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Human Capital as a Dimension of Sustainable Development of the Border Regions - the Example of Moravian-Silesian and Opole Regions

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Human capital is a component of one of the dimensions of sustainable development. Due to the undeniable link between them the aim of this paper is to show the human capital dimension of sustainable development concept in the case of two cross-borderly cooperating regions in Czech Republic and Poland: Moravian-Silesian and Opole. The research was based on a "review of official document" by analyzing scientific achievements and documents from Opole Centre for Economic Development. As a result of the study it can be concluded that the official documents regarding development in the region poorly take into consideration the sustainable development aspect as evidenced by the incomplete under the terms of a SWOT analysis. Activities in the field of sustainable development implemented in the region are the result of available funds for this purpose and their own business initiatives / associations thereof that run the cluster projects in the field of sustainable energy and so on. Also, these initiatives are not coordinated on both sides of the border, taking into account the lack of agrifood industry as a common area of activity across borders, which is also important from the point of view of sustainable development consistent with the profiles of the two regions.