CORDECA study shall develop a new transportation corridor from Hungary via Slovakia to Poland. This rail-road corridor will be considered from the point of view of sustainable development of mountain and sub-mountain areas in Poland and Slovakia.

The knowledge about the condition and position of each wagon
The use of vibration sensor signals, CCD-cameras or laser sensors

Banverket is a gov agency responsable for the maintaining, renewal and development of the Swedish railway infrastructure. Banverket has a research programme and a research budget. The programme covers not only Banverkets own needs as an infrastructure manager but also the needs of the railway system as a whole including vehicle questions, seamless transport issues, mobility and accessibility etc. Banverkets philosphy is to work together with problem owners, industry, universities and institutes in defining relevant research areas, projects etc in order to produce knowledge that can be implemented in new products and services for the good of the railway system.
On the academic side Banverket supports railway research at a number of Swedish universities for example materials and wheel rail interaction at Charmec, Gothenburg, running gear, traction, catenary and power, lightweight constructions and noise at the railway group at the KTH Stockholm, ride comfort and train simulation tools at VTI, human-machine interaction, expertsystem as an aid to traffic control at Uppsala university. Banverket is participating wheen needed in for example supplying track, measurement waggons and staff for vechicle dynamic testing etc. Banverket welcomes contacts between Swedish and central/east european academia that can result in EU projects.
Examples of current or suggested research projects Green Train is a recently kicked off vehicle research program with the aim to study requirements for the next generation of high speed trains suitable for mixed traffic lines. The train should be equipped with track friendly running gear, display good LCC, energy efficiency and noise properties, have design and comfort qualities and be able to run at commercial speeds between 250 and 300 km/h. The vehicle should be designed for the type of mixed traffic lines that exists in Scandinavia, the Baltic region, Poland, Czech republic, Hungary ... . Co-operation with central and east European countries under EU programs would be welcomed.
New innovative freigth concepts including sustainable logistics. Profitable small trains at high speeds concepts that can be assembled and split in order to collect dispersed high value goods. Including innovative low cost load un load solutions.
Infrastructure co-operation can be about higher axle loads and hihger speeds on mixed traffic lines, materials, LCC, energy reduction etc.
Banverket and its associated swedish partners are interested in co-operation with other progressive nations under EUs research programmes.

Project includes three problems connected with railway, concern: (1) analysis of vehicles, wagons, and cistern's construction considering possibility of using aluminum alloys in its building and at the same decreasing mass construction using explosive connector aluminum alloy + steel. (2) Widespread using of explosive hardening technology of stem of turnout for its durability increasing with costs of operation decreasing. (3) Analysis of electrotechnics and electro power engineering constructions considering wider using of bimetals - current connectors to decrease costs of manufacturing, increasing durability, reliability and to decrease costs of electrical energy transmission.

The public transportation in large European cities relay on the road transportation menaces - buses and rail based transportation - trams and underground. The increasing problems with road transport (traffic jams, air  pollution, noise) and high costs of underground solution cause the increase of the trams role in the city transportation problems solution. It may be said, that kind of transportation menaces even come back onto town streets. It still seems to be the most safe, economic and environment protective one.
            The tramways infrastructure - power supply network, rail - demands for more and more efficient and sophisticated maintenance tasks. The efficient management of municipal transport considerably depends on having special technical rescue equipment for removing results of collisions and accidents in tramway traffic. Also there is need for equipment for repairing and maintenance of tram and trolley-bus overhead wire system,  assembling and disassembling of rail track sections etc. The problem to be solved, it is the vehicle features which allow for easy access to the area of operation. The cost of general purpose all terrain heavy vehicles, which could be used as a basis for maintenance vehicle handler, it is prohibitively high for most of municipal organisations. Also the air polution as well as noise level generated by that kind of equipment (allowed 80dB) is difficult to accept in the high density urbanised area.
Also emergency cases demands for fast and proofed treatment…

