Olomouc agglomeration
Area of the Czech Republic
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Olomouc agglomeration (Czech: Olomoucká aglomerace) is the agglomeration of the city of Olomouc and its surroundings in the Czech Republic. It was defined in 2020 as a tool for drawing money from the European Structural and Investment Funds and is valid in 2021–2027. It thus replaced the delimitation from 2014. The agglomeration has a population of about 401,000 and also includes the cities of Přerov and Prostějov.
Definition
The Olomouc agglomeration was first defined in 2014 by the Ministry of Regional Development of the Czech Republic for the purposes of the Integrated Land Development Plans, which was a tool for drawing money from the European Structural and Investment Funds. The agglomeration comprised 240 municipalities with about 452,000 inhabitants and had an area of 2,322 km2 (897 sq mi).[1]
The current Olomouc agglomeration was defined in 2020 by the Ministry of Regional Development for the purposes of the so-called Integrated Territorial Investment (ITI), which is a newer tool for drawing money from the European Structural and Investment Funds.[3]
The territory was defined on the basis of a coefficient composed of three methods: integrated system of centres (i.e. delineation of commuting flows based on mobile operator data from 2019), time spent in core cities (based on mobile operator data from 2019) and residential suburbanization zones (based on statistics of realized housing construction and directional migration from the core of the agglomeration to suburban municipalities in the period 2009–2016). The scope of the territory is valid for the period 2021–2027.[3]
Municipalities
The agglomeration includes 174 municipalities.[4] The original approved Integrated Territorial Investment listed 169 municipalities, bu five more municipalities were added by the amendment from June 2020.[1]