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RESTART_4Danube is Developing an Identity and Visibility through its Promotional Material
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The promotional material for the RESTART_4Danube project is finished:
Flyer - front side:
Flyer - back side:
Poster:
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The layout for flyers, posters, and roll-ups, through which the project visibility will be increased, were developed in line with the DTP guidelines and meet all the Programme’s requirements. The visual identity clearly expresses that RESTART_4Danube pertains to the Danube Transfer Programme, but also adds a personal note to the project.
Next to the indispensable mentioning of the European funding [“Project co-funded by European Union funds (ERDF, IPA, ENI)”] and the project website, you can see tipical symbolistic representing the programme’s priority areas, and even some more information about consortium, objectives, Local Action Plans, and main outputs of RESTART_4Danube.
Roll-up:
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EU Strategy for the Danube Region - EUSDR
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In order to further support the ongoing embedding process, the Danube Strategy Point DSP prepared a support overview leaflet addressing Managing Authorities in the Danube Region.
The leaflet provides short, consolidated information about the strategic topics, as endorsed by the EUSDR National Coordinators on the 5th of October 2020, based on the revised EUSDR Action Plan, with the intention to generate a compact accompanying file to the EUSDR embedding process.
Support is being asked for in disseminating the leaflet to the relevant institutions and programming authorities in each participating state of the Danube Region.
Danube Region belongs to all of us, so let’s cooperate for prosperity!
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Horizon Europe - HEU
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Horizon Europe is EU’s research and innovation funding programme which is following the Horizon 2020 programme and will run between 2021–2027. In December 2020, in a political agreement between the European Parliament and the Council on Horizon Europe, a budget of around €95.5 billion has been officially allocated for HEU.
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_20_2345
For a short overview on the structure and novelties of Horizon Europe, check out the programme factsheet.
If you want to find out detailed information about the upcoming programme, plese visit the programme’s website.
More details about HEU will be presented to you also here, in the following newsletter.
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Synergies with the CINEMA Project (2)
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In the first newsletter, we reported on the get-to-know-each-other of the Project Manager of our Lead Partner UPB and the CINEMA project consortium. Prof. Alexandru Marin introduced the RESTART_4Danube project and gave information about our future undertakings to the CINEMA partners.
Now, the synergies went deeper. The responsible of the Communication work packages of the 2 projects met at the end of November. Ms. Miljana Cosic and Ms. Irina Coifescu from Steinbeis 2i GmbH – S2i (PP in RESTART_4Danube) and Ms. Margit Wolf from Stuttgart Region Economic Development Corporation – WRS (PP in CINEMA) got together for an online session.
S2i and WRS exchanged information about what they have achieved in the project so far and discussed general communication activities.
In the next step, further capitalization activities of these 2 projects, also including the Lead Partners, are planned for next year.
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midterm event of the Interreg Central Europe project InduCCI
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Mid of November, the Interreg Central Europe project InduCCI conducted its midterm event online. Being open for the public, RESTART_4Danube project partners UPB and S2i were present and would like to present the InduCCI project and the event in the following:
On the premises that the industry in Central Europe is experiencing the beginning of a further cycle of transformation with profound effects on production methods, on work and social life, the InduCCI consortium advocates for the key role that the cultural and creative industries (CCIs) could play in this transition.
In the midterm event of the InduCCI project, different partners presented their implemented activities, through which they try to build up towards this project goal.
The first session of the day concentrated on improving the framework requirements for thriving CCIs in idustrial regions. In this regard, it was reported about administrative staff trainings meant to connect administration to CCIs, which are planned or have already been implemented by some of the project partners. Following, some conclusions and lessons learnt from the implementation of one of the trainings were shared with the participants.
In the second session, InduCCI partners exposed some of their trials to address the economic relevance and the role of CCIs for industrial regions. The practical measures to establish CCIs in industrial regions will also be tested in pilot actions in the participating regions.
Some of the partners presented several Good practice Test cases which they have already implemented.
