Accoriding to the latest Focus on Poznań report on the investment attractiveness of the capital city of Wielkopolska, one of the Poznań’s advantages is well tailored educational offer. 6 local colleges and universities offer a wide range of foreign language studies. Every year, about 3,000 graduates with fluent knowledge of foreign languages are ready to make their best at the thriving job market. Managers can earn in Poznań even PLN 20,000, PLN 5,000 – 7,000 is offered to specialists and PLN 3,000 is an avarage salary of accountants. It is worht mentioning that the city has one of the lowest unemployment rate in the country reaching 3.8% in May 2014.
The authors of the report also write that the capital of Wielkopolska is at the forefront of Polish cities where outsourcing industry is growing. Therefore, a good and flexible education offer allows to expand the network of contacts with investors from all over the world. The city is an outsourcing hub for such industries such: IT, finance, accounting, consulting, sales, marketing, R&D, call centre. The majority of investments comes from abroad – the United States, Germany, France and Great Britain.
Investment position of the city is highly connected with its location close to the motorway and the airport servicing 24 different destinations. Poznań-Ławica Airport handled over 1.3 million passengers in the past year.
To increase its investment actrativeness, the capital city of Wielkopolska has significantly extended the offfer of office space. Currently, the city offers more than 300,000 m2 of office space and a further 200,000 is to be build soon.
The raport prepared by the Pro Progressio Foundation is available as PDF on: Focus on Poznań
Source: Polish Infomation and Foreign Investment Agency
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