The partnership consortium of the Interreg-project EDU-LAB: New Danubian Governance in Labour market Relevance of Higher Education with more than 20 partners from 10 countries, launched an invitation for the final conference of their project, entitled “Better Chances for Young People in the Danube Region” in Zagreb on May 16-17, 2019.
The conference opened by Prof. Dr. Blaženka Divjak, Minister of Science and Education of the Republic of Croatia and Mr. Marko Pavić, Minister of Labour and Pension Systems of the Republic of Croatia will provide a platform to present and discuss efficient ways to tackle youth unemployment and brain drain, and at the same time to improve the competitiveness of companies and to strengthen the regional economic development in the Danube Region.
Please find further details on the conference website.
ONLINE CONSULTATION ON THE REVISION OF THE EUSDR ACTION PLAN
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 today 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.
As the Strategy is a bottom-up process, Civil Society of the Danube Macro Region has the opportunity to bring in their proposals for the new Action Plan. Therefore, everybody who would like to participate in the revision process is invited to present in his/her ideas for new strategic projects and actions as a valuable input for the Strategy.
The annual edition of the EUSDR Forum will be held between June 27th-28th in Bucharest, at the Palace of Parliament.
The registration process for the event IS NOW OPEN!
We invite you to apply here until June 18th, 2019. Please be aware that the venue of the event is accessible ONLY for registered individuals wearing a valid badge.
For official delegations, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., in order to designate the Delegate Accreditation Officer.
Further information about the event will be available on the EUSDR website in the following weeks.
In 2019, Romania is the rotating Presidency of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region. In the framework of its Enlargement & Integration Initiative, the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission will support pre-paid travel and accommodation to selected researchers/experts from Albania, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Kosovo*, Turkey, Armenia, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine to participate to the 8th Annual Forum of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region, taking place on 27-28 June 2019 in Bucharest/Romania.
Please find here the documents explaining the procedure of application and the Service Specific Privacy Statement.
Application must be received by Wednesday, 24th April 2019, 17h00.
The key document for the future of the European Macro-region with 115 Million inhabitants, is to be published in October 2019.
18.3.2019, Bucharest, Vienna: At the last meeting of National Coordinators, on 15th February in Bucharest, the 14 member states of the European Union Strategy for the Danube Region (EUSDR) paved the road towards the new Action plan for the Danube Region, endorsing the roadmap towards the new Action plan, as proposed by the Romanian presidency, with support of Danube Strategy Point (DSP) – the newly established coordination secretariat based in Vienna and Bucharest.
Following 8 years of joint efforts for a more prosperous and cohesive common European space, the Danube Strategy faces a revision phase, which started under the Bulgarian EUSDR Presidency, now taking the final phase under the Romanian EUSDR Presidency.
The approval of a road map of the new Action Plan for the Danube region represents a further significant step of facilitating joint efforts of addressing major challenges all Strategy’s member states are facing (especially taking into consideration cross-cutting topics such as digitalisation, climate protection, mobility and others). The endorsed timeline considers the drafting process of EU’s cohesion programs for the years 2021 to 2027.