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WHY LVIV

Capacity to meet your needs

Airport with direct flights to 54 cities
Railway Station to Ukrainian and Polish cities
136 conference venues
126 hotels with 8905 beds

Creating a legacy together

Lviv during the war became a shelter for more than 150,000 temporarily displaced people from all over Ukraine, center for humanitarian aid, the biggest volunteer hub in Ukraine, meeting place of international press, office for international diplomacy, and a place for business relocation. In addition, Lviv was also a destination for conferences, forums, and meetings which will create legacies for the future. In 2022, Lviv hosted almost 600 conferences that united thousands of professionals all over the world to help rebuild Ukraine and to help communities to recover. Lviv became the gateway to Ukraine, a back room for Ukrainian reconstruction projects, a platform for discussing recovery plans, and the place to start creating legacies for the future.

United For Justice

In March 2023 Lviv was full of international lawyers, diplomats, politicians and NGOs representatives. The United for Justice conference brought together the world community for the common goal of ensuring the global rule of law by creating a network of comprehensive accountability for international crimes.

Important initiatives were put forward on the margins of the Conference, including the Dialogue Group on Accountability for Ukraine, the announcement of official decisions, etc.

International Rehabilitation Forum

In April 2023 the International Rehabilitation Forum was held in Lviv. International institutions, foundations, and European countries, as well as representatives of national Red Cross and Red Crescent societies, came to Lviv to provide quality rehabilitation to people affected by the Russian war.

During the Forum the first section of the Rehabilitation Center was opened. It aims to be Europe’s largest most advanced rehabilitation facility to serve 10,000 people annually equipped with state-of-the-art technology.

IT Arena

In 2022 1000 attendees gathered at one of the biggest IT conferences in Eastern Europe – IT Arena. It-specialist, entrepreneurs, investors, startups, and media from Ukraine and all over the world come to Lviv to talk about IT business and support Ukraine Armed Forces.

IT specialists donated UAH 2,000,000 to the Boryviter school, which trains the military. They organized a project called “SKY”. It aims at technical modernization of the command and reporting centers of the Air Command West.

Lviv Urban Forum

In June 2023 Lviv hosted the Urban Forum. More than 700 participants and 40 speakers took part in conference, workshop and city excursions. For 3 days they discussed how to rebuild Ukraine. Forum unites experts in architecture, urbanism, and city planning.

After the forum, Japanese architect Shigeru Ban started working on the project of the new surgical building for the national rehabilitation center UNBROKEN in Lviv. He has already presented the first concept and visualization of the building.

Surprising opportunities

BPO & SS (Shared Service) potential

Early 2020 gave Lviv an outstanding Central and Eastern Europe Business Service Awards naming it Emerging City of the year.
Multiple companies are successfully operating or having their HQs here. Among the largest corporations operating in the city area with manufacturing facilities, customer support of BPO centers are Nestle, KPMG, Cypress Semiconductor, Fujikura, Austrian Airlines and others. Lviv was ranked the 6th place at Business-Friendly Cities Perception 2020 Ranking by Emerging Europe.

IT specialists

The IT industry contributes  20% of Lviv’s GRP of US$780 million. Lviv entered the top 10 for cost-efficient investment in the Financial Times investment ranking Smart Locations of the Future.

Lviv headquarters several IT companies that joined the rating of 100 best outsourcing services providers by AIOP (International Association for Outsourcing Professionals). KPMG recognized Lviv as a top emerging IT-BPO destination in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Logistic center

Lviv offers a faster alternative route to East and Central Europe for freight traffic from Asia. Lviv has several industrial parks to cooperate in the field of logistics. 

Sparrow Park Lviv is an innovative and contemporary approach to the design and creation of logistics centers. The PORT Lviv Logistic Center is a logistic complex where one can rent or own commercial and office premises, or warehouse and production facilities.

Biotechnology

Lviv has a biotechnology cluster that unites 18 companies. 

Enzym is  a Lviv company that produces high-tech yeast extracts that will meet the food trends of the future.

Medical tourism

Lviv medical tourism cluster unites experts from dentistry, aesthetic medicine, and reproduction.

Every year Lviv dental professionals organize the biggest dental exhibitions and medical forums – Dental Ukraine in Lviv. The event brings together more than 3 000 delegates from 40 countries. They come to Lviv to learn from Lviv dentists. Especially during the war Lviv professionals shared their unique experiences with foreign colleagues in making maxillofacial surgeries.

Full of Life

There are 33 higher education institutions in Lviv. More than 30000 students graduate annually. Young people are very active. They won for Lviv the title European Youth Capital 2025. They organized the biggest festival for youth policy - Molodvizh that gathers more than 3000 young people from Ukraine and abroad.
Every year there are more than 100 festivals. The most famous is JazzFest that gathers more than 100,000 guests from Ukraine and foreign countries. In 2016 The Guardian included the festival in the list of the best European festivals. Performers include an A-list of worldwide Jazz musicians and composers such as Herbie Hancock, Diana Krall, Wynton Marsalis, Bobby McFerrin and so many others.
LvivMozArt is another major festival. The biggest attraction is conductor Oksana Lyniv, a world-class phenomenon in the still male-dominated world of orchestral conductors. She made history in March, 2021 when she was appointed the first female conductor of the Bayreuth Festival in Germany since its founding in 1876.

Resourceful & Driven

Around 40 research and development institutes are situated in Lviv.
Lviv is one of the cities that cooperates with Ukrainian-American startups Esper BIonics that was included in the top 200 best inventions according to Time magazine. American journal “R&D Magazine” included the inventions of Lviv’s scientists together with inventions of NASA in the “Top 100 best developments in the world”.
Lviv implements innovative projects that will help transform the community into a climate-neutral and people-oriented one. One of them is the Sustainable energy Positive & zero cARbon CommunitieS (SPARCS) Project. Lviv opened the first in Ukraine rehabilitation center “UNBROKEN” - for civilians and soldiers who suffered from the current war in Ukraine. Lviv is the first city that keeps on implementing new technologies in surgery. For example Lviv’s center of transplantology carried out more than 70 transplants and the Da Vinci robotic system is operated in Lviv hospital.

Create success with bold ideas

Lviv's historic city center is on the UNESCO World Heritage List and since 2015 Lviv has been the UNESCO City of Literature.
UNICEF, UNESCO also have offices in Lviv.
Lviv is the biggest partner of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and European Investment Bank in Ukraine. Lviv, in collaboration with the EBRD, invests in green sustainable infrastructure – eco investments in water and wastewater, urban transport, district energy, buildings energy efficiency and solid waste.
Lviv won the EBRD 2020 Sustainability Awards that demonstrated innovation, best practice and leadership. Lviv received the Gold Award for Environmental and Social Best Practice. Lviv is the pilot city in the EBRD Green City Program in Ukraine.
Lviv won the European Energy Award. Lviv received the 2021 Sustainable Transport Award Honorable Mention. The city applied for the Award based on achievements in reconstructing their Station Square as well as bringing forward their Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan.

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