The CEyD aims to mobilise all the players in the city and to strengthen Valencia’s organisational capabilities to ensure that it acts on the spheres of visibility or leadership set out in its joint strategy. These areas are as follows:

•  An advanced city in the knowledge-driven economy; requiring a high degree of technological development and the use of the new information and communication technologies (ICTs) in both the research and business environments so their benefits can be perceived by all citizens.
•  A Mediterranean control centre; maximising its potential for growth to ensure its continued expansion and extend its logistical capability in southern Europe.
•  A city of urban, integrated, diverse, communal and sustainable development; as a green European city open to the sea, located in natural surroundings and offering exceptional quality of life.
•  An education-oriented city in the vanguard of European culture; thanks to the ability of its citizens to learn and live together.
•  A city fostering the mutual autonomy of all its people; a promoter of networks of human progress engendering a culture of citizenship typified by openness, plurality and a communal spirit.
•  A reference point for new urban governance; a new approach to governing cities.