Our team

Mariusz Sagan Ph.D.

Head of

Strategy and Entrepreneurship Department

Monika Król

Deputy Head of

Entrepreneurship and Economic Ecosystems

Robert Żyśko

Deputy Head of

Strategy, Academic and Smart City

Katarzyna Bujan

Inspector
Academic Promotion Office

  • Initiating cooperation between the Lublin City Office, universities, science and business institutions in the field of entrepreneurship and academic development in Lublin;
  • Initiating and coordinating projects for the integration of the academic community as well as the promotion of Lublin academic potential;
  • Monitoring of city-universities-business cooperation;
  • Initiating and coordinating the collaboration with the career services offices, schools, and student organizations to develop the academic potential of Lublin and to create and strengthen connections with the Lublin City Office.

tel: 81 466 25 15
e-mail: katarzyna.bujan@lublin.eu

Ariel Cyfra

Inspector
Economic Promotion and City Development Office

  • Promotion of projects concerning socio-economic development of Lublin, implemented by the Strategy and Entrepreneurship Department of Lublin Municipality Office.
  • Promotion of the Lublin 2030 Project
  • Support in the promotion of events and projects organized by the business, scientific and other entities and addressed to a wide audience: the inhabitants of Lublin, students, entrepreneurs, etc.
  • Management of departmental websites and social media.

tel:81 466 25 08
e-mail: ariel.cyfra@lublin.eu

Paulina Dmochowska

Paulina Dmochowska

Assistant Inspector
Support for Entrepreneurship and Creative Industries Office

  • Cooperation with business entities and institutions in the scope of their tasks supporting entrepreneurship (conferences).
  • Developing and consulting with institutions of the business environment initiatives and projects for the development of entrepreneurship (World Entrepreneurship Week).
  • Entrepreneurship in education – promoting entrepreneurship at school level through participation in the creation of projects that educate children and young people in this field.

tel: 81 466 25 35
e-mail: paulina.dmochowska@lublin.eu

Ewelina Frelas

Ewelina Frelas-Tyczyńska

Social Innovation Specialist
Strategy and Smart City Office

  • Testing new municipal policies and initiating activities aimed at increasing the competences of the employees of the Office and the inhabitants of Lublin in creating new solutions and strengthening the local community.Testing new municipal policies and initiating activities aimed at increasing the competences of the employees of the Office and the inhabitants of Lublin in creating new solutions and strengthening the local community.
  • Implementation and promotion of innovative social activities targeted at various stakeholder groups.
  • Encouraging and supporting innovative projects for local communities, the needs of the region, development of human resources and local communities through the creation of effective solutions to support and coordinate interdisciplinary citywide processes.
  • Obtaining external funds for the implementation of socially innovative projects.

tel:81 466 25 09
e-mail: ewelina.frelas@lublin.eu

Michał Furmanek

Michał Furmanek

Principal Specialist
Strategy and Smart City Office

  • Coordination of the implementation of the current Lublin City development strategy.
  • Development of assumptions and updates of the Lublin City development strategy.
  • Elaboration of guidelines for sector strategies within the Lublin City development strategy.
  • Participation in consultations of national and regional strategic documents.
  • Preparation of reports and statements regarding the Lublin City development strategy.
  • Assessment of compliance of draft sector strategies and programmes with other strategic documents.

tel: 81 466 25 06
e-mail: michal.furmanek@lublin.eu

Marcin Garbowski

Assistant Inspector
Economic Ecosystems and Business Infrastructure Office

  • Initiating and coordinating inter-sectoral events organized within the scope of the Department’s competences.
  • Active support of actions which are aimed at acquiring and facilitating foreign investors.
  • Networking – providing aid in making contacts and building partnerships betweem companies, universities, public administration as well as business networks, ecosystems and clusters.
  • Providing support to the Entrepreneurship and Creative Industries Support Section, in particular in the actions conducted within the framework of the projects conducted with external partners.

tel: 81 466 25 05
e-mail: marcin.garbowski@lublin.eu

Przemysław Gruba

Coordinator
Economic Ecosystems and Business Infrastructure Office

  • Preparing and updating information on conditions for development of business activity in the City of Lublin and location of new enterprises, including available international and governmental programmes
  • Collecting information on investment opportunities and needs of the City of Lublin in terms of availability of office, storage and production space, undeveloped property, business premises, research and development infrastructure, as well as undertaking activities aimed at distribution of such information
  • Cooperation with technology transfer centres and science and technology parks in the area of innovation development
  • Promotion of the offer of business and conference tourism in Lublin

tel: 81 466 25 13
cell: 605 903 521
e-mail: przemyslaw.gruba@lublin.eu

Mariusz Gwozda Ph.D.

