Congresses & Annual Meetings

Our global events aim at promoting the host city´s achievements and credentials in urban settings and to position themselves locally and internationally, in the lead-up, during and after the event.; and provide a meeting forum between local government political leaders, their political partners, counterparts from the region and around the world, as well as key stakeholders in the international community including private sector organisations.

Our membership is important to us and we carefully listen to them: our member cities are actively involved and committed to our events´s programs- Together with the host city which benefits from the major protagonism, our membership, according to their role and leadership in our association, shape the event´s program and enrich the contents.

While our Annual Meetings attract 500+ delegates, our triennial Congresses connect over 1000+ participants: the perfect pattern to ensure you make the most of the platform and do not miss any opportunity to match with your counterparts from all over the metropolitan phenomena. The size of our global events allow to engage into a large variety of partnerships and joint programs.

The presence of our members and respective political representatives, particularly of the ones who are part of our statutory bodies, is at the core of our triennial and annual symposium, as we take this opportunity to strengthen the highest standards of internal governance as well as shaping the political discourse of our association.

We want to increase the presence, ensure equal participation of women and strengthen their leadership in decision-making spaces and in the framework of all the events we organize. By promoting parity and prioritizing economic support for representatives of developing countries our objectives are threefold

• avoiding male overrepresentation in the debate areas of the different sessions, both from an argumentative and a physical point of view,
• encouraging the visibility of women's leadership and new ways of doing politics in large cities and metropolitan areas,
• making gender equality a framework strategy for building inclusive and plural governance models in the metropolitan agenda.