Business in Ostrava
Basic Information
The regional capital: Ostrava (second largest city in the Czech Republic)
Connection: Prague - Ostrava: 360 km; Brno - Ostrava: 170 km; Katowice - Ostrava: 90 km; Wien - Ostrava: 310 km
Total area: 214 km2
Population: 318 726 citizens
Population density: 1500 inhabitants/km2
Investment Support Offer
- Close infrastructure
- Proximity of International airport Ostrava - Mošnov
- Connection to road and railway network
- Land price
- Sufficient qualified labour force
- Assistance in building permit formalities
- Suitable lands for individual living available
- Leisure time activities (golf, tennis, squash, horseback riding, winter sports in Beskydy and Jeseniky Mountains)
- Industrial cluster in Moravia-Silesia Region( co-financed by European Fund of Regional
- Development and Ministry of Industry and Trade)
- Regional interconnection of small and medium size entrerprises ,investors, subsidiary institutions and organizations (namely tercial education institutions - university, business academies)
Ostrava Partners
- Volgograd (Russian federation) - cooperation among school institutions, juveniles, city transportation
- Coventry (Great Britain) -cooperation of economic chambers, educational matters
- Katowice (Poland) - state administration reforms, revitalization of industrial areas
- Dresden (Germany) - cooperation in educational, cultural and juvenile matters
In recent years (2001 - 2005)
- Košice (Slovakia) - revitalization of industrial areas, cultural matters
- Miscolc (Hungary) - revitalization of industrial areas
- Pittsburgh (USA) - revitalization of industrial areas, ecological matters
- Wodzislaw (Poland) - cooperation in educational, cultural matters, mutual cooperation in realization of EU programs