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Viseu Dão Lafões- VDL

1. Territory

2. People

3. Education

4. Economic activity

5. Swot analysis

6. Conclusions

Territory

Viseu Dão-Lafões

• 14 municipalities

• 3489 km²

• 290.000 habitants

District of Viseu

CIM Viseu Dão Lafões

24 municipalities

Territory

• Aguiar da Beira( doesn´t belong to Viseu District)

• Carregal do Sal

• Castro Daire

• Mangualde (City)

• Nelas

• Oliveira de Frades

• Penalva do Castelo

• Santa Comba Dão (City)

• São Pedro do Sul (City)

• Sátão

• Tondela (City)

• Vila Nova de Paiva

• Viseu (City- District capital )

• Vouzela

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A25

A24

3 ports

1 airport

Viseu Aerodrome

Railway

Territory

• Different levels of development

• Viseu- biggest city of Portuguese interior– 70.000 habitants

– Increasing importance• Health services

• Specialized schools

• Governmental administrative services

• Cultural activity

• Services for companies

• Shopping structures

• Surrounded by 5 industrialized municipalities– Tondela

– Mangualde

– Nelas

– Oliveira de Frades

– S. Pedro do Sul

People

• 290.000 habitants

– 30% in Viseu

Population growth

(1991-2011)

Viseu 18,70%

Portugal( main land) 7,10%

Centre of Portugal 3%

Viseu Dão Lafões -1,90%

People

Number of habitants with university

degree/1.000 habitants

77,39

80,63

84,63

58,63

151,69

107,87

Portugal

Viseu

Lisboa

Portugal Main Land

Centre of Portugal

Dão-Lafões

People

Average age

Portugal- 42,01

Viseu- 41,32

Centre of Portugal- 43,79

VDL- 44,03

People

Number of students in high school/habitants

aged 15-17

%Portugal 124,9

Continente 126,1

Centro 125

Dão-Lafões 119,2

Viseu 143,7

Lisboa 133,1

People

Number of students studying in the university

school aged 18-22 /habitants aged 18-22

%

32,2

33,8

36,2

20,1

55,5

45,2

Portugal

Viseu

Lisboa

Continente

Centro

Dão-Lafões

People

Number of students studying in professional

schools / students in high school

%

25,1

25,3

29,2

32,5

27,1

20,8

Portugal

Viseu

Lisboa

Continente

Centro

Dão-Lafões

People

People over 65 / People under 14

%

Portugal 136Continente 138,9Centro 170,3Dão-Lafões 176Viseu 127,6Lisboa 125,4

Education

Viseu-6.500 people studying in local Universities:

• IPV

• UCP

• Piaget

• IPV- Public- 5.700 students

• More 29,3% new students than 2013

• More 9% total students

Education

• 33 professional schools

• 48 entities accredited by DGERT in VDL

• AIRV

– January- September 2014- 22.000h of training

Education

New projects for professional education:

• Estaleiro Escola

( “Construction site” School”)

– AIRV

– CMV

– UCP

– GECORPA

– IPV

To prepare

technicians for

urban regeneration

Education

New projects for professional education:

• Academia Visabeira

– Visabeira group

– AIRV

– CMVTo prepare technicians for

electronic/electric/digital

communications jobs

Companies

• Very diversified economic sectors– Industry

• Car

• Textile

• Pharmaceutical

• Extraction

• Wood

• Ceramic

• Metallic

– Services

– Tourism and health( natural Spa´s)

– Agricultural• Food

• Forest

– Retailers

Regional GDP

3.3 billion €

2% Portugal

Companies

% Portugal % Viseu Dão LafõesPortugal 1062782

Continente 1017697

Centro 230274 21,7%Dão-Lafões 24360 2,3% 100%Aguiar da Beira 528 2%Carregal do Sal 762 3%Castro Daire 1139 5%Mangualde 1591 7%Mortágua 1011 4%Nelas 1033 4%Oliveira de Frades 986 4%Penalva do Castelo 473 2%Santa Comba Dão 937 4%São Pedro do Sul 1467 6%Sátão 1005 4%Tondela 2442 10%Vila Nova de Paiva 422 2%Viseu 9658 40%Vouzela 906 4%

Number of

companies

Companies

% PT % VDLPortugal

Continente

Centro 15,9%Dão-Lafões 1,9%Aguiar da Beira 1,4%Carregal do Sal 2,7%Castro Daire 2,5%Mangualde 16,0%Mortágua 4,6%Nelas 5,3%Oliveira de Frades 16,1%Penalva do Castelo 0,9%Santa Comba Dão 1,8%São Pedro do Sul 2,9%Sátão 1,6%Tondela 12,2%Vila Nova de Paiva 0,9%Viseu 29,1%Vouzela 1,9%

Revenues of the

companies

Companies

Revenues:

