As a first step towards the implementation of new projects along the Danube, a guideline for project funding was developed by the DBS project team in order to strengthen the knowledge about available financial instruments. The guideline offers information about over 50 relevant funding schemes on a European and national level, with a particular focus on waterway transport. It also includes three concrete examples and good practices for each partner country to easily demonstrate the potential project opportunities through already accepted and successfully implemented actions.

Within the framework of the Cooperation Platform, which will be established as part of the DBS Gateway Region Project, the guideline will be periodically updated in order to provide port authorities, city departments and other stakeholders working on development projects along the Danube with relevant and useful information. A summary with the key aspects of project funding is available in the languages of all partner countries.