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Contacts for decision makers
People like to talk about vitamin B when it comes to achieving your own goals through good relationships. In fact, good connections to decision-makers and supporters can be decisive for the success of investments, projects and plans of all kinds. We don't want you to have to search far. This page provides you with the most important contacts at a glance. In the district of Görlitz, the business development agencies of the district and the municipalities are the most competent contacts for local economic commitment.
The two offices of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce, the Görlitz district handicraft association, the Wirtschaftsjunioren, the Bautzen employment agency and the Görlitz district job center are also important partners in the regional economy. Projects to secure and recruit skilled workers are funded by the regional skilled workers alliance of the district of Görlitz with an annual budget. Applications can be submitted at the beginning of each year. The district's specialist coordinator is available to support potential applicants.
Antje Klose Structural change, economic development and international relations | Görlitz district, Bahnhofstraße 24, 02826 Görlitz | Telephone: 01511 6172764 wirtschaftsfoerderung@kreis-gr.de
"The Department for Structural Development, Economic Development and International Relations (SWIB) sees itself as a central contact point in the district administration specifically for companies, investors and start-ups in order to support administrative procedures, create transparency and simplify cooperation for companies with the authorities and other partners . Our strong, medium-sized business community guarantees stable and continuous economic development in the future through innovative products and processes as well as the ability to perceive changes and rethink our own processes. We provide support in the various entrepreneurial development and investment phases and bring the right people in a solution-oriented manner stakeholders to each other.”
Felix Breitenstein Operations Manager Job Center | District of Görlitz, Lunitz 10, 02826 Görlitz | Telephone: 03581 6634000 | Web: www.kreis-goerlitz.de felix.höhenstein@kreis-gr.de
"We guarantee new and old companies in the district a comprehensive and needs-based service in personnel recruitment. Our goal is an optimal filling of vacancies in your company. To this end, we offer a targeted pre-selection of applicants as well as tailor-made support services, job-related qualifications before starting work, training sequences for work trials and attractive wage cost subsidies. We work with you to develop the best solutions for you to fill vacancies quickly and precisely.”
Sven Mimus Managing Director Development Company Niederschlesische Oberlausitz mbH (ENO), Elisabethstraße 40, 02826 Görlitz | Phone: 03581 329010 | Web: www.wirtschaft-goerlitz.de info@wirtschaftgoerlitz.de
"Develop, promote, accompany - following this motto, we are committed to development processes in the district of Görlitz. For us, sustainability and structural change are elementary terms. In these key areas, we as ENO see it as our duty to actively make a positive contribution to the district.”
Eva Wittig Managing Director of the Europastadt Görlitz-Zgorzelec GmbH | City marketing, tourism Fleischerstraße 19, 02826 Görlitz | Telephone: 03581 475741 | Web: www.goerlitz.de wirtschaft@europastadt-goerlitz.de
"Central location in the border triangle of Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic, research and production in the immediate vicinity, short distances - quick decisions. Find out more about Zittau as a business location.”
Gloria Heymann Head of Office for Business, Tourism and Public Relations City Administration of Zittau, Markt 1, 02763 Zittau | Telephone: 03583 752166 | Web: www.zittau.de g.heymann@zittau.de
"Central location in the border triangle of Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic, research and production in the immediate vicinity, short distances - quick decisions. Find out more about Zittau as a business location.”
Stefan Halang Economic Development/Tourism | City administration of Ebersbach-Neugersdorf, Reichsstraße 1, 02730 Ebersbach-Neugersdorf | Telephone: 03586 763213 | Web: www.ebersbachneugersdorf.de stefan.halang@ebersbachneugersdorf.de
"The topic-related networking between business, schools, administration and other municipalities is an essential component of economic development in Ebersbach-Neugersdorf. Together with our companies, we face the challenge of recruiting skilled workers and develop new synergies.”
Gundula König Large district town Niesky | City administration, Muskauer Straße 20/22, 02906 Niesky | Telephone: 03588 282650 | technical-services@niesky.de | www.niesky.de g.koenig@niesky.de
"The topic-related networking between business, schools, administration and other municipalities is an essential component of economic development in Ebersbach-Neugersdorf. Together with our companies, we face the challenge of recruiting skilled workers and develop new synergies.”
Roman Krautz Head of Office "Bärwalder See"/Office "Business Development" Municipal Administration Boxberg/OL, Südstraße 4, 02943 Boxberg/OL | Telephone: 035774 35433 | Web: www.boxberg-ol.de baerwalder-see@boxberg-ol.de
“In the industrial and commercial areas of the municipality of Boxberg/OL there are currently around 1,800 industrial jobs with a total annual turnover of over €415 million in mining and manufacturing. In the 18 districts around the Bärwalder See - a former brown coal mine and today the largest inland lake in the Free State of Saxony - you can live and work well. Tourism potential is also high in our 217 km² municipality near the Polish border.”
