Miasto Gliwice - Education and Business Centre “New Gliwice”

Gliwice has been gradually changing its image, it supports the development of high technologies and innovative companies. A good sign of such transformations is “New Gliwice”. A closed down mine located at Bojkowska street has been replaced with educational and business support structures, and the old buildings have been carefully restored. For EUR 24 million (out of which PLN 9.5 million was obtained from the European Union funds) the city revitalized the degraded territory and adjusted it to totally new functions.

The restored building of a former pithead building holds the seat of the Gliwice School of Entrepreneurship, a college focusing on economic sciences, humanities and arts. The Gliwice School of Entrepreneurship conducts courses educating in the following majors: Economics, Pedagogy, Design and Philology, in the stationary and non-stationary system. On 31 August 2005 the college was added to the list of non-state professional colleges by the Minister of National Education and Sports. The educational base is complemented by the Foreign Language Teachers Training College, a public centre for teachers’ education and the University of the Third Age, which organizes lectures for its students here.

For small and medium enterprises a business zone has been established in “New Gliwice”. The city offers support for companies from the SME sector, but in return there are some conditions to be fulfilled – they must conduct business activities in the sector of high technologies.

For the money earned on the sales of investment plots, the Local Development Agency implements another project at Bojkowska street, supporting entrepreneurs- a New Incubator of New Gliwice. Therefore, a 3-storeyed building is being constructed with 20 rooms of the floor area of 45m2 or ca. 100m2. Practically all of them have already found purchasers from Gliwice and the neighbouring areas. The purchase principles were very favourable. An entrepreneur was to pay 1% of the value of his/her property, and the rest will be paid for 5 years in non-interest bearing instalments (valorised according to the inflation rate).