The Strategic Confluence between Black Sea and Danube -
the gate towards new innovative investment opportunities

The High Level Stakeholder Forum "The Strategic Confluence between Black Sea and Danube - the gate towards new innovative investment opportunities" will take place, on May 17, 2012 (12.30h-17.00h), at the Hall "Constantin Stere" the Senate of Romania (entrance from Calea 13 Septembrie)

We are pleased to inform you that since the previous edition of the Regional Stakeholder Forum held on the occasion of the "European Maritime Day" (House of Parliament, May 2011), when the "Black Sea - Danube Regional Network for Social and Economic Innovation" was established, a number of achievements have been recognized.
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  under the aegis of the European Commission - DG MARE,
  with the support of BSEC Presidency

High Level Stakeholder Forum

The Strategic Confluence between Black Sea and Danube -
the gate towards new innovative investment opportunities

Palace of the Parliament

"Constantin Stere" Hall

Stakeholder Forum

Bucharest, 17 May 2012

Constanta

(multiple locations)

Study-visits and business meeting

Constanta, 18 May 2012

This is the only event entirely dedicated to Inform, Debate, Networking (partners' search) and Lobby in view of the efficient absorption of the new EU financing support for innovation and social-economic reform in the Black Sea Basin and the Danube Region.

Special Guests:

Ambasador Liviu BOTA
Ex-Deputy Secretary General of United Nations Organisation
Honorary President of EUROLINK-House of Europe

Ambassador Zoran POPOVIC
Embassy of the Republic of Serbia in Bucharest / Chairmanship of the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC)

Petru LUHAN
Member of the European Parliament, Regional Development Committee, European Parliament

Ambassador Lucian FATU
National Coordinator of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region - Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Dr. Ionut PURICA
Romanian Academy

Octavian SERBAN
Brussels School of International Studies - University of Kent
Knowledge Management Institute - Romania

The menu of the EU funding opportunities at your disposal:

• "Social Innovation Europe" Initiative: the Social Innovation Coalition (Euclid Network)
• CIP - Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme 2007-2013
• Black Sea Basin Joint Operational Programme 2007-2013 (second call for projects)
• Structural Funds - promoting innovation within enterprises (ANCS)
• Black Sea Trade and Development Bank
• The projects of the Commission on the Protection of the Black Sea Against Pollution
• JEREMIE Programme
• European Investment Bank
• The funding schemes to be launched through EU adoption of the two programatic documents: Black Sea Strategy and Strategy for the Danube Region

Priority projects for the further key-fields:

1. transportation infrastructure, navigation on internal rivers and within the Black Sea Basin;
2. promotion of IT & C technologies, new Knowledge Management and new valid social policies;
3. sustainable development, especially in the filed of tourism and cultural patrimony;
4. combating environmental major risks and new energetic solutions to be implemented.

Stakeholders - essential actors:

  The consultancy dimension / community has to play a crucial role.

  Even from the programming phase, the business environment could not afford to miss the opportunity to get involved.

  An extensive institutional lobby is to be exerced on political and administrative decision-makers from national and EU institutions, in order that the projects become a reality.

Working style:

The new EU implementation framework highly requires a partnership working style (within large consortia) and, therefore, a prompt partners' search, identification of common interests and responsibilities to be reunited and managed.

European Maritime Day in the European Union

The European Maritime Day is celebrated annually across Europe on 20 May. It shows the importance of the sea and oceans for everyday life, both in coastal communities and in landlocked areas across Europe. It also highlights the opportunities and challenges currently facing maritime regions and sectors.

The Maritime Day was officially launched on 20 May 2008 in Strasbourg, where the leaders of the European Union signed a Joint Tripartite Declaration establishing it.

European Maritime Day in Romania

under the aegis of the European Commission - DG MARE
with the kind support of the BSEC Presidency

Bucharest-Constanta, 17-18 May 2012

Coordinator:

EUROLINK-House of Europe Foundation
- a Romanian NGO established in March 1997. The foundation operates as an independent and non-partisan educational / information agency, aimed to deepen and to promote the European Idea and the aspirations of a United Europe.

under the aegis:

Black Sea - Danube Regional Network for Social & Economic Innovation
- established in 2011, with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Commission (DG MARE) and BSEC.

with the kind support of the:

National Coordinator of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region - Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

and with the kind contribution of the following institutions:

• Senate - Parliament of Romania
• Chamber of the Deputies - Parliament of Romania
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Managing Authority of the Black Sea Basin Joint Operational Programme 2007-2013
• National Authority for Scientific Research
• Aspen Institute Romania
• Romanian Academy
• ACRAFE - Association of Romanian Consultants for the Accession of European Funds
• CCIR - Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Romania
• Black Sea University Foundation
• Romanian University of Sciences and Arts "Gheorghe Cristea"
• Alternative Sciences Association in Romania
• CINAQ - Professional Association for Quality in Training for Public Administration
• FNTM - National Foundation of Young Managers
• Knowledge Management Institute - Romania
• Steinbeis Transfer Network - Stuttgart
• European Academy Vienna
• Green Institute
• University of Bucharest - European Studies Centre

Structure of the Forum:

Know-How Transfer & Empowering Session - "Integrated solutions for Projects and European Affairs"

High Level Stakeholder Forum on the implementation of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region and the selection of the priority projects in the Black Sea Basin

Exhibition of ideas, initiatives, projects, innovative networks in the Danube Region - Black Sea Basin

Gala Ceremony for awarding the Trophies "Black Sea - Danubian Social & Economic Innovator" (second edition)

Target-groups:

• regional networks and partnerships (public-private, cross-border organizations and projects, groups and inter-disciplinary academic institutions);
• consulting agencies and professional associations;
• other business interest groups, national and bilateral chambers of commerce;
• diplomatic representations in Romania and their commercial offices;
• journalists
• leading representatives of the NGO sector.

For more information on the Packages of Benefits and regarding the conditions of participation, please contact the Organising Consortium Secretariat at phone/fax: +4021.2304997.

Open Competition

A multi-national competition is officially launched in order to reward the most appealing and effective regional cooperation ideas, initiatives, project and networks, co-financed or to be financed by the European Funds in the Black Sea Basin / Danube Region.

IDEAS

INITIATIVES

PROJECTS:

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