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Arnhem

The regional capital Arnhem with its 142,201 inhabitants is located at the southeast of the Netherlands, close to the German border, about 100 km away from Amsterdam, the national capital city. Arnhem forms part of a city-region with approximately 700,000 inhabitants. The city as the regional capital has a strategic importance underlined by a regional transport hub with a high speed train Amsterdam-Frankfurt, different motorways, a regional airport that can be reached in 45 minutes and anational airport, reached within one hour.The city is a tourist centre with the historic innercity and many cultural functions [theatres, orchestra, introdans, tourist attractions like Burgers’ Zoo, Dutch Open Air Museum (European Museum of the year 2006), National Park Hoge Veluwe, International Fashion Biennale, Living Statues etc.]. It is also an academic center with HAN University and ArtEZ Academy of the Arts. Within 25 km one can also reach the Radboud University Nijmegen and the Wageningen University.

Arnhem is a city with two faces: Fine neighbourhoods with nice housing, high income and quality of environment on the one hand, and neighbourhoods with a concentration of social problems on the other. That includes large unemployment, poor housing, unsafety, drug abuse,  dumped rubbish, high percentage of migrants, low incomeetc. Arnhem has especially been confronted with tendencies of social degeneration between 1975 and 2005.

The City of Arnhem is going through a period of economic stability at the moment. However, the economic policy is aiming to simulate three economic sectors in which the city has good development chances and where it expects to realise a continuing growth.This is :
• The creative industry [fashion and design];
• Energy and environmental technology [hydrogeneconomy];
• The health sector.
The [cultural] tourism sector also is a sector with a potential for further development.

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