Thanks to the cooperation between the Department of Strategy of the City Hall in Gdynia and the Department of Regional Development of the Institute of Socio-Economic Geography and Spatial Management at the University of Gdańsk, headed by prof. dr hab. Tadeusz Palmowski, a publication on service and commercial points in Gdynia was created. First-year geography students, as part of a field exercise, stocktaking the local service activities.

The result of the collaboration is a detailed study, posted on the website of Gdynia.

The entire stocktaking of retail and services in all districts of Gdynia has been carried out since 2005, together with a survey of Gdynia's inhabitants entitled 'Happy Gdynia'.

In June this year, a group of about 35 students from the University of Gdańsk, under the direction of dr Renata Anisiewicz, carried out a stocktaking of retail and services in 21 districts of Gdynia, according to the guidelines provided by the Strategy Department. It was a so-called 'physical inventory' taking into account only those activities that can be seen 'from the street.'

All services were inventoried and broken down into the following categories: commerce, personal services and business environment services.