2621 20160701171708.0 ASTROimport-778 Levenhagen, R. S. 2007 Metallicity vs. Be Phenomenon Relation in the Solar Neighborhood Fast rotation seems to be the mayor factor to trigger the Be phenomenon. Surface fast rotation can be favored by initial formation conditions, such as abundance of metals. We have observed 118 Be stars up to the apparent magnitudes V=9 mag. Models of fast rotating atmospheres and evolutionary tracks were used to interpret the stellar spectra and to determine the stellar fundamental parameters. Since the studied stars are formed in regions that are separated enough to imply some non negligible gradient of galactic metallicity, we study the effects of possible incidence of this gradient on the nature as rotators of the studied stars. Leister, N. V. Zorec, J. Frémat, Y. Active OB-Stars: Laboratories for Stellare and Circumstellar Physics 361 2007 457 http://esoads.eso.org/abs/2007ASPC..361..457L published in NONREF