• 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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  • Lectures at J. E. Purkyně University in Ústí n. Labem on strategic failures of local governments, Ústí, Czech Republic

    • 20 October 2023
    • Posted by: andrzej.sztando
    • Category: Lectures at foreign universities
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    There are few things only that can teach you as much as a solid, but well-thought-out failure! This also applies to strategic governance of the cities’ & communes’ development.

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  • A strategy that will bring the rural commune of Dobrzyniewo Duze to a new, higher level of development

    • 4 October 2023
    • Posted by: andrzej.sztando
    • Category: Construction, evaluation and implementation of local & regional development strategies
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    The Development Strategy of the Dobrzyniewo Duże Commune for 2023-2033, prepared by me, was adopted unanimously. I also prepared the previous one, and within its framework the authorities and employees of the commune managed to achieve a lot.

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  • Lectures at Manisa Celal Bayar University on reforms and development strategies of Polish communes, Manisa, Turkey

    • 1 October 2023
    • Posted by: andrzej.sztando
    • Category: Lectures at foreign universities
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    As many as several dozen professors and doctoral students came to my lecture at Manisa Celal Bayar University. Self-government is also a hot topic in Turkey, so current Polish reforms in the field of development strategies of communes are of great interest here.

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  • Poland needs thousands of highly qualified and motivated local authorities and self-government managers

    • 9 August 2023
    • Posted by: andrzej.sztando
    • Category: Research, teaching and scientific publications
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    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.

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  • Strategic revolution! An act introducing mandatory communes development strategies has been signed.

    • 27 July 2023
    • Posted by: andrzej.sztando
    • Category: Construction, evaluation and implementation of local & regional development strategies
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    So it happened! Yesterday, the President of Poland signed an act that not only revolutionizes our spatial planning, but also gives a superior role to commune development strategy (we have 2477 communes), making it mandatory soon.

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  • As a reviewer, I recommend! Promoting sustainable local economic development initiatives: Case studies

    • 23 July 2023
    • Posted by: andrzej.sztando
    • Category: Research, teaching and scientific publications
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    The book I reviewed for AOSIS Scholarly Books describes the methods of promoting sustainable economic development used by South African local authorities.

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  • She came from Kazakhstan to learn on development strategies of Polish cities

    • 10 July 2023
    • Posted by: andrzej.sztando
    • Category: Research, teaching and scientific publications
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    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

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