Maria Schiller Economic Development, Municipal Administration Weißwasser/OL, Marktplatz, 02943 Weißwasser/OL | Telephone: 035762 65280 | Web: www.weisswasser.de wirtschaftsfoerderung@weisswasser.de
"Between glass, coal and energy: Nowhere else in the heart of Europe are there more opportunities and more favorable starting conditions for entrepreneurs than in Weißwasser/OL. Our motto: Promote ideas, accompany them, implement them!"
Frank Großmann Branch Manager IHK Dresden – Branch Görlitz, Jakobstr. 14, 02826 Goerlitz | Telephone: 03581 421211 | Office Zittau, Bahnhofstraße 30, 02763 Zittau | Telephone: 03583 502232 | Web: www.dresden.ihk.de grossmann.frank@dresden.ihk.de
“The Chamber of Industry and Commerce is not only a contact and supporter for the many small and large, established and new local companies in the district of Görlitz. As an essential and efficient part of a stable network in the region, we as the IHK can, despite the size of the district, find solutions quickly and without resentment with our partners in the district, the Free State, at federal level and the two neighboring countries of Poland and the Czech Republic. Stable and efficient networks are a special feature of the region. Try them out and talk to us.”
Jiří Zahradník Contact Business Cooperation | Contact Center for Saxon-Czech-Slovak Economic Cooperation Bahnhofstraße 30, 02763 Zittau | Telephone: 03583 502234 | Web: www.dresden.ihk.de zahradnik.jiri@dresden.ihk.de
“The district of Görlitz has great potential for the settlement of Czech, Polish and Slovakian companies; this is a great opportunity for further positive economic development in the border triangle. The IHK contact centers advise and support companies in finding contacts and gathering information in these countries.”
Dr. Kerstin Loth Business consultant, Melanchthonstraße 19, 02826 Görlitz | Telephone: 03581 407171 | Web: www.hwk-dresden.de kerstin.loth@hwk-dresden.de
“The Dresden Chamber of Crafts is the contact for all things related to crafts. Whether starting a business, succession, expansion, financing and support, crisis prevention or organizational changes: the business consultants at the Dresden Chamber of Crafts are familiar with the issues facing craft businesses. You will familiarize yourself with the specific facts and key figures of a company and can therefore find individually suitable solutions and provide information. The advice is free, neutral and needs-based.”
Michael Rönsch Managing Director of the Görlitz District Craft Association, Melanchthonstraße 19, 02826 Görlitz | Telephone: 03581 877450 | Web: www.khs-goerlitz.de m.roensch@khs-goerlitz.de
"The Görlitz District Craftsmen's Association, together with the Chamber of Crafts, is the partner for the entire trade when it comes to founding, taking over, training and further education in the priceless country. In addition, we would like to actively accompany and help shape the change in the trade.”
Marion Richter, Chairwoman of the Management Board | Bautzen Employment Agency, Neusalzaer Str. 2, 02625 Bautzen | Telephone: 03591 662222 | Web: www.arbeitsagentur.de Bautzen@arbeitsagentur.de
“The district of Görlitz is developing through the people who live here. The region offers numerous opportunities to break new ground. The Bautzen Employment Agency is your point of contact for information and questions relating to the training and job market: be it about the job market situation in the Görlitz district, support services when looking for a job, professional training and reorientation, the qualification of employees in companies or for careers orientation and counseling for young people.”
Alliance of skilled workers For questions about project ideas, the application process or the documents: Thomas Tamme | Telephone: 03581 663 9427 fachkraefte@kreis-gr.de
Securing skilled workers is one of the key areas of action in the district of Görlitz. Existing deficits are to be counteracted strategically, taking into account the demographic development and the general economic conditions. The regional alliance of skilled workers founded in the district of Görlitz in 2016 bundles and coordinates appropriate measures with this thematic orientation. Projects dedicated to securing and recruiting skilled workers are funded with an annual regional budget.
Application Forms and Submission
The complete documents must be submitted to the regional skilled workers alliance of the Görlitz district.
Görlitz District Office, Department for Structural Development, Economic Development and International Relations for the attention of Thomas Tamme , Bahnhofstraße 24, 02826 Görlitz
Home for skilled workers
Skilled workers strategy 2030 for the Free State of Saxony
Which measures are funded?
Projects relevant to the business and knowledge location that can be assigned to one of the following regional priority areas are eligible for funding:
Attention: Restrictions on investment expenditure, no recruiting and foreign costs, no qualification, no career orientation measures, no aid of any kind
Who is sponsored?
What amount is funded?
What content is to be provided?
How does the application process work?
Thomas Tamme - company pilot / specialist coordinator
phone number
+49 (0) 3581 663 9427