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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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