Grenoble Alpes Métropole, commonly known as La Métro, is the urban agglomeration making up the Grenoble community. Flanked by high mountains and fringed with verdant countryside, this is a dynamic, prosperous and high-tech area. With its wide range of leisure activities and major research centres, the urban agglomeration has an excellent reputation and a thriving economy.

The 26 member communes work together, combining their efforts to improve the daily life of their 396792 inhabitants.

This Grenoble urban agglomeration is in the heart of Rhône-Alpes, France's second region after Ile de France (the Paris region), and can be easily reached by rail (Lyon, Geneva), road (motorways) and air (Lyon-St-Exupery, Geneva-Cointrin).

• Setting up intercommunal zones, redeveloping business parks
• Metronet : a high performance telecommunication network.
• Technology transfer, spin-offs and all the other activities bringing research to the fore.
  Higher education : Institute of Communication and Media, Grenoble Institute of Science and Technology, Centre for Languages and Culture
• Aid for the development of new activities : digital technology, biotechnology, …
• Aid for new businesses
• Supporting suburban agriculture
• Land-use planning : 40 hectares of real estate

• Sewage treatment for the urban agglomeration : management and maintenance of the sewers network, management of the Aquapole treatment plant.
• Processing household refuse : co-ordination of selective collection, management of recycling and reclamation (Athanor refuse processing plant), heightening public awareness of processing household refuse.
• Management and maintenance of green belt land
• Monitoring and testing of air quality
• Fight against noise pollution

• Developing public transport and unpowered transport (bike, foot)
• Urban expressways, ring roads: protection against noise, redevelopment of road interchanges
• Financing of the Syndicat Mixte des Transports en Commun: extending tram lines and bus network

• Housing and local environment: supporting communal welfare housing initiatives.
• Major sports and tourism facilities
• Public services: public safety, fire-fighting, animal welfare, intercommunal cemetery and crematorium.

Each of the 26 communes' councils of the agglomeration, elected by the citizens, nominates its representatives for the community council. These 68 community representatives elect the president of La Métro and its vice-presidents.

• Didier MIGAUD, president.
• Geneviève FIORASO, 1st vice-president in charge of in finances.
• Renzo SULLI, 2nd vice-president in charge of urban policy.
• Raymond AVRILLIER, 3rd vice-president in charge of sewage treatment.
• Michel ISSINDOU, 4th vice-president in charge of intercommunality, relations with the communes and agglomeration project
• Marcel REPELLIN, 5th vice-president in charge of fire fighting and public health.
• Michel SAVIN, 6th vice-president in charge of protection against animals straying.
• Marc BAIETTO, 7th vice-president in of charge urban mobility policy.
• Yannick BOULARD 8th vice-president in charge of land-use planning.
• René PROBY 9th vice-president in charge of regional planning.
• Jean CAUNE 10th vice-president in charge of higher education, research and high technology.
• Marie-Christine TARDY 11th vice-president in charge of unpowered transport.
• Daniel ZENATTI 12ème vice-president in charge of environment and sustainable development.
• Yannik OLLIVIER 13th vice-president in charge of development.
• Jean-Marc UHRY, 14th vice-president in charge of equitable development.
• Jean-Michel REMANDE, 15th vice-president in charge of housing and travellers.
• Gilles MOULIN, 16th vice-president in charge of major facilities and leisure areas.
• Catherine KAMOWSKI, 17th vice-president in charge of processing household refuse.
• Michel DESTOT, 18th vice-president in charge of urban solidarity.
• Brigitte PERILLIE, 19th vice-president in charge of life's quality and equality between women and men.
• Francis DIAZ, 20th vice-president in charge of international development.