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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EUSDR National Participation Days in Romania
15.05.2019 - 16:30 to 16.05.2019 - 16:30, Tulcea
Please save the date and join the First National Participation Day in Romania. The National Participation Day will be held on Thursday, 16th of May 2019 in Tulcea, Romania
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First National Participation Day in Slovenia
15.11.2018 - 09:30, City Hotel, Ljubljana
Please save the date and join the First National Participation Day in Slovenia. The National Participation Day will be held on Thursday, 15th of November 2018 in the City Hotel, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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National Participation Day in the Czech Republic
13.11.2018 (All day), Senát Parlamentu České republiky/ Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic
Please save the date and join the Second National Participation Day in the Czech Republic. The National Participation Day will be held on Tuesday, 13th of November 2018 in the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic, Valdštejnské náměstí 17/4, Prague 1, 118 01.
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The National Forum on the European Strategy for the Danube Region in Romania (incl. National Particpaiton Day)
05.11.2018 - 11:00 to 06.11.2018 - 13:30, Bucharest – The Palace of Parliament
The National Forum of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region, the official launching event of the Romanian Presidency of the EUSDR, will take place in 5th -6th November 2018, starting with 11.00, at the Palace of Parliament.
Please find the agenda attached.
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3rd NATIONAL HEARING OF THE DANUBE STRATEGY - Nature Conservation and Navigation alongside the Danube River
12.10.2018 - 09:30, Parliament, Trg Nikole Pašića 13„ Belgrade
We invite you to take part in the one-day conference devoted to the implementation of the Danube Strategy in Serbia, in front of Annual EUSDR forum in Sofia.
The NGO World and the Danube, in cooperation with the Ministry of European Integration, are organizing the third National Hearing of the Danube Strategy on the initiative of the Danube Civil Society Forum, which will be held on October 12, 2018, starting at 9:30 AM in the Parliament of Serbia.
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3rd NATIONAL PARTICIPATION DAY IN THE EU STRATEGY FOR THE DANUBE REGION & 2nd DONORS’ CONFERENCE “Danube Financial and Capacity Building Dialogue”
03.10.2018 - 09:00 to 21:00, Reception House of Odessa Regional Council (2 Sanatornyi Lane)
Ukraine, a non-EU country involved in the EU Danube Strategy process, shares significant part of the Danube-Carpathian Region that includes four oblasts (regions) – Odesska Oblast, Chernivetska Oblast, Ivano-Frankivska Oblast and Zakarpatska Oblast – occupying 68,100 sq km with a population of 6,160,400. The Danube Strategy is seen as a tool for sustainable development of areas belonging to the Ukrainian part of the Danube Region and provides a good opportunity for accelerating Ukraine’s move towards the European integration.
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National Participation Day in Moldova
18.09.2018 - 09:30 to 14:30, Ungheni District Council, Nationala str., nr. 11.
Please save the date and join the Third National Participation Day in Moldova. The National Participation Day will be held on Tuesday, 18th of September 2018 in Ungheni District Council, Nationala str., nr. 11.
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Danube Financing and Capacity Building Dialogue and National Participation Day
26.10.2017 - 09:00 to 27.10.2017 - 16:30, Chisinau, Moldova
The Ministry of Regional Development and Construction of the Republic of Moldova in partnership with the Priority Area 10 “Capacity Building” and with the Foster Europe, Foundation for strong European Regions, in cooperation with the RCC, are organizing a two days-event in Chisinau on the 26th and 27th of October 2017 in the framework of a Donor’s Conference.
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2nd NATIONAL PARTICIPATION DAY IN THE EU STRATEGY FOR THE DANUBE REGION
07.09.2017 - 09:15 to 08.09.2017 - 19:00, Odessa-Vylkove, Ukraine
The National Participation Day is seen as an important national forum that provides a good opportunity for bringing together Ukraine’s key stakeholders in the Danube Strategy process, i.e. the national and regional government, civil society, academic and expert community, politicians and local actors, strengthening coordination and cooperation between them, and discussing and revising Ukraine’s agenda in the EU Danube Strategy process.
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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.
