City of Ostrava Fact Sheets Ostrava 2017 City of Ostrava – facts and figures Updated on September 2017 2 Contents 1 GEOGRAPHY AND CLIMATE ...................................................................................... 6 1.1 GEOGRAPHY................................................................................................................. 6 1.2 CLIMATE....................................................................................................................... 7 2 THE INDUSTRIAL CITY OF OSTRAVA – ITS HISTORICAL MILESTONES ................ 8 3 POPULATION.............................................................................................................. 12 3.1 BASIC INFORMATION ................................................................................................... 12 3.2 BREAKDOWN OF INHABITANTS BY AGE ......................................................................... 13 3.3 BREAKDOWN OF INHABITANTS BY EDUCATION .............................................................. 13 3.4 NUMBER OF INHABITANTS IN INDIVIDUAL MUNICIPAL DISTRICTS INCLUDING FOREIGN CITIZENS 14 4 EDUCATION ................................................................................................................ 15 4.1 SCHOOLS IN OSTRAVA – ACADEMIC YEAR 2016/2017 ................................................... 16 4.2 UNIVERSITIES ............................................................................................................. 17 4.2.1 University student numbers .......................................................... 17 4.2.2 VŠB – Technical University of Ostrava, www.vsb.cz .................... 17 4.2.3 University of Ostrava, www.osu.cz ............................................... 18 4.2.4 University of Entrepreneurship and Law (Vysoká škola podnikání a práva, a. s.), www.vspp.cz ................................................................................. 19 4.3 SCHOOLS TEACHING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND SCHOOLS WITH AN INTERNATIONAL APPROACH ............................................................................................................................ 19 4.3.1 1st International School of Ostrava (1st ISO) ................................ 19 4.3.2 The Ostrava International School ................................................. 19 4.3.3 Primary Bilingual School Ostrava, Ostrčilova 10........................... 20 4.3.4 Hello s. r. o. – Primary School and Kindergarten .......................... 20 4.3.5 Monty Elementary School and Kindergarten, Ostrava-Poruba ..... 21 4.3.6 Hladnov Gymnasium and Language School in Silesian Ostrava .. 21 4.3.7 Pavel Tigrid Language Gymnasium in Ostrava-Poruba ................ 21 4.3.8 PORG, private maternity, primary and secondary school ............. 22 5 ECONOMY .................................................................................................................. 22 5.1 NUMBER OF BUSINESS ENTITIES BY INDUSTRY IN 2016 .................................................. 24 3 5.2 TYPES OF BUSINESSES BY LEGAL STATUS, 2016 .......................................................... 25 5.3 TRENDS IN THE STRUCTURE OF BUSINESS ENTITIES BY LEGAL FORM (2007–2016) ........ 26 5.4 LARGEST EMPLOYERS IN OSTRAVA (NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES) ...................................... 27 5.5 LARGEST FOREIGN-OWNED COMPANIES IN OSTRAVA (NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES) ............. 28 5.6 LARGEST CIVIL ENGINEERING / BUILDING COMPANIES IN OSTRAVA (NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES) 29 6 LABOUR FORCE ........................................................................................................ 30 6.1 LABOUR FORCE IN OSTRAVA BY SECTOR – NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES (IN COMPANIES WITH 26 OR MORE EMPLOYEES, 2011 – 2016) ......................................................................... 31 6.2 EMPLOYMENT TRENDS IN OSTRAVA, 2006 – 2016 ........................................................ 32 6.3 UNEMPLOYMENT RATE TRENDS IN OSTRAVA AND YEAR-ON-YEAR CHANGES ON UNEMPLOYMENT RATE, 2002 – 2016 ............................................................................................................... 33 6.4 JOB APPLICANTS IN OSTRAVA BY AGE, 2010 – 2016 .................................................... 33 6.5 JOB APPLICANTS IN OSTRAVA BY EDUCATION, 2011 – 2016 ......................................... 34 6.6 ENTRY OF FOREIGNERS INTO THE LABOUR MARKET OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC .............. 34 6.6.1 Foreign citizens on the labour market in Ostrava.......................... 35 7 AVERAGE WAGES, TAXES ....................................................................................... 37 7.1 AVERAGE PRE-TAX MONTHLY WAGE, 2010 – 2016........................................................ 37 7.1.1 Pre-tax monthly wages in the Moravian-Silesian Region – breakdown by main employment categories and sub-categories, 2016.................................... 38 7.2 TAXES ........................................................................................................................ 39 7.2.1 Direct Taxes.................................................................................. 39 7.2.2 Indirect Taxes ............................................................................... 40 8 INFORMATION FOR INVESTORS .............................................................................. 40 8.1 INVESTMENT INCENTIVES ............................................................................................. 40 8.2 OPERATIONAL PROGRAMMES (OP) 2014 – 2020 ......................................................... 41 8.2.1 National operational programmes ................................................. 41 8.2.2 Cross-border cooperation programmes ........................................ 42 8.2.3 Programmes of transnational and interregional cooperation ........ 42 8.3 CREDIT RATINGS, MACROECONOMIC INDICATORS.......................................................... 43 8.3.1 Credit ratings ................................................................................ 43 8.3.2 Macroeconomic Indicators ............................................................ 44 8.4 BUILDING PERMISSION PROCESS .................................................................................. 44 8.5 LAND PRICING ............................................................................................................. 45 8.6 UTILITIES PRICING ....................................................................................................... 45 4 8.7 INDUSTRIAL ZONES ..................................................................................................... 46 8.7.1 Ostrava-Hrabová .......................................................................... 46 8.7.2 Ostrava-Mošnov ........................................................................... 46 8.8 REAL ESTATE ............................................................................................................. 48 Development sites ................................................................................... 48 8.9 LEVEL OF FDI (FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT) .............................................................. 49 LEVEL OF FDI (FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT) IN OSTRAVA, BRNO AND PILSEN (CZK BILLIONS) – FIGURES FOR EACH YEAR AS OF 31 DECEMBER (1998 – 2015), CUMULATIVELY ........................ 49 9 TRANSPORT ............................................................................................................... 50 9.1 BASIC INDICATORS IN TRANSPORT ............................................................................... 50 9.2 PUBLIC TRANSPORT .................................................................................................... 50 9.3 ROAD TRANSPORT ...................................................................................................... 51 9.4 RAIL TRANSPORT ........................................................................................................ 52 9.5 AIR TRANSPORT .......................................................................................................... 52 9.6 BICYCLE TRANSPORT .................................................................................................. 55 9.6.1 Bike routes – overview .................................................................. 55 9.7 ACCESS TO THE REGION .............................................................................................. 56 9.7.1 Road access to the region – distances to / from Ostrava ............. 56 9.7.2 Access to the region – main transport arteries.............................. 56 10 TECHNICAL INFRASTRUCTURE ............................................................................... 57 11 RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION .................................................... 60 11.1 TECHPROFIL ............................................................................................................... 61 11.2 RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ................................................................................... 63 11.2.1 Moravian-Silesian Innovation Centre ............................................ 65 11.2.2 IT4INNOVATIONS ........................................................................ 65 11.2.3 BIC Ostrava, s. r. o. ...................................................................... 66 11.2.4 Business Incubator VŠB-TU Ostrava ............................................ 66 11.2.5 Nanotechnology Centre ................................................................ 66 11.2.6 Business incubator of University