# Eurocities

Eurocities is a network of large cities in Europe, established in 1986 by the mayors of six large cities: Barcelona, Birmingham, Frankfurt, Lyon, Milan, and Rotterdam. Today, Eurocities members include over 200 of Europe's major cities from 38 countries, which between them represent over 130 million people.
Eurocities is one of the major city networks in the EU. It is an example of how city diplomacy is seeking influence and prominence in the established world of international relations. At the EU level, Eurocities promotes the implementation of the European Union's subsidiarity principle. This offers multiple opportunities to engage and influence EU initiatives and policies, especially on urban development and more recently the European Green Deal. Eurocities is sometimes seen as an interest group more focused on re-establishing the power of the city over the nation-state, rather than connecting EU citizens across cities and borders. Recently, EU mayors of the network have tried to raise their global profile for their efforts to tackle climate change.

## Strategy and activities

Eurocities coordinates multiple projects in the field of mobility, environmental transition, social inclusion, and digital innovation.
The Eurocities secretariat is based in Brussels, Belgium. The network is led by an executive committee composed of 12 elected cities and their mayors. The executive committee meets at least three times a year and oversees the annual work programme, internal rules and budget, as approved by the annual general meeting (AGM). Thematic work is coordinated in six forums and a number of related working groups covering, among other topics, culture, economic development, environment, knowledge society, mobility, and social affairs.
Eurocities activities include:
Advocacy: representing the voice of cities at EU level, to bring about change on the ground
Insights: Monitoring and communicating to cities the latest EU developments, funding opportunities, and trends affecting them
Sharing of best practices: Facilitating the exchange of knowledge, experience and good practices between cities to scale up urban solutions
Training: develop the capacity to face current and future urban challenges

## Membership criteria

Membership of Eurocities is open to any European city with a population of 250,000 or more. Cities within the European Union become full members, and other European cities become associate members. Local authorities of smaller cities, but with a population of more than 50,000 can become partners. Companies and businesses can become associated business partners.

