The DRC general assembly held on November 6, 2015 decided to establish DRC Fund for Incentives. 

This fund will be funded from the budget of DRC into which each full member of DRC contributes 500 € per year as DRC membership fee. 

The purpose of the fund is to support the cooperation of DRC members which contributes to achieving the goals of EU Strategy for the Danube region in the priority areas where the universities have a strong position and their participation is exclusively needed.

DEADLINE FOR THE APPLICATIONS for 2016 is January 15, 2016.

More information and the guidelines for this Fund for Incentives can be found on the intranet. If you don't have access, please send an email to info@drc-danube.org 

The Danubius Award was created in 2011 by the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe (IDM) and the Austrian Federal Ministry for Science, Research and Economy (BMWFW) with the intention to honor persons with extraordinary achievements in their scientific activity and output in relation to the Danube Region. 2015 this award has been, for the second time, complemented with a specific price for young scientists - the „Danubius Young Scientist Award“.

We are especially happy that this year’s Danubius Award was given to former DRC president and DRC honorary president em. Univ.-Prof. DI Dr. DDr. h.c. Leopold März.

More information as well as the awardees of the Danubius Young Scientist Award can be found in the press release below:

DRC annual meeting and DRC 2015 General Assembly was held at the University of Maribor on November 4-6. The topic of the conference was

“Harmonisation of the Danube Higher Education Area”

A detailed report of the conference programme will be online soon here. 

The JRC Annual Event 2015 in Ulm will take stock of the continuing scientific support activities for the Danube region and will focus on the JRC expertise that supports the European Commission priorities of boosting jobs and growth, building a European Energy Union and supporting the digital single market through smart specialisation in the Danube region.

The program of the 5th Danube eRegion Conference – DeRC 2015: Cross-border eSolutions & eServices Prototypes Development (Location: Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia, Dimičeva ulica 13, 1000 Ljubljana, Time: Monday-Tuesday, September 21-22, 2015) has been updated. 

The JRC has opened applications for the second edition of the Danube Innovation Partnership Summer School on IP Commercialisation and Technology Transfer.

This event, targets professionals with experience in intellectual property management and technology transfer, and is organised in collaboration with the World Intellectual Property Organisation, The National Research, Development and Innovation Office of Hungary, the Intellectual Property Office of Hungary, Semmelweiss University and the University of Debrecen.

Apart from the DRC Summer School, there are several opportunities for participation in summer schools from our partners of the DRC network. For two summer schools, the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe (IDM) awards one scholarship each, sponsored by the OeAD.

The Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe (IDM), Vienna,

IDResearch Ltd (IDR), Pécs the Faculty of Humanities and Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Pécs

 and the BOKU University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna are organizing the 12th Summer School on Regional Co-operation under the intellectual sponsorship of the Danube Rectors’ Conference

University of Maribor cordially invites you to the Staff Training Week taking place from June 1^st to June 5^th, 2015, in the European Capital of Culture 2012, European Capital of Youth 2013, home of the Old Wine Maribor on the sunny side of the Alps in Slovenia.

A trainee position on ship emissions from inland waterways has been published by the Joint Research Centre as part of the Danube Air Nexus project.

The reference call no is 2015-IPR-H-000-4895/JN227578.

All the details on how to apply and the description of the traineeship are available at

http://recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu

The Danubius Award was created in 2011 by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Science,
Research and Economy (BMWFW) and the Institute for the Danube Region and Central
Europe (IDM) with the intention to honor persons with extraordinary achievements in their scientific activity and output in relation to

the Danube Region.

The workshop is potentially the first out of two sequential workshops, with the latter one to be organised in half a year time (subject to confirmation). The objectives of the March workshop are twofold:

The Inter-Municipality Initiative: Cross-border eCollaboration in the Danube eRegion, has been under way since February 2011. A major focus of the initiative is to encourage organizations having interest in any aspect of cross-border eBusiness in the region to engage in a joint Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) based prototype development. A prototype is the beginning of an action leading to a possible joint EU project proposal of an eSolution or an eService development solving a problem shared by the organization in at least three countries.

The Danubius Award was created in 2011 by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Science,
Research and Economy (BMWFW) and the Institute for the Danube Region and Central
Europe (IDM) with the intention to honor persons with extraordinary achievements in their scientific activity and output in relation to

the Danube Region.