Kielce - the capital of the Świętokrzyskie region, a business-friendly place, including the BSS sector, production and logistics, a city open to innovation and modern technologies, supporting entrepreneurship, hosting many interesting economic, sports and cultural initiatives.
As the main academic center in the Kielce region, it attracts thousands of students, offering faculties adapted to the requirements of the modern labor market, incl. programming, data engineering, economics, philology, automation and robotics, medicine and law. Kielce is investing in academic facilities and training future qualified staff. 20 thousand students study annually at 10 universities. students. The most popular are state universities - Kielce University of Technology and Jan Kochanowski University. IT studies are a magnet that attracts young, ambitious people planning their careers in the IT and ICT sectors to the city.
Kielce University of Technology focuses not only on programming and the IT sector. The technical university in Kielce educates world champions in the robotics and cosmonautics sector. The 2021 European Martian Robot Competition in Kielce once again proved that the teams from Kielce are world leaders when it comes to designing, creating and programming Martian robots - "rovers". The IMPULS team from the Kielce University of Technology won the international competition of Martian robots, the European Rover Challenge, for another year in a row.
In addition to recognition in the field of robotics, Kielce may soon become the capital of Polish metrology. The Świętokrzyski Laboratory Campus of the Central Office of Measures, which is to be built by the end of 2023 in Kielce, is an investment on an unprecedented scale in our region. The prospect of employment in such an exclusive field as metrology is noticed by students from Kielce, and the university authorities are making efforts to prepare for the expectations of future employers, including companies that will be created around the investment. This is a great opportunity for the development of entrepreneurship in Kielce, not only in the field of metrology, but also in other areas, e.g. IT.
Offers of investment areas, halls and office space available in the city are collected, updated and published in the Investment Property Database - https://mapa.invest.kielce.pl/ by the Office for Entrepreneurship and Investor Service Center, whose employees provide information about available, interesting the investor's locations and business conditions in Kielce.
As part of supporting the investment process, the City offers:
- competitively priced real estates
- preparation of economic studies and reports
- support in finding the optimal location
- organization of study visits and meetings
- care of the investment project by employees of the Investor Assistance Center
- adaptation of infrastructure and public transport
- tax exemptions - City Council Resolution No. LVII / 1121/2022 of February 17, 2022 on real estate tax exemption for newly constructed buildings or their parts related to running a business in the field of production activities http: //edziennik.kielce.uw.gov.pl/WDU_T/2022/830/akt.pdf and the Resolution of the City Council No. LVII / 1122/2022 of February 17, 2022 on real estate tax exemption for newly constructed buildings, some of which are high-standard office space http://edziennik.kielce.uw.gov.pl/WDU_T/2022/831/akt.pdf
- cooperation with universities in the field of staff preparation to the investor's needs
- programs of the Municipal and County Labor Office for starting a business, creating new jobs, training staff and equipping newly created jobs
- supplementing the offer with services provided by the Kielce Technology Park www.technopark.kielce.pl/eng
- assistance in recruiting staff
- possibility of using European funds
The employees of the Office for Entrepreneurship and the Investor Service Center offer comprehensive support for the entire investment process: from preparing a personalized investment offer containing specialist information on the conditions for developing a business in Kielce, through the selection of a location, organization of study visits, implementation, to post-investment care. Contact us:
Office for Entrepreneurship and Investor Assistance Center
Department for Entrepreneurship and Social Communication
Kielce City Hall
ul. Strycharska 6, 25-659 Kielce
phone: 48 41 36 76 557, 48 41 36 76 571
e-mail: coi@um.kielce.pl
