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…

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.

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.

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.

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’

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.

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?

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.