The Brno metropolitan area was involved as one of the application guarantors in the TACR METROSPOL project from spring 2020. It was a project of the Faculty of Economics and Administration of Masaryk University and was called Institutionalization of Metropolitan Cooperation as a Factor to Increase the Motivation of Municipalities to Cooperate in Metropolitan Areas<\/em><\/strong>. The project succeeded in the competition of the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic in the programme for the support of applied social science and humanities research, experimental development and innovation \u00c9TA. The Technology Agency of the Czech Republic selected the METROSPOL project for support out of 526 submitted proposals. The selection of the project confirms its relevance, innovation and uniqueness not only in the Czech Republic. The duration of the project was approximately 2 years, with the final completion in October 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Research team<\/strong>: Faculty of Economics and Administration, Masaryk University\u202f<\/p>\n\n\n\n Main researcher:<\/strong> doc. RNDr. Josef Kunc, Ph.D. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Application Guarantor 1:<\/strong> Department of ITI Management and Metropolitan Cooperation, the City of Brno<\/p>\n\n\n\n Application Guarantor 2<\/strong>: Regional Policy Department of the Ministry for Regional Development of the Czech Republic\u202f\u202f<\/p>\n\n\n Although metropolitan areas and agglomerations occupy only 26% of the total area of the Czech Republic, they account for more than 70% of the total GDP of the Czech Republic. These areas are characterised by a high degree of urbanisation and concentration of population, economic activity, science and research, as well as intensive socio-economic links. The focus of social development is thus shifting more to the functional (natural) territories of metropolitan areas, where the development poles of the national economy are located. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Czech Republic is characterised by one of the most fragmented local government structures in Europe, which has a negative impact on the quality of public services, financial problems of small municipalities and economic development of localities. The challenges and problems that this situation poses can be addressed within the framework of cooperation in the metropolitan area as a natural functional region. However, metropolitan areas do not yet play a significant role in the Czech public administration system. In the Czech environment, metropolitan cooperation has not yet been formally institutionalised in any way, although its importance is emphasised in many developed European countries. Research also points to the need to strengthen the importance of metropolitan areas and agglomerations in the Czech Republic as key locations for the implementation of selected European and national policies, as well as the lack of an adequate legal framework for metropolitan cooperation and governance. Along with the growing importance of metropolitan issues, there is a growing need to find appropriate structures of cooperation, both formal and informal.\u202f The absence of institutionalised metropolitan cooperation to coordinate activities in the metropolitan area is in close contrast to developments in many other EU countries.<\/p>\n\n\n The project responds to the existing legislative vacuum at the metropolitan level in the Czech Republic and focuses on the Czech specifics of metropolitan cooperation at the level of functional regions. Metropolitan planning is a new element in the spatial planning framework \u2013 there is no metropolitan authority or entity with legal subjectivity in the Czech Republic, which would be in charge of this issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The aim of the project was to analyze and evaluate the motivations of municipalities for metropolitan cooperation and its institutionalization<\/strong>. The main output of the project is a methodology for initiating the institutionalization of metropolitan cooperation in the Brno Metropolitan Area. The conclusions of the project will help the Czech Republic to get closer to the examples of good practice of metropolitan development and planning in Western Europe. A project of similar scope and focus has not been implemented in the Central European area so far.\u202f<\/p>\n\n\n\n The project is significant in terms of the issue of metropolitan cooperation in the Czech Republic, which has important results for the economy and society, strategic and spatial planning and the development of regions and cities. The results of the project can be used in these fields. Experts from the Brno Metropolitan Area shared information on the rich experience of cooperation between municipalities in the Brno Metropolitan Area, which is also the study area. As an application guarantor of the project, the City of Brno has the opportunity to use the project outputs in practice and to participate in cooperation with experts on the topic from the Faculty of Economics and Administration of Masaryk University.<\/p>\n\n\n Size matters: Development and cooperation of municipalities in the Brno metropolitan area (Czech Republic)<\/strong><\/a>. KUNC Josef, \u202fTONEV Petr,\u202fNOVOTN\u00c1 Mark\u00e9ta,\u202f\u0160A\u0160INKA Petr,\u202fDVO\u0158\u00c1K Zden\u011bk,\u202fRASZKOV\u00c1 So\u0148a,\u202fKRAJ\u00cd\u010cKOV\u00c1 Aneta. Geografia Cassoviensis, year: 2021, volume: 15, issue: 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mo\u017enosti metropolitn\u00ed meziobecn\u00ed spolupr\u00e1ce a jej\u00ed institucionalizace: p\u0159\u00edklad Brn\u011bnsk\u00e9 metropolitn\u00ed oblasti<\/strong><\/a>. KUNC Josef,\u202f\u0160A\u0160INKA Petr,\u202fTONEV Petr,\u202fDVO\u0158\u00c1K Zden\u011bk,\u202fRASZKOV\u00c1 So\u0148a,\u202fNOVOTN\u00c1 Mark\u00e9ta, CHALOUPKOV\u00c1 Mark\u00e9ta,\u202fKUBE\u0160 Franti\u0161ek. Urbanismus a \u00fazemn\u00ed rozvoj, year: 2020, volume: XXIII, issue: 6. (only in Czech).