TRANSGREEN Integrated Transport and Green Infrastructure Planning in the Danube-Carpathian Region for the Benefit of People and Nature

"Environmental protection doesn't sit under one single ministry. Respect for the environment is required across all sectors, and should become part of all investment projects which are implemented and will be implemented in Slovakia. In this...

Romania. A1 highway Sibiu-Orastie. 2 bears killed in 2 different car accidents over the past 3 days. This pulls an alarm signal about the necessity to take measures for safe crossing for wildlife in biodiversity-rich Carpathians. On the night...

"How bold and open of you to invite stakeholders to share sterotypes! You inspired us to do the same!" "Can you give us the contacts of your cartoonist?" These were some of the enthusiastic reactions received by Madalina Corciu, project...

Transgreen is a project that strives to connect as many and varied stakeholders as possible to technical and policy-oriented topic. Each stakeholder has a very important role and voice in building the overall process. And team members are not an...

Lubica Hudakova is a landuse manager working at Slovak Karst National Park for 5 years. She has agreed to talk to the TRANSGREEN team and share part of her vision regarding connectivity, stories about roadkill monitoring and also her personal...

25 April, Romania, Coltesti – Alba county. While participating in a Project Partners’ meeting, the TRANSGREEN team took a half-day field trip. Such a trip has a lot to offer when biologists are on board, especially to the fresh eye. For Milvus...

A story directly from the Carpathian forests told by a volunteer brings a grass-roots perspective on the argumentative roots of the TRANSGREEN project: scientific data. The story is as regional as the project itself: a Ukrainian ecology student,...

15-16 March 2018, Slovakia, Bratislava. TRANSGREEN project was presented as an example of integrated transport planning process taking nature into account on a national and cross-national level, by project partner Prof. Finka from SPECTRA Centre...

Bratislava, Slovakia. 22nd-23rd of January, 2018. Experts from fields connected to integrated transport planning congregated in Bratislava on a working meeting that sets an important milestone in developing one key TRANSGREEN output: the...

End of November 2017, Budapest. Present at the 2nd European Urban Green Infrastructure Conference, Transgreen project broadened the conversation to green infrastructure in the landscape which is important to maintain for wildlife.  

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18th-19th October 2017. Budapest. The 6th Forum of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region focused on energy and other major topics, such as: regional infrastructure development, clean connectivity, joint research and Danube Transnational Programme...

A key event for the future of the Carpathians took place last week, 10-12 October 2017, in Lillafüred, Hungary. The 5th Conference of the Parties of the Carpathian Convention brought together decision-makers from Carpahtian countries to focus on...

The Lučivná green bridge or “ecoduct” ensures the connection of historical wildlife migration corridors between two mountain ranges Vysoké Tatry (High Tatras) and Nízke Tatry (Low Tatras) and a safe crossing above D1 motorway – section Važec –...

July 2017, 5-7. Trencin, Slovakia. TRANSGREEN project was represented at Pohoda Festival in Trencin, one of the biggest summer festivals in Central and Eastern Europe with 30.000 daily visitors. Visitors could learn about the project focus...

During the last week of June, local and national stakeholders met for the first joint discussions at the Transgreen kickoff meetings in Romania’s two pilot sites: Tirgu Mures-Iasi and Arad (Radna)-Deva. Both local and national actors were open...

Bratislava, Slovakia, June 22nd. The Transgreen project was launched in both Slovak project pilot sites – Beskydy and Miskolc-Kosice-Uzgrorod - at the stakeholders kick-off meetings organised by State Nature Conservancy and WWF. The meeting...

Tirgu Mures, Romania, May 18th. The Transgreen project was launched in a local press conference organized by Milvus Group in Tirgu Mures, landmark city of the project pilot area Tirgu Mures-Iasi. The event paves the way to the up-coming...

Transgreen kickoff meeting launched the project, opened up the dialogue and exchange between partners and stakeholders, and set the stage for upcoming activities. The VIDEOS of the event will help you (re)connect with the speeches, discussions...

Budapest, April 5th-6th 2017. Project partners directly involved in the pilot area and others working on different pilot areas, joined in Budapest for a meeting dedicated to planning activities for the Miskolc-Kosice-Uzhgorod (HU-SK-UA) project...