Pla Estratègic Metropolità de Barcelona

What is the Metropolitan Commitment 2030?

The Metropolitan Commitment 2030 is the latest strategic plan for the metropolitan region of Barcelona aimed at promoting a new model of prosperity based on knowledge and innovation that reduces the social and territorial inequalities and positions the city as one of the cutting-edge metropolises in the fight against the climate emergency.

The great challenges of the planet must be adressed from the cities and, in the case of Barcelona, the real city from which to face these challenges is the metropolitan city, the one with 5 million inhabitants

This is why the territory of reference for Barcelona’s last metropolitan strategic plan is the Barcelona metropolitan region, to which has been added, by the will of the institutions, the Penedès Vegueria as a whole, created by law in 2017. Thus, the Barcelona Metropolitan Strategic Plan encompasses 199 municipalities (127 from the metropolitan region and 72 from the Penedès Vegueria) in the process called “Barcelona Demà: Metropolitan Commitment 2030”, where over 5 million people live together.

Why? Because we believe that Barcelona and its metropolitan area can take the international lead on the urban and metropolitan transformations necessary to face the great global challenges, and that it must have adequate tools of governance to do so. One of the objectives pursued by the Metropolitan Commitment 2030 is for the Barcelona Metropolitan Region to be a benchmark in the development of a new generation of urban policies to transform the economy, space and metabolism of the metropolis, with the aim of generating prosperity shared among all its neighbourhoods, towns and cities, based on the mobilisation of alliances between actors and using knowledge and networking at the local and global levels.

To achieve this, yes, we must structure spaces of governance that respond to the metropolitan situation and take advantage of the opportunities provided by Barcelona’s good position among the main metropolises in the world as a benchmark of culture, creativity, innovation and quality of life.

In this sense, this strategic plan is the first that focuses on fewer ambitious, cross-cutting and transformative objectives that must serve as a guide for the coordinated action of a large number of local actors. For this reason, it challenges all institutions, companies, organisations and society in general in the metropolitan region and beyond to actively engage in developing the eight missions that comprise it and to build, from the bottom up, the tools of governance necessary to make it possible.

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Precedents: Barcelona Demà

Com es va desenvolupar?

Durant el mes de juny del 2020, el PEMB va obrir un procés de reflexió compartida per tal d’elaborar l’estratègia de la Barcelona metropolitana del 2030: el procés “Barcelona Demà. Compromís Metropolità 2030”, definit com el procés col·lectiu de debat i proposta (Barcelona Demà) que va culminar amb el nou pla estratègic de la Barcelona dels cinc milions que ha de fer front als grans reptes urbans del segle xxi, el Compromís Metropolità 2030.

Per poder definir les missions, el PEMB va organitzar els Cicles Metropolitans, una sèrie de debats en diversos formats que van comptar amb la participació de tots els membres de la quíntuple hèlix, amb l’objectiu d’extreure’n els principals reptes de futur. Després d’un extens procés participatiu, al llarg del 2022 es van concretar les vuit missions que configuren el Compromís Metropolità 2030. Barcelona Demà va ser un procés orientat a l’acció que, més enllà de la formulació de les missions, es va centrar, també, en la incubació d’aliances i de projectes per assolir-les.

El procés Barcelona Demà va posar en valor la diversitat de mirades sobre la metròpoli i els seus desafiaments com a requisit fonamental per trobar noves respostes als reptes comuns a les ciutats de la regió metropolitana de Barcelona i més enllà.

Timeline of the process

2017

Sensor

The PEMB coordination office analyses documentation and actively listens in order to gather information, knowledge, needs, interests, energy, resources and projects throughout the metropolitan region.
2020

Challenges

The incorporation of the Commission allows for the organisation of work teams that address six different perspectives of the metropolitan situation and define the challenges that make sense to face on the regional scale, while identifying the most important actors.
2021

Open discussion

Metropolitan seminars are held with thematic and regional sessions that involve people and organisations from all over the region who are experts in different subjects. New documentation is produced for reflection and the discussions are channelled to the online participatory platform barcelonadema-participa.cat.
2023

Missions

Different workshops focus on deepening, prioritising and selecting the strategic objectives with the participation of different actors and the supervision of the Commission and the territorial and executive committees of the PEMB.
2024

Implementació

El PEMB inicia el treball de desplegament del Compromís Metropolità 2030 a través de tres eixos principals: donar visibilitat al nou pla i als actors implicats, exercir de think tank metropolità i generar sinergies i innovació. En aquesta línia, es posen en marxa els espais de referència de cada missió, uns espais que apleguin els actors més implicats en cada una per a la coordinació i l’impuls d’actuacions concretes.

2017

Sensor

The PEMB coordination office analyses documentation and actively listens in order to gather information, knowledge, needs, interests, energy, resources and projects throughout the metropolitan region.
2020

Challenges

The incorporation of the Commission allows for the organisation of work teams that address six different perspectives of the metropolitan situation and define the challenges that make sense to face on the regional scale, while identifying the most important actors.
2021

Open discussion

Metropolitan seminars are held with thematic and regional sessions that involve people and organisations from all over the region who are experts in different subjects. New documentation is produced for reflection and the discussions are channelled to the online participatory platform barcelonadema-participa.cat.
2023

Missions

Different workshops focus on deepening, prioritising and selecting the strategic objectives with the participation of different actors and the supervision of the Commission and the territorial and executive committees of the PEMB.
2024

Implementació

El PEMB inicia el treball de desplegament del Compromís Metropolità 2030 a través de tres eixos principals: donar visibilitat al nou pla i als actors implicats, exercir de think tank metropolità i generar sinergies i innovació. En aquesta línia, es posen en marxa els espais de referència de cada missió, uns espais que apleguin els actors més implicats en cada una per a la coordinació i l’impuls d’actuacions concretes.

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Who is involved?

Having traditionally been a benchmark for public-private collaboration, the PEMB is now committed to enriching these processes with the addition of science and research to inform and contribute to the development of strategies and policies, as well as citizen platforms that open the option of public-private and community collaboration and joint policy production.

To the scheme known as the quadruple helix (public administration, academia, business and the general public), we add a fifth helix: the media, as essential allies to teach about the metropolitan situation and to reach all actors in a more informed and understandable way. The objective is to be able to understand, attend to and incorporate different perspectives on metropolitan development that can contribute a wide range of visions, knowledge and interests.

How can I get involved?