Survival Kit

Dear friends, potential investors and business partners,

The Regional Development Agency of South Moravia brings you an updated edition of Survival Kit, which is regularly published since 2002. This set of a basic information has become a useful means of assistance to foreign investors, an important vehicle of promotion of the South Moravian Region and an inspiration to other regions in the Czech Republic and abroad.

Throughout its existence, the content of the Survival Kit has evolved, from the provision of necessary basic information for companies that wished to locate their production and development centres in South Moravia to the existing form where the texts are oriented more towards employees of foreign companies and opportunities for partnership with research and development institutions of the South Moravian Region. This is an area where we see great potential, particularly due to the long-term focus of the South Moravian Region on innovation, intensified by newly built science and research centres of both regional and European relevance.

Given the high degree of specialisation of the texts, we work in the long term with a number of partners – professionals who guarantee that the individual texts and chapters provide reliable information and experience.

In conclusion, I would like to add that we welcome all comments on the content and structure of these texts. If you have any tips or ideas you would like to direct to us, we, and others who use the Survival Kit, will be very pleased to receive them.

Vladimír Gašpar
Director, Regional Development Agency of South Moravia

Regional Development Agency of South Moravia

The purpose of the Regional Development Agency of South Moravia (RRAJM) is to support the regional development on the territory of the South Moravian region. RRAJM therefore provides services to public sector bodies (putting emphasis on entities in the South Moravian region) as well as to other parties needing consultations concerning regional development.

Our Services Include

Subsidies and EU projects – consulting and application writing
Educational events on regional development, structural policy and project management
General grant advisory
Advisory in preparing entrepreneurial zones and properties, management of their portfolio
Assistance in implementation of smart solutions in the area of management of municipal property, water management and transportation (SMART JMK)
Services and writing strategic and programme regional development documents
Writing feasibility studies and cost-benefit analyses for prepared projects
Assistance to investors (locality selection, organisation of visits, help with establishing a company, after care)
Support of brownfield regeneration
Advisory in EU innovation activities

Support for Investors

Providing information on local conditions for entrepreneurial activities, tailor-made situation analyses
Selecting of suitable localities respecting particular requirements
Mediating contacts to land/property owners, labour offices, universities and local institutions involved in research and development;
negotiations with local and regional bodies and institutions
Organising and planning visits

Since 2000, when we started offering assistance to foreign investors, we managed to place nearly 50 foreign companies. Our “clients”, who have successfully established themselves in South Moravia include Honeywell, IBM, Daido Metal, Daikin, Alps Electric or FEI Company.

Regional Development Agency of South Moravia
Výstaviště 405/1, 603 00 Brno, Czech Republic, www.rrajm.cz

The Survival Kit has been realized with financial support from the South Moravian Region.