The attractiveness of the Northern The attractiveness of the Northern TransylvaniaTransylvaniaROMANIAROMANIA

Presented by Ioana ARHIPPresented by Ioana ARHIPDIRECTOR DIRECTOR

of the Programmes Monitoring Divisionof the Programmes Monitoring Division

North West Regional Development AgencyNorth West Regional Development Agency

Localisation of Northern Transylvania in EuropeLocalisation of Northern Transylvania in Europe

Placed in the South East of Europe, on the North-West side

of Romania. Neighbours: - 3 romanian regions: The Centre, West, and North East - Hungary: The North Great Plaine Region - Uckraine.

Relevant Numbers from the Relevant Numbers from the Northern TransylvaniaNorthern Transylvania

POPULATIONPOPULATION – 2.744.000 inhabitants (12,6% out of population of Romania) - 48,9% live in rural space

EMPLOYMENTEMPLOYMENT - 1.164.000 people - employment rate: 51,5% - manufacturing sector is the highest in industry: 86,29%

- 13,5% of the employed population have graduated universities

The indicator of human development in the region was of 0,751.Regional GDP = 11,7% from Romanian GDP(136.673 billions lei)

ENTREPRISESENTREPRISES - 42 515 entreprises in the region - 99,22% are SMES

AGRICULTUREAGRICULTURE - 885 598 hectares allocated, out of which is 95,03% is private - private farms have around 1-5 ha

INDUSTRY INDUSTRY - All industrial fields are represented in the Northern Transylvania

Clothing, Hotels and catering, Metallic ores, Declining sectors, Wholesales, Agriculture, Forestry

Dynamic of priority sectors of Northern Transylvania for the period 2004-2006

Increse

OCCUPIED

WORKFORCE

decrease

decrease I N V E S T M E N T S increse

Food & beverages, Other non-metallic ores, Equipment & machinery, Rubber & plastic, Infrastructure sectors: Constructions, Transportation, Postal services & telecommunications, Water resources management

Metallurgic industry, Metallic constructions, Electric equipment & machinery

Shoes & Leather, Furniture, Textiles, Wood processing industry, ITRetail, Production, transport and distribution of electricity, heat, natural gas, commerce and maintenance of vehicles; gas stations for vehiclesOther services for business, Other services, Real estate

Prority sectors of Northern Transylvania Region(2007-2013)

Sustainable sectors (with favourable conditions of building competitive advantages of the region): tourism; light industry (food, furniture, clothes); research and higher education; agriculture; IT&C; ecquipment and machinery industry

Maintenance sectors (with higher occupation of workforce but uncertain development in the future- the development will be impossible without strategic

foreign investments): metalurgic industry, caoutchouc industry

“Dilema” sectors (with uncertain evolution in the future): plastics industry, transports and connected activities

BALNEAR tourism – thermal sources and salinas

MOUNTAIN tourism – especially for winter and extreme sports

CULTURAL tourism, including agrotourism, based on cultural events, historical centres and ethno-folkloric areas with cultural heritage well preserved: traditions, customs, handicrafts

Development of balnear tourism – priority for the near future

Rehabilitation and development of tourism infrastructure

Diversification of all tourism services, but especially of rural and cultural services

Investments in priority sectorsTOURISM

Higher education and research

High educated workforce due to the existent network of universities

It is necessary to develop new forms of education (adult training and technical-vocational education)

Equipping universities with high technology in order to favour applied research

Developping the private sector– universities partnership in order to transfer new technologies and know how

Agriculture

10,42% of the agricultural area of the country14,89% of the agricultural production of Romania96,96% of the total production of the region is private

Measures to be taken:Modernisation and raise the efficiency of agricultural research stationsA better valorisation of agricultural potential (plant and animals growth)Increasing competitiveness of local agricultural productionSME development in rural areas with the view of valorising spontaneous floraNew Opportunity: increasing the recquest of ecological products

The investments in productive sector are rising: the media regarding ecquipment investments is good but the extremes are high (in 2002 comparative to 2001 the ecquipment investments in Satu Mare county rised with 156,7%; in the same period Cluj county registered 4,2% and Salaj county – 8,83%.)

Most encountered: Lohn production.

Opportunity: this sector will try to develop its own products under their own label Internal recquest is increasing

There are market niches that can be valorised

Investments in priority sectorsLIGHT INDUSTRY – food&clothes- and

FURNITURE

IT & C

Development of services and informatic applications, internet providers for citizens (health, administration, education, private)

Development of services and applications for electronic commerce and tranzactions

There are no major investments in hard&soft industry

Liberalization of fixed telephonie market

High potential of the offer of IT sector and of specialised services designed for companies

Ecquipment and machinery industry

The situation:• Industrial tradition of the region• There is no utilisation of ecological technology in

fabrication processes

Opportunities: • If this sector is more developed than it will

lead/help the orizontal industries to grow• Transfer of know how and good practices

the future pan-european corridor: highway

interregional router links: to be implemented

infrastructure for touristic areas: to be improved

ring routes for the urban areas: on-going

electric railways: to be extended

4 airports: modenized and internationalized

Goods transportation system to be eficientized

Investments in priority sectors TRANSPORT

Prevention the environment pollution

High percentaje of degraded fields, pollution of surface and subsurfaces waters, air pollution

Low development of the infrastructure for collecting, recycling and valorisation of wastes

There is no culture regarding the prevention of the environment polution

Measures to be done:

monitoring of emission and evacuation systems

rehabilitation of degraded sites

investments in echological technologies

development of raw materials collecting base in the rural environment

Awareness programmes for prevention the environment polution

The objective of development strategy of the Northern Transylvania for the following

period:(2007 - 2013)

Economic development by

policentric development and

functional specialization

Industrial parks

Industrial Park of Satu Mare (field: automotive, light, furniture, IT, telecommunications and electronics)

Industrial Park of Jibou (non-polution industries with high technology and services)

Industrial Park of Bors (nonpoution industries and light industry)

Economic Area of Cluj-West (soft production, high tehcnology, auto industry, electrocasnic industry)

Millenium Bussiness Center (bussiness suport services for SME's)

Marketing Agro-food Center (for storage and primar prelucrare of agro-food products)

Investment projects in infrastructure

Luna Ses-Borsa tourism area development – budget 15.615.324,32 Euro

Modernisation and extension of cleaning station and sewerage sistems of Zalau industrial area – budget: 5.229.413 Euro

Development of heating systems based on biomass in 5 touristic areas “Rumegus 2000”

Main achievements of the North West RDA for the region

Almost 110.450.000 Euro attracted into region, out of which around 43.450.000 Euro for the large scale infrastructure

2266 processed grant projects

567 contracted, finalized and on-going projects

Thank you for your attention!

North West Regional Development Agency Romania