Agriculture

Animal production

Fisheries

% PT % VDLPortugal 1,62%Centro 0,59%Dão-Lafões 0,05% 2,87%

% PT % VDLPortugal 24,57%Centro 5,56%Dão-Lafões 0,72% 37,59%Aguiar da Beira 0,01% 0,28%Carregal do Sal 0,02% 1,11%Castro Daire 0,01% 0,28%Mangualde 0,22% 11,50%Mortágua 0,02% 1,20%Nelas 0,06% 3,06%Oliveira de Frades 0,13% 6,58%Penalva do Castelo 0,00% 0,18%Santa Comba Dão 0,01% 0,55%São Pedro do Sul 0,02% 1,05%Sátão 0,01% 0,31%Tondela 0,13% 6,96%Vila Nova de Paiva 0,00% 0,05%Viseu 0,07% 3,79%Vouzela 0,01% 0,56%

Revenues:

Industry

% PT % VDLPortugal 26,52%Centro 2,37%Dão-Lafões 0,14% 7,44%Aguiar da Beira 0,00% 0,03%Carregal do Sal 0,01% 0,61%Castro Daire 0,01% 0,42%Mangualde 0,04% 2,18%Mortágua 0,00% 0,22%Nelas 0,01% 0,29%Oliveira de Frades 0,01% 0,39%Penalva do Castelo 0,00% 0,18%Santa Comba Dão 0,00% 0,22%São Pedro do Sul 0,00% 0,22%Sátão 0,01% 0,30%Tondela 0,02% 0,97%Vila Nova de Paiva 0,00% 0,07%Viseu 0,13% 6,58%Vouzela 0,00% 0,11%

Revenues:

Services

Construction% PT % VDL

Portugal 6,86%Centro 1,15%Dão-Lafões 0,17% 8,87%Aguiar da Beira 0,00% 0,11%Carregal do Sal 0,00% 0,11%Castro Daire 0,01% 0,42%Mangualde 0,01% 0,62%Mortágua 0,01% 0,29%Nelas 0,01% 0,31%Oliveira de Frades 0,01% 0,32%Penalva do Castelo 0,00% 0,26%Santa Comba Dão 0,00% 0,20%São Pedro do Sul 0,00% 0,20%Sátão 0,00% 0,21%Tondela 0,01% 0,31%Vila Nova de Paiva 0,00% 0,07%Viseu 0,10% 5,19%Vouzela 0,00% 0,24%

Revenues:

Construction

Revenues:

Real Estate

% PT % VDLPortugal 1,14%Centro 0,10%Dão-Lafões 0,01% 0,56%

% PT % VDLPortugal 2,59%Centro 0,36%Dão-Lafões 0,04% 2,19%

Revenues:

Tourism

% PT % VDLPortugal 36,70%Centro 5,80%Dão-Lafões 0,65% 33,95%Aguiar da Beira 0,01% 0,78%Carregal do Sal 0,01% 0,70%Castro Daire 0,02% 1,10%Mangualde 0,03% 1,32%Mortágua 0,05% 2,42%Nelas 0,03% 1,33%Oliveira de Frades 0,16% 8,12%Penalva do Castelo 0,01% 0,28%Santa Comba Dão 0,01% 0,70%São Pedro do Sul 0,02% 1,06%Sátão 0,01% 0,68%Tondela 0,06% 3,17%Vila Nova de Paiva 0,01% 0,54%Viseu 0,22% 11,28%Vouzela 0,01% 0,47%

Revenues:

Retailers

Companies

Gross Added Value

Portugal 23,3%Centro 23,0%Dão-Lafões 21,0%

Portugal 4,60%Centro 4,47%Dão-Lafões 12,40%

Gross added value of the 4 biggest

companies/ Regional Gross Added Value

Companies

Exports/imports

%83,06

84,84

135,21

121,70

53,64Lisboa e Vale do Tejo

Continente

Centro

Dão-Lafões

Portugal

Viseu Dão Lafões- VDLSwot analysis

• Strengths– Easy access to Spanish and European market

• Highways

• Easy access to 3 Ports and 1 airport

– Diversified economic basis• Several German companies

– Good local teaching institutions

– Safety and quality of life• Historic patrimony

• Cultural activity

• Gastronomy

– Good regional products

– Low installation cost

– Regional entrepreneur network

Viseu Dão Lafões- VDLSwot analysis

• Weaknesses– Lack of common regional strategy

– Insufficient relation schools/companies• Need of more applied research

– Low qualification of companies owners

– Low professional qualification

– Low productivity

– Lack of qualified people.

– Dependence of big companies

– Lack of regional promotion

Viseu Dão Lafões- VDL

Swot analysis

• Opportunities

– Portuguese speaking countries

– Increasing reputation of Portugal

• Good to invest and do business

• Gateway for Europe and Africa

• threats

– Lack of long term policies

Conclusions

• We must:

– have industrial investment

• Reduce dependence of main companies

– increase our regional productivity

– Increase the relations between University/professional schools and companies

– believe on qualification benefits

• qualify our young people.

• invest on qualification during all life

– Open to the world

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