Successful workshops titled “Protecting the Environment in the Danube Region” and “Improvement and cooperation possibilities in the water sector with non-EU countries” were held in Ulm at the Annual Forum organized by PA4.
This Danube smart specialisation (S3) workshop was co- organised on July 7th within the “Scientific Support to the Danube Strategy” initiatively the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) and the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy. The event brought together about 70 project partners representing research institutions, academia, public authorities, implementing agencies, business networks and other institutions involved in R&I policies from Hungary, Slovenia, Slovakia, Serbia, Romania, Czech Republic, Croatia, Italy, Austria, Germany, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
In March 2015, Danube-INCO.NET finished and a Report on the coordination of EUSDR priority areas and establishment of working groups. To improve the policy dialogue within the EU Strategy for the Danube Region a general overview of the diverse but partly interconnected thematic areas covered in the strategy is a useful and necessary starting point. We now present on our portal the different priority areas from the Danube-INCO.NET point of view, i.e. with a focus on research and innovation.
Danube-INCO.NET actively participated in the 4th Danube Financing Dialogue that took place in Zagreb, on 23rd and 24th April. Based on the success of the “SME meets investor” idea of the previous Danube Financing Dialogue, the fourth event of this series of dialogues aimed again to offering competitive project promoters from the Danube Region the opportunity to meet potential investors or public funding agencies. Participants could moreover learn on current open calls, existing funding possibilities and related information sources.
EUREKA Danube Region multilateral call 2015 has been launched for cross-border co-operative projects by EUREKA Danube Region members states. The present call results from an initiative following the EU Strategy for the Danube Region (EUSDR), endorsed by the European Council in 2011, which aims at a closer collaboration by creating “synergies and coordination between existing policies and initiatives taking place across the Danube Region”.
In the framework of Danube-INCO.NET project, Steinbeis-Europa-Zentrum (SEZ) successfully conducted its Danube Transfer Centres (DTC) set-up visits. Objective of these set-up visits was the qualification of the responsible and involved persons of the respective DTC candidates. SEZ wanted to inform future DTC staff about the basic requirements and standards in DTC centre management as well as the art of proposal writing to ensure funding.