Lead partner Steinbeis-Europa-Zentrum and the whole consortium of the INTERREG project Made in Danube welcomed around 80 participants to the Kick-off Event which took place on 22nd March 2017 in Stuttgart, Germany. This event marked the official launch of the project and brought together project stakeholders, representatives from regional SMEs, higher education and research institutions, business clusters, regional public authorities as well as the general public. Participants had the opportunity to meet and share their perspective on bioeconomy focusing on sustainable agriculture, forestry and bioenergy and to take part in one of the three following parallel sessions:

Smart and innovative precision farming – held by Transfer Center at Slovak University of Agriculture, Nitra, Slovakia

Competence Center in Wood Sector – held by Vukovar-Srijem County Development Agency HRAST, Vukovar, Croatia

Biofuel – held by University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Technical Sciences, Novi Sad, Serbia

They were conducted by the representatives of the regional initiatives addressed in the Made in Danube project.