Railway transport development imposes increasing requirements which should be fulfilled by the rail vehicle and track to assure travel safety in difficult exploitation conditions. The Aim of the project is to investigate the possibility of increasing capacity of freight trains in the meaning of transport efficiency and safety. At the same time it is the main field of research in my work on Ph.D. thesis. The tendency to increase capacity and axle loads of freight wagons is well developed in such countries as the United States and Australia. Similar trend is emerging in Europe, where UIC standard axle loads have increased from 180kN to 225kN in recent years, and some countries like Sweden and Great Britain exploit much heavier freight wagons on chosen tracks. This trend to introduce heavier wagons has to be accompanied by considerable research into the costs and benefits for larger wagons and heavier trains. Increased capacity and axle loads shorten track component lives, increase the rate of degradation of the track structure and may increase the risk of derailments. However, the operating savings that can be achieved by operating fewer but larger wagons offer several benefits e.g.: need for fewer wagons to transport the same volume of commodity, need for fewer trains, improved net to tare ratio, fewer crew starts and resulting wage savings, reduced fuel consumption per net ton, reduction in wagon and locomotive distance operated. Some negative impacts: increased wear of such components as: rails, wheels, subgrade, sleepers, need for upgrade of track components and other structures (if necessary) e.g. bridges, longer braking distance of heavier trains, increased wear of other mechanical components.

System provides a determination magnet-plane's location of  with defined ascuracy and realizes automatic control of the guideway coils of linear synchronous propulsation driver (LSPD) on the basis of the received data by means of synchronized electroenergy supply at that moment, when magnet-plane (levitated vehicle) passing over them. At the same time the system provides monitoring of movement parameters such as speed, acceleration, gap value between the magnet-plane bottom and active guideway structure surface, and gap between vehicle and lateral guideway walls, etc.
The basis of the system construction is the method of phase correlations measurements of monochromatic frequencies of two synchronized super-accuracy sources of microwave signals: one of which is supporting and immobile, and the second is informative and located on the magnet-plane.
            Current information about navigation parameters is used to form the signals which control the swich-state of the guideway coils. The coils supplied from the distributed photoelectric energy system, but control signals go from three-wire feeder of asynchrony-address interface.
            The project foresees a conducting of research complex on questions of:
a) high accuracy determination of magnet-plane location along guideway and it's dynamic parameters in the real time on the basis of phase correlations analysis of signals of immobile and mobile synchronized microwave generators;
b) power efficiency of LSPD with the discretely guided way sections of minimal extent and feeding of the guideway coils from autonomic photoelectric energy units;
c) optimal construction of autonomic photoelectric energy unit as a basic element of energy supply distributed system of LSPD;
d) subsystems for integration of navigation, energy supply, control and diagnostics into the united automated system of the magnet-levitated vehicle movement conrol.
The expected term of project implementation is 3 years.

In this presentation it is considered the problem of  automatic complex testing of railway wheel pairs condition at their manufacturing and recovery. The main tasks of tasting are:
localization of faults in wheels and connected axes;
measurement of fault parameters ;
decision-making about a railway wheel pair condition (fitness);
measurement  of residual stress in a railway wheel rim.
      In order to solve this problem it is accomplished investigations in two directions. The first one is definition of correlation geometric parameters of active components of piezoelectric and electromagnetic-acoustic sensors for straight and sloping ultrasound input with space distribution of echo-signal amplitudes in a near region of acoustic diffraction. The results of this investigation will allow to develop an acoustic scanner provided ultrasonic uniform cover of a tasting region.
    The second direction is devoted to the problem of distribution  reconstruction of triaxial residual stress in the section of a 3-D component using effect of acoustorigidity. Next is development  of equipment  for measurement  of triaxial residual stress in railway wheels.
In this report is given an example  of the similar equipment developed in our laboratories and applied in industry in Ukraine.

