Metropolitan Area Gdańsk Gdynia Sopot

Gdansk, Gdynia and Sopot and some of the key businesses based in the area were recognised for their continued dynamic development at the 4th Annual CEE Shared Services and Outsourcing Awards Gala in Warsaw recently.

There was a sneak preview of the new Rapid Suburban Railway (SKM) trains which are about to be put through final testing before starting work on the metropolitan area’s rail network.

An 18-year old high school student from Gdynia, hit the headlines in Poland recently when it was reported that an app he has developed has seen his small business valued at over a million zloty.

The work of a team of young, local scientists has attracted the attention of the National Geographic who wrote about this in a recent article. The group, who are all from the Gdansk-Gdynia-Sopot Metropolitan Area, are working on an innovative method to help fight infections where antibiotics have failed.

The final meeting of the Gdansk-Gdynia-Sopot Metropolitan Area (OM-G-G-S) Social Development Committee in 2015 took place last week where the work of the last twelve months was summarized and there was an opportunity to address the recent issues raised by local governments.

“For the first time in 300 years Gdansk has hold of the reins and is starting to return to its heyday of the seventeenth century. Back then, it was a Hong Kong for the Republic” so says the investor in Poland's largest business complex outside of Warsaw, Mr. Maciej Grabski.