High-tech park coming to Kechnec this decade, says local mayor

A 36-hectare high-tech business park should be set up in the village of Kechnec (Košice region) in the next few years, village mayor Jozef Konkoly has announced. "Having already jobs in the automotive, electronic, engineering and food sectors, we'd also like to create jobs in information and communication technologies within five years", said Konkoly, adding that this is part of a project involving the comprehensive development of this village, which was launched in 1990. Konkoly was in Taiwan on June 3-5 as part of a business mission aimed at bolstering trade and investment relations between the EU and the Asian country. The mission was organised by the European Commission's Directorate General for Internal Markets, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs. As part of the trip, Konkoly held a series of talks with companies potentially interested in joining the project in Kechnec. For example, the mayor visited Delta Electronics in the Neihu Technology Park and Computex 2015, which is Asia's largest IT fair. According to Konkoly, Taiwanese businessmen weren't interested only in the Kechnec industrial zone, but also inquired about the possibility of getting involved in the project of a future aquapark, and the European Integrated School that will be opened in Kechnec in September.