## Members

Full and associate members :
| City | State | Population | Membership |
| Aarhus | Denmark | 335,684 | Full member |
| Aix-Marseille-Provence | France | 1,886,842 | Full member |
| Amsterdam | Netherlands | 873,338 | Full member |
| Angers Loire Métropole | France | 301,245 | Full member |
| Antwerp | Belgium | 517,042 | Full member |
| Athens | Greece | 664,046 | Full member |
| Banja Luka | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 150,997 | Associate member |
| Barcelona | Spain | 1,604,555 | Full member |
| Belfast | United Kingdom | 348,005 | Associate member |
| Belgrade | Serbia | 1,166,763 | Associate member |
| Bergen | Norway | 278,121 | Full member |
| Berlin | Germany | 3,878,100 | Full member |
| Białystok | Poland | 295,459 | Full member |
| Bilbao | Spain | 345,141 | Full member |
| Birmingham | United Kingdom | 1,157,603 | Associate member |
| Bochum | Germany | 365,587 | Full member |
| Bologna | Italy | 389,009 | Full member |
| Bonn | Germany | 335,789 | Full member |
| Bordeaux | France | 246,586 | Full member |
| BrabantStad | Netherlands | 912,000 | Full member |
| Braga | Portugal | 181,494 | Full member |
| Bratislava | Slovakia | 421,801 | Full member |
| Brighton and Hove | United Kingdom | 277,965 | Associate member |
| Bristol | United Kingdom | 479,024 | Associate member |
| Brno | Czech Republic | 377,028 | Full member |
| Brussels | Belgium | 178,552 | Full member |
| Brussels Capital Region | Belgium | 1,191,604 | Full member |
| Budapest | Hungary | 1,759,407 | Full member |
| Burgas | Bulgaria | 211,033 | Full member |
| Bydgoszcz | Poland | 358,614 | Full member |
| Cagliari | Italy | 431,538 | Full member |
| Cardiff | United Kingdom | 372,089 | Associate member |
| Chemnitz | Germany | 248,563 | Full member |
| Cluj-Napoca | Romania | 324,576 | Full member |
| Cologne | Germany | 1,087,353 | Full member |
| Constanța | Romania | 283,872 | Full member |
| Copenhagen | Denmark | 799,033 | Full member |
| Coventry | United Kingdom | 355,600 | Associate member |
| Debrecen | Hungary | 202,402 | Full member |
| Dortmund | Germany | 595,471 | Full member |
| Dresden | Germany | 563,311 | Full member |
| Dublin | Ireland | 1,501,500 | Full member |
| Düsseldorf | Germany | 631,217 | Full member |
| Edinburgh | United Kingdom | 514,990 | Associate member |
| Eindhoven | Netherlands | 235,691 | Full member |
| Espoo | Finland | 281,886 | Full member |
| Essen | Germany | 586,608 | Full member |
| Florence | Italy | 383,083 | Full member |
| Frankfurt | Germany | 746,878 | Full member |
| Gaziantep | Turkey | 1,556,381 | Associate member |
| Gdańsk | Poland | 464,254 | Full member |
| Genoa | Italy | 580,097 | Full member |
| Ghent | Belgium | 262,219 | Full member |
| Gijón | Spain | 271,843 | Full member |
| Glasgow | United Kingdom | 622,820 | Associate member |
| Gothenburg | Sweden | 572,779 | Full member |
| Grand Nancy | France | 260,665 | Full member |
| Grenoble-Alpes Métropole | France | 451,752 | Full member |
| Hamburg | Germany | 1,822,445 | Full member |
| Hanover | Germany | 534,049 | Full member |
| Helsinki | Finland | 648,650 | Full member |
| Istanbul | Turkey | 15,519,267 | Associate member |
| İzmir | Turkey | 4,367,251 | Associate member |
| Karlsruhe | Germany | 311,919 | Full member |
| Katowice | Poland | 297,197 | Full member |
| Kharkiv | Ukraine | 1,439,036 | Associate member |
| Kiel | Germany | 247,441 | Full member |
| Kyiv | Ukraine | 2,900,920 | Associate member |
| Leeds | United Kingdom | 822,483 | Associate member |
| Leipzig | Germany | 581,980 | Full member |
| Lisbon | Portugal | 505,526 | Full member |
| Ljubljana | Slovenia | 290,010 | Full member |
| Łódź | Poland | 687,702 | Full member |
| London | United Kingdom | 8,866,180 | Associate member |
| Lublin | Poland | 349,103 | Full member |
| Luxembourg | Luxembourg | 107,247 | Full member |
| Lviv | Ukraine | 727,968 | Associate member |
| Lyon | France | 513,275 | Full member |
| Madrid | Spain | 3,223,334 | Full member |
| Málaga | Spain | 571,026 | Full member |
| Malmö | Sweden | 312,012 | Full member |
| Manchester | United Kingdom | 568,996 | Associate member |
| Mannheim | Germany | 307,997 | Full member |
| Marseille | France | 870,731 | Full member |
| Métropole Européenne de Lille | France | 1,154,103 | Full member |
| Milan | Italy | 1,372,810 | Full member |
| Munich | Germany | 1,456,039 | Full member |
| Münster | Germany | 311,846 | Full member |
| Murcia | Spain | 447,182 | Full member |
| Nantes | France | 303,382 | Full member |
| Newcastle upon Tyne | United Kingdom | 307,565 | Associate member |
| Nice | France | 343,895 | Full member |
