Danube Days festival in Esztergom, Štúrovo, Ráckeve and Szigetbecse, June 29 – July 1, 2018

After last year’s success, the Danube Days were organized again this year between June 29th and July 1st in Štúrovo, Esztergom, and this time also in Ráckeve and Szigetbecse on the Csepel Island, south of Budapest. The festival was jointly initiated by local municipalities and organisations and the DANUrB project partners KÉK, STU, BME and Pest County Municipality. It was part of the international Danube Day (June 29th) which celebrates the Danube River, its tributaries, and the vital role these water bodies play in providing water, food, hydropower, recreation and livelihood. In the settlements mentioned above, the aim of the Danube Days festival was to highlight the benefits of riverside living and to encourage local communities to actively use riverbanks as public spaces.
 

DANURB ON SZIGET FESTIVAL 2018

Between August 8 - 15, 2018 DANUrB was part of the Sziget festival in Budapest, one of the biggest events of its kind in Europe. The project participated in the program of the Civil Sziget, a thematic site of the festival presenting the work of NGOs and various civil society initiatives. DANUrB was selected through an application process, and the organisers pointed out that the goals of the project, such as intercultural dialogue and environmental and social sustainability, strongly resonate with the values of the festival.
 

DANURB PARTNER MEETING AND STUDY TOUR IN ROMANIA AND BULGARIA, OCTOBER 14-18, 2018

On October 14-18 the DANUrB partnership held its regular partners’ meeting, this time uniquely combined with a study tour in Romania and Bulgaria. These four days provided an excellent opportunity for the participants to visit heritage sites of the two countries’ Danube regions, to meet local stakeholders and to learn existing successful practices in the areas of tourism and heritage management.
 

DANUrB IMPULSES FOR KOMÁRNO were published

The DANUrB impulses for Komárno are out! This catalogue of student works with research texts published by Fakulta architektúry STU refers to the values of the city as well as to the necessity to improve its urban structure through the thoughtful concept of its transformation and its synergy with city representatives and stakeholders.
 

AWARD TO DANUrb partners

The DANUrB project partners from Serbia, University of Belgrade - Faculty of Architecture and the University of Novi Sad – Faculty of Technical Sciences were awarded for the best cross-border project in the field of culture and cultural heritage in Serbia at a special ceremony organized within 6th National Conference on Cross-border Cooperation on November 14, 2018. The award was handed over to and Prof. Darko Reba. The ceremony was held in front of the EU Head of Unit Transnational - Interregional Cooperation, several ambassadors, representatives of several ministries and more than 300 Serbian participants from different IPA projects in implementation. 
 

DANURB PROJECT WAS PRESENTED AT THE POLICY DIALOGUE MEETING IN ZAGREB

The DANUrB project was introduced at the international Policy Dialogue meeting and workshop that was organized in the framework of the international partnership within the project of "Transnational Cooperation for the Transformation of Knowledge into Sustainable Products and Services for the Sustainable Danube Society of the Future - Made in the Danube". With the support of the Ministry of Economy, Entrepreneurship, and Crafts it was held on 26 September 2018 in Zagreb, Croatia.

UPCOMING EVENTS

DANURB ON THE CLOSING CONFERENCE OF THE EUROPEAN YEAR OF CULTURAL HERITAGE

The INTERACT programme invited the DANUrB with 7 other Interreg DTP´s projects to the event of "Activating Cultural Heritage" that will take place in Vienna on the 5th of December 2018. We consider it as a great opportunity to present the results of our project and therefore we will definitely take part in it. You are all cordially invited to join us!

PARTNERS MEETING AND CONFERENCE ON DANURB BOOK

On December 7, 2018 we organize with the Faculty of Architecture the Partners meeting and the conference on the DANUrB "Book on the unexplored cultural heritage in communities by the Danube" that will be held in Bratislava. The contributors will wrap up the long-term publication preparation process that will end in releasing the book as one of the main outputs of the DANUrB project next year. We are very excited!

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Project co-funded by European Union funds (ERDF and IPA)