The Danube Strategy Point has the pleasure to invite you to the Public hearings on the Revision of the EUSDR Action Plan, Thursday, 27th June 2019, as a side event of the 8th edition of the EUSDR Annual Forum. Registration here.

This workshop offers the opportunity for Civil Society, any actors and promoters of activities, projects and processes, to make their proposals for actions to be integrated into the Action Plan.
The event aims at presenting the process of revision of the Action Plan focusing on the results of the discussions conducted at the level of the National Coordinators and Priority Area Coordinators. 

The Danube Strategy Point will present the outcomes of the online survey conducted prior to the Annual Forum. This event will be interactive and participants will be encouraged to take the floor and react on the discussions or offer their feedback.

You can find the agenda of the event here.

Source: www.danube-region.eu

Interreg Central Europe launched a call for projects to coordinate ESIF and Horizon 2020 partners and transfer results to regions. The challenge is to capitalize on the results of projects from directly managed programs and apply them in practice in the Central European region. This call is primarily intended for partners from already successful Interreg CE projects and directly managed programs.

The aim of the experimental pilot Call is to improve the impact of EU projects. Increasing the impact of transnational projects in the regions is possible through the use of already existing outputs and results, while coordinating with other EU instruments.

Main elements of the project: Focus on the implementation of tools and pilot activities (downstream) or strategies and action plans (upstream). Communication activities can help, but they should not be the main focus of the proposal. The number of partners and the size of the budget should reflect the project's scope. The maximum duration of the project is 24 months.

The call was launched on March 4th 2019 and will end on July 5th 2019. The start of projects is expected in early 2020. Interreg CE also provides a matchmaking tool.

More information about this call and the matchmaking tool are available here.

Source: www.danube-region.eu

ONLINE CONSULTATION ON THE REVISION OF THE EUSDR ACTION PLAN (Questionnaire available here.)

The EU Strategy For The Danube Region (EUSDR) is a Macro-Regional Strategy adopted by the European Commission, which covers 14 countries, stretches from the Black Forest (Germany) to the Black Sea (Romania-Bulgaria-Moldova-Ukraine) and is home to 115 million inhabitants.

CONTEXT AND AIM OF THE CONSULTATION

Romanian EUSDR Presidency and Danbe Strategy Point (DSP) launched an online consultation through EUSDR platforms for better involving civil society representatives and general public in process of updating the actions and projects of strategic impact for the Danube Region included in the EUSDR Action Plan from December 2010.

In preparing the new programming period for cohesion 2020+ the EU Strategy For The Danube Region is revising its Action Plan. All actors of EUSDR, National Coordinators, Priority Coordinators and Steering Groups, Stakeholders and experts from our countries and the European Commission Services are currently involved in drafting their inputs for the new Action Plan of the Danube Strategy.

Until end of May 2019 the first draft proposal of the new Action Plan will be finished. In June 2019 at the 8th Annual Forum of EUSDR in Bucharest, the Romanian Presidency of the Strategy will provide space for consultations and offer place for a broader exchange with stakeholder and civil society. Based on a series of consolidated inputs by all actors of the Strategy, the European Commission will use the consolidated proposal to draft the New Action Plan which prospectively will be endorsed by the Ministers of the Danube Region in October 2019.

Source: www.danube-region.eu

The 6th Danube Participation Day takes place in Bucharest (RO) on 26 June 2019, back to back with the 8th EUSDR Annual Forum. This year's theme is Youth - Participation - Empowermentand addresses challenges and opportunities for rejuvenation of the Danube Strategy in light of the on-going revision of the EUSDR Action Plan.

The Danube Participation Day offers a Danube wide platform to discuss thematic and structural deficits and possible solutions for participation and cooperation in the Danube Region and explores opportunities for young  people to make a change towards high quality of life.

Source: www.danube-region.eu

The Romanian Ministry for Tourism, in colaboration with Tulcea County Council, will organize the ministerial conference “The European Union Strategy for the Danube Region – Instrument for Economic Development”, which will be held on 11-14 June 2019, in Tulcea, Romania. The event aims to bring togheter both experts in the field of coastal tourism and policymakers. 

The topics that will be adressed concern the public-private partnership as a potential vector of sustainable coastal tourism development, the "development vs. conservation" approach regarding the future of sustainable coastal tourism.

More information can be obtained by contacting the organizers at the event webpage.

Source: www.danube-region.eu