To develop and deploy the new, secure Internet.The new, secure Internet is required:

to have all advantages of existing Internet, a similar extent and ubiquity.

to be free of the flaws and weaknesses of existing Internet,to have an architecture and principles of operations making criminal and destructive activities in the Internet so difficult and dangerous that almost unfeasible in practice

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Tasks of the system:

to measure the vehicle position and to acquire measurement data determining the technical condition of the equipment (drive and control systems) on the vehicles on move,

to store the data at the central database,

to make the data available for the service personnel located at The Service Centre

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Developing new, environment friendly vehicles based on the new type, stacked DL (Double Layer) supercapacitors as high voltage energy storing devices (28-700 V per unit)
Various purposes:

electrical and hybrid propulsion,

replacement of accumulators at conventional vehicles etc.).
To develop energy storage systems for network end-stations based on the new stacked high voltage DL supercapacitors.

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The Tramway power network rated voltage is 600V DC, we wouldlike to create new type of traction motor power converter, which could be work in the train power network where rated voltage is 3000V DC. It means that the orydinary city tramway could be in service on the short local train lines (up to 50 km from the city). This solution is much cheaper than local train connection, because the differences of weight and installed power of motors in this rail vechicles is less about 5-6 times.
  Example:  Polish train EN-57 has a 4 motors 150kW each. Total Power is 600kW, but rated voltage is 3000V DC. The standard power of the tramways manufactured in Poland is  100kW, but rated voltage is 600V DC. WE WANT TO MATCH THEM.
We wouldlike to create a power converter for the 3000V DC long distance trains, that they could operate in the local tramway network 600V DC. This solution could be used to service a mass meetings, for example: football matches, national holidays, religious events or festivals.
We wouldlike to take a part in creation of consortium. Our job will be designing and implementation of full electric equipment for railway vehicles. For the power converter which I mention above we have to take a special researches to slove all technical problems.

At present the problem of fast, comfortable and safe delivery of passengers is an actual. This problem can be solved by using high-speed railway and MAGLEV-transport. For Ukraine directions have been considered at which construction of high-speed lines a reasonable. It was found that none at than a necessary volume of passenger traffic for maintenance of a normative time of outlay recovery of MAGLEV systems. The analysis of kinds of transportations has shown that, except for passengers, it is meaningful to utilize trough MAGLEV transport perishable and other cargoes, which require fast delivery. Since the territory of Ukraine is not too large, the MAGLEV transport with an average speed 500 km/h allows to cross it in any direction no more than for 4 hours. Therefore, the decision was accepted to consider an opportunity of construction ring MAGLEV line in Ukraine. In this case only, the construction of MAGLEV line is economically justified. This idea is very interesting for all Europe.

The Foundation was established in 1992 by the National Committee for Technological Development, with the purpose of creating an institute suited to carry out efficient applied technological and scientific research and development - as a preparatory step towards accession to the European Union. The Foundation operates as a non-profit organisation and its research and development activity is carried out in its institutes, namely the Institute for Materials Science and Technology, the Institute for Biotechnology and the Institute for Logistics and Production Systems. The focus of operations at the institutes is the carrying out of applied research tasks. The aim of the institutes' innovative activity is to develop and adapt technologies, subsequently transferring them with added value.
A new institute is being formed to dedicate resources to Ambient Intelligence research. This institute will have the additional task to find synergies between its main competence field and the automotive industry.
Based on the main goals, tendering operation has been started where research and creation of mainly automotive based systems have been offered. Activities will spread but not limited to the following digital radiocommunication-based research and applications.
Ad hoc communication-based cruise control, GPS and radio based crash avoidance, pile-up avoidance, active road-side-based speed warning and limiter, emergency message transmission, camera and radio based mobile traffic observation system, radio-based support for fleet managemet systems.

