1. BEYOND BOUNDARIES: MA matter
WG Metropolitan areas
Brussels
October 18th 2017
EUROCITIES
Working paper
BEYOND BOUNDARIES: MA matter
Alfredo Corbalan
Chair WGMA, Brussels-Capital Region

2. What we did for CP ?
Short policy statement: Beyond boundaries – FUA matter (3 pages)
Background paper: Cities cooperating beyond their boundaries (36 pages)
Joint statement Eurocities and Metrex on urban/rural linkages

3. Introduction New context 1. What’s new ? Growing urbanization
Debate on future of Europe
New context
MA: reality clearly recognized
MA: reality promoted by CP

4. 2. Why MA matter for future CP?
MA: effective scale for
balanced EU development
2. meet current and future EU challenges
3. pooling ressources and channeling CP

5. 3.Messages General Principles Develop Metropolitan dimension of CP
Involvement metropolitan level in CP
Incentive systems to use CP for MA (better co-funding rates)
Increase eamarked SUD and conditionality on MA actions
OP: specific actions for MA
Integrated approaches (no thematic ones)
Top-down and bottom-up: links ITIs/CLLD + multilevel governance + citizen involvement
Simplify and reduce adm. burden
Flexibility : pool of models for implementing CP

6. 3.Messages 2. Support on specific metropolitan issues:
Test new cooperation tools and multi-level governance approaches
joint projects and investments; integrated planning and strategies within MA
cooperation between different MA and with wider areas
Research on future MA trends
Exchange and networking on Met cooperation
Capacity building on use of integrated tools

7. 3.Messages
3. Tools
Urban Agenda: better inclusion in appropriate partnerships or a partnership on MA)
ITIs: up-scale, long term approach, simplification, real fund integration, flexibility, trust and delegation
CLLD: tool for cooperation in smaller zone within a MA
OPs, territorial cooperation, EU policies: MA eligible and project at MA level eligible
Interreg A and B: tool for cooperation between MA of same macro-regions
Data collection, analysis and presentation at Met level in EU CP databases
National policies: CP foster experimentation to lift barriers for Met cooperation

8. 4.Building support
Contact and links with
Institutions
Networks
Fora

9. Agenda next activities
2017
17-18 oct: Council of Europe – democratic governance and MA - Thessaloniki
20 Oct: EMA Forum – Warsaw
(2-4 Nov: Ministerial event – Bucharest) ?
8-9 Nov: Smart Metropolia- 6th Int. Metropolitan Congress - Gdansk
8-10 Nov: FNAU event – Strasbourg
27-28 Nov: Cities Forum – Rotterdam
+ 29 Nov: Joint WGs meeting?: WGMA action plan + advocacy action plan
2018
End Feb/March: SPIMA conference – Brussels? + WG?
May/June: WG meeting: input for EUROCITIES response to CP proposal
Oct.: Event during EWRC to promote SPIMA and MA
Oct.: Mobility Forum joint session with WG sustainable mobility planning ?