MECOG-CE News

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Luděk Sýkora delivered a presentation “Spatial Implications of Metropolitan Vision“ on International Symposium “Land use challenges in European Metropolitan Regions – exchanging promising spatial planning approaches” hosted by Joint Spatial Planning Department Berlin-Brandenburg, one of the MECOG-CE partners (Berlin, 6-7 May 2026).

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The 7th MECOG-CE Newsletter informs about the final MECOG-CE project conference “Solutions for Strong Metropolitan Cooperation and Governance – Metropolitan Areas for European Cohesion and Growth” hosted in March 2026 by the City of Brno, summarizes key project outputs and prowides brief information about the city/metropolitan action plans for strengthening metropolitan cooperation and governance.

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Luděk Sýkora delivered a presentation “We are the Metropolitan Areas: Our Common Metropolitan Vision“ on the final MECOG-CE project conference “Solutions for Strong Metropolitan Cooperation and Governance – Metropolitan Areas for European Cohesion and Growth” hosted on March 19, 2026 by the City of Brno.

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Based in the key outputs from the second phase of the MECOG-CE project, in pilot actions and new solutions, six partner metropolitan areas developed individual action plans to implement new governance and cooperation models for metropolitan development. The action plans reflect specific needs of partners metropolitan areas and include a step-by-step timeline, financing plans and responsibilities. Individual action plans are available from Outputs on MECOG-CE web. Their brief description is available from News page of MECOG-CE. Here is the overview of Action plans for strengthening metropolitan cooperation and governance. This output has been primariy developed by city/metropolitan partners and reflect inputs from the previous projects stages on which Charles University participated as academic partner between April 2023 and March 2026.

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The Strategy for strengthening metropolitan cooperation and governance in Central Europe serves as a unified methodology presenting an overall model for enhancing metropolitan cooperation and governance. Beside using the whole model, individual thematic parts can be used independently. The strategy reflects outcomes of pilot actions and developed solutions on the implementation of five selected tools. This key output on which Charles University participated as academic partner was achieved in February 2026. Strategy for strengthening metropolitan cooperation and governance in Central Europe.

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The 6th MECOG-CE Newsletter informs about the project partners meeting hosted by the City of Turin, finalization of the Strategy for strengthening metropolitan cooperation and governance in Central Europe and discussions of Action plans tailored to the needs and priorities of the project metropolitan areas.

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The 5th MECOG-CE Newsletter informs about the development of new solutions to strengthen metropolitan cooperation and governance across Central Europe.

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The 4th MECOG-CE Newsletter informs about the pathway from pilot actions of adapting best practices to new solutions that are now ready for implementation.

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Charles University participated as academic partner on the second key output of the project that was achieved in March 2025. Unique and innovative solutions provide guidelines for implementing tools that enable enhancing capacities for integrated territorial development and tackling the most pressing challenges. Cataloque of new solutions is now available for download.

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The 3rd MECOG-CE Newsletter rings a collection of 47 best practices successfully implemented in MECOG-CE project partners’ metropolitan areas, along with 29 best practices from other metropolitan
areas in Europe.

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Charles University was responsible for the development and design of is a policy advocacy document We are the Metropolitan Areas – Our Common Metropolitan Vision, which is the first key project output. The document articulates long-term and shared position of MECOG-CE partners to promote metropolitan dimension in public policies. The output was delivered in March 2024 and it has been since aproved by individual metropolitan areas from the MECOG-CE partnership.

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Newly published MECOG-CE Newsletter reports about the identification of 44 Examples of Good Practices within 14 Thematic Domains and Challenges and Opportunities for Metropolitan Areas in Central Europe

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The study ‘Identification of Challenges Specific to Central European Metropolitan Areas (MAs)’, conducted by Charles University as part of the MECOG-CE project examines the presence of the metropolitan dimension in EU and international documents and captures the perspectives of stakeholders from Central European MAs regarding contemporary challenges and opportunities related to metropolitan development, governance, planning, and cooperation. These findings, derived from surveys and focus groups with project partners, are poised to guide Central European MAs in their transformation into vibrant centers of urban development, governance, and collaboration.

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Centrum pro výzkum měst a regionů (CVMR) KSGRR PřF UK je jedním z partnerů mezinárodního projektu MECOG-CE: Posílení metropolitní spolupráce a správy ve střední Evropě, který podpořil program Interreg Central Europe. Vedle úvodní online schůzky se projektoví patneři sešli na jednání v Brně. CVMR společně s Uniwersytet Śląski koordinují v období duben 2023 – březen 2024 aktivity a výstupy v rámci pracovního balíčku “WP1: Analýza metropolitní dimenze“. / The Centre for City and Regional Research (CVMR) KSGRR Faculty of Science is one of the partners of the international project MECOG-CE: Strengthening Metropolitan Cooperation and Governance in Central Europe, supported by the Interreg Central Europe programme. In addition to an online start, the project partners met during the kick-off meeting in Brno. The CVMR together with University of Silesia in Katowice are coordinating the activities and outputs of the work package “WP1: Analysis of metropolitan dimension” between April 2023 and March 2024.

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