Joint Economic Development with the City Group

The cities of Zittau (D), Bogatynia (PL) and Hrádek nad Nisou (CZ) have formed a cooperative structure, coming together in the one → City group

Joint economic development has been formulated as a main focus of the cooperation, along with other emphases such as culture, schools, and sports. The goal is to develop, use and market the location advantages of the three-country region together, namely:

• its central European location, with direct access to both Polish and Czech markets
• an economic environment with traditionally comparable industries and industrial structures; there is, for example, good bilateral experience in mechanical engineering as well as in the textile and plastic industries
• companies interested in settling here can benefit from existing cross-border contacts between local institutions and companies
• thanks to the academic coordination center of the University of Applied Sciences Zittau/Görlitz and the neighboring university institutions, contact to the science potential of Polish and Czech universities is also easily arranged