By reinforcing the interdependence of qualitative infrastructures, by developing an optimal institutional environment, by improving services and mobility, by highlighting the richness of its tourism and cultural offerings, Charleroi Métropole primarily wants to improve the daily life of each resident and become known throughout the world.

A number of challenges can only be solved on a supralocal scale by pooling resources, skills and strengths. Charleroi Métropole aims to optimise connections, synergies and cooperation between the boroughs but also between all of the region’s stakeholders, rural and semi-rural regions and urban spaces.

In the current international context, Charleroi Métropole wants to confirm its identity and unify its whole region to pursue and strengthen a shared regional strategy and project to respond to the challenges of tomorrow. For example, this involves pursuing the growth dynamic of companies and boosting local jobs or strengthening the skills of each person through training and studies aiming for excellence.

Charleroi Métropole is in the process of majorly expanding and is seeing innovative regeneration at the level of urban infrastructures (tour de Police, Palais des expositions, Centre de Congrès, Quai 10,…) and in public transport and even in tourist and cultural attractions. In this regard, Charleroi Métropole is developing a synergy between a ll of the region’s boroughs.

Charleroi Métropole has also become a real healthcare hub internationally recognised thanks to several institutions of international renown, such as the Grand Hôpital de Charleroi, the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Charleroi, the Centre de santé des fagnes (Chimay) or the Clinique Notre Dame de Grâce de Charleroi. A large number of investments, both public and private, have enabled the recreation, primarily in Charleroi, of an urban centre which attracts visitors from all over Belgium and from abroad.