National Participation Days (NPD, formerly national hearing) are annually held meetings of all interested active or potential stakeholders of the EUSDR on a national level. The NPDs specifically addresses civil society organisations and their networks, local actors from municipality level, academia, public authorities on local and regional level as well as national institutions active in the EUSDR and EUSDR Priority Coordinators (PACs) based in the country, as well as the National Contact Point (NCP). The NPD should be open to interested stakeholders from abroad such as representatives from PACs, academia, umbrella organisations (CoDCR, DCSF) and civil society. The NPD is the national platform in the structured civil society dialogue of the EUSDR. The NPD is the important link:
- between the national public actors (ministries, national agencies, NCP, PACs, etc.) and the interested stakeholders active in the country;
- The NPD gives stakeholders the possibility to meet and exchange information in view of possible cooperation on a macro-regional level;
- The NPD gives stakeholders the possibility to inform themselves about ongoing projects, calls or other possible financing programmes or instruments in the EUSDR between the supra- national activities of the EUSDR, at the Annual Fora and the annual Danube Participation Days.
On the national and regional level, the Danube Participation Days are backed by national events that bear various names differing from country to county. In Serbia and the Vojvodina the event is called National Hearing, in Austria Erweitertes Dilagogforum (Enlarged Dialogue Forum), in Baden- Württemberg Donauforum (Danube Forum).
Aims of a NPD
The NPD should be a forum for stakeholders to report from their work, experience, perspective and planning on both state and non-state level, for mutual information and opinion building on national level.
The NPD should thematically include the annual fora and the Danube Participation Days. For this the agenda of the NPD should reflect the outcome of the previous and the agenda of the upcoming annual fora and Danube Participation Days as well as the state of implementation, reform and progress of the EUSDR as a whole.
The NPD creates by it repeated state-actor non-state actor structured dialogue and their mutual information a nucleus for an informed and active EUSDR public in the country. This contributes to a capacity building of multi-sectoral and multi-level, trans-regional, trans-national cooperation on the local, regional and national levels.
Format
As a pratical matter, the exepriences from other NPDs held so far show that the NPD should be held at a venue easy to reach and last not longer than 3⁄4 of a day. It should be organised either jointly by the NCP and civil society in coodination with PA 10 responsible for civil society and participation in the EUSDR or by civil society in coordination with the respective NCP and PA 10. In general, the NPD should be a low hurdle event for participants and and a low cost event for the organisers. From previous expereinces, attendance is between 80 and 120 persons.
Outcomes
The NPD should raise the level of national coordination, participation and knowwledge on the national strategy within the EUSDR. It should inform participants on the current state of play of the EUSDR and foster direct links and contacts between actors from various fields of expertise (state and non-state). The NPD should raise awaresess on the national level and motivate possibly interested actors to join the strategy and become active stakeholders.
Scheme of the participative structure in the EUSDR governance
Past and future National Participation Days
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Austrian Dialogforum - EUSDR
13.03.2015 (All day), Neues Amtsgebäude, Vienna, Austria
The Federal Chancellery and the Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs - as National Coordinators of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region (EUSDR) together with the City of Vienna - as the coordinator of the Priority Area 10 invite actors active in the Danube Region to a first EUSDR Dialogue Forum. -
National Hearing EUSDR in Serbia: Status Quo and Outlook- Национално слушање Дунавске стратегије
20.10.2015 (All day), Serbia, 21000 Novi Sad, Vladike Platona bb
Канцеларија за европске интеграције Републике Србије и Дунавски цивилно-социјални форум уз подршку Скупштине АП Војводине и Покрајинског секретаријата за међурегионалну сарадњу и локалну самоуправу организују Национално слушање Дунавске стратегије 2015, које ће се одржати 20. октобра 2015. Године, са почетком у 10.00 часова у Великој сали Скупштине АП Војводине у Новом Саду.
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NATIONAL HEARING SERBIA - EU STRATEGY FOR THE DANUBE REGION
20.10.2015 (All day), Assembly of AP Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia
Danube Civil Society Forum and the Office for European Integration of Republic of Serbia, as the Office of National Cordinator for the Danube Strategy are organizing the National Hearing on the Danube Stratetgy for 2015. The National Hearing will be held on October, 20 2015 at 10.00 pm at the Generaly Hall of the Assembly of AP Vojvodina Novi Sad.
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2. EUSDR-Dialogforum
09.09.2016 - 10:00 to 16:00, Tulln, Universitäts-und Forschungszentrum, Konrad Lorenz Straße 24
SAVETHE DATE!
Save the date and join the 2nd National Participation Day in Austria that will take place in Tulln on 9 September 2016. We are attaching the invitation and the programme.
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National Participation Day for Civil Society in the Republic of Moldova
22.09.2016 - 09:00 to 14:30, Chisinau, Writer’s Union, str. 31 August 98
SAVE THE DATE!
Save the date and join the 1st National Participation Day for Civil Society in the Republic of Moldova on 22nd September 2016. Please find the draft agenda of the event attached.
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National Participation Day in Slovakia
21.10.2016 - 08:30, Water Museum of BVS, as, Devínska cesta 1, Bratislava (trams no. 4 and 9, bus no. 32)
Please SAVE THE DATE and join the fisrt Slovak National Participation on 21,October 2016 in Bratislava.
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National Hearing : EUSDR in Serbia
24.03.2017 - 09:30, Great Hall of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia
Please SAVE THE DATE and join NATIONAL HEARING SERBIA - EU STRATEGY FOR THE DANUBE REGION on 24, March 2017 in Novi Sad. The agenda of the event can be found in the attachement.
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National Citizen Participation Meeting
16.05.2017 - 10:30 to 17.05.2017 - 11:00, Vitosha Park Hotel, Sofia, Bulgaria
At the National Citizen Participation Meeting with title THE ART OF CONNECTING IN A MACRO-REGIONAL FRAMEWORK the participants will discuss how they work together in a network – through the values, challenges and common goals that connect them.
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National Participation Day Prague / Participační přístupy a Podunajská strategie - Národní den participace v České republice
30.05.2017 - 09:30 to 16:00, Akademie veřejného investování, Ministerstvo pro místní rozvoj, Pařížská 4, Praha 1, Czech Republic
It is our pleasure to invite you on behalf of our Deputy Minister Mrs. Olga Letáčková, to the international conference Participatory Approaches and Danube Region Strategy – National Participation Day in the Czech Republic. The event will be held on Tuesday, 30th of May 2017 in the Ministry of Regional Development premises in Prague (Pařížská street no. 4, Praha 1). The conference focuses on the introduction of the participatory approach, and on presentation of the macro-regional EU Danube Strategy.
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Danube National Participation Day : Chancen der EU-Donauraumstrategie für Baden-Württemberg nutzen Informations- und Beteiligungstag
29.06.2017 - 10:00 to 16:30, Haus der katholischen Kirche, Stuttgart
Please join the Danube National Participation Day on 29, June 2017 in Stuttgart.