Around 240 people have participated in the Thematic Annual Event 2016: BLUE DANUBE - Danube Transnational Programme: Key instrument for supporting water as a transnational resource organised on 29th September in Bucharest (Romania). All presentations, photos and video of the event will be available on the week of 3rd October in the event website: www.dtpevent.eu 

The Danube Transnational Programme itself, its stakeholders and the present and potential partner institutions need to have a thorough knowledge of the needs and challenges of the Danube region to be reflected into innovative projects with successful results.Taking that purpose in mind, the programme bodies have planned to organise a series of annual events focused on specific themes relevant for the Danube region and to be addressed in the DTP calls for proposals. A specific theme covering several thematic priorities of the programme will be selected every year. The thematically-focused annual events aim to become a forum to stimulate discussion on the selected theme with the help of experts, programme stakeholders, interested institutions and organisations, potential applicants and project partners. This forum will allow a better preparation of future calls, fostered innovative proposals, better implementation of projects and more capitalisation opportunities.

In the 2016 edition of the DTP Annual Event, the selected theme is ‘Transnational management, use and valorisation of water related resources’. The theme is reflected in the event title: BLUE DANUBE - Danube Transnational Programme: Key instrument for supporting water as a transnational resource. The event took place on 29th September in Bucharest, being Romania the charing country of the programme this year. All the details about the event is available in this specific website: www.dtpevent.eu

The selected 2016 theme is conceived from an integrated perspective interlinked with the four priority axes of the Danube Transnational Programme, thus the following aspects of water management were tackled:

1. Innovative solutions for Transnational Water Management
2. Transnational Water Management for a sustainable future
3. Environmentally-friendly transport systems: waterborne transport
4. Transnational governance and harmonisation of policies for Water Management

Concerning the format, a general session about the Danube Transnational Programme and how it tackles the selected theme was followed by parallel workshops covering different aspects of Transnational Water Management. The event participants had the opportunity to join one of the parallel workshops organised by the JS members along with thematic experts. 

The 2016 Annual Event BLUE DANUBE - Danube Transnational Programme: Key instrument for supporting water as a transnational resource provided a platform for networking opportunities, exchanging best practices and experience and building partnerships between the main programme stakeholders and other actors representing national, regional and local authorities in the Danube region.  

More information: www.dtpevent.eu