Work & Life Opportunities & Success Traditions & Modern Hearts Ideas & Realizations Colleagues & Friends
#brnoregion Located in the centre of Europe, offering all newcomers a unique comfort: it is grand in possibilities and small in distances. Everything is within reach, universities, cafes, research centres, nature, entertainment, work… and success! Thousands of young talents head to this region to launch their careers at the local schools and achieve global successes. They have the best conditions for this because #brnoregion is a unique combination of two worlds: a big one, including trade, industry and politics, and a small one, unpretentious, personal, and friendly world full of closeness, warmth and safety. You can set up a big business here, work on an invention that will change the world, or study at a top university, just as you can enjoy the peace of your home, relax actively or spend all of your life in a coffee house. People will find their heart’s desire here – entrepreneurs business, scientists research, students education. And all and sundry, a great life.
safest country in the world
happiest country in the world
Best place to live in the world
Place in quality of life
Full of wonderful people 40,000+ foreign nationals in #brnoregion
1,178,812 inhabitants of #brnoregion
23%
are between 15–34 years old
96.4% population of #brnoregion aged 30–34 have secondary education (maturita exam) and higher = 4th place in the EU
Safe, with a high standard of healthcare and low prices: such is #brnoregion. It also scores points thanks to an outstanding public transport system that ranks among the best in the world, and lowest unemployment rate in the European Union. Although money is not everything, it should be noted that prices are still very reasonable in comparison with the neighbouring countries. The best thing about the #brnoregion is the combination of everything: there is enough work here, millions of ways of spending one’s free time, without any crowding and the prices are low.
27. top destination worth seeing according to The New York Times
50+ theatres
#brnoregion is a real paradise for wine lovers. Thanks to the vineyards, the landscape has a character of its own you can savour on an endless number of wine trails and cycle trails, or in the convivial atmosphere of wine cellars. Likewise, culture buffs will also find their heart’s delight. You will find here more than fifty theatres, opera, ballet, philharmonic orchestra and cinemas. According to The New York Times, #brnoregion ranks among top destinations worth seeing. We hope we will see you soon!
20+ cultural festivals every year
Everybody will find their heart’s desire
We’re expat friendly! Four out of five inhabitants of #brnoregion make themselves understood in a foreign language
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According to expats, the Czech Republic is the second best country for family life
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20%
of university students in #brnoregion are foreign nationals
The Czech Republic is the 7th best country for expats
4,000+ Brno Expat Centre – unique centre where foreign experts find assistance “Expat Support” Award for best approach to integration of foreign nationals went to Brno Expat Centre Intercultural staff in public offices, interpreting in foreign languages South Moravia Centre for International Mobility (JCMM): a centre supporting inter alia the influx of foreign scientists and students to #brnoregion
40,000+ foreign nationals in #brnoregion
60%
of university students in #brnoregion study in technical and natural science departments
increase in the number of foreign nationals between 2010 and 2017
A bit of each
Advanced production and engineering technologies
Software and hardware development
Precision instruments
Technologies for aviation industry
Medicaments, medical care and diagnostics
3rd
30%
of world production of electron microscopy comes from #brnoregion
#1 Digital games: our biggest cultural export today
biggest producer of hotair balloons in the world is headquartered in #brnoregion.
We celebrate our successes 40%
of the global antivirus market is controlled by companies headquartered in #brnoregion or have development centres here
We stick together Both large multinational enterprises and local firms successful in the world, including a number of start-up and spin-offs are headquartered in #brnoregion. What matters is that we must all pull together network, educate ourselves, and exchange valuable know-how. As a result, we have managed to create a perfect and functional ecosystem of companies in #brnoregion.
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We’re young! According to the www.topuniversities.com ranking, Brno is the fourth most popular student town in the world. The voters most appreciated the quality of education, tolerance, inclusion, easy transport accessibility, decent prices, and night life. Brno is really a student town – undergraduates account for one fifth of the inhabitants. And this can be seen! We are serious about education and proof can be a newly built campus – the biggest construction in the educational sector in Europe.
