Metropolitan Area Gdańsk Gdynia Sopot

President Lech Walesa, together with the President of Gdansk Pawel Adamowicz, Basil Kerski, director of the European Solidarity Centre (ECS), and Ryszard Trykosko, president of Gdansk Municipal Investments (GIK) today visited the European Solidarity Centre to check how construction is proceeding. President Walesa also visited his future office which will be found in the building. The ECS is scheduled to open to the public on 30-31 August 2014, on the anniversary of the signing of the August Accords.

The biggest cultural event in the Gdansk calendar is the three-week long St Dominic’s Fair or Jarmark Dominika. This year’s event begins on Saturday July 26.

Gdańsk took first and Sopot third places in the category of cities with county rights for 2014 (shared with Wrocław). As the editors of Rzeczpospolita were assessing local governments for the tenth time they also made a 10th jubilee award. Here Sopot won second, and Gdańsk third place.

The Tri-City is becoming one of the main start-up centres in Poland. For entrepreneurs from Pomerania this is extremely good news, because there are more and more investors, business friendly institutions and also local government support for innovative companies in the technology industry.

It took 72 percent of people just one visit to their local city hall (Urzad Miasta) to resolve the reason for their visit according to research on the work of 30 local councils in the Gdansk Metropolitan Area.

The president of Gdansk Pawel Adamowicz has signed an agreement with research institutes that will prepare the Strategy for the Development of the Gdańsk Metropolitan Area (GOM) to 2030 under the name "INTIS - Integration and Synergy " The GOM strategy will cover as many as 69 local governments - including Gdańsk, Sopot and Gdynia.