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The Junior Centre Excellence (Centre for Cyber Security and Information and Communication Technologies) is one of the finalists of the Regiostars 2023 competition. The Centre can be found at the Secondary School of Informatics, Postal Administration and Finance in Brno…

The Brno Metropolitan Area was the only one in the Czech Republic to be selected as an example of good practice in the Eurocities network brochure on relations between the city and its hinterland. The brochure shows through concrete examples…

On 30–31 May 2023, representatives of European metropolitan areas, universities and associations met in Brno for the official launch of the MECOG-CE project (Strengthening Metropolitan Cooperation and Management in Central Europe). The project is funded via the Interreg Central Europe…

We are currently participating in the Eurocities project which aims to build capacity and mobilise local partnerships for a sustainable reconstruction of Ukrainian cities. Together with 35 other European cities, we will support 10 Ukrainian cities in their sustainable rebuilding.…

Together with representatives of the metropolitan areas of Stuttgart, Ostrava, Berlin, Turin, Warsaw, Milan, colleagues from Charles and Silesian Universities and the Metropolitan Research Institute in Budapest, we have succeeded in a large international competition with the project MECOG-CE in…

For the past five months, we have been part of the Functional Areas in the EU project, in which we work with the European Commission and the World Bank. The Brno metropolitan area was selected as the only representative of…

The Brno City Assembly and the Brno Metropolitan Area Steering Committee discussed and approved the document Integrated Development Strategy of the Brno Metropolitan Area 2021+ during the spring. It contains, among other things, lists of specific projects and integrated solutions…

The inter-university course Green City, organised by Masaryk University within the EDUC Alliance, was concluded in the premises of the Brno City Assembly on 21 July 2022. Student teams had the opportunity to present their five-month work to representatives of…

On 26-30 June 2022, the World Urban Forum took place in Katowice, Poland, under the auspices of the United Nations. The World Urban Forum is a conference addressing the issues of cities and the challenges they face. We presented our…

At the end of the three-year project “ESPON METRO – The role and future perspectives of Cohesion Policy in the planning of Metropolitan Areas and Cities“, the main organiser of the project, the City of Turin and the Politecnico di…

At its May meeting, the councillors approved the Integrated Development Strategy for the Brno Metropolitan Area 2021+. The Brno Metropolitan Area has started to develop the Integrated Development Strategy BMO 2021+ since mid-2019. The comprehensive development Strategy focuses on projects…

At the beginning of March, the councillors approved that the Brno Metropolitan Area (BMA) will apply for participation in the Functional Areas in the EU project, which is a collaboration between the European Commission and the World Bank. Based on…

Together with representatives of the cities of Stuttgart, Ostrava, Berlin, Turin, Warsaw, colleagues from Charles and Silesian Universities and the Metropolitan Research Institute in Budapest, we submitted on 23rd February an application to the Interreg Central Europe call with the…

The working group Metropolitan Areas that has been operating within the Eurocities network published the policy statement called Delivering EU’s Rural Vision 2040 through urban-rural cooperation. The policy statement looks at the ways how to bring forward cooperation within the…

At the end of last year, the European Metropolitan Areas (EMA) Forum held its annual meeting on strengthening climate-neutral metropolitan areas. During this meeting, the political declaration “Promoting Climate Neutral Areas: green, smart and resilient” was presented, and today the…

How to strengthen and leverage the role of metropolitan areas in the development, management and implementation of cohesion policy? Is there a need to change the current legislation? And how do metropolitan areas in the Czech Republic differ from those…

40,000 passengers – students of Masaryk University, patients of the University Hospital Brno, employees of scientific institutions and office park daily commute to the Bohunice campus in overcrowded buses and trolleybuses. How to relieve a congested part of the city…

Data portal of the City of Brno (data.brno.cz) has been updated to become more user-friendly with a focus on the processing of spatial data and sensor data. The data portal also contains information about the Brno Metropolitan Area and its…

The European Commission’s Joint Research Center (JRC) has published a new Handbook of sustainable urban development strategies. The handbook provides methodological support to cities, managing authorities and other stakeholders involved in the design and implementation of urban and metropolitan strategies…

Check our new video that describes the progress the Brno Metropolitan Area has made in the last six years and learn more about the integrated approach and integrated solutions in our territory. 😊

On 9th October 2019, the Urban Development Network organized a seminar in the framework of the European Week of Regions and Cities that is being held annually in Brussels. The European Week of Regions and Cities is an event where…

The City of Brno, as the leader of metropolitan cooperation in the Czech Republic, will become the only Czech representative in the prestigious European network METREX. The network  represents metropolitan areas at European level and its aim is to boost…

Urban Future Global Conference, the Europe’s largest conference on sustainable urban development, was held in Oslo on 21-24 May 2019. Global challenges regarding cities, metropolitan areas and their sustainability were the topics of this year´s conference. The conference was attended…

The City of Brno will be part of the international research project ESPON which is coordinated by the Metropolitan City of Turin. The aim of a comparative analysis with the title: “The role and future perspectives of Cohesion Policy in…

Data.brno.cz is a cityportal that provides data for the general public, professionals, and developers. The web serves as a platform that connects city and the metropolitan area with the citizens. Website covers the Brno Metropolitan Area as well. You can…

We have prepared for you the temperature map of the Brno Metropolitan Area. What can we find out in the map? The biggest heat is in the southeastern part of the Brno Metropolitan Area, where are larger open areas without…

Brno published the third City State Report. The new report illustrates the basic statistical indicators for the city. It also includes information on population growth in the Brno Metropolitan Area. The complete City Status Report is available here. 

Helsinki The meeting with ITI project manager (Six City Strategy Office – 6Aika), coordinators of Finnish cities (Helsinki, Espoo, Tampere, Vantaa, Oulu and Turku) involved in the Strategy and representatives from the Finnish Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment took…

Representatives of the Managing Authority of the Regional Development Programs of the Hungarian Ministry of Finance visited Brno in April 2019. The two-day visit took place under the European Commission’s tool called TAIEX (Technical Assistance and Information Exchange). The aim…

The Integrated Strategy for Development of the Brno Metropolitan Area for the Application of the ITI tool, through which cooperation between Brno and its natural hinterland is being developed, has been enforced since December 2015. The strategy and its implementation…

On October 26, 2018, a traditional European Metropolitan Authorities (EMA) Forum was held in Rome, Italy. EMA is a prestigious forum for key policymakers and experts from major European metropolitan areas to discuss their common goals and challenges. This forum…

We have published the first wave of metropolitan data on the data.brno.cz web portal! The indicator system of the Brno Metropolitan Area presents a comprehensive overview of the city of Brno and its hinterland. You can find out how many…

Debates on the future shape of the territorial dimension, integrated instruments and cohesion policy after 2020 are currently being discussed at national and European level. The ITI tool brings a number of benefits to the Czech Republic’s metropolitan areas, but…