The Podkarpackie Competence Centre is an initiative with potential that extends far beyond a regional infrastructure project. It will be a model Polish ecosystem for BVLOS (Beyond Visual Line of Sight) drone flights, combining infrastructure, expertise, the economy, education, and public safety. An agreement on this matter was signed today at the Rzeszów University of Technology.
The agreement establishing the centre was signed by (in alphabetical order): Konrad Fijołek, Mayor of Rzeszów; Małgorzata Jarosińska-Jedynak, Member of the Board of the Podkarpackie Voivodeship; Magdalena Jaworska-Maćkowiak, PANSA CEO, Piotr Koszelnik, Rector of the Rzeszów University of Technology, Władysław Ortyl, Marshal of the Podkarpackie Voivodeship, and Miranda Trojanowska, Deputy Mayor of Krosno.
The centre will be the most compelling proof that Poland can build a full-scale, regional ecosystem for new unmanned mobility using funds from the National Recovery and Resilience Plan, which will be invested directly in the Podkarpackie region. The initiative is the result of supra-regional cooperation between NRRP partners and integrates scattered activities into a single, coherent operational and competence-based system. The first of its kind in Poland.
