SWOT Report I - Central Europe

ut there is an effort to use the geothermal energy (cooperation with Mansfeld-Südharz
region).
Innovation
Main projects
� Projects supporting traditional crafts and cultural life (Bernard Grange).
Operations
Interplay of actors
� Good collaboration between LAG LEADER+ Sokolovsko and Association of communes
Sokolov-East (Sokolov-East Microregion).
WEAKNESSES
People
Key actors
� Consequences of post-war population exchange
Most of original inhabitants were transferred after the Second World War. The number
of compulsorily transferred Germans is estimated at 8 000. They were replaced by mainly
Czech people from all over the Czechoslovakia and abroad. In the 1950s and 1960s a lot
of people came there to work for industrial enterprises connected with mining. This situation
caused that people do not have such a great relationship with the territory as in other parts
of CR.
� Unfavourable social and educational structure
The qualification gravity centre of the Microregion's inhabitants consists of people
with completed apprenticeship (including secondary vocational schools without general
certificate of education) and of people with a basic education (including incomplete). The
share of people with no education is above average (Sokolov District 0.9 % vs. CR 0.4 % in
2001). Contrary to the national situation the share of people with completed secondary,
vocational and university education is below the average.
SWOT Sokolov East
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