A youthful, well educated community is the city’s asset. Currently, Dąbrowa Górnicza is inhabited by more than 127,000 people, nearly 70% of whom are at an economically productive age.

The City Council, along with business organizations and entrepreneurs, makes a continued effort to match the educational provision to the needs of the employment market. The result of these actions is the introduction of new avenues of study in high schools, orienting education towards the needs of the companies doing business in the city. Moreover, schools sign agreements with entrepreneurs which allow students to prepare for future jobs during the course of apprenticeship programmes. Such actions translate into a reduction in unemployment, and provide young people with an opportunity of better career planning. In this way, Dąbrowa Górnicza becomes a source of thoroughly, professionally prepared staff for businesses.

Campaigns such as the nationwide “Entrepreneurship Week” are organized in Dąbrowa Górnicza.

At such events, the initiative, commitment and cooperation of local authorities and businesses enable high school students to learn the practicalities of work in Dąbrowa’s companies by means of apprenticeships, lectures and presentations. The city’s young inhabitants thus find out which competencies and skills are required by specific companies. They are also able to to check out their conceptions of the way various industries and market sectors function. More and more companies and schools have been signing up for this inventive enterprise.

Upper Silesian conurbation:
 
population - 2∙01m people, which amounts to 45% of the Province’s population  
 population density - 1620 people/km2

Dąbrowa Górnicza

- population - approx. 127,000 people
 population density - 685 people/km2

People are at the foundation of the competitive advantage held by the region’s economy.

Upper Silesian Province:

18% of people are at an economically pre-productive age
65∙6% of people are at an economically productive age – this indicator being higher by 1∙3% when compared to the whole country
16∙5% of people are at an economically post-productive age

Dąbrowa Górnicza:

15∙3% of people are at an economically pre-productive age
69∙5% of people are at an economically productive age
15∙2% of people are at an economically post-productive age


Employment market:

Working people* in 2008:

City	Total		Total by sector
	All	Of wchich, women	Public	Private
		%
Dąbrowa Górnicza	41,200	36,6	28,5	71,5
Katowice	155,7	45,9	44,7	55,3

*According to their actual workplace; excluding those working for business entities with up to 9 employees, or working in agriculture for privately owned farms.


Employment market: structure of workers’ employment* according to type of activity, in 2008:

Type of activity City	Farming, hunting, forestry, fishing	Industry and construction	Market services	Non-market services
	%
Dąbrowa Górnicza	0	57	26	17
Katowice	0	24	54	23

*According to their actual workplace; excluding those working for business entities with up to 9 employees, or working in agriculture for privately owned farms.


Salaries: average monthly gross** salary in the companies sector, in 2008:

Dąbrowa Górnicza: PLN 3 386,12
Katowice: PLN 3727∙38

**Excluding business entities with up to 9 employees and employment abroad, or by foundations, associations or other such organizations.



Unemployment:

Dąbrowa Górnicza - unemployment rate:

2008:    7∙3%
2009:    9∙5%
2010:    10∙3%
A youthful, well educated community is our asset:

Upper Silesian Province
 
44 institutions of higher education (the Silesian Technical Academy, in Gliwice, the Academy of Economics, Silesian Medical School and University of Silesia, in Katowice, among others)
 197,761 students
 44,816 alumni
 around 11% of the total number of students in the country
 ranked second in Poland in terms of the number of higher education institutions,
 9781 university lecturers, including in higher technical schools
 3 technical schools (52,790 students, 10,674 alumni)
 - for foreigners, the Silesian International Schools Complex, in Katowice (following a primary and high school curriculum, with international final examinations) 

Students according to fields of study (in the diagram):

Students – university subjects, 2009

Economics and administration – 24 456
Law – 4 497
Physics – 2 758
Computer science – 5 411
Engineering – 13 165
Manufacturing and food-processing – 10 787

Alumni – university subjects

Economics and administration – 5 448
Law - 451
Physics - 723
Computer science – 1 227
Engineering –2 482
Manufacturing and food-processing – 2 375

Dąbrowa Górnicza:

- institutions of higher education: the Silesian Technical Academy - Off-Campus Educational Center (subject, chemical technology) - in Gliwice, the School of Business, The School of Strategic Planning (both university-level), AGH University of Science and Technology (Off-Campus Educational Center).
- 5 complexes of vocational technical schools: 1 economics school, 2 technical schools, 1 mining school and 1 building school - the most popular fields of high school education being: mechanical technician, IT technician, economics technician, electronics technician, hotel industry technician. New fields: logistics technician, underground mining technician

New technologies:

- the Upper Silesian Province accounts for 12∙1% of the research and development potential of the whole country (and is the second centre in Poland in terms of size).
112 units, including 36 scientific and research and development units (including 6 institutes of PAN – the National Academy of Science),
 46 development institutes and 15 institutions of higher education conducting research, which enhances co-operation between the research and development sector and the economy,
 3 scientific-industrial consortia operate in the Province:
 Silesian Centre for Advanced Technologies
 Energy-Environment-Health Centre for Advanced Technologies
 Centre for Advanced Technologies for Health Protection and Promotion