There is a time - for taking seriously results of research works that have been done in leading research institutes, agricultural and technology universities in Poland.
Agricultural Transport Transformation will have great impact on quality and work safety of agricultural family farms, machinery ring users, SMEs in rural areas as well as on better environment protection. Implementation of new road units with modern brake system in Poland should be included in governmental strategic plans.
R&D works should be included in projects of surface transport's technological platform and thanks that supported widely by structural funds.

The proposed vehicle diagnostic system is based on the Java/Cyberflex e-gate smart card with USB-token form-factor. It assumed to be connected to the current OBDII interface (in the most cars developed after 1996 year) or potentially to the future OBDIII interface at the car dashboard through standard or proprietary 16-pin-OBDII connector-to-USB "A" host adaptor. The system is intended for:
- monitoring the current state of the vehicle (in-card data database),
- accumulating the whole record about more than 100 vehicle characteristics during the current and previous drive routes,
- unplugging the e-gate smart card and analyzing the ways for tuning the vehicle at home, maintenance site, research facilities.
The On-Board Diagnostic e-Gate Smart Card could be used by:
by ORDINARY drivers in everyday situations to decrease the risk of unpredicted damage of their cars;
by cautious PARENTS who would like to prevent the incautious driving the cars by their children;
by OWNERS of the big automotive parks to monitor SECURELY the proper usage of their corporate vehicles (speed limits, distances, etc.);
by automotive SALES MANAGERS to test quickly and securely the state of the selling/buying vehicles.

Mathematical model for description of spatial and temporal movements of eye-sight in the process of visual information acquisition (VIA) by driver should be integrated in computer-based training. Quantitative analysis of experiments results carried by the author of proposed project, shows that the specific patterns of VIA have direct relation to the road traffic safety. Significant differences have been found in the ways visual information is acquired by drivers with different driving experience and skills (drivers with 10, 5 and 1 year driving experience were tested using NAC Eye-Mark Recording equipment (Model-4). The following VIA characteristics were examined: eye-sight movements across the field of perception; time of observation; number of information items; number of information zones; algorithms of sight movements, etc.
The driver's VIA "safety index" is determined for each of the t, so-called, typical dangerous driving situations (TDS).

Driving a vehicle in limited or sometimes "zero" visibility (due to dense fog, rainfalls or heavy clouds and night drive) frequently leads to severe accidents. Such hindrances as unlit vehicles or pedestrians and animals appearing on the road are thought to be the most common (immediately following speeding) causes of car accidents. Light from headlights in difficult weather conditions cannot ensure visibility that allows driving a vehicle safely. Headlight glare is a common driver complaint. Glare is one of the biggest complaints that drivers have about headlights. Typically, drivers do not complain about glare coming from their lights, but glare coming from another vehicle on the road - either ahead of or behind them. Studies show it takes a typical driver 10 seconds to recover from headlight glare situations, and this time increases as we age. The main aim of this proposal is a study on prevention of visual efficiency decrease in drivers due to glare during night drive. We plane to do medical and technical research. The former will involve medical examinations on a representative group of professional drives to analyse factors which affect on psyche and fatigue of drivers during night drive. Within technical research, we plan to work on the construction of new types of filters and systems integrated with cars which help to avoid glare.

The proposed GSM Java solution SmartAssist is the automatic suite intended for
- monitoring the current traffic conditions obtained by Web-access;
- adapting the personal schedule to unpredictable traffic force-majors (jams, congestion, etc.);
- analyzing the ways for improvement of the schedule;
- find the path optimized by the overall "time to go";
- find the path optimized by the overall "distance to go";
- informing the user about the current state of schedule WITHOUT intruding and obtrusive manual operating;
- making the AUTOMATIC pre-defined CONDITIONAL actions: EASILY RECOGNIZABLE event-driven audio signals or vibrations, SMS messages, phone connections (assumed to be in the final version in a month after debugging and testing).
The proposed in-SIM-card system could be used
- by EVERYONE in everyday situations to eliminate the delays and optimize the free time in the "this-day" personal schedule;
­- by TRAVELLING SALESMEN to optimize meetings at client sites,
- by SCHOOL BUS DRIVERS, CATERERS, EXPRESS MAIL COURIERS, etc. to inform automatically the users at their destinations about potential delays.

