General News

Members of METREX, the Network of European Metropolitan Regions and Areas, last week voted Jakub Mazur as its new President. Jakub Mazur will head the network for the next two years, representing METREX publicly and leading the organisation’s managing committee. Jakub Mazur was confirmed as President at the METREX General Assembly, which took place as…

Elections to decide the next METREX Managing Committee and Vice Presidents open today, Friday 18 December 2020 METREX has today opened elections to decide its next Managing Committee and two Vice Presidents. The elections take place every two years, with Managing Committee Members able to serve two terms. The Managing Committee and Vice Presidents are…

Exchange with your METREX colleagues on issues ranging from health to connectivity to productivity. With European and global affairs changing evermore rapidly, we believe it is critical for our Members to exchange more regularly on solutions to short and longer-term challenges – including of course Covid-19. We therefore invite Members to actively participate in a…

Within the framework of Urban October and World Metropolitan Day, UN-Habitat, the Government of the Basque Country and METREX jointly organised a virtual event with the participation of experts from global institutions and governments. The webinar addressed the initiatives carried out at the metropolitan level to accelerate the positive transformation of urban and territorial realities,…

The METREX Annual Report for 2019 is now available online to download. The report offers an overview of the activities of METREX in 2019, as well as the organisation’s position in terms of new members and future growth. METREX President, Dr. Nicola Schelling, provides a foreword which captures the mood of the continent and globally,…

METREX Managing Committee call for candidates is now open As announced prior to our Lyon Conference, elections for the METREX Managing Committee (MC) were postponed due to the pandemic situation. We are pleased to open the call today, 20 October 2020, to recruit Members of the Managing Committee and two Vice Presidents of METREX. How…

At our 2019 conference in Stuttgart it was announced that METREX would establish a METREX Research Portal. The objective of the the portal is to develop a better view on existing scientific research that can support our members in their work. In addressing the complicated issues that our members deal with, it can be crucial…

In light of the Covid-19 virus, we will postpone the election of the next President, Vice-Presidents, and MC members until later this year. The call for candidates will open in September, with elections at the end of the year. We hope to present the new MC at the Spring 2021 Conference in Nürnberg. More details…

Five METREX Expert Groups and Network Groups met online in March in lieu of meetings planned for the Lisbon Conference. In light of the global Covid-19 lock-down, which forced the cancellation of the METREX Lisbon Conference, a number of Expert and Network Groups responded by holding their meetings online. Meetings took place for the Nordic…

We are all facing the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic in our daily life and in our work. Governments across the world are getting more concerned about the economic impact of this crisis and ways to accelerate the recovery. METREX is a place where we can learn from each other, and this very special situation…

News from the COVID-19 exchange platform The COVID-19 outbreak continues to expand globally. Governments at all levels, and in particular local and regional authorities, are being called upon to provide emergency services, communicate on how to contain the spread of disease, coordinate efforts, and mitigate as far as possible the impact on economies. Regional and…

Update 19 March 2020 Update on the METREX Lisbon Conference – Covid-19 Virus With the continued spread of the Covid-19 virus and increasingly restrictive measures being taken across Europe, METREX is unfortunately not in a position to indicate a workable date for the Lisbon Conference to take place. This decision has been led by our…

Survey of members to support the development of the new METREX Research Portal At our conference last year in Stuttgart it was announced that we intend to setup a METREX Research Portal. The main objective is to develop a better view on existing scientific research that can support our members in their work. In addressing…

Present your region’s approach to climate change in our series of webinars with four US regions Resulting from a November meeting in Brussels between the US metropolitan regions of Chicago, Denver, Kansas and Washington, and Stuttgart Region, the EU programme International Urban Cooperation (IUC) and METREX are organising a series of webinars to take place…

‘Metropolitan Landscapes’ to address issues between urban and rural areas and ‘From Roads to Streets’ to explore the transformation of roads in the urban fringe. In response to changing external circumstances and heightened interest from METREX members, we are pleased to announce the formation of two new Expert Groups, both of which will meet for the…

METREX and EUROCITIES have produced a joint response to the Committee of the Regions draft opinion on “The challenges of metropolitan regions and their position in the future Cohesion Policy post 2020.” The main objectives of this opinion are to bring a better recognition of the challenges of the metropolitan regions, of their contribution to…