METROS convenes four southern European cities around building and supporting innovation ecosystems for economic growth in their regions. The final installment of the METROS program will not only reflect on the program and its successes and challenges, but also look forward to the broader future of innovation, entrepreneurship, and startup policies in southern European cities. The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) hopes to achieve this by engaging with the METROS program experts alumni, external experts and partners, plan forward-looking workshop sessions that close the final feedback loop in the design-thinking process, and help the four cities plan for the future.

Cities include Genoa and Turin, Italy, Thessaloniki, Greece, and Bilbao, Spain.