The idea of the project is to connect research area together with technological possibilities of "strong" Eastern Euopean Partner (Hungary)  . My PhD Doctoral Thesis was dedicated to analytic-numerical methods for calculating welding structures temperatures and stresses. Several hard works can guarantee decreasing the weight of trailers building elements by "removing" metal material where not necessary to exist. Also replacing existing elements with other serving better the interest of whole construction would have sense.

The traffic moral is catastrophically on the roads nowadays. Pedestrians cannot get advance at the zebra crossings, sidewalks are occupied by parking cars, junction areas (the common area of crossing streets) are occupied by queued cars, drivers often drink alcohol, and speed limit is often exceeded.
These symptoms cannot be finding equally in all countries. For example, the car driver stops at zebra in The Netherlands, even if pedestrian didn't step down on the carriageway. You can rarely see these situations in Hungary.
All of these are resulted from human elements, and can be experienced in East European counties.
Therefore I suggest that to develop a complex project, what
Collects all of the bad tendencies of traffic moral
Searches all of the usable implements to earn these targets
Make a policy plane of tasks
Searches, and find financial resources for the implementation, and
Implements those

Today the number of gas turbine-powered vechicles monotonically increases. Especial attention is paid to the creep properties of material of the turbine discs. The mechanical-thermal treatment is a progressive method of improvement of creep properties of metals. These treat is a combination of mechanical and heat influence on metal resulting in formation of regulated dislocation structures in metal. Such structures strengthen the material causing the decrease of creep deformation.
The mechanical-thermal treat consists of plastic deformation and subsequent anneal of specimen. The plastic deformation of discs is carried out by their rotation under such frequencies when plastic deformation arises in the points of disc.
As classical theories of plasticity and creep don't take into account the influence of preliminary treatment on creep one must use more contemporary theory of irreversible deformation. The analytical description of influence of preliminary mechanical-thermal treatment on the rate of steady creep of turbine discs has been presented in the framework of the synthetic theory of plasticity and creep. Obtained analytical results concur with experimental data so they may be used for determination of steady creep as function of preliminary mechanical-thermal treat.

To provide the optimal exploitation of the vehicle (in particular trucks and big lorries) the complete diagnostic tests of the vehicle propulsion system are needed. It allows the vehicle propulsion system to keep the satisfied efficiency and low pollutants emission of the engine exhaust gases. In terms of ongoing vehicle exploitation such diagnostics of the vehicle propulsion system is considered as inconvenient and difficult in practice. The main aim of the project is to work out method for vehicle diagnostics, which includes the complete engine performance during its work on the vehicle. The method will be based on the traction survey of the vehicle by using a system incorporating satellite navigation receivers operating in the GPS system and a differential system operating with a reference station (DGPS) enabling recording the momentary coordinates of the location and velocity of the vehicle under examination in the ellipsoid system (x, y, z - the WGS-84 system) at a frequency of 20Hz. Up-to-date the NAVSTAR satellite system allows the determination of not only the location of the observer, but also observer movement velocity and time in any location of the globe. In order to carry out complete diagnostic tests of a vehicle, the measurements of the transient motion of the vehicle during its acceleration and the assessment of its dynamic properties are required to be made. For these to be complete, the following should be measured: vehicle displacement, velocity, time, acceleration and vertical displacements. Preliminary research have been carried out in the laboratories of the project proposer. The obtained experimental results are satisfied enough to develop the problem.

