The Danube Floodplain project aims to improve the transnational integrative water management and flood risk prevention while maximizing benefits for biodiversity conservation by restoring floodplains, combining classical and green infrastructure, natural retention measures, involving stakeholders. In the past decades, heavy alteration of wetland ecosystems characterized the land use. Since 1970, 90% of the global wetlands
READ MOREAlthough the economies of the countries of the Danube region are heterogeneous, they also have things in common, such as the high importance of industry – mainly represented by German companies – and labour shortages. The latter is to be alleviated by means of digitisation and automation, with artificial intelligence and cooperation with Germany playing
READ MOREThere actually is a perpetuum mobile? Figuratively speaking, yes. It is the 5200-year-old Kolo Wheel, the oldest wheel with an axle in world history. We had a look at the original in the Slovenian capital Ljubljana, the place where it was found, and in Innsbruck we witnessed how it still connects and advances countries and
READ MOREThe Interreg project “LENA – Local Economy and Nature Conservation in the Danube Region” aims to build an important bridge in the Danube region: strengthening local economy and local nature conservation at the same time. In this way, all participants should benefit from sustainability. LENA has set itself the task of uniting people and nature
READ MOREThey are intended to create a new political level in the European Union – and lead to cross-border cooperation for common challenges: the macro-regional EU strategies. The DANUBIANA project, which celebrated its highlight on the occasion of the European Election Day in Ulm, aims to link these strategies on civil society issues. In 2009, the
READ MORETouristic attractions along the Danube string together just like a pearl necklace. But how can tourists get from one pearl to the next in an environmentally friendly way – by bus, train, boat or bike? The EU INTERREG project Transdanube.Pearls is trying to answer this question and improve services, standards and information in line with
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