EUSDR-Academy

Empowering & Partnership in the Danube Macro-Region
“Danubian Young Leaders Academy”
Palace of the Parliament / Romanian Academy
24-25 September 2015

Short description:On the ocassion of the visit of the EUSDR European Coordinator on the behalf of the European Commission, Mr. Marco ONIDA (Head of Unit, DG REGIO), with the kind support of the Senate of Romania and of the Romanian Academy, we will organise a new Reunion of the Working Groups established by CLDR Romania and of other related Danube stakeholders.

This new project takes place one year after the official launching of the CLDR Association, at the Senate of Romania. The event is chaired by Senator Octavian MOTOC, Member of the European Affairs Committtee of the Senate of Romania.

Among the guests, we mention the representatives of the two chambers of the Romanian Parliament, the Ministry of European Funds, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Romanian Academy, the European Investment Bank, EximBank and of the local communities.

Official Partners:

Special Guests (draft):

EUSDR Coordinator – Mr. Marco ONIDA
CoDCR General Coordinator – Mr Peter LANGER
Resident Representative European Investment Bank – Mr Flavio SCHIAVO CAMPO
EUSDR National Coordinator Department (Ministry of Foreign Affars) – Dr. Valentin PANAIT
EUSDR PA 3 Coordinator (Ministry of Regional Development) – Dr. Teofil GHERCA
Coordinator of the Center of Technology Sofia – Mr Jurgen EISELE
President of the Social & Health Tourism Association – Mr Jamil BENABDALLAH
Director of the Biodiversity Centre – Romanian Academy – Acad. Alexandru T. BOGDAN
Vicepresident of CLDR Romania / Spiru Haret University – Prof. dr. Gheorghe DUDA
President of CODATU Association – Prof. dr. Valentin ANTON
Executive Director of Magurele High Tech Cluster – Mr Dragos SEULEANU
President of Knowledge Management Institute Romania – Dr. Octavian SERBAN
Senior Advisor CLUSTERO Association – Mrs Christina LEUCUTA
Coordinator EU and international programs and Projects within Export Council – Romanian Trade Development Network – Prof. Costin LIANU
Ion VACIU – Director “Comunicatii Mobile” magazine
General Coordinator of the EUSDR Honorary Chair “Jean Bart” – Associate Prof. Sever AVRAM
Official Partner Representative – EximBank

Technical Sponsor:

Previsional Agenda:

First day – Thursday, 24 September 2015 – Senate of Romania – Palace of the Parliament

13.00-14.00 Registration of participants – “Mihail Kogalniceanu” Hall

14.00-17.00

“Danubian Young Leaders Academy”

The set-up of the Inter-Academic Cooperation Centre in favour of the involvement of the young generation in as much as possible Danubian projects and business. This event combines information and training presentations aimed to instruct and select the young experts’ groups at sub-regional level (Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia) regarding the establishing of multinational consortia of partners and the implementation of future projects under the aegis of EUSDR with a focus on a better valuation of the natural, economic, social and human capital.
The deepening of the four pillars and the 11 priority areas of the strategy in order to create appropriate expertise of the young experts for the implementation of targets and actions designed by the European Commission and the 14 Member States for each axis.
Increasing the role of universities and clusters, as the motor of European innovation, through transposing the recommendation of the European Commission concerning the “European Industrial Renaissance” in the Danubian macro-regional context
Awarding the Certificates and Networking Session

Second day – Friday, 25 September 2015 – Senate of Romania – Palace of the Parliament

Special Guest Speaker: General Coordinator of the EU Strategy of the Danube Region – European Commission – DG REGIO, Mr. Marco ONIDA

9.30h – 11.00h “Avram Iancu” Hall
Consultation and debate mainly on the two new initiatives promoted under the aegis of EUSDR within the Strategic Investment Plan and of the Transnational Programme “Danube”

Advancing the natural-cultural-historic heritage of the Danube through accessibility – CODATU Association / METROUL SA
Major projects and strategic investments of the Danubian local communities – CLDR Association

11.00 – 11.30 Networking Cocktail

11.30 – 12.30

Presentation and adoption of a Call-Declaration in the presence of Danubian Mayors supporting the two initiatives / priority major projects

13.00 – 15.00

Exploratory visits to the head-quarters of the “METROUL” Institute in Bucharest

Follow-up: Solutii pentru finantarea UE pentru inovare intr-o Romanie Dunareana