AURAM (“Austrian Universities’ Research Administrators and Managers”), the network uniting the research support staff of 22 of Austria’s public universities arranged its annual meeting from 9 - 10 November 2017 at Made in Danube Partner premises at: University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU). The aim was to offer professional support for all science- and research-related topics by transregional networking and exchange of ideas. Dipl.-Ing. Bernhard Koch from BOKU Vienna presented the „Made in Danube“ project and highlighted the three pilot initiatives and Competence Centers Wood Sector (Vukovar, Croatia), Biofuels (Novi Sad, Serbia) and Smart and Innovative Farming (Nitra, Slovakia). The report has received a very positive welcome from the audience and an interesting discussion about actions between the pilot initiatives raised between the participants.