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The Mikołów County Development Strategy: Essential and effective because it is participatory and based on inter-municipal cooperation!
- 17 July 2026
- Posted by: andrzej.sztando
- Category: Construction, evaluation and implementation of local & regional development strategies
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The Poland’s Acts on Commune Self-Government and Voivodeship Self-Government regulate the procedure for preparing development strategies for these tiers of government and specify their required content. The Act on County Self-Government, however, remains silent on county development strategies… This does not mean that a county strategy is unnecessary.
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From municipal development strategies to the Integrated Railway Network: How can we make it happen?
- 1 July 2026
- Posted by: andrzej.sztando
- Category: Construction, evaluation and implementation of local & regional development strategies
I am pleased that, thanks to my experience in developing strategies for many cities and municipalities, I participated in the work on this breakthrough plan as a member of the ZSK Scientific Council, representing Wroclaw University of Economics and Business.
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A good municipal development strategy. The Daily Legal Gazette is sounding the alarm, and in Wasilków they already know how it is done.
- 27 February 2026
- Posted by: andrzej.sztando
- Category: Construction, evaluation and implementation of local & regional development strategies
Simply adopting a commune development strategy in compliance with legal requirements is not enough in Poland. The strategy must be substantively sound, and it must be preceded by a good diagnosis. Otherwise, there will be many problems…
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On municipalities’ development strategies with professionals. Training for the Silesian Association of Municipalities and Counties
- 14 February 2026
- Posted by: andrzej.sztando
- Category: Training, public speaking & consultations
Training for the Silesian Association of Municipalities and Counties. Its participants were directors, heads of departments, and managers from a dozen or so offices of Silesian city administrations responsible for preparing these strategies and for spatial planning.
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Non-Self-Governing Municipalities, a King, Parliaments, and Hereditary Rulers: Lectures at Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur
- 22 December 2025
- Posted by: andrzej.sztando
- Categories: Lectures at foreign universities, Training, public speaking & consultations
This time I lectured in Malaysia, at Universiti Malaya in Kuala Lumpur. My open lecture on local government and state authorities in Poland was supposed to last an hour and a half, but it ran for three hours, because there were so many questions and so much discussion with the students.
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Is the Silicon Shield Strategy Enough? Lectures at National Taiwan University
- 7 December 2025
- Posted by: andrzej.sztando
- Categories: Lectures at foreign universities, Training, public speaking & consultations
Recently, I lectured at National Taiwan University on Polish public strategies. While talking with professors and students and visiting state-of-the-art laboratories, I also learned about Taiwanese strategies.
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Antifragility Strategy at Midnight: The True Sources of Poland’s Economic Success
- 3 December 2025
- Posted by: andrzej.sztando
- Categories: Lectures at foreign universities, Training, public speaking & consultations
The Brazilian university Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais asked me to give an online seminar for PhD students and professors entitled ‘Entrepreneurship and Local Development – the Example of Wrocław and the EU’
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Strategy starting from kindergarten: Talks in kindergartens and primary schools in the city of Głowno.
- 14 November 2025
- Posted by: andrzej.sztando
- Category: Training, public speaking & consultations
If you’re planning for a year – sow grain.
If you’re planning for ten years – plant trees. If you’re planning for a hundred years – educate children. -
Comprehensive Strategy of the Municipal Civil Protection Service: Lectures at the University of the Azores
- 27 October 2025
- Posted by: andrzej.sztando
- Categories: Lectures at foreign universities, Training, public speaking & consultations
After my lectures at University of the Azores, I barely got out ahead of Hurricane Gabrielle, while the islands were bracing for the worst. How does it work there?
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Be careful what you wish for… Lectures at the University of Madeira and the strategy of sustainable-by-force tourism
- 17 October 2025
- Posted by: andrzej.sztando
- Categories: Lectures at foreign universities, Training, public speaking & consultations
While recently lecturing at The University of Madeira on development strategies for Polish municipalities, I said that many of them are eager to grow tourism. The students replied that on their island that’s no longer the case everywhere and that most of them feel quite the opposite.