Hranicko Region

1. Hranicko Region

2. Hranicko Microregion Hranice

3. Vision As Learning Region, Hranicko will offer broad institutional opportunities for schools and formation as well as innovative solutions based on new technologies and and renewable energy. Hranicko will be an open, innovative and international oriented microregon, its prosperity is based on future oriented SMEs and diversified and high quality agriculture. Hranicko is famous as "green" bridge between economic centres with attractive landscape, historical centres, sites and cultural traditions

4. Economy • large companies acting in long-term tradition processing industries, wide • mechanic industry, • good freight transport connections, • well qualified manpower, stable position of public officials after public • administration reform. • high quality of agricultural products, widespread medium farms • opportunities for summer tourism, nature, cultural, historical, technological sites, • good potential for agri and ecotourism development, folkloristic traditions, • potential for renewable energy: wind, woods, experience in biomassproduction, • planned construction of motorway D47, good road network • regional integrated traffic system, good public transport system Socio-culture • variety of professional schools (specialisation for math, IT technologies, languages) • headquarter of the Czech association of private schools in Hranice city • efficient health infrastructures (hospital and secondary medical school), • low growth of birth rate, lower percentage of divorce, average age lower compared to • Cz rate Environ-ment • well-established waste management, • subterranean mineral water in Teplicko, • nature reserves, rich water resources • reduction of intensive agricultural land use Strengths

5. Weaknesses Economy • lack of infrastructurally equiped industrial zones, especially for SMEs • not specialised service manpower, insufficient services in rural areas, • low stability of agri market - low prices, decrease of employment in agriculture, • lack of experiences with process production • no offer of agri-, ecotourism, lack of opportunities for winter and families, • no common regional tourism offers, • financial deficit for building reconstruction, • Undeveloped market and high price of cultivated biomass (pellets) due to • process costs Socio-culture • low mobility of labour force, high unemployment in rural areas • small size municipalities • closing primary schools especially in rural areas, insufficient offers for • adults formation, lack of qualified teachers • lack of jobs for universities´ graduates, decrease of peoplewith academic • education • lack of public budgets for renovation and equipment of schools • closing of emergency and maternal hospital in Hranice, bad accessibility • of medical care out of town, low number of doctors per inhabitants • negative birth rate, negative migration balance • low housing development, one person household are increasing • bad quality of secondary roads, insufficient services of public transport, • mainly railway Environ-ment • increase of urban land use, incomplete water supply and gas distribution • system, • pollution from local sources, incomplete sewerage of municipalities, • unsolved dumping waste, • reduction of forest