In a very vividly carried out panel discussion at the end of the event, representatives of the project partners from Poland, Czech Republic, Austria, Italy, Belgium, Germany, and Slovenia were led through argumentative debates and encouraged to express their opinions and hopes for the future development of the project by the organizers who were presenting the event, the PP Chemnitzer Wirtschaftsförderungs- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH from Germany.
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CCIs & UR in the Danube Region - Romania
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- Past events: Competition to Find Solutions for Urban Mobility
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Following the success of the Urban Innovation Hackathons events, which took place in Timișoara and Bucharest, the UrbanizeHub team expanded these competitions to other cities. Therefore, the Urban Mobility Lab, the first National Contest for Urban Mobility Solutions, took place in November in other three cities in Romania: Galați, Brașov and Timișoara.
The campaign was organized by UrbanizeHub, in collaboration with EIT Urban Mobility, in order to identify solutions from citizens, which can become pilot projects for the three cities.
News taken from UrbanizeHub online start-up - Urban Mobility Lab.
- News: Postcast on Green Cities
Within the “Shaping Sustainable Cities” campaign carried out by UrbanizeHub together with the Dutch Embassy in Romania, a podcast dedicated to green cities took place in October 2020.
The host Alex Glod and guest Victor Dijkshoorn, a Dutch landscape architect, discuss about the importance and potential of green spaces in big cities and about innovative ways in which the government, private companies and real estate developers can integrate green spaces into the urban landscape.
Here you can access the podcast.
News from UrbanizeHub online start-up - Green Cities.
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CCIs & UR in the Danube Region - Karlsruhe, Germany
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Baden-Württemberg Extra-Funds Culture to Overcome the COVID-19 Pandemic
On October 28, 2020 new measures in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic have been decided at a national level in Germany.
The already existing emergency aid fund for the cultural sector is intended to help alleviate the serious consequences and preserve the valuable cultural infrastructure in Baden-Württemberg. The focus of the new funding is on attenuating a Corona-related life-threatening or existential emergency in Art and Cultural Institutions.
Applications for funding in 2020 can be submitted starting end of October to the Ministry of Science, Research and Arts Baden-Württemberg.
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CCIs & UR in the Danube Region - Carinthia, Austria
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TRANS_SPACE (TRANSformative Societal, Political And Cultural Engagement) is an interdisciplinary research group of the Carinthia University of Applied Sciences (CUAS). It is an intercultural team of 11 Members from 4 different European Country’s: Ireland, Italy, Germany, and Austria. In Austria it they call it “ein bunter Haufen”, or a colourful bunch. The interdisciplinary group uses the differences in origin, culture, and language to approach scientific questions from the broadest possible perspective.
Their motto is: “Creating Knowledge through Social Change”. In their research, the group members combine the subjects of public management, economics & regional economics, political science, linguistics, technology and science, intercultural management, and tourism. The research projects expand between the fields of migration, political populism, cultural conflicts, innovation management and economic development, rural and urban development or questions concerning the forces and consequences of demographic changes etc.
In the last newsletter we reported on the modernized usage of the technology park and the start-up scene. However, Villach was not always a high-tech center in the alps!
Villach was known as a railway town for many decades, because one of the largest shunting-stations in Europe can be found in its immediate vicinity, in the community of Fürnitz (10 minutes by car).The way towards technology was paved not untill the 1970s, when the Siemens company started the production of diodes and later wafers here.
Since 2000, the development of Villach has been strongly influenced by Infineon (which emerged from Siemens). Infineon announced in 2018 that it intends to enhance the location with a further 1.6 billion Euro plant, which is scheduled to come on stream in 2021.
Previously, a paper mill was settled in this area. The Villach Technology Park and CUAS are located on the former site of the paper industry (Zellstoffwerke Magdalen). On both pictures you can see a big old chimney. The chimney was integrated (symbolically) into the new modern energy production facility, as a reminder.
A good strategy for reurbanisation development – as there is a lot of space and freedom to design in the surrounding area compared to the city center!