18,000
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university graduates every year
campuses
48+%
are studying in a technical or natural science department
5,600
70,000+
doctorands
university students
12
universities
150+ secondary schools
20%
university students in #brnoregion are foreign nationals
We’re active Sports enthusiasts will also come into their own in #brnoregion. You will find here countless parks, green spaces and sports
active members of dozens of sports clubs.
facilities, even in the historic centre. You can go to work on shank’s pony one day, the next day on a bike, and another time on a longboard. If you want to get involved in a sport, you can be sure you will have plenty to choose from in #brnoregion.
of wine trails where you can combine activities with gratification.
We taste delicious
1
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2,000
coffee house in the Czech lands was opened in Brno in 1702
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Whenever you fancy anything good, in #brnoregion there are lots of places
years of documented tradition of production and consumption of wine
breweries
where you can gratify your desires. Endless vineyards, breweries big and small, hundreds of cafes and bars with convivial atmosphere, food festivals, award-winning restaurants, in brief, all that your heart and appetite may desire.
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permanent food festivals
170+
170+ cafés with a unique atmosphere
Realizations
We have a lot under our belt
ARMI N DELONG Czech scientist, world-famous physicist and founder of one of the most important disciplines in #brnoregion – electron microscopy.
V ik t or K a pla n Celebrated engineer and inventor of the Kaplan turbine, whose construction he invented and perfected in Brno.
Kurt Gödel One the greatest logicians of all times, author of two incompleteness theorems that hold a privileged position in all modern mathematical logic.
G R E G OR J O H A N N m e nde l Scientist, founder of the science of genetics who established many of the rules of genetics. He was a friar and then abbot of the Augustinian Abbey in Old Brno.
ERNST MACH Austrian theoretical physicist and philosopher born in #brnoregion. Modern-day supersonic speed aerodynamics would not be possible without Mach cone, Mach angle and Mach number.
S tar t-up s and spin-off s #brnoregion is an ideal environment for growth and progress as 213 active start-ups show. Many will achieve a global success the way their predecessors Y Soft and Kiwi.com already have.
Freel a ncers We love freelancers in #brnoregion and we create
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for them an environment in which they will feel really good. This is why the number of freelancers in our region is so high.
#brnoregion hosts an international accelerator for start-ups, JIC, which assists talented individuals and groups when they go into business.
Cowork ing space s
Succes s Pat h
There is the biggest European Impact hub
We are very proud of global success
in #brnoregion. We provide backing
of Kiwi.com, Y Soft, AVG, and other projects
to creative people who believe in non-violent
born in #brnoregion. Any local project or
innovations being the hope and future
enthusiastic start-up makes us happy
There are not only start–ups in the #brnoregion, but also large
of the world. Each and every idea matters
as well as the atmosphere of co-operation,
international companies that offer enormous numbers of jobs
and we want everybody to succeed
responsiveness and mutual support: these
and support to talents. You can find here for example Honeywell,
in #brnoregion no matter how big
are the greatest achievements for all.
Thermo Fisher Scientific, Red Hat, Siemens, NetSuite, FNZ, SAP,
or small their plans are.
Konica Minolta, ABB, and more.
25+
billions of crowns in investments in research and development in the last six years
500
2.9%
of GDP of #brnoregion goes to support for research and development
Innovation above all
million was the cost of VIDA! Science Centre, a scientific theme park for popularisation and support of science
Innovation plays an important role for all active players in #brnoregion. It is thanks to it that we moved to the top in many
2002
Development of Regional Innovation Strategy, a strategic plan for stimulation of competitiveness in #brnoregion
areas of research and development. We have clearly defined goals for the regional innovation strategy and as a result, massive support for innovation business and its commercial exploitation. Likewise, we have excellent cooperation between the state, private and academic sectors.
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Where to go?
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biospheric reservations, one national park, one protected landscape area
#brnoregion is a place that knowns how to make you feel at home. Friendly and forthcoming people will soon become not only your colleagues, but also good friends. No one looks for differences here and we all try to bring together things and people and in the same way we care for our surroundings, which makes us all very happy. Be it a majestic forest or endless vineyards, you will always find something here to enthral you.
96% 3,000
hectares of forests open to the public that can be reached by public transport
vineyards of the whole Czech Republic are in #brnoregion
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