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.

They say that a good plan is half the battle. And a bad one? I would say that it is the beginning of failure. A bad plan, instead of leading to the right goal, leads to wasting human energy, time, money, lost opportunities, defeats in competition and even disasters.

I have been appointed to the Scientific Council of the Integrated Railway Network Project (#ZSK).

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.

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt once said, and although not all the famous sayings of US presidents are inspiring, especially today, this one is worth remembering and thinking about.

Recently, while conducting training on development strategies for authorities and top management of the Czernica Commune Office, I presented my prototype AI model based on GPT-4o supporting strategic governance of the development of cities/communes.

I am training my artificial intelligence model based on GPT-4o, whose task will be to advise municipal/city authorities in making strategic decisions.