| Nicosia | Cyprus | 181,234 | Full member |
| Novi Sad | Serbia | 346,773 | Associate member |
| Nuremberg | Germany | 515,201 | Full member |
| Odesa | Ukraine | 1,016,515 | Associate member |
| Oslo | Norway | 673,469 | Associate member |
| Oulu | Finland | 202,753 | Full member |
| Palermo | Italy | 676,118 | Full member |
| Paris | France | 2,140,526 | Full member |
| Pilsen | Czech Republic | 306,000 | Full member |
| Porto | Portugal | 302,472 | Full member |
| Poznań | Poland | 537,643 | Full member |
| Prague | Czech Republic | 1,301,132 | Full member |
| Reggio Calabria Metropolitan City | Italy | 559,215 | Full member |
| Rennes Métropole | France | 444,723 | Full member |
| Reykjavík | Iceland | 128,830 | Associate member |
| Riga | Latvia | 615,369 | Full member |
| Rome | Italy | 2,872,800 | Full member |
| Rotterdam | Netherlands | 1,015,215 | Full member |
| Rzeszów | Poland | 189,662 | Full member |
| Sarajevo | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 275,524 | Associate member |
| Seville | Spain | 703,021 | Full member |
| Sheffield | United Kingdom | 566,242 | Associate member |
| Skopje | North Macedonia | 544,086 | Associate member |
| Sofia | Bulgaria | 1,238,438 | Full member |
| Saint-Étienne Métropole | France | 408,685 | Full member |
| Stockholm | Sweden | 960,031 | Full member |
| Strasbourg | France | 279,284 | Full member |
| Stuttgart | Germany | 632,743 | Full member |
| Sunderland | United Kingdom | 277,354 | Associate member |
| Tallinn | Estonia | 439,919 | Full member |
| Tampere | Finland | 234,441 | Full member |
| Taranto | Italy | 198,585 | Full member |
| Tbilisi | Georgia | 1,158,700 | Associate member |
| Terrassa Metropolitan Area | Spain | 410,000 | Full member |
| The Hague | Netherlands | 527,748 | Full member |
| Thessaloniki | Greece | 325,182 | Full member |
| Timișoara | Romania | 319,279 | Full member |
| Tirana | Albania | 557,422 | Associate member |
| Toulouse | France | 479,638 | Full member |
| Turin | Italy | 878,074 | Full member |
| Turku | Finland | 190,935 | Full member |
| Uppsala | Sweden | 210,000 | Full member |
| Utrecht | Netherlands | 345,080 | Full member |
| Valencia | Spain | 801,456 | Full member |
| Valladolid | Spain | 299,715 | Full member |
| Vantaa | Finland | 226,160 | Full member |
| Varna | Bulgaria | 335,854 | Full member |
| Venice | Italy | 260,897 | Full member |
| Vienna | Austria | 1,899,055 | Full member |
| Vilnius | Lithuania | 536,631 | Full member |
| Warsaw | Poland | 1,764,615 | Full member |
| Wiesbaden | Germany | 290,955 | Full member |
| Wrocław | Poland | 639,258 | Full member |
| Yerevan | Armenia | 1,075,800 | Associate member |
| Zagreb | Croatia | 802,588 | Full member |
| Zaragoza | Spain | 666,880 | Full member |
| Zürich | Switzerland | 409,241 | Associate member |
Partners :
| City | State | Population |
| Alcobendas | Spain | 116,037 |
| Almere | Netherlands | 202,764 |
| Amiens | France | 178,915 |
| Arezzo | Italy | 99,000 |
| Beyoğlu | Turkey | 254,000 |
| Borlänge | Sweden | 52,590 |
| Bremen | Germany | 527,900 |
| Brest Métropole | France | 210,000 |
| Bruges | Belgium | 118,284 |
| Cesena | Italy | 95,909 |
| Derry-Strabane | United Kingdom | 150,836 |
| Dordrecht | Netherlands | 119,115 |
| Fuenlabrada | Spain | 198,000 |
| Grand Paris Sud | France | 347,022 |
| Grand Reims | France | 298,000 |
| Groningen | Netherlands | 200,000 |
| Guimarães | Portugal | 158,124 |
| Haarlem | Netherlands | 157,000 |
| Hagen | Germany | 201,700 |
| Heraklion | Greece | 150,000 |
| Kadıköy | Turkey | 458,638 |
| Karlstad | Sweden | 87,000 |
| Klaipėda | Lithuania | 172,292 |
| Kortrijk | Belgium | 75,000 |
| Kungsbacka | Sweden | 80,000 |
| Lahti | Finland | 120,112 |
| Le Havre | France | 169,733 |
| Leeuwarden | Netherlands | 108,768 |
| Leuven | Belgium | 100,000 |
| Linköping | Sweden | 159,000 |
| Logroño | Spain | 151,113 |
| Marousi | Greece | 80,000 |
| Matosinhos | Portugal | 172,000 |
| Metz | France | 116,581 |
| Mezitli | Turkey | 180,000 |
| Nacka | Sweden | 100,000 |
| Netwerkstad Twente | Netherlands | 320,000 |
| Osmangazi | Turkey | 750,000 |
| Ostend | Belgium | 71,921 |
| Pau | France | 76,275 |
| Pesaro | Italy | 94,813 |
| Rijeka | Croatia | 128,624 |
| Rubí | Spain | 76,423 |
| San Sebastián | Spain | 186,665 |
| Sipoo | Finland | 19,235 |
| Solna | Sweden | 80,000 |
| Saint-Nazaire | France | 115,000 |
| Stavanger | Norway | 126,469 |
| Treviso | Italy | 85,760 |
| Turkish Cypriot community of Nicosia | Cyprus | 313,000 |
| Umeå | Sweden | 130,224 |
| Valongo | Portugal | 93,858 |
| Wolverhampton | United Kingdom | 267,651 |