9th Danube Participation Day
Resilience through Diversity: Involving Civil Society in the Danube Strategy
The 9th Danube Participation Day takes place on 18 October 2022, back-to-back with the 11th EUSDR Annual Forum.
In 2020, the European Commission published the revised Action Plan of the EU Danube Strategy. In doing so, the strategy not only took stock of its achieved goals and new challenges, the new Action Plan also marked a relaunch of collaboration with stakeholders from the public and the private sector from the local to the European/international level.
Systemic crises such as climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic or the war in Ukraine demonstrated in a drastic way, how essential cooperation is.
Hence, the 9th Danube Participation Day is dedicated to multi-sector stakeholder cooperation and aims at presenting good practices of stakeholder involvement and discussing what we need for successful civil society involvement for a more sustainable and resilient future in the Danube Region.
Against this background, the 9th Danube Participation Day will discuss expectations of civil society/stakeholder involvement , success factors for civil society participation, and lessons learnt from over 10 years of experience with different ways of stakeholder involvement in the Danube Strategy.
The 9th Danube Participation Day will focus on:
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What is the Danube Participation Day?
Danube Participation Day
Priority Area 10 (PA10)
Priority Area 10 (PA 10) of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region (EUSDR) aims at stepping up institutional capacity and cooperation as a precondition for shaping a sustainable, resilient and prosperous future. In doing so, we address institutional capacity-building, involvement of civil society in public governance, increasing local development and better spending. Priority Area 10 “Institutional Capacities & Cooperation” serves as an information and communication hub for local, regional, national and European stakeholders responsible for as well as working in the field of institutional capacity building, participative governance and spatial development.
Danube Civil Society Forum (DCSF)
The Danube Civil Society Forum (DCSF) is the platform for civil society dialogue and networking in the Danube basin under the EU Strategy for the Danube Region (EUSDR). It functions as the interface for structured consultations between civil society and public and private authorities on the regional, national and EU level as well as to international and intergovernmental organisations active in the region. The Danube Civil Society Forum is dedicated to support civil society organisations in the Danube basin. It aims to promote and enhance civil society participation and networking in the framework of the European Union Strategy for the Danube Region.
