Danube Strategy Flagships are projects or processes that contribute to the implementation of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region (EUSDR), have a clear macro-regional dimension and a multi-level governance approach. They are of high importance for the Danube Region’s economic, social and territorial cohesion and for improving the quality of life in the Danube Region.

Danube Strategy Flagships strengthen internal and external communication of the Strategy and the visibility of the topics, initiatives and prospects in the Danube Region. They illustrate the progress achieved in implementing the EUSDR and demonstrate exemplarily significant improvement in the Region that is induced by cooperation.

EUSDR National Coordinators and Priority Area Coordinators with the respective Steering Groups, in their capacity as representatives and key implementers of the EUSDR, as well as the Danube Strategy Point, are committed to contribute to and promote Danube Strategy Flagships in accordance with the Guidance Paper for identifying and listing Danube Strategy Flagships.

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31.10.2023.

We are happy to inform you that Friends of the Danube has become A flagship project. The List of Danube Strategy Flagships 2023 has been published on the EUSDR Website (under “Projects and funding” – “Danube Strategy Flagships”).

LIST OF DANUBE STRATEGY FLAGSHIPS 2023

1.   Joint PA 1a & PA 11 Working Group on Administrative Processes

2.   Fairway Rehabilitation and Maintenance Master Plan for the Danube and its navigable tributaries

3.   Danube Region Transport Days (DRTD)

4.   Danube Region Multimodal Corridors

5.   SUSTANCE - Sustainable public transport solutions and innovative governance schemes for improving connectivity in Central Europe

6.   Enhancing hydrogen economy in the EUSDR

7.   Promote local low-carbon energy actions in the EUSDR

8.   Diversification of gas supply in EUSDR

9.   Friends of the Danube

10. Sustain and better connect EUSDR Cultural routes

11. Danube Small Project Fund

12. Flagship process on adaptation to climate change

13. Flagship process on migratory fish

14. Flagship process on emerging substances

15. Disaster Management Working Group

16. Nature-based solutions for flood risk reduction

17. Improving the Safety of Tailings Management Facilities in the Danube River Basin

18. Priority Area 6 Task Forces – Stakeholder Involvement, multi-level governance, joint implementation

19. Sustainable Smart Specialisation for the Re-Opening of Industrial Sites in the Danube Region (RIS4Danu)

20. Excellence in research, social and technological innovation project management (Excellence-in-ReSTI)

21. Danube Transfer Center Network - DTC Network

22. Education Reform Initiative of South Eastern Europe (ERI SEE)

23. Bringing the Danube Region into Classrooms: Promoting Cooperation of Schools and Teachers

24. Danube Youth Network

25. Cross-border Emergency Healthcare

26. Danube Participation Day

27. Collaboration for Dismantling Drugs Distribution and Illicit Laboratories (CO3DIL)