Working with Eurocities
Eurocities helps BrabantStad connect with cities across Europe to exchange knowledge, share experiences and build partnerships around common urban challenges. Through its forums and working groups, BrabantStad benefits from peer learning and collaboration with like-minded cities, while also identifying opportunities for future cooperation and joint initiatives.
The network plays an important role in ensuring that the interests and priorities of cities are heard at European level. By working together through Eurocities, cities can contribute to shared positions and strengthen their collective influence on European policies and funding decisions. BrabantStad has particularly valued Eurocities’ role in engaging with European institutions and helping secure changes to policy proposals that better reflect the needs of cities and regions.
The combination of practical cooperation, knowledge exchange and collective advocacy makes Eurocities a valuable platform for BrabantStad. Equally important is the opportunity to meet dedicated professionals from across Europe, share best practices and build lasting connections.
What people need to know about the city
BrabantStad is a partnership, which includes the cities of Breda, Eindhoven, Helmond, ’s-Hertogenbosch, Roosendaal, Oss, Tilburg and the province of Noord-Brabant. The population has increased due to the expansion of its partner cities, now totalling 1,103,670.
As the second economic region in the Netherlands, we form a Metropolitan Region and a daily urban system that excels in knowledge and sustainable innovation power. Traditionally, the area has been at the forefront of technological development. A development that entails the Phillips’ light bulb right through to the ASML microchips, which today find their home in our region. Data, AI, technological innovations and logistics – you will find it in BrabantStad.
Located between Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Antwerp and the German Ruhr region, BrabantStad proudly combines a thriving economy with an exceptional landscape. The metropolitan region is internationally renowned as the birthplace of Vincent van Gogh, who immortalised Brabant in his paintings. This reflects what BrabantStad strives to be: an urban region where work, recreation and wellbeing blend seamlessly together, shaped by its vibrant cities and distinctive regional character.
