developed in line with the needs of example help you with the organisation of fact businesses. finding tours to Viborg Municipality, site and 2) To implement actions that will help our premises location, finding skilled employees and businesses prepare for future challenges. establishing contacts, as well as give you access to an extensive network of specialist consultants. We have three distinct strengths in Viborg Municipality. We are internationally oriented, Welcome to Viborg Municipality Contact details: our businesses are diverse and creative and our Telephone: +45 87 87 80 08 education and knowledge environments are very Yours sincerely E-mail: [email protected] dynamic. Website: www.viborg.dk/english Søren Pape Poulsen Mayor, Viborg Municipality Location and Facts Viborg Municipality is located in the heart of Jutland Citizens (9th largest municipality in 93,400 in the Central Denmark Region. It only takes an hour Denmark measured by population) to get to Aarhus or Aalborg. Viborg’s airport, Karup Airport (www.karup-airport.dk), which is located Area (2nd largest municipality in 1,422 km2 approximately 26 km from Viborg city centre, has Denmark measured by size) more than ten daily flights to and from Copenhagen Businesses 5,400 – a flight that only takes 45 minutes. From Further education institutions 21 Copenhagen, central parts of Europe can be reached People employed by companies and 54,000 within only two hours. organisations Public day care institutions 74 Municipal run primary and secondary 26 schools International schools 1 Public residential homes 16 Regional hospital 1 Ham m erf e st Murma n sk Reykj a v ik Aalborg Ki runa IC EL AND Norweg ian Sea Ou lu SWEDEN Trondheim FINLAND Su n d sv a l l Gulf NORWAY of North T a mpere At lantic Bothni a Ocean Ga vl e Helsink Viborg Be rgen i St . Pe tersburg Os lo RU SSIA T a ll in n St ockholm ESTONIA Århus Moscow Aberdeen North Riga Se a Goteborg 3 hours LATVIA Ed inburgh Belfast DENMARK Baltic 2 hours New c a s tle IRELAND Copenhagen Sea LITHUANIA 1 hour Dub l in Vilnius Tve r Minsk Liverpool Gdansk U. K. Rost ock NETH. Ham b u r g BELARU S Cardif f Poznan Be rl in Wa rs a w London Am st erdam Hannover GERMANY POLAND BELGIUM Leipzig Ki e v English Channe l Bonn København Br u s se ls L e Havre Fra n kf urt Prague Kr akow UKRAINE LUX. Lviv CZECH RE PUBLIC Pa ri s St rasbourg SLOVAK IA Nantes Br atis la va Munich Vienna MOLD OVA FRANCE Budapest Bern AUST RIA Chisina u Odessa Clu j -Napoca SWITZE RL AND HUNGARY Odense Ge n e va Pe cs Bordeaux Lju b lj ana ROMANIA Bay of Biscay L y on SLOVENIA Zagreb Milan CROATIA Venice Constanta Black Bilbao BOSNIA Belg rade Bucharest Sea Sa raje vo Va rna Po rto Marseille Florence SERBIA BULGARIA ANDORRA ITALY MONTENEGRO Sofia ORTUGAL Madrid Ba rc e l ona Rom e Podgorica Skopje Istanbul L i sbon MACE DONIA SPAIN Ad riatic Ankara Nap l es Sea Ti ran a T y rrheni an ALBA NIA Va lencia Sea TURKEY Se vi ll a GREECE Ae gean Cag l ia ri Sea Malag a Ionian Me di terranean Sea Sea Pa trai At hens Palermo Business Environment Being located in Viborg Municipality gives you access However, some of the world’s leading clean to technology companies are also located in Viborg Municipality: - internationally recognised business clusters - business incubators - Grundfos – the world’s largest pump - a highly skilled workforce manufacturer - international education and research institutions - Genan – the world’s largest tyre recycling - social networks including the Business company Development Center’s business club and’ Viborg - Hedeselskabet – a commercial company, which International Community’ supports the development of new research and knowledge and disseminates knowledge about Something that particularly characterises Viborg nature and the environment Municipality is that there is great emphasis on the Municipality, the business community, the further Protecting the environment is also important to education and research institutions and the tourism Viborg Municipality as an organisation. Over the sector working together to ensure continued growth years it has become one of Denmark’s leading and development and to create synergy. municipalities when it comes to international municipal capacity building projects (also known The main business sectors in Viborg Municipality are as municipal ‘system export’ projects) within waste the public sector, manufacturing/production and management, water supply, waste water treatment business services. The majority of the businesses are and energy (see ‘Cluster: Environment and Energy’). small and medium sized businesses. Cluster: Agriculture The Viborg region is the centre of the Danish Business Park holds an innovation competition to agricultural industry with more than 1,300 stimulate the development of new products and businesses in the industry. Historically agriculture the establishment of new companies within the has played an important role in the development of areas of agriculture, food and the environment. The the Viborg region. In Viborg Municipality we have a park is also part of the Enterprise Europe Network large range of suppliers of agricultural equipment as - the largest business support network in Europe well as a number of science centres. supported by the EU. www.agropark.dk Research Centre Foulum, the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Aarhus University Located just outside Viborg City, you find Research INBIO - Innovation Network for Biomass Centre Foulum which is the largest unit under the INBIO is Denmark’s innovation centre for the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences (DJF), Aarhus production, conversion and utilisation of biomass. University. The mission of The Faculty of Agricultural Its aim is to facilitate sustainable and value-oriented Sciences is to maintain, develop and disseminate technological innovation concerning bioenergy and knowledge about sustainable agriculture and the environmental technology. INBIO’s objective is to production of high quality food. The majority of the help businesses and research communities come Faculty’s research in animal husbandry and plant together to create new solutions in energy and Future Food Innovation production is carried out at Research Centre Foulum. environment through the use of manure and Future Food Innovation is an initiative established by Furthermore, Research Centre Foulum carries out a biomass. INBIO is located at Agro Business Park. the Central Denmark Region to ensure that large part of the Faculty’s interdisciplinary research, companies in the food sector become more www.cbmi.dk i.e. ecology, animal husbandry production and innovative and increase their growth and profits. welfare. Research Centre Foulum is located in close The initiative includes measures to help companies proximity to Agro Business Park. The Faculty of VIBORG Food Industry Network and knowledge-based organisations develop new Agricultural Sciences employs more than 1000 and VIBORG Food Industry Network is a well established ideas and concepts, employ PhD researchers in about 450 are researchers. network for the local foodstuff sector, related businesses, find new technologies and access producers and vendors. The aim of the network is to: international markets. It also includes a support www.agrsci.au.dk/en/ 1) provide the participants with new knowledge and programme where companies can apply for match innovation within the area of quality foodstuffs, 2) funding to develop innovative products and services. Agro Business Park organise activities that contribute to the common The project consortium, which includes the Faculty Agro Business Park is a science park specialised in growth, development and profile of the local quality of Agricultural Sciences, Aarhus School of Business - entrepreneurship and innovation within agriculture, foodstuff sector and 3) increase accessibility and Aarhus University, AgroTech, Technological Institute foodstuffs, bioenergy and environmental technology. visibility of the local foodstuff sector through joint and VIFU, is co-ordinated by Agro Business Park. The Science Park participates in a considerable events, marketing material, etc. number of projects with the aim to support www.agropark.dk entrepreneurship and innovation within its industry www.ver.dk areas.