• As a reviewer, I recommend! Local innovations strategies as an instrument for creating innovativeness and supporting development

    • 26 November 2022
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    • Category: Research, teaching and scientific publications
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    I have reviewed and recommend the book “Local innovations strategies as an instrument for creating innovativeness and supporting development”

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  • I train the authorities – in order to govern well, you have to want it first. Fortunately, there are those who want.

    • 28 October 2022
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    • Category: Training, public speaking & consultations
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    In order to govern well, you have to want it first. Fortunately, among Polish self-government officials you can often meet people who want it.

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  • Lectures at J. E. Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem on finance, knowledge and the power of self-government, The Czech Republic

    • 21 October 2022
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    During my lectures at Univerzita Jana Evangelisty Purkyně v Ústí nad Labem – UJEP, Czech Republic, I talked with students how the financial independence of local self-governments influences how they develop their communes.

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  • I held debates on the development strategies of communes at the 20th Self-Government Forum of Capital and Finance

    • 17 October 2022
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    At the jubilee XX Self-Government Forum of Capital and Finance, I had the honor to moderate the plenary debate on “The upcoming reform of the spatial management system and its consequences (including financial) for self- governments”, as well as took a part in the discussion panel on “Financial management as part of the local development strategy”.

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  • Who are the extension professors and what do they have to do with self-government? I worked with them in Mount Sterling, USA

    • 1 October 2022
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    I attended the extension professors and agents workshop 🙂 What’s up? Read on!

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  • Defense of the self-government’ MA thesis – important for the commune development strategy, Lexington, Kentucky, USA

    • 21 September 2022
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    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.

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  • The Village Philharmonic on the Atlantic? Yes! And let the strategies of our communes also have them. Algarvia, São Miguel, Azores.

    • 15 September 2022
    • Posted by: andrzej.sztando
    • Category: Traveling in search of local development and inspirations for local & regional governments
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    The strategies of rural communes in Poland and other CEE countries are full of intentions to build new roads, sewage systems, community centers, low emission heating sources, public transit connections, etc. Great, these are the foundations of a good life and economy. But can you ask for more? Can innovative services, the most modern companies, high culture – like in big cities – make sense in the countryside?

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  • What is Civic Health and what does it have to do with strategy? The CEO of CivicLex replied, Fayette County, USA

    • 4 September 2022
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    • Category: Traveling in search of local development and inspirations for local & regional governments
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    This is Richard Young (center), founder and executive director of CivicLex, the NGO that is building Civic Health in Fayette County (KY, USA) so well that it is an argument for the United States House of Representatives 🇺🇸 to create a The Trust for Civic Infrastructure as part of groundbreaking modernization of United States Congress – reforms aimed at strengthening American democracy.

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  • Lectures at California State University, Dominguez Hills, on self-government and the development of the state, Carson, Los Angeles, USA

    • 1 September 2022
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    “Self-government and the development and strength of the state, on the example of Poland” – a lecture I gave at the California State University, Dominguez Hills for professors of its College of Business Administration & Public Policy at CSU Dominguez Hills.

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  • I have been to “ghost town” and I will talk about it at trainings and lectures on local development strategy, Cisco, Utah, USA

    • 28 August 2022
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    • Category: Traveling in search of local development and inspirations for local & regional governments
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    Cisco is a “ghost town” – an abandoned, small city in Utah, USA. Although I did not meet with its mayor (it was abandoned around 1990), it made a great impression on me.

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