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CCIs & UR in the Danube Region - Municipality of Vratsa, Bulgaria
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- The football field at the "Vasil Kanchov" secondary school in Vratsa - completely renovated and with new flooring
Nearly BGN 50.000 (aprox. EUR 25.600) have been invested in the complete renovation of the football field in the yard at the "Vasil Kanchov" secondary school. The artificial flooring, the safety fences, as well as the football gates have been completely renovated.
The sports facility was symbolically opened by the alumni of the school, who held a friendly match.
The funds for the renovation are provided from the budget of the Municipality of Vratsa.
https://www.vratza.bg/bg/1606458594.html
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- International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
On November 25, 2020, the building of the Municipality of Vratsa was illuminated in orange, in support of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.
The local administration joined the initiative, which is focused on domestic violence.
https://www.vratza.bg/bg/1606458636.html
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CCIs & UR in the Danube Region - rijeka, croatia
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New Museum of Rijeka opens in renovated Sugar Palace
 
In the renovated building of Rijeka’s industrial heritage – the Sugar Refinery Palace, which is a protected cultural asset of Croatia – a new space for the Museum of the City of Rijeka was opened in November 2020 with a permanent exhibition on Rijeka’s history.
The exhibition includes the economic, political, cultural, educational, scientific, and sports history of Rijeka from 1719 to 2020.
 
The first floor of the palace deals with the history of the city – “The story of Rijeka, Europe, and the world. This unit was completed in 2020 when Rijeka became the European Capital of Culture.
The second floor of the palace is dedicated to the story “Sweet History of Rijeka”. Its focus is on the former production factory complex of which the now renovated palace was a part.
The exhibition describes the economic and social history of Rijeka in the European context, in close connection with Vienna and Antwerp as well as with Budapest and other European and overseas cities and ports.
With the renovation and opening of the Sugar Palace, Rijeka has gained a representative cultural space with a luxurious interior of rich decorations, wall and ceiling paintings of mythological content, and historical scenes from antiquity as well as panoramas of imaginary cities.
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Achievements of the Danube Transnational Programme
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At the end of November 2020, the Danube Transnational Programme DTP released 5 short videos to generally document the DTP achievements so far, and specifically the performances in each of its thematic priority areas:
DTP Achievements videos
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Upcoming events in REstart_4danube
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Following, a short overview of the upcoming events of the RESTART_4Danube project:
- 5 Policivil Workshops in Craiova – Romania, Rijeka – Croatia, Maribor – Slovenia, Vas County – Hungary, Vratsa – Bulgaria
- 2 Policy Dialogue Workshops in Rijeka – Croatia, Uzhgorod – Ukraine
These events will take place in an online format, coordinated by the hosting organizations, in the first half of 2021. More information will follow in the next RESTART_4Danube Newsletter.
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Season's Greetings - Ho, ho, ho, here comes the sno(w)!
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Dear friends,
It’s already mid of December and we are proud to look back on what we have achieved this year:
- Getting together 25 partners from 12 countries in the Danube Region
- & uniting them to cooperate towards one the the same goal:
- Boosting cREative induSTries in urbAn Regeneration for a stronger Danube region
- => Kicking off the amazing RESTART_4Danube project!
Wo-hoo!
- Even in these difficult lock-down-times, we reached out to the world and let wonderful people like you know about us – through social media, project website, press release(s), & spreading the word with friends & families!
- We shared information about the project to over 120! participants/stakeholders in the
Kick-Off event.
- We reached out to local & regional CCIs and got in contact with them.
- & much much more behind the scenes work, that each and every one of our hard-working partners have invested to make RESTART_4Danube happen!
... we only didn’t manage to make it sno(w)!
At the beginning of December, the project consortium met for one last online session this year, recalled these amazing memories, and planned for the months to come!
The RESTART_4Danube consortium wants to thank you for being on our side and hope that in the coming year our cooperation will be even more successful!
We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
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