Project will be focused on analysis of the influence of hazardous factors like: static load, monotony of work, on the fatigue of the driver and on analysis of fatigue occurring the most often among drivers.
Different conditions of the external load like special adjustment of work stand equipment and environmental conditions (noise, monotony, temperature) influence the driver's fatigue and as consequence risk of accident or occurrence of occupational disease.
The following subjects are the most crucial in overall assessment of drivers safety:
Biomechanical assessment of  drivers load and fatigue by using measurements relating to forces steering capabilities, joints angles, electromyography and computer modeling
Physiological reactions like electromyography and electroencephalography
In designing user-friendly driver interfaces guidelines derived from studies in mentioned above areas constitute very meaningful role.

The suggested system is based on the production of Hydrogen and steam on board, by the reaction of light metals (such as Al, Mg or B) with water. The Hydrogen is then oxidized either by air or by dilute solution of Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) producing more steam at high temperature and pressure. The oxidation takes place inside a cylinder of a modified diesel engine. The energy stored in the steam activates the piston of the engine. The metal oxide that was initially produced in the process is separated and delivered for recycling in a factory.

The purpose of this project is designing the new measurement instruments for analysis of the movement of vehicles and characterization the influence of surface parameters and environment on vehicles.
The following tasks will be realized:
- description of vehicle dynamics,
- description of rolling contact between tire and surface,
- measurement of surface texture,
- the environmental influence on driving process,
- dynamics measurement of steer angle during vehicle movement.

The development direction of the transport system is delineated by: market economy conditions, technical and technological advancement in the field of transport and, to a significant extent, the goals of transport policy, which currently cover, among others, the aims of the ecological policy of the state.

Every modern transport policy must take into account the destructive impact motor transport has on the environment. The policy of sustainable transport development is directed at permanent and peaceful development.

One factor limiting the impact of motor transport on the environment, is harmonizing competition conditions among different branches of transport, as a result of taking into account external costs of transport.

The destructive impact motor transport has on the environment is a ground for initiating and carrying out various projects, including research ones, which aim, among others, at minimizing energy consumption and emission of pollutants from combustion engines.

Therefore, preparing a tool for forecasting ecological results of certain transport policy projects carried out by the state is significant for complete evaluation of various scenarios connected with transport development.

Scientific aim of the project:

Devising a methodology for examining and forecasting energetic and ecological results of land transport development in the field of air pollutants emission.

Areas of interest:
- land transport
- rail transport
- transport of things
- transport of persons

The aim of the project is realisation of ship's electric power systems based on a choice of appropriate and effective technical solutions as well as on elaboration of algorithms and procedures of proceedings under hazard conditions

Ship traffic on inland waterways and coastal waters will increase according to the prospected EU economy development. The increasing problems with road transport (traffic congestion, accidents, air pollution, noise) may become another reason for growth of the transport by waterways.
            The inland waterways are more and more difficult to ship handling due to the decreasing depth of navigable channels and increasing number of hydro-technical structures such as bridges, locks, harbors, dolphins etc. This enhances the risk for collisions between vessels as well as between a vessel and a hydro-technical structure. Also grounding events are frequent, although often not reported. This poses a serious hazard for possible pollution of inland waters as well as commercial loss.
            It seems, that the present tools for design for inland vessels as well as necessary certification regulations are not sufficient to satisfy the goals as mentioned above.
The main objective of the proposed project is to improve the inland vessel protection against the loss of structural integrity through innovative design and application of alternative materials such as foam-steel sandwich panels or other lightweight structures capable to absorb collision energy. A safety oriented design framework shall be defined; it will be mostly dedicated to the grounding onto different material (sand, mud, gravel, clay, rock) and collision with typical hydro-technical structures (bridges, dolphins, quays etc). The investigations will focus on the increase of quality of environmental protection reduction of hazards to the people in the vicinity hydro technical structures protection easy after-collision services…

