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A new multimodal logistics centre outside the Ostrava Airport can become an important transshipment terminal of the "New Silk Road" Concens Investments is building a giant Ostrava Airport Multimodal Park in the immediate vicinity of Mošnov Airport, investing several billions of korunas.

At the beginning of the holidays, Ostrava will inaugurate the new part of the in-line centre "Cementárna". It is an expansion of the first phase opened in September 2014. It will include 1,600 meters of track, tennis courts, a skate park, parkour training grounds and a pumptrack. The project involved the renovation of roads and pavements, and an expansion of the parking lot built in the first stage. Added were resting places with benches, bicycle stands and trash cans. The opening ceremony is scheduled for Friday 29 June.

Ostravians are one of the most frequent users of the bikesharing system. The Ostravians have fallen in love with the pink bikes. Every bicycle is rented on average by six cyclists a day. There are 45 places in Ostrava where people can rent and return the bikes. The cyclists most often use the bikes for short trips in the city centre.

If we disregard the large industrial zone, the City district of Hrabová consists of three parts. Although the residential estate has its own square, we can hardly refer to it as the centre of the City district. Hrabová simply has and never had its centre. And that's about to change.

The Institute for Politics and Society, in cooperation with the City of Ostrava, organizes a public debate whose topic is "New Era of Urban Planning in Ostrava". It takes place today at 4:30 p.m. in Brickhouse in Lower Vítkovice Area /Dolní oblast Vítkovice/.

At the end of May, there were 14,097 people in the Ostrava contact point register. There were 1,515 job seekers in May. The share of unemployed persons reached 6% in Ostrava. The Moravian-Silesian Region has ranked first in terms of the share of unemployed persons compared to other regions of the Czech Republic.

An International Cultural Centre is to be built in the buildings annexed to the City slaughterhouse. After the renovation, the centre will offer artists and the public with spaces for dance, lectures, concerts, theatre, fine arts, as well as accommodation for guest artists.

The main objective of this visit was to meet with representatives of the leadership of VŠB-TUO and the Faculty of Economics, which has been its partner for 10 years.

Using a taxi in the region together with public buses, shared lines, traffic optimization or passenger moods or improved night-time connections.

On 31 May 2018, two representatives of the Chilean organisation Fundación Chile and the program Open Innovation EXPANDE, Mr Enrique Molina (Director) and Agustín Sepúlveda (Technology Director), visited VŠB – Technical University of Ostrava. They were accompanied by Ms Eva Bartoňová – project manager for research and development of Czechinvest.

On June 7, you'll have a unique opportunity to meet with venture capitalists and angel investors. MSIC and the Keiretsu Forum are organising a meeting on venture capital investing. If you lack the funds to start your business or just need advice on how to make a project attractive to investors, do not hesitate and come!

This trend is apparent especially in the Ústí, Karlovy Vary and Moravia-Silesia regions

The City of Ostrava is seeking a buyer for a plot of land with a total area of 1400 m² in the historic heart of the city. The City Assembly approved the sale of the land at its session on 23 May. The site – opposite the Puppet Theatre – is currently used for car parking.

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The City of Ostrava is encouraging citizens to become personally involved in helping to improve the environment, raising awareness of how each of us can play our own individual role. One of the ways in which Ostrava’s citizens can actively contribute to a reduction in emissions – while also benefiting their own health and fitness – is by cycling rather than using motor vehicles. To ensure that everybody has access to bicycles, the City has joined forces with the Rekola company to launch a bikesharing project. As part of the project, 180 bikes are available to borrow from (and return to) 39 bike stations located at various points in the central part of Ostrava.

In April 2018, international rating agency Moody’s raised Ostrava’s rating from A1 stable to A1 positive. Ostrava now has the highest rating that a Czech city can achieve: the Czech Republic’s rating is A1 positive, and no city can have a higher rating than the country itself. Ostrava is the only Czech city whose rating has risen steadily year after year, and it is one of just five cities in the Czech Republic to have been granted the A1 positive rating.

This spring has brought several prestigious awards to Ostrava, recognizing the city’s increasingly strong profile as an investment destination. The most recent was Ostrava’s ranking in a survey to find the most business-friendly town or city in the Czech Republic; Ostrava finished in first place in the overall rankings. 

The Travel Blog Exchange (TBEX) is the world’s largest conference and networking event for travel bloggers, online travel journalists, new media content creators, travel brands and industry professionals. This year TBEX is heading to Central Europe for the first time: the venue for TBEX Europe 2018 is Ostrava, whose Lower Vítkovice complex will host the event from 26–28 July.

Brose CZ has opened an IT services centre at the Moravian-Silesian Innovation Centre (MSIC) in Ostrava. The MSIC was established jointly by the City of Ostrava and the Moravian-Silesian Region as the successor to the former Ostrava Science and Technology Park.

Scientists from the Ostrava University were very surprised, when researching biodiversity. They found a virus among their samples which nobody had seen before. Biologists from the laboratory, which is involved, among other, in the treatment of Leishmaniasis, have given it a symbolic name: OstraVirus. The city of the discovery becomes now famous around the world. However, the only common feature of Ostrava and the virus is the name and the fact that it has been found by the researchers from the Ostrava University