These solutions address pressing metropolitan challenges with clear concepts and practical steps and built on best practices that were tested and refined through pilot actions. They represent a major step forward in building stronger, more collaborative metropolitan areas and provide practical tools for turning the Common Metropolitan Vision into reality across the region.
We are pleased to present three new brochures showcasing our outcomes:
1. Pilot Actions – testing and transferring best practices.
2. New Solutions – five ready-to-use approaches for stronger metropolitan governance.
3. Comprehensive Overview – combining Pilot Actions and New Solutions in one publication.
We invite you to explore and share these publications within your networks to help extend the impact of MECOG-CE experience and approaches across Europe.
What’s Next?
With the five new solutions in place, the MECOG-CE project is entering a decisive phase. The focus now shifts from developing practical solutions to putting them into strategic planning.
• Strategy for Central Europe – Project partners are drafting a strategy for strengthening metropolitan cooperation and governance across the region. This strategic document will provide guidance and concrete roadmap for metropolitan areas to strengthen their potential.
• Tailored action plans – Each participating metropolitan area is preparing its own action plan covering a broad set of priorities for the better functioning of metropolitan areas. These plans will ensure that the tested and refined approaches become lasting tools for improving metropolitan governance and cooperation.
• Next international meeting – In November 2025, partners will gather in Turin to discuss the draft strategy and action plans, exchange insights, and shape a shared approach to metropolitan cooperation.
• Seminar in Brussels – On 19 November 2025, the European Parliament will host the seminar The Metropolitan Imperative: Pathways for enhancement of EU competitiveness. Organised within the MECOG-CE project, this event will bring together experts, policymakers, and metropolitan representatives to explore how Europe’s metropolitan areas can drive growth, innovation, and cohesion in the next EU programming period.
• Final conference – Save the date: 19 March 2026, Brno, Czechia. This closing event (note the new date!) will showcase the project’s key results, lessons learned, and innovative solutions for metropolitan governance. It will also provide a platform for dialogue on the future of metropolitan cooperation beyond MECOG-CE.
The coming months will therefore be crucial — transforming knowledge and experience from tested best practices into Strategy and actions, while placing metropolitan areas in the spotlight of Europe’s competitiveness and cohesion policy debates.
