A few startups which took part in the Bulgarian, Czech, Hungarian and Romanian pilot programmes of the project attended in Stuttgart, at the StartupSummit 2019, 1st February 2019. The event run with approx. 4,000 participants, 350 start-ups, 200 network partners from consulting, promotion and technology transfer as well as 400 B2B partners from large and medium-sized enterprises, VCs, business angels and many more. 

Start-ups and players from the Danube region offered a free presentation area (free exhibition space - including specified furniture and branding (set-up based on 2017)) at the event under the umbrella of "Start-up Ecosystem Danube Countries" and thus access to the start-up ecosystem of Baden-Württemberg, partners, reference customers and investors.