Principal Specialist
Strategy and Smart City Office

  • Preparation of analytical information, assessments, analyses and reports.
  • Monitoring and analysing changes taking place in the socio-economic environment of the Lublin City.
  • Development of a Report on the State of the Lublin City.
  • Preparation of a report monitoring implementation of the Lublin City development strategy.
  • Participation in the design, implementation and analysis of the results of social research.
  • Cooperation with analytical, scientific and research institutions.

tel: 81 466 25 12
e-mail: mariusz.gwozda@lublin.eu

Viktoriya Herun

Head of
Academic Promotion Office

  • Initiating cooperation between the Lublin City Office, universities, science and business institutions in the field of entrepreneurship and academic development in Lublin;
  • Initiating and coordinating projects for the integration of the academic community as well as the promotion of Lublin academic potential;
  • Coordinating the work of the Academic Promotion Team;
  • Promotion on projects conducted by universities as part of supporting good practices related to the development of Lublin;
  • Coordinator of the “Study in Lublin” program;
  • Coordinator of the EPI – European Pact for Integration project.

tel: 81 466 25 11
e-mail: wiktoria.herun@lublin.eu

Szymon Horosiewicz

Assistant Inspector
Strategy and Smart City Office

  • Performing analyzes and assessments of the situation of the city of Lublin in the use and implementation of intelligent solutions
  • Maintaining relationships with companies offering smart city solutions; Implementation of projects financed from external funds
  • Undertaking activities for the development of cooperation with national and foreign organizations and networks associating entities
  • Operating in the smart city area; Promotion of the smart city concept in Lublin on a national and international scale

tel: 81 466 25 06
e-mail: szymon.horosiewicz@lublin.eu

Jacek Jakubowski

Principal Specialist
Support for Entrepreneurship and Creative Industries Office

  • Cooperation with entrepreneurs in the implementation of joint projects and programs,
  • Contact and exchange of information with representatives of the startup ecosystem,
  • Building relationships with entrepreneurs, implementation of projects co-financed from external funds.

tel: 81 466 25 35
e-mail: jacek.jakubowski@lublin.eu

Honorata Kępowicz-Olszówka

Head of
Support for Entrepreneurship and Creative Industries Office

  • Coordinating the work of the department for supporting entrepreneurship and creative industries
  • Implementation of activities and projects to support creative industries, entrepreneurship and startup ecosystem, including those financed from external funds;
  • Maintaining current contacts with representatives of Business Environment Institutions working to support entrepreneurship in Lublin;
  • Implementation of activities for the education of entrepreneurship;

tel: 81 466 25 35
e-mail: honorata.olszowka@lublin.eu

Barbara Kostecka-Wiącek

Inspector
Academic Promotion Office

  • Implementation of projects for the benefit of integration of the academic community and the mutual offer of Lublin’s academic potential
  • Promotion of projects implemented by universities;
  • Implementation of projects and partnership connected with entrepreneurship development, research and knowledge transfer, commercialization of research result;
  • Organization of the Competition of the Mayor of Lublin City for the best diploma works and theses;
  • Monitoring of city-universities-business cooperation;
  • Cooperation with career services offices, student and school organizations.

tel: 81 466 25 15
e-mail: barbara.kostecka@lublin.eu

Aldona Kozak

Inspector
Economic Ecosystems and Business Infrastructure Office

  • Coordination of cooperation with clusters and clusters’ coordinators in Lublin
  • Collection of information and reporting on clusters and economic ecosystems activities in Lublin
  • Networking – support in relations and partnerships buliding with companies, universities, public administration and business environment organisations from clusters and economic ecosystems
  • Contact person for the Lublin City Office in the Lublin Biotechnology Cluster project

tel: 81 466 25 25
e-mail: aldona.kozak@lublin.eu

Piotr Maleszyk Ph.D.

