In educating future local government leaders, it is important to provide them with reliable knowledge, show what and how it can be achieved using it, and then practice its application together. However, it is equally important to get to know them with contemporary leaders, show their commitment, strategic thinking and their ambitions in developing cities and villages. This is necessary for them to believe that it is possible and worth living all this.

Work is underway on the Wroclaw Development Strategy for 2050. This is a SUPER-IMPORTANT plan that will determine not only the directions of Wroclaw’s development, but will also influence the development of the Wroclaw metropolitan area and even the region.

A quarter of a century of work on city/commune development strategies and hundreds of training courses I have given on this subject tell me one thing. Poland needs thousands of highly qualified and motivated local authorities and self-government managers.

The book I reviewed for AOSIS Scholarly Books describes the methods of promoting sustainable economic development used by South African local authorities.

This is Aizhana Kazybayeva, a PhD student at Almaty Management University, Almaty, Kazakhstan and a graduate of the KDI School of Public Policy and Management, Sejong, South Korea. She won a grant of Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange to come to me for a month-long internship at the Wroclaw University of Economics and Business, Poland

This is Megna Kalvani, PhD student at SP Jain School of Global Management. He came from Dubai to learn on development strategies of Polish communes.

Good strategies of communes/cities mean better life, business and the environment, and the development of Poland. However, they must be really good, also in detail, otherwise, instead of development, they will bring serious problems.

I have reviewed and recommend the book “Local innovations strategies as an instrument for creating innovativeness and supporting development”

I attended the extension professors and agents workshop 🙂 What’s up? Read on!

While visiting the University of Kentucky, I participated in the defense of an interesting self-government’ master’s thesis. Its author, Ms Lindsay Vance examined how the inhabitants’ place attachment influences attitudes to the tourism development. In other words, she checked whether if someone really likes area, then wants to “sell” it to tourists or rather not.