We invite you to participate in the 4th Metropolitan Debate! The topic of the next meeting organized by “Dziennik Bałtycki” together with Olivia Business Centre and the Gdańsk-Gdynia-Sopot Metropolitan Area Association will be the quality of life in Pomerania.

How do Pomeranians live? Pretty good. Such a conclusion can be reached after reading the report “Conditions and quality of life in the Pomeranian Voivodeship”, which collects data from social surveys conducted in Pomerania between 2000 and 2015. However, the report also talks about what remains to be done to make our lives even better.

It is a well-known fact that our well-being in life is strongly influenced by the state of our wallet. And the level of household income in Pomerania places us high in the national statistics. In 2014 The Pomeranian Voivodeship was third in this ranking, after Mazovia and Silesia, and belonged to the group of five regions above the national average. Which, of course, is a good thing, although it immediately demands one caveat: the differences in the standard of living between the metropolitan “core”, i.e. the Tri-City, and the rest of the region, are still significant. We are also still above the national average in statistics illustrating the size of social groups experiencing poverty.

Of course, money is not everything. The quality of life is also influenced by the possibility of getting an attractive job, access to educational or health services (there is still a lot to be done in this particular area: according to the statistics of the Central Statistical Office, Pomerania is the third region, after Mazovia and Lower Silesia, where people wait the longest in queues for medical services).

“Metropolis – how can it serve the quality of life in Pomerania ” – this is the slogan of the fourth metropolitan debate, organized by the editors of “Dziennik Bałtycki” together with Olivia Business Centre and the Gdańsk-Gdynia-Sopot Metropolitan Area Association. The discussion will take place on Tuesday, June 26 at 11:00 at Olivia Sky Club (Olivia Business Centre).

We have invited distinguished guests to participate in the meeting. Among them m.in:

• Jarosław Sellin, Deputy Minister of Culture and National Heritage
• Paweł Orłowski, Member of the Board of the Pomeranian Voivodeship
• Hanna Pruchniewska, Mayor of Puck
• Jolanta Rożyńska, Director of the Wejherowo Cultural Centre
• Prof. Ph.D. Cezary Obracht-Prondzyński, University of Gdansk

You will be able to follow the meeting live on the FB profile of “Dziennik Bałtycki”. A summary of the most important topics of the discussion will be published on 19 June in Dziennik Bałtycki.

^{from: dziennikbaltycki.pl, “Metropolitan Debates in Olivia. Quality of life in Pomerania is the topic of the 4th edition of meetings at Olivia Business Centre!”, author: Jarosław Zalesiński}

YOU CAN REGISTER FOR THE EVENT HERE