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Authors Luděk Sýkora, Alena Coblence, Charles University (CZ) Advisory group Stakeholders: Claudia Fassero, Città Metropolitana di Torino (IT) | Odile Huiban, Metropole de Lyon (FR) | Aleksandra Fijałkowska, Metropolitan Area of Gdańsk-Gdynia-Sopot (PL) | Filipe Ferreira, Lisbon Metropolitan Area (PT) | Sandrine De Meyer, perspetive.brussels (BE) | Agnese Gūtmane, Riga City Council (LV) | Soňa Raszková, Brno City Municipality (CZ) | Alessandra Barbieri, Municipality of Florence (IT) | Xavier Tiana Casablanca, Barcelona Metropolitan Area (ES) | Dorthe Nielsen, EUROCITIES | Guillaume Berret, Metropolis. ESPON EGTC: Senior Project Expert: Piera Petruzzi, Financial Expert: Stefania Rigillo Information on ESPON and its projects can be found at www.espon.eu. The website provides the possibility to download and examine the most recent documents produced by finalised and ongoing ESPON projects. © ESPON, 2020 Published in Click or tap here to enter text. 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INTERIM REPORT // METRO _ The role and future perspectives of Cohesion Policy in the planning of Metropolitan Areas and Cities Table of contents Abbreviations ...................................................................................................................................... 7 1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................ 8 2 Case study area contextualisation ................................................................................. 12 3 Metropolitan governance structure and cooperation activities .................................. 15 3.1 Institutional framework .............................................................................................................. 15 3.1.1 Other forms of cooperation ....................................................................................................... 23 3.2 Evolution of metropolitan cooperation ....................................................................................... 26 3.3 Metropolitan development goals ............................................................................................... 31 3.3.1 Coherence with national and regional goals ............................................................................. 31 3.3.2 Coherence with municipal goals ............................................................................................... 31 3.4 Metropolitan development and planning instruments ................................................................ 31 3.4.1 Instruments in the framework of other cooperation initiatives ................................................... 31 3.4.2 Instrument and initiatives related to COVID-19 ......................................................................... 32 3.5 Metropolitan financing and budgeting ....................................................................................... 32 3.6 Role of social groups and the business community in metropolitan governance ...................... 33 3.6.1 Social groups and the civil society ............................................................................................ 33 3.6.2 Business community ................................................................................................................. 33 3.7 Participation to policy networks ................................................................................................. 33 4 Cohesion policy governance .......................................................................................... 35 4.1 EU cohesion policy institutional architecture and competences ................................................ 35 4.1.1 The role of metropolitan actors ................................................................................................. 36 4.2 EU cohesion policy instruments at the metropolitan level ......................................................... 38 4.3 Involvement of social groups and the business community in the EU cohesion policy ............. 39 4.4 The governance of EU cohesion policy in the COVID-19 emergency ....................................... 40 4.5 Coordinating metropolitan governance and EU cohesion policy ............................................... 40 5 Cohesion policy impact ................................................................................................... 43 5.1 EU cohesion policy objectives and actions ............................................................................... 43 5.1.1 Funded measures: main sectors and spatial distribution .......................................................... 48 5.2 Coherence and synergies with metropolitan objectives and instruments .................................. 50 5.2.1 Alignment with the goals defined in metropolitan instruments .................................................. 50 5.2.2 Thematic priorities ..................................................................................................................... 50 5.2.3 Funding magnitude ................................................................................................................... 51 5.3 Outcomes ................................................................................................................................. 52 5.4 The impact of the EU cohesion policy in the COVID-19 emergency ......................................... 53 5.5 The impact of the EU cohesion policy on metropolitan governance and cooperation ............... 54 6 Main challenges and recommendations ........................................................................ 55 References ......................................................................................................................................... 57 ESPON // espon.eu 5 INTERIM REPORT // METRO _ The role and future perspectives of Cohesion Policy in the planning of Metropolitan Areas and Cities List of maps, figures, charts and tables List of maps Map 2.1 Brno Metropolitan Area: delimitation 2020 (for 2021-2027) and comparison with 2013- 2020 ..................................................................................................................................... 13 Map 3.1 Territorial coverage of ITI and IPTD 2014-2020 .................................................................. 16 Map 3.2 Territorial typology in Regional Development Strategy 2021+ ............................................. 17 Map 3.3 Territorial coverage of ITI in 2021-2027 ............................................................................... 18 Map 3.4 Development areas and development axes in Czechia (Spatial Development Policy) ........ 18 Map 3.5 Regions and administrative districts of municipalities with extended powers (SO ORP) ..... 20 Map 3.6 Territorial coverage of Local Action Groups in the Czech Republic ..................................... 24 List of figures Figure 3.1 Czech Republic Spatial Development in relation to Regional and Cohesion Policy ............ 19 Figure 3.2 Timeline of metropolitan cooperation development ............................................................. 30 Figure 4.1 The governance of the territorial dimension of EU cohesion policy in Czechia ................... 36 Figure 4.2 The role of metropolitan actors in the EU cohesion policy ................................................... 37 Figure 5.1 Coherence and synergies between EUCP and metropolitan objectives .............................. 50 List of tables Table 1.1 List of Documents used in the Analysis ................................................................................. 9 Table 1.2 List and Details about Interviewees ..................................................................................... 10 Table 1.3 List of interviews and engagements .................................................................................... 10 Table 2.1 Brno Metropolitan Area ITI 2014-2020 ................................................................................ 12 Table 2.2 Brno Metropolitan Area ITI 2021+ ......................................................................................