International Scientific Forum "Danube - River of Cooperation" is a non-governmental organisation working for nearly 20 years to improve all forms of regional cooperation in the Danube Region, with focus on the close cooperation between the Danube region countries in transition.
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Recent Activities of ISF "DRC"
The 20th jubilar International Scientific Conference "Danube - River of Cooperation" was held from September 24-27 2009 under the title The strategic Role of the Danube and its Tributaries in Cross-Border and Regional Cooperation in the Middle Danube River Basin. The conference focused on the following issues:
- Geo-strategic role of the river Danube as European Transportation Corridor VII,
- Regional answers on global challenges along the Danube and its tributaries,
- Sustainable use of natural and cultural resources in Danube Basin,
- Trans-boundary cooperation in the Middle
- Danube region,
- World Rivers Day: What we should learn from the experiences in sustainable use of rivers around the world.
We would like to thank to all who participated in the work of the Conference.
Sponsors of the Conference:
- Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water-Management, Directory for Water
- Saobraćajni institut CIP
- Hotel Union, Beograd
- Public Enterprise "Srbija Vode"
- Institute for Water Management "Jaroslav Černi"
- CCCE - Centar za Kontrolu i Ispitivanje, Beograd
- Hemel, Jagodina
- NIK doo, Beograd
- Members of ISF "DRC" with their volonteer work and membership fee
Conference Documents: Završni dokument * Other Documents
New publication: Water and Culture multimedial publication in English and Serbian, contains the presented and verified works, projects and project ideas at the international scientific conferences of the Forum "Danube – River of Cooperation" held in 2007 and 2008.
New book published: Dragana Petković Gajić, M.A., Regionalna saradnja u Podunavlju i strategija Srbije. (Regional Cooperation