Liberec Region

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Liberec Region

• Total area of 3163 km2
• 428 184 inhabitans
• Part of NUTS 2 Northeast (together with the
  Pardubice and Hradec Králové Regions)
• The regional capital is the City of Liberec
  almost 100 000 inhabitans

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Administrative division of Liberec Region
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Employment in the Liberec Region according to
sector

• Industry
• 66 654
• Employees

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Unemployment in the Liberec Region 2003Liberec
Region July 2004 9,3Czech Republic July 2004
10,1
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Economically weak areas
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The Technical University in Liberec (TUL)

• 6 faculties Engineering, Textiles, Education,
  Economic, Architecture, Mechatronic and
  Interdisciplinary Engineering Studies
• 7 000 of students, with a prospective increase to
  10 000

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Industry

• 49 of economically active inhabitans
• The most prominent sectors of industry are glass
  making, the car industry, and the plastics
  industry
• Other traditional sectors include the ceramics
  industry, the jewellery industry, engineering,
  and the textile industry

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Openness to foreign markets

• Significant foreign investors
• Denso Manufacturing (Japan)
• Fehrer Bohemia (Germany)
• Laird Technologies (USA)
• Bombardier Transportation (Germany)
• Delphi Pacckard Electric (USA)
• Peguform Bohemia (USA)
• Arvin Meritor (France)
• Grupo Antolin Bohemia (Spain)

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Regiotram Nisa

• The combined advantages of tram and rail
  transport
• The transportation of passengers using light rail
  carriages which are capable of transferring
  between tram tracks and classic railway lines
• The use of existing rail connections of over 110
  km in lenght
• The axis of the Regio Tram Nisa

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The coordination of REGIOTRAM NISA with the ERN
rail network
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Centre of Education for the Liberec Region
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Transport

• The main road transportation axes are the
  high-speed R10 Praque-Turnov road and the R 35
  Germany-Poland-Liberec-the border with Slovakia
• The nearest freight airport is in Praque 100 km

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