The idea of renting a boat in the Danube River comes from the fact that Danube is one of the best symbols of the SEE programme as an example of something uniting countries across the borders in one of the most diverse and complex transnational areas of the EU. Moreover, the European Commission has launched the Danube Strategy (www.danube-region.eu) as an opportunity to boost the development of the Danube Region.

On the other hand, the involvement of media will make the event arrive to a broader audience than the stakeholders and project partners, trying in this way to make aware to citizens of Territorial Cooperation in general and the South East Europe Programme in particular.

1) Event Agenda:

10:00 Opening of the project exhibition

10:30 Welcome coffee for media and project representatives

11:00-12:30 Press conference (upper floor):

-Introductory speeches:

 Balázs Simó, National Development Agency, Director of Managing Authority for International Cooperation Programmes; Head of SEE Programme Managing Authority

 Balázs Medgyesy, Government Commissioner for the EU Danube Strategy

-Presentation by the Joint Technical Secretariat of the SEE Programme:

General approach to territorial cooperation and European Cooperation Day

General presentation of SEE Programme 

The Danube Strategy and the future of territorial cooperation

- Open questions by media

16:00 Closure of the project exhibition

2) Venue

BudapestConference Boat - Vigado Square Dock - Budapest

3) Projects participating

11 SEE projects have already confirmed their participation: Capinfood, Dahar, Danube Floodrisk, Danubeparks, Datourway, Donauregionen, Green Mountain, Newada, Recultivator, SETA and Wanda. Most of them are related to Danube but not only, in order to give a more accurate perception of the programme for general public.

4) Language

The speeches and presentations of the press conference will be given both in Hungarian and English languages but there will be an interpreter helping with a consecutive interpretation Hungarian-English/English-Hungarian.

5) Invitations

Due to it's not a usual seminar/conference and the projects exhibition is open to general public, no registration or traditional agenda have been prepared. Everyone interested in Territorial Cooperation can get in.

More information: Eloy Gomez Giron, SEE JTS Communication Manager

Email: gomez@southeast-europe.net

Tel: +36 1 224  3154

Source: http://www.southeast-europe.net/en/news_and_events/events/other_events/2012/ecdday