The economical attractiveness of the West Pomeranian voivodship

Survey of West Pomerania by the Baltic sea and Germany account for nearly 40% of all borders in the region, which creates an extremely attractive character of the province. In Szczecin, the capital of the region, and its surrounding Metropolitan area is home to almost 650 thousand inhabitants, which is about 40% of the total population of the province.

According to the rating prepared by the research Institute of market economy, West Pomerania Voivodeship belongs to the group of regions with high investment attractiveness.

Confirming evidence of the investment attractiveness of West Pomerania is the number of business entities, particularly small and medium businesses per 10 thousand inhabitants. The region takes the second place after Warsaw. In addition, the number of companies with foreign capital (about 4,500 companies in the REGON database), where the main part is German and the Danish capital, with an above average on a national scale.

Western Pomerania in its investment proposal has more than 8 000 hectares of land, of which about 1,200 ha with the status of a Special Economic Zone (SEZ). Among West Pomeranian industrial parks, of particular relevance to the economic landscape in this part of Europe are substantially different areas in Stargard, Golenev, Grifn and Koszalin.

The strength of West Pomeranian province, from the point of view of human capital, is high availability of educational infrastructure, the relatively good correspondence of the vocational education structure in the region to the needs of the labor market, a high share of engineering students in the overall student population. In addition, it is high and growing percentage of people, who are constantly learning compared to other regions.

Equal distribution of social capital throughout the province is also a positive tendency. This creates a good basis for further investments in human capital in the region, while the support from public funds.

Cyber Threats And Security

Issues related to the security of cyberspace is not only the prerogative of technical experts. Increasingly on this issue speak for politicians, lawyers and experts on international issues. Currently this role in the systemic and organizational dimension must also comply with the state administration. The cyber-threat is also a result of political conflicts

IT threats, became the impetus for the adoption of international initiatives on cyber security, both at government level and the level of international organizations (e.g. EU Directive Network& Information Security), and coordinated research institutions and non-governmental organizations. In the context of independent initiatives the main attention should be paid to the activities of such organizations as the Fund's "Safe Cyberspace" or the Kosciuszko Institute and their international endeavors: Cyber-EXE Georgia (FBC, in cooperation with the Georgian government) and the CyberSEC conference.

Project "[cyber]Securing Ukrainian Energy Infrastructure" consisted of three major activities: internship in Warsaw, a strategic conference in Kyiv and a final report in book form of good practice examples and recommendations. In addition to the research part of the initiative, is also an important element of networking and exchange of experience between V4 countries and Ukraine. The project was mainly aimed at managers of it security operators of critical infrastructure and experts in the field of energy security. In the first phase of the project in Warsaw was found 30 experts, including representatives of the Ukrainian administrations, top-managers of IT-security, academics and representatives of non-governmental organizations.

"[cyber]Security of Energy Infrastructure" was the first of its kind project made by non-governmental organizations of the Visegrad Group in cooperation with the Ukrainian colleagues.