1. Institutional cooperation at city region level. The city of Terrassa Joan Chicón Terrassa City Council EDF Forum Preston 10 th June 2010

2. Location of Terrassa

3. Terrassa: facts and figures Area: 70,10 km 2 Population: 211.793 inhabitants. GDP: euro 3.550,89 million (estimated 2007) Second university city of Catalonia: Campus UPC and delegations UAB, UB, UdG, UOC, UNED, 15.000 students.

4. Institutional cooperation Government of Catalonia: Secretariat for the European Union. Barcelona Provincial Council (Diputació de Barcelona): Barcelona Network of Municipalities for the European Cooperation: –Information –Training –Advice on European policies and projects

5. Institutional cooperation European Parliament Office in Barcelona Representation of the European Commission in Barcelona Euroregion Pyrenees-Mediterranean Patronat Catalunya Món Catalan Council of the European Movement Barcelona City Council –SERDA programme

6. Terrassa Metropolitan Area 11 municipalities Population: 410.000 inhabitants Area: 409,6 km 2

7. Terrassa Metropolitan Area Management structure POLITICAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Integrated by 11 members, Mayors or elected delegates Meets once each trimester defining public agenda issues to be proposed Policies to be dealt with Eurocities are handed over by each city to the committee TECHNICAL SECRETARIAT (In charge of Terrassa City Council Dept. of European and Int’l Relations) Coordination, follow up, internal and external communication Participation in Forums Meetings and AGM together with political delegates Technical Reduced Committee 3 Permanent Cities Meets once per month Special follow up actions TECHNICAL EXECUTIVE COMMITEE Integrated by 11 technicians (1 per each city) Meets once every two months, dynamising and following up the participating actions in Eurocites

8. Institutional cooperation Terrassa Metropolitan Area A.Sectorial clusters 1.Health 2.Food 3.Audiovisual/Digital 4.Technical textiles B.University cluster 5.Optics/Photonics 6.Aeronautics 7.Energy and Water C.Transversal and big companies 8.Big companies 9.Horizontal- Talent 10.Entrepreneurship - 11.Space Vapor Gran CLUSTER RING AND ACTIVITY SECTORS

9. Institutional cooperation Terrassa Metropolitan Area TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION SINCROTRÓ – light laboratory south-western of Europe ESADE Creapolis – the first international center of innovation to practice “Open & Cross Innovation”

10. Institutional cooperation Terrassa Metropolitan Area INFRASTRUCTURES Ronda del Vallès, quart cinturó

11. Institutional cooperation Terrassa Metropolitan Area HEALTH University Hospital Mutua Terrassa University vision centre Terrassa Health Consortium- preventive and rehabilitative activities, teaching and research Future Hospital Vicente Ferrer – with a specialized unit for social and health care

12. Institutional cooperation Terrassa Metropolitan Area EMPLOYMENT Employment and economic promotion consortium of Vallès Occidental.

13. Cooperation with Barcelona International relations – Barcelona City Council Barcelona Activa - the local development agency of the City Council of Barcelona ACC1Ó – Catalan agency for competitiveness. Belong to the Government of Catalonia

14. Examples of municipality cooperation Terrassa Metropolitan Area Public transport Cleaning services Maintenance of public facilities Police Shared management through collaboration agreements

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