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  • This is the 21st group of self-government officials that I trained on strategy as part of the MBA in Community Management.

    • 29 May 2024
    • Posted by: andrzej.sztando
    • Category: Training, public speaking & consultations
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    We ALL need educated public authorities and officials, at all levels, from state to municipal. And it’s not about some education, but about good quality education, appropriate to the duties, real, modern, practical, solid and regularly updated. Private and professional life, prosperity, environment, space and safety of EACH OF US depend on it.

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  • Lectures in the city of subjective freedom at University of Dubrovnik, Croatia.

    • 23 May 2024
    • Posted by: andrzej.sztando
    • Category: Lectures at foreign universities
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    “Manage the public affairs as if you had no private interests” and “Liberty can not be sold for all the gold of the world”. These two mottos, visible (to this day) on historical buildings of the authorities of the Republic of Ragusa (today’s Dubrovnik), together with excellent strategic governance, brought it centuries of prosperity and undisputed power.

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  • To the next level. At European Economic Congress, Poland 2024, I will present awards to the winners of TOP Municipal Investments.

    • 23 April 2024
    • Posted by: andrzej.sztando
    • Category: Training, public speaking & consultations
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    During the European Economic Congress Katowice, Poland, I will have the honor of presenting awards to the winners of TOP Municipal Investments. This is a Poland’s nationwide competition for the most pro-development, bold, strategic investments of municipalities, counties and regions. We, as the Consultative Board, have already chosen our favorites, but your opinion also counts

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  • If you care, you act seriously. How to organize good workshops for the commune’s development strategy?

    • 20 February 2024
    • Posted by: andrzej.sztando
    • Category: Construction, evaluation and implementation of local & regional development strategies
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    One of the conditions for developing a good strategy is to listen to residents and entrepreneurs, especially leaders and decision-makers.

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  • Fate guides the creative, drags the passive. I review drafts of city development strategies.

    • 26 January 2024
    • Posted by: andrzej.sztando
    • Category: Construction, evaluation and implementation of local & regional development strategies
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    I don’t just develop city development strategies. Mayors also let me review their projects. I’ve done two recently. The idea is that I find their imperfections, the authorities correct them and the strategy becomes better – for residents, business and the environment.

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  • Strategies of communes will be more *eco*. The draft of new regulations has just been submitted to the parliament.

    • 10 January 2024
    • Posted by: andrzej.sztando
    • Category: Construction, evaluation and implementation of local & regional development strategies
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    A draft amendment to the *Environment Protection Law* has just been submitted to the Polish Parliament, obliging the authorities of all 2477 communes to set not only social, economic and spatial strategic goals in their strategies, but also “climate and environmental” ones!

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  • Siġġiewi & Roseto strategy. Indirect but strong relationship between social integration and health & safety.

    • 28 December 2023
    • Posted by: andrzej.sztando
    • Category: Traveling in search of local development and inspirations for local & regional governments
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    Roseto is a small city in the USA (PA) that surprised scientists in the 20th century. The mortality rate of its inhabitants, Italian migrants, was approximately 1/3 lower than the average. This phenomenon could not be explained for a long time.

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  • Strategy and masterplan. It is not enough to have some strategy, even a legal one. You need to have good one.

    • 20 December 2023
    • Posted by: andrzej.sztando
    • Category: Training, public speaking & consultations
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    The recent amendment to one of Polish legal acts determined that the MASTERPLAN takes into account in particular the spatial policy of the commune specified in the commune’s development strategy or the supra-local development strategy of communes.

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  • Self-government in Malta. Can we use their experiences in the development strategies of our communes?

    • 13 November 2023
    • Posted by: andrzej.sztando
    • Category: Traveling in search of local development and inspirations for local & regional governments
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    As part of my travels in search of local development and inspirations for local & regional governments, I had the honor and pleasure of talking about Maltese local governments with the Acting President of Malta Prof. Frank Bezzina and with the Director General for Local Government in the Office of the Prime Minister of Malta, Natalino Attard

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  • How to develop a commune/city’ development strategy that responds to global and local challenges?

    • 31 October 2023
    • Posted by: andrzej.sztando
    • Category: Training, public speaking & consultations
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    A lot is happening in politics, law, economy, technology, society, environment, etc. How can you find your way in this with your commune/city? What its development strategy you should develop, adapt and implement?

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