The Strategic Group is a team setting the directions of development of UrbanLab Gdynia. It is composed of all-Polish experts and experts in the subject of city management and solutions for cities, including the President of Gdynia and the College of the President of Gdynia. The group is established for three years. It is up to the group to determine what the UrbanLab will do in a given year and how it will evolve in search of new, more effective methods of finding solutions.

AT THE INVITATION OF THE PRESIDENT OF GDYNIA THEY JOINED THE STRATEGIC GROUP:

– Wojciech Kłosowski – independent local government expert, specialist in local development issues and strategic planning and management;

– Dr. Kacper Pobłocki – an anthropologist and social scientist, assistant professor at the Centre for European Regional and Local Studies (EUROREG) of the University of Warsaw;

– Dr. Mariusz Sokołowicz – Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Sociology of the University of Lodz;

– Filip Springer – publicist and author of books related to urban issues;

– Prof. Michał Stangel – architect, urban planner, assistant professor in the Department of Urban Planning and Spatial Planning at the Faculty of Architecture of the Silesian University of Technology;

– Aleksandra Zemke – a graduate of Conflict Resolution at the University of Amsterdam and the Institute of Applied Social Sciences at Warsaw University. Founder of the Spanish organization Smilemundo.