Gdansk/Gdynia joins forces with Taiwan - sign landmark agreement on AI and robotics cooperation

On Monday, 20 July, on the first day of a four-day visit by a Taiwanese delegation, a ceremonial banquet was held at the Main Town Hall in Gdańsk. The City of Gdańsk and the City of Tainan signed a municipal cooperation agreement, laying the foundation for joint projects in the field of advanced technologies. The Pomeranian Development Agency and TAIPO (Taiwan-Poland Chamber of Commerce) concluded the Taiwan-Poland AI Robotics Alliance MoU, opening a new chapter in Pomerania’s cooperation with Taiwan in the areas of artificial intelligence and robotics.
The event was presided over by Mayor of Tainan Huang Wei-che, who led the business and municipal delegation visiting the Tricity. The delegation also included representatives of TAIPO, headed by President Chao Chung-Chieh, as well as representatives of over a dozen Taiwanese companies from the semiconductor, robotics, and drone sectors.
Among the guests were representatives of the Polish delegation: Deputy Marshal of the Pomeranian Voivodeship Leszek Bonna, Secretary of State at the Ministry of State Assets Eliza Zeidler, Mayor of Gdańsk Aleksandra Dulkiewicz, and Deputy Mayor of Gdynia Tomasz Augustyniak.
Pomerania as a strategic partner for Taiwanese technology
The signed agreements were the result of cooperation dating back to July 2025, when Invest in Pomerania signed a letter of intent with TAIPO to strengthen economic ties between Pomerania and Taiwan. The aim was to promote the Pomeranian region as an investment destination for Taiwanese companies in the high-tech, electronics, and semiconductor sectors, as well as to explore the possibility of establishing a dedicated industrial park for Taiwanese investors.
In September 2025, an Invest in Pomerania delegation visited Taiwan, signing a memorandum with the city of Chiayi, holding talks with Tainan and Kaohsiung, and presenting the investment site in Wojanowo to Taiwan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs. In November, following another TAIPO visit to Pomerania, the project reached Taiwan’s President William Lai, initiating government-level discussions.
Cooperation accelerated in spring 2026: in March, a Pomeranian delegation attended the Smart City Summit & Expo in Taipei, and in April TAIPO revisited Pomerania, continuing talks about the Wojanowo park. As a result, the authorities of Tainan entrusted TAIPO with coordinating the initiative, which led to the July delegation visit to the Tricity and the signing of the agreements.
Tainan – Taiwan’s hub for semiconductors, AI, and biotechnology
Tainan is one of Taiwan’s most dynamically developing technology centres. The backbone of its economy is the Tainan Science Park, part of the Southern Taiwan Science Park, home to TSMC (with an advanced 3nm production line) and United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC). The city is also developing a national computing centre supporting Taiwan’s AI ambitions, serves as a hub for biotechnology and medical industry (with over 400 companies in this sector), and is advancing green energy and photovoltaics. Tainan forms a key node of the Southern Taiwan Semiconductor Corridor, connecting it with neighbouring Kaohsiung.
A new impetus for regional development
The signed agreements contribute to building Pomerania’s position as a regional centre of advanced technologies, developing competencies in AI and robotics alongside investments in energy and logistics infrastructure.
The delegation’s visit to the Tricity also included a networking event for Polish and Taiwanese companies at the Pomeranian Science and Technology Park in Gdynia, as well as visits to the Robot Programming Centre at the Gdańsk Science and Technology Park, TMA Automation, and the Port of Gdańsk. These opened further areas for discussion on cooperation in robotics and automation, as well as potential collaboration in agricultural products between Pomerania and Taiwan.
Companies associated with the Pomeranian Science and Technology Park also took part in the networking event: Flint Systems, a manufacturer of VR training simulators replicating operational conditions in construction, ports, offshore, and energy sectors; WiRan, an electronics laboratory operator specialising in RF/Microwave technologies, telemetry, IoT, and EMC testing, whose devices are used in satellites, WiFi systems on trains, and air quality sensors across the Tricity; EmbeddedSystems.do, an embedded systems engineering company and creator of the ESLOG system for monitoring food transport conditions; and NavSim Technology Inc., a Canadian developer of marine and inland waterway navigation software and satellite communication systems.