memorandumemorandumInvestment Memorandum of the City of Zabrze Sport Information Tourism Strategy Vision Potential Quality Knowledge Perspectives Culture Arts Infrastructure Innovations Passion The city of Zabrze Sport Capital Business Investment Metropolis ZabrzeZabrze Distances from European and world cities City Distance from Zabrze Ad-Dauha 5 684 km Berlin 510 km Editor: Brussels 1 218 km Delhi 6 726 km Municipality of the City of Zabrze Dubai 5 991 km ul. Powstańców Śl. 5-7 Helsinki 1 372 km 41-800 Zabrze London 1 561 km www.um.zabrze.pl Moscow 1 595 km New York 6 836 km Photos/Visualization: Oslo 1 536 km Paris 1 457 km Centre of Polymer and Carbon Materials of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Beijing 7 192 km the Antoni Cygan archive (photos by Piotr Muschalik), Rome 1 499 km Fortum Power and Heat Polska LCC, the Prof. Zbigniew Religa Foundation Seoul 8 000 km for the Development of Cardiac Surgery (photos by Mariusz Jakubowski), Tokyo 8 847 km Diament Hotels JSC, “Zabrze” Coke-Chemical Inc. JSC, Municipal Museum in Zabrze, Toronto 6 929 km Warsaw 305 km Faculty of Biomedical Engineering of the Silesian University of Technology, Washington 7 162 km Stadium in Zabrze LLC, Medical University of Silesia, Silesian Centre for Heart Partner cities Diseases, Municipality of Zabrze, VOIGT LLC, archive of Marian Oslislo/M-Studio, Essen (Germany) 979 km CREATIVE TOWER (photos by Anna Liwia Gołąb) Kaliningrad (Russia) 635 km Lund (Sweden) 998 km Editing and print: Rotherham (Great Britain) 1 844 km Rivne (Ukraine) 651 km CREATIVE TOWER: Paweł Gałecki , Lidia Gawlak, Anna Gołąb, Sangerhausen (Germany) 636 km Wojciech Kodłubański, Małgorzata Krzysztofik, Iwona Majewska, Anna Ober, Seclin (France) 1 335 km Anna Somorowska in cooperation with business and self-governmental sector, Trnava (Slovakia) 305 km academic sector, business environment institutions and non-governmental Zahlé (Lebanon) 2 304 km organizations. memorandum Table of contents 1 The City of Zabrze 4 1.1 World – Europe – Poland – Zabrze..............................................................................................................4 1.2 Travelling into the Past................................................................................................................................8 1.3 In the Heart of Silesia – Transportation....................................................................................................12 1.4 Culture and Arts.........................................................................................................................................18 1.5 Sport, Recreation, Tourism........................................................................................................................24 1.6 Knowledge and Innovation (R&D)..........................................................................................................34 1.7 The Self-Government of Zabrze................................................................................................................46 1.8 People, Passions, Initiatives.......................................................................................................................52 1.9 Silesia Metropolis – Social and Economic Environment and Cooperation........................................58 2 Potential 61 2.1 Choosing Zabrze......................................................................................................................................62 2.2 Climate for Investments...........................................................................................................................64 2.3 Place for business.......................................................................................................................................68 2.4 Infrastructure for Investments and Business............................................................................................78 2.5 Quality of life...............................................................................................................................................84 2.6 Labour market – human capital..............................................................................................................90 3 Perspectives 93 3.1 The New Vision of Zabrze............................................................................................................................94 3.2 Growth sectors...........................................................................................................................................98 3.3 Strategic undertakings............................................................................................................................104 4 Practical information 109 memorandum memorandum Dear Sirs, Zabrze is a city of science, medicine, culture, sport and industrial tourism where for the last years the industry has been replaced by innovative technologies. Thanks to recognized scientific, research and medical centres we are proud of highly specialized and qualified staff working for the benefits of the medical, biomedical, mining, chemical, automoti- ve industries as well as environmental engineering, mechanics and robotics. As our great potential one can perceive the achie- vements of Polish Academy of Science Branches as well as the achievements of Zabrze higher education's institutions and the Institute for Chemical Processing of Coal. We are building a creati- ve model in innovative biomedical technologies sector. This model demands strict cooperation between universities (the Medical University of Silesia, The Faculty of Biomedical Engineering of the Silesian University of Technology), The Silesian Centre for Heart Diseases, scientific institutes (The Prof. Zbigniew Religa Foundation for the Development of Cardiac Surgery, The Institute of Medical Technology and Equipment ITAM) and Kardio-Med Silesia LLC. The cooperation is aimed at creating new ideas and implementing them practically in the market conditions. Perfect location of the city at the place where A1 and A4 Motorways cross with the direct link to the Central Expressway results in perceiving huge invest- ment areas and Katowice Special Economic Zone as important assets of the city. Also a rich offer of the Music and Dance Hall, Zabrze Philharmonic, Nowy Theatre, sport facilities and unique industrial tourism route attract tourists to the city. The vision of a modern city is strongly linked to the investment development which is also confirmed by Zabrze expenses amounting to over 1,2 billion PLN incurred in the years 2008-2012 and European Union funds absorption level. The city is friendly to investors. More and more domestic and foreign investors establish companies in Zabrze. I am convinced that the Investment Memorandum will encoura- ge to familiarize with our city and to benefit of its great potential. Małgorzata Mańka-Szulik Mayor of the City of Zabrze Investment Memorandum of the City of Zabrze 3 1 The City of Zabrze 1.1 World – Europe – Poland – Zabrze 1.2 Travelling into the Past 1.3 In the Heart of Silesia – Transportation 1.4 Culture and Arts 1.5 Sport, Recreation, Tourism 1.6 Knowledge and Innovation (R&D) 1.7 The Self-Government of Zabrze 1.8 People, Passions, Initiatives 1.9 Silesia Metropolis – Social and Economic Environment and Cooperation 1.1 World – Europe – Poland – Zabrze A common market of energy and innovations should be the driving factor of Europe. There are experts and specialists outstandingly prepared to work almost any fields in Silesia and Zabrze. The world’s necessity to shift from services to production returns nowadays and Silesia has always been the region with the largest and best production. Prof. Jerzy Buzek – former President of the European Parliament Global economic trends confirm that investors are attracted by the potential and resources of the European cities, in particular of Central Direction – Europe and Eastern Europe where positive economic growth is still reported. After China, Europe is the second Technical, transport and ICT infrastructure, availability of investment most attractive direction for expan- areas and highly qualified professionals make the Central and Eastern sion of foreign direct investments. Europe a perfect investment location. In a “TOP 10 FDI Strategy: Eastern Europe 2012/2013” ranking of investment attractiveness, top three places were taken correspondingly by Katowice, Kraków and Lublin while Polish cities represented in total overall 50%‘‘ of the cities presented in the report. According to UNCTAD in 2012 the inflow of foreign direct investments to Poland amounted to USD 11.8 billion. In this period Polish export amoun- Centre of Europe ted to EUR 141.9 billion. One in five Polish companies that employs more Poland is a strategic investment than 9 people exports its products. HSBC Global Connections forecasts country located in the centre of a 7% increase in the value of export from Poland in 2014. Some inter- Europe being crossed by trans-Eu- ropean corridors. It offers conve- national companies acting in Poland export more than 80% of their nient road, railway and airway production. For many years Germany has been the largest business connections with all states of the partner of Poland in terms of import and export. In 2012 the export to European Union and Asia. Germany amounted to EUR 35.7 billion i.e. 25% of Poland’s export. In the UNCTAD survey Poland holds 14th position among the econo- mies perceived as the most promising destinations for foreign direct investments