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Lviv Region At A Glance Area: 21,800 km² (comparable to Slovenia, nearly half the size of Netherlands) Population: 2,6 million Major city and capital: Lviv Distance to EU border from Lviv: 75 km Time zone: GMT+2 Main industries: IT, automotive production, food processing, agriculture, tourism 3

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Lviv Region At A Glance People: educated, open-minded and mobile Location: 280km border with EU (East of Poland) Environment: green and clean Innovation: many traditional enterprises with unconventional approaches, more than 100 IT-companies Diversity: home for different cultures and religions Livability: vibrant social and artistic life 5

Preserved Nature Carpathian mountains: 2 hours drive from Lviv Forests cover 25% of the area Century-old health spas & resorts 400 nature preserves, including 2 national parks 6 © Vitaliy Hrabar

Recreation, SPA & Resorts More than 200 mineral springs 136 spas and resorts Well-developed ecotourism: hundreds of facilities throughout the region 7 © Vitaliy Hrabar

Euroregions are associations created by local and regional self-governments Euroregions from 1996 are managing EU programmes Euroregions are subjects of the policy of regional development and foreign policy of Poland KARPACKI Euroregions

OPPORTUNITY – FORMING OF ALPINE-CARPATHIAN TRANSNATIONAL SPACE Commons spheres of interest: - Common history within Austrian-Hungarian empire, - Alpine Convention – Carpathian Convention - Natural resources (mountains and river basins) - Cultural exchange

Lviv Forum of Innovation and investition Since 2012 Lviv holds annual forum of innovations and investments on which latest innovative projects are presented and different contest of startups are conducted. 10

Lviv International Economic Forum The main annual economic event in Western Ukraine with high profile business leaders, experts and incumbent officials The forum in October 2012 was dedicated to future prospects of transborder cooperation. 11

Diversity – Traditions of tolerance and multiculturalism – Home for Ukrainian, Polish, Jewish, Armenian shrines – 4,000 historic and architectural relics from the 12 th to 20 th centuries – Lviv city center is a UNESCO World Heritage Site 12

Marketing Marketing: - promotion - popularization Preservation Preservation: development of the concept of its utilization FORTE CULTURA

Johann Georg Pinsel

Lviv State Administration 18, Vynnychenko Str. Lviv, Ukraine (032) (032) , THANK YOU FOR ATTENTION WECOME TO LVIV REGION AND WECOME TO LVIV REGION