The Action Plan consists of five complementary actions combining new solutions, structural elements, and process- and thematic-based metropolitan cooperation. Together, they aim to improve the effectiveness, visibility, and capacity of metropolitan cooperation in the OMA, while addressing concrete territorial challenges.
Metropolitan prototyping for housing estates
The action one addresses a shared metropolitan challenge identified through strategic documents, pilot actions, and stakeholder feedback. Building on the experience from the MECOG-CE pilot action which applied a participatory approach to support spatial transformation in Dubina, one of Ostrava’s largest housing estates, this action focuses on mapping challenges across housing estates in OMA municipalities, facilitating knowledge exchange, and co-creating metropolitan-scale prototype solutions through interdisciplinary and multi-sector cooperation. The action follows a step-by-step approach from needs assessment, through piloting, to the formulation of transferable metropolitan concepts, guidelines, or strategies. Implementation relies primarily on cooperation, personal capacities, and existing tools such as the ITI (Integrated Territorial Investment), with progress monitored through regular RSMs.
Strengthening the awareness of metropolitan cooperation
The action responds to the identified need to increase awareness of the metropolitan dimension among the general public, stakeholders, and institutional partners. It aims to clearly formulate and communicate the necessity and added value of metropolitan cooperation, positioning the OMA as a confident and visible metropolitan area in the Czech, European, and cross-border context. The action focuses on coordinated communication activities, integration of metropolitan topics into existing events and marketing outputs, and cooperation with national and supranational communication channels. Monitoring is ensured through clearly defined communication-related KPIs (Key Performance Indicators).
Systematic support for cities in OMA and capacity building
The action aims to strengthen the ability of individual cities involved in Metropolitan Cooperation Working Group to actively participate in and benefit from metropolitan cooperation. Based on stakeholder demand and EUI Peer Review recommendations, this action introduces continuous feedback collection on cities’ needs and the creation of thematic partnerships or forums for mutual learning, technical support, and capacity building. Topics may be content-related, process-related, or mixed, reflecting real needs in metropolitan development and governance. The action enhances trust, knowledge exchange, and institutional learning within the metropolitan framework.
Monitoring & evaluation, indicator system, metropolitan data platform
The action focuses on improving the evidence base for metropolitan governance. It includes the implementation of a metropolitan data platform based on open data principles and the further development of an indicator system linked to the integrated OMA strategy. This action strengthens transparency, monitoring capacity, and informed decision-making, in line with both EUI Peer Review recommendations and the MECOG-CE Strategy for Strengthening Metropolitan Cooperation and Governance in Central Europe.
Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan for the Ostrava urban node with metropolitan reach
This action responds to the new TEN-T Regulation by turning it into an opportunity to strengthen metropolitan cooperation in mobility planning. It promotes coordinated collaboration on the preparation of a Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP) that meaningfully covers the Ostrava urban node and its functional urban area. The action relies on intensive cooperation within the Metropolitan Cooperation Working Group and ensures alignment between transport planning and broader metropolitan development objectives.
Overall, the Action Plan represents a pragmatic, needs-based and cooperative approach to strengthening metropolitan governance in the OMA. It emphasizes communication, capacity building, data-driven decision-making, and thematic cooperation, while using existing structures such as the ITI and RSM as stable platforms for long-term metropolitan collaboration.