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Along the path to metropolitan cooperation via metropolitan unit establishment: Case of Brno Metropolitan Area, Czech Republic<\/strong><\/a>. KUNC Josef, NOVOTN\u00c1 Mark\u00e9ta,\u202fTONEV Petr,\u202f\u202f\u0160A\u0160INKA Petr,\u202fRASZKOV\u00c1 So\u0148a, DVO\u0158\u00c1K Zden\u011bk,\u202fJETMAR Marek. Geografia Cassoviensis, year: 2023, volume: 17, issue: 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The final output of the project is a methodology for the institutionalisation of metropolitan cooperation. The aim of the presented methodology is to present a comprehensible and replicable approach to the establishment of a new institute of metropolitan association in the territory of a given functional urban area in the Czech Republic, both in the long term (with the need for legislative change) and in the short term (without the need for legislative change). This is a relatively big novelty in the context of the Czech Republic, we are talking in this respect about setting up the functioning of a not yet addressed\/neglected level of cooperation. The project thus aims at the application level and significant social relevance. The proposal of a possible metropolitan association within the project methodology can also be an impulse for a more efficient and economical future performance of public administration and will generally lead to an increase in the quality of life of the population. The final methodology can be found under this\u00a0link<\/strong><\/a> (only in Czech).\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" TACR METROSPOL The Brno metropolitan area was involved as one of the application guarantors in the TACR METROSPOL project from spring 2020. It was a project of the Faculty of Economics and Administration of Masaryk University and was called Institutionalization of Metropolitan Cooperation as a Factor to Increase the Motivation of Municipalities to Cooperate in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":10535,"menu_order":71,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metropolitni.brno.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10530"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metropolitni.brno.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metropolitni.brno.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metropolitni.brno.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metropolitni.brno.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/metropolitni.brno.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14178,"href":"https:\/\/metropolitni.brno.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10530\/revisions\/14178"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metropolitni.brno.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metropolitni.brno.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fundamental thesis<\/strong> <\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Methodology of Institutionalization of Metropolitan Areas in the Czech Republic<\/strong> <\/h3>\n\n\n\n
![Conditions and motivations for municipalities to cooperate in metropolitan areas. A case study of the Brno Metropolitan Area (BMA) (only in Czech).<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\nCooperation in the Brno Metropolitan Area. <\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\nPartial, detailed interviews with mayors of municipalities of the Brno Metropolitan Area and chairmen of voluntary associations of municipalities dealing with reflection on individual aspects of the metropolitan institution.\u202f\u202f<\/li>\n\n\n\nCommunication strategy on metropolitan issues towards the national level.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n\n\nMethodology of Institutionalization of Metropolitan Areas in the Czech Republic<\/strong> <\/h3>\n\n\n\nThe final output of the project is a methodology for the institutionalisation of metropolitan cooperation. The aim of the presented methodology is to present a comprehensible and replicable approach to the establishment of a new institute of metropolitan association in the territory of a given functional urban area in the Czech Republic, both in the long term (with the need for legislative change) and in the short term (without the need for legislative change). This is a relatively big novelty in the context of the Czech Republic, we are talking in this respect about setting up the functioning of a not yet addressed\/neglected level of cooperation. The project thus aims at the application level and significant social relevance. The proposal of a possible metropolitan association within the project methodology can also be an impulse for a more efficient and economical future performance of public administration and will generally lead to an increase in the quality of life of the population. The final methodology can be found under this\u00a0link<\/strong><\/a> (only in Czech).\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TACR METROSPOL The Brno metropolitan area was involved as one of the application guarantors in the TACR METROSPOL project from spring 2020. It was a project of the Faculty of Economics and Administration of Masaryk University and was called Institutionalization of Metropolitan Cooperation as a Factor to Increase the Motivation of Municipalities to Cooperate in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":10535,"menu_order":71,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metropolitni.brno.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10530"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metropolitni.brno.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metropolitni.brno.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metropolitni.brno.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metropolitni.brno.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/metropolitni.brno.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14178,"href":"https:\/\/metropolitni.brno.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10530\/revisions\/14178"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metropolitni.brno.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metropolitni.brno.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/metropolitni.brno.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/TACR-Metropolitni-spoluprace_low_res.png\"){kind=link}