Principal Specialist
Strategy and Smart City Office

  • Responsible for the social research, municipal cyclical reporting and data analitics for urban development policy.
  • Head of Lublin Development Strategy 2030 research team and contributing editor to Lublin 2030 urban development strategy.

tel: 81 466 25 15
e-mail: piotr.maleszyk@lublin.eu

Mykola Mialkovskyi

Assistant Inspector
Academic Promotion Office

  • Implementation of projects for the integration of Lublin universities and their mutual promotion in Poland and abroad to attract candidates for studies;
  • Integration of students and graduates of Lublin universities from Poland and abroad;
  • Preparation of assessments, analyzes, information, and reports for the “Study in Lublin” project;
  • Implementation of the tasks in the “European Pact for Integration” project.

tel: 81 466 25 11
e-mail: mykola.mialkovskyi@lublin.eu

Paulina Olchowska

Head of
Economic Promotion and City Development Office

  • Coordinating the work of the economic promotion team
  • Promotion of projects concerning the socio-economic development of the city of Lublin, carried out by the Strategy and Entrepreneurship Department of Lublin City Hall
  • Support in the promotion of events and projects organized by the business, academic and other entities, targeted at a wide audience: the inhabitants of Lublin, students, entrepreneurs, etc.
  • Organization of press conferences of economic, business or academic nature with the participation of the Mayor and representatives of Lublin City Hall
  • Preparation of materials promoting the success of Lublin companies, scientists, entrepreneurs, etc.
  • Contact with the media

tel: 81 466 25 08
e-mail: paulina.olchowska@lublin.eu

Iwona Pilarska

Inspector
Economic Promotion and City Development Office

  • Promotion of projects concerning economic development of Lublin, implemented by the Strategy and Entrepreneurship Department of Lublin Municipality Office.
  • Promotion of the Lublin 2030 Project
  • Support in the promotion of events and projects organized by the business, scientific and other entities and addressed to a wide audience: the inhabitants of Lublin, students, entrepreneurs, etc.
  • Management of departmental websites and social media.

tel: 81 466 25 08
e-mail: iwona.pilarska@lublin.eu

Marzena Strok-Sadło

Head of
Economic Ecosystems and Business Infrastructure Office

  • Coordination of cooperation with clusters and clusters’ coordinators in Lublin
  • Collection of information and reporting on clusters and economic ecosystems activities in Lublin
  • Networking – support in relations and partnerships buliding with companies, universities, public administration and business environment organisations from clusters and economic ecosystems
  • Delivering of information on organisational and legal forms of cluster activities, cluster policy rules and funding opportunities
  • She is representative of the Municipality of the Lublin City as a management board member in the Lublin Medicine Cluster

tel: 81 466 25 05
e-mail: marzena.sadlo@lublin.eu

Marta Sztandarska

Principal Specialist
Economic Ecosystems and Business Infrastructure Office

  • Initiating and coordinating the organisation of industry events, including the Competition for the Mayor of Lublin’s Economic Award
  • Development of modern business services sector and packaging and printing industry in order to increase the competitiveness of the city of Lublin and its key industries
  • Coordination of cluster initiatives in economic ecosystems
  • Cooperation with technology transfer centres and scientific-technological parks in the field of innovation development

tel: 81 466 25 13
cell: 606 486 999
e-mail: marta.sztandarska@lublin.eu

Edyta Wiśniewska

Inspector
Support for Entrepreneurship and Creative Industries Office

  • Cooperation with entrepreneurs in the implementation of joint projects and programmes.
  • Contact and exchange of information with representatives of the startup ecosystem.
  • Implementation of projects co-financed from external funds.

tel: 81 466 25 10
e-mail: edyta.wisniewska@lublin.eu

Dorota Wolińska

Coordinator
Strategy and Smart City Office

  • Coordination of the activities of the strategy and smart city department.
  • Performing analyzes and assessments of the situation of the city of Lublin in the use and implementation of intelligent solutions.
  • Implementation of projects financed from external funds.
  • Preparation of assumptions and updating the document of the development strategy of the City of Lublin.
  • Undertaking activities for the development of cooperation with domestic and foreign organizations and networks associating entities operating in the smart city area.

tel: 81 466 25 09
e-mail: dorota.wolinska@lublin.eu