• Cities go ahead: Together for secure energy

    Cities go ahead: Together for secure energy0

    During the International Danube Festival on July 8 in Ulm, the exhibition ‘LEAP STEP’ – Together for Secure Energy opened at the Ulm Chamber of Industry and Commerce. The exhibition was organized as a European project under the direction of the Maison de l’Europe Paris together with the twin cities of Ulm, Vincennes, Budapest, Avila,

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  • DANUBE MEDIA BOOTCAMP in Ulm

    DANUBE MEDIA BOOTCAMP in Ulm0

    Journalists from five Danube countries took part in the Danube Media Bootcamp during the International Danube Festival in Ulm. From July 10-12, workshops were held with presentations by journalists focusing on the topic of  ‘Nature Conservation and the Danube’. Journalists from Budapest, Romania and Serbia presented their investigative reports. Orsolya Fülöp from Budapest presented her

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  • PERSPECTIVE DANUBE  Commitment to the Danube region

    PERSPECTIVE DANUBE Commitment to the Danube region0

    Baden-Württemberg has always cultivated diverse relationships in the Danube region. The Baden-Württemberg Foundation plays a key role in this. With its “Perspective Danube” programme, it primarily supports the development of civil society and provides funding for educational, cultural and youth projects, among other things. Dr Andreas Weber, who has been responsible for the “Perspective Danube”

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  • Focus on floodplains

    Focus on floodplains0

    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

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  • ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE must pick up speed

    ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE must pick up speed0

    Although 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

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  • KOLO Wheel – A 5200-year-old “perpetuum mobile”

    KOLO Wheel – A 5200-year-old “perpetuum mobile”0

    There 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

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