Welcome
to the website of Gymnasium No 4
General
information about school
Gymnasium
No 4
in Mielec is located in 6 Łškowa
Street and it shares the building with Primary School No 13. It has
been
functioning since 1st September 1999, struggling with housing and
financial
problems the same as other gymnasiums. Thanks to the efforts of the
management
and the workers of the
school, it’s
developing and it’s being equipped gradually. The students
can use different
workrooms such as computer, chemistry, biology, physics, and a very
modern
sports hall and gym.
The
management, pedagogical and
administration staff care about the education and safety at school. The
students can attend numerous after-school classes - both ones with
special
abilities and ones with learning difficulties. Inter-school Students
Sports
Club “Gepard” operates within school.
Information about Mielec
A
town spread along the Wisłoka River
(a right tributary of the Vistula River), situated 60 km
away from Rzeszów, the
capital of the Podkarpackie Voivodship and about 30 km
away from the proposed
East-West highway to run across the south of Poland. On its northern,
eastern
and southern sides the town adjoins a complex of woodland, which is the
remains
of the Puszcza
Sandomierska
Forest.
The region is characterized by favourable climatic conditions. It is
one of the
places in Poland
with the biggest amount of solar radiation coming to it.
The
town is very proud of its
five-hundred-year history. Traces of prehistoric settlements bear
witness to
the fact that people lived here as early as the late Old Stone Age
(ca.12,000-7,900 years B.C.). During
the
times of the Roman Empire,
the “amber route”
ran along the valley of the Wisłoka. The name of Mielec was first
mentioned in
documents from 1224 and 1229.
Mielec
is the seat of the county
authorities. The County of Mielec,
with its
136,000 population living in two towns and eight village communes, is
the second
largest community in the Podkarpackie Voivodship (following the
Rzeszów -
township county). With a population of 65,000, Mielec takes the 4th
place in the Podkarpackie Voivodship – after
Rzeszów, Stalowa Wola and
Przemysl.
Mielec
is very special in that it has
been selected as location of the Special Economic Zone
“EURO-PARK MIELEC”, the
one to offer unrivaled investment opportunities in the Voivodship.
“EURO-PARK
MIELEC” attracts firms through substantially favourable
incentives, including
full exemption from corporate income tax and real estate tax. The total
projected investment capital in the Zone amounted to about $350
million, whereas
by 1999 $225 million out of this total amount has already been invested
in the
development of fixed assets in the Zone. New jobs created by
“EURO-PARK MIELEC”
total over jobs positions, however companies promise an increase in
employment
up to 4,800. Green-field type projects based on construction of new
buildings
on the obtained terrain represent almost half of the total investment
in the
Zone. As for now, 11 new production facilities of more than 150,000
sq.m.
roofed space have been constructed from the scratch, and 7 other
production
buildings have been upgraded and refurbished. Subsequent production
facilities
are still under construction.
The
Special Economic Zone “EURO-PARK
MIELEC” , managed by the Warsaw based Industrial Development
Agency is an
investment leader in the Podkarpackie Voivodship and enjoys
considerable
recognition among business ventures in Poland. The remarkable growth of
investment attractiveness of the Mielec location has also been noted by
the
Market Research Institute, the most reputable institution of the kind
in Poland,
which placed Mielec at a very high
position on the national ranking list of Poland’s
medium-sized towns and among investment leaders located east of the Vistula
River.
For its economic initiatives and
investor-friendly attitude Mielec township was awarded with the
certificate and
title “2004 Fair Play Township”.
The Council Centre of Culture functions in
Mielec. It administers the
house of culture, municipal library, regional museum, auditorium for
500
spectators and the cinema with the dolby stereo digital sound system as
well as
the concert-conference hall with 190 seats. In
1999, the Exhibition-Promotional Centre was opened as a municipal
investment
project subsidized by the European Union. The sports and recreational
facilities of the city consist of
the
Municipal Centre of Sports and
Recreation, sports clubs and schools.
With
the assistance of Polish and
foreign institutions the municipal government maintains contacts with
European Union
institutions and foreign towns such as Douchy-les–Mines (France), Lohne (Germany),
Vila Nova de Poiares (Portugal),
and Mukachevo (Ukraine).
Municipal cultural, sports, economic and school groups maintain
relations with
similar groups Erlangen
(Germany),
Copenhagen
(Denmark),
Saint Affrique
and Morlaix (France), Tiszafoldvar (Węgry), Shanon (Ireland).
The town organizes spring
and autumn International Trade Fair of different industries and
International
Music Festival.
Mielec
is a significant industrial and cultural centre in south-east Poland.
In
the area of the Special Economic
Zone there’s an airport, in which big cargo and passenger
airplanes can land.
Thanks to foundation of School
of Economy
and Management in Mielec which inaugurated
didactic - scientific activity in 1999 year, Mielec joined the team of
academical cities. In 2004,
the Teachers’ Training College of Foreign Languages, the
second higher
education school headquartered in Mielec was established.
The text comes from the
official website of
Mielec
http://www.mielec.pl
