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Leading Cities, the pioneering global network for Smart City growth and collaboration, launched a partnership program for cities aiming for growth through collaboration. The Leading Cities Member Network was launched in Europe at the Smart Ecosystems Expo and Conference in Lublin, Poland. During the opening ceremony of this international event, Lublin Mayor Krzysztof Żuk and Leading Cities President and CEO Michael Lake, formally inducted Lublin as the first European city in the Member Network.

Bravo Airways has announced the launch of three new flights from Lublin to Ukraine: to Kyiv, Kharkiv and Kherson.

The modern production complex with an automated logistics centre worth of PLN 130 million – which was opened this year – will allow Lubella to strengthen its position as a leader in the pasta market in Poland.

On 16th May at 14 Nałęczowska Street, the Lublin branch of Onwelo, one of the fastest growing IT companies on the Polish market, was officially opened.

A modern research and development centre was opened in Lublin, where researchers from SDS Optic, the beneficiary of the National Centre for Research and Development, will work on cancer diagnostics solutions.

Maxima Grupe has achieved success in the tender offer for acquisition of the Polish company Emperia Holding S.A., which operates the Stokrotka retail chain. Today, the tender offer to sell the shares to Maxima Grupe was accepted on the Polish Stock Exchange by 93.7 percent of the shareholders. The value of this transaction amounts to approx. EUR 276m.

The office real estate market in Poland was thriving in 2017, and the experts already predict even better results in 2018. Lublin is ready for new investors from the sector of modern business services.

The sustainable development of Lublin in the areas of society, environment and economy, which aims to improve the quality of life of its inhabitants permanently, was appreciated by experts. In the latest 'Ranking of Sustainable Polish Cities' of the global design and consulting company Arcadis, our city took the fifth place.

On March 19, the Mayors of Lublin, Radom, and Starachowice signed a letter of intent, the purpose of which is to establish close cooperation and to pursue joint initiatives aimed at strengthening the development of the automotive and machinery industry as a traditional economic specialisation of south-eastern Poland, dating back to the interwar period.

The first two months of 2018 brought record-breaking results in terms of the number of passengers served at the Lublin airport. In January and February, more than 71 thousand passengers used Lublin Airport.

On 24 January 2018, an agreement was signed for the development of a concept of the S19 section from the Lublin bypass to the Lubartów Północ junction. The road will be built by the end of 2024.

Emperia Holding's Stokrotka supermarket chain has completed the expansion of its Distribution Centre in the Special Economic Zone Lublin Subzone at 18 Erazma Plewińskiego Street in Lublin.

As every year, the Perspektywy Foundation has published a ranking of technical schools in Poland. In the top 50, there were three schools from Lublin. The Lublin Electronic Technical School took third place.

The Minister of Science and Higher Education, Deputy Prime Minister, Jarosław Gowin, signed on December 18, 2017, in Lublin a consent to establish the Lublin Universities Association. It is created by Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (UMCS), the University of Life Sciences (UP) and the Lublin University of Technology (PL).

Ledrin, the owner of the Daag brand, has obtained a new permit issued by the Ministry of Development to operate in the Special Economic Zone EURO-PARK Mielec Lublin Subzone. The company plans to invest 3.75 million PLN and increase its employment to 61 people.

We must constantly find innovative solutions to problems in order to improve our democracy in cities. We want cities with gender equality, social equality, democratic institutions and a clean environment, said Dimitri Roussopoulos during miasto.to Gala on October 18, 2017, in the Centre for the Meeting of Cultures in Lublin.

Ursus Bus won the tender for the supply of fully electric low-floor buses to Zielona Góra. The primary scope of the contract worth PLN 96.5 million covers the delivery of 47 new factory-built 12-meter city buses. Deliveries are to be made in 2018.

At Economic Forum in Krynica, Minister of Development announced a new project aimed to support investors in Poland. It is planned that the concept will be an auxiliary initiative along Special Economic Zones and will have replaced them after 2026. The new laws would mean companies investing across Poland would benefit from corporate income tax breaks, their investment projects would be evaluated in qualitative and quantitative terms, and fixed tax breaks would replace precisely defined period of Zone existence.

The European Commission will contribute to SDS Optic's project "Revolutionary opto-biological methodology for aggressive HER2 cancer". The startup from Lublin was granted €3.985.000 from the SME Instrument (Horizon 2020) programme to develop a revolutionary optical device OmiProbe for safe, fast and non-destructive cancer diagnosis.

Lublin is now one of the four hundred cities in the world to have IKEA store within its confines. The tenth retail outlet of this global company in Poland and the first in east Poland opened in the morning on 23 August. By choosing Lublin, IKEA’s management confirmed the role that the city plays in this part of Poland.