Personal and Fire Protection Computer Control System of Leakage Current for IT Network (PFPCCS) is the first safety system, used partly in the world. It makes the compensation of the faulty phase current in the IT-network possible in order to increase the safety of the crew and passengers. I addition, the danger of fire and explosion on a ship is reduced by a short-circuit current compensation system.
The project's aim is, on one hand, to develop, improve the system and extend its use on new areas, and, on the other hand, include into a general safety system (e.g. on ships). Thus, the system, when adopted, can protect both people and places, and work effectively: on ships and waterborne vessels; in coal mines etc.; in hospitals; for industry (e.g. food industry). This will be possible only when the system meets the formal requirements and is found valid by standard organizations (e.g. IEC, IMO, SOLAS). It is worth noticing that a part of the short-circuit currents' reduction system is used on the Polish Polonia ferry (for people' protection).
The project concentrates both on the implementation and research on the system.. Regarding the implementation (e.g. adopting the system to new areas like hospital), 4 phases can be distinguished: firstly, defining the current isolated neutral system; secondly, measure of its parameters and their analysis; thirdly, adopting the PFPCCS to the analyzed isolated neutral system. On the other hand, the research aims at: defining the parameters of the isolated neutral system on the basis of not complete data (neural net); defining the range of the isolated neutral system and the way it will be used; defining the scope of the protection (i.e. people against fire and/or limiting break of fire).           
Significantly, the project is to contribute to: the spread of the knowledge on the issue; new solutions for the industry; international exchange of scientists (professors and young ones); implementation of new technologies. As a result, the competitiveness of the European economy will increase.  

In this project author presents methods  that can be used for estimating safety of navigation (navigational risk) in the restricted sea areas by means of  the model of the ship's domain. (doctor's thesis presentation). He attempts to define the following notions: 'safety of shipping', 'safety of navigation', 'sea area difficult for navigation', 'risk of navigation' and 'risk of collisions'. The essence of the method suggested in the thesis is the systematic approach to vessel operation in the aspect of estimating its safety when navigating in restricted sea areas.

1) MARPAINT: The key objective of the Marpaint project is to address the need of the European shiprepair and conversion yards in regards to coating and painting issues
2) SUPER YACHT: The key objective of this project is to look at the supply chain of super yachts
3) CORROSION: The key objective of this project is to monitor corrosion in confined spaces.

We propose resolve vide group problems by developing environmental friendly low  cost and safety operation new hovercraft predicted to rescuer and salvation at lake and river EU borders by high added value offered for potential EU customers.

The research comprises the regulations dealing with European funds management, the existing formal and informal recommendations of European Commission (regulation sphere) and the practical side of their functioning in all Polish regions, that is provinces (real sphere). The results of the conducted research give us the empirical material which justifies the need and possibility of formulating a new paradigm of the province (region) development management. According to this paradigm, the regional policy of the European Union, supported with modern techniques of regional strategic planning and operational programming and modern computer systems - is the instrument of European integration as well as the economic restructuring of the province (region) in knowledge-based economy. A provinces (regions) are trying to solve the problems of management in the European integration conditions by using the conceptions and mechanisms that were created in the past. It is legitimate to use, in Polish conditions, a modern conception of multifunctional techno-polis and thematic network of excellence model, as an over-regional centre stimulating an innovative activity and generating and transferring the modern technologies. The activity should be supplied on a base of financial installation of means descending from different foreign sources (including European funds) and domestic ones. It is important to establish highly professional centre for research, consulting and education in field economical, social, political, legal and cultural aspects of regional and local sustainable development through improved European Union structural funds management. In order to perform this important scientific - education task, it would be very helpful to organize the consortium of academic schools from all over the country which are specialized in theory and practice of international management of structural funds in field of research, education and consulting in regional and local sustainable development. The subsequent organizational steps should call for: appointment of the methodology unit for collection and generalization of domestic and foreign experience. Over the initial period, a distinct priority of the methodological activity, as well, as selection and education of the executive staff is necessary. New organizational structure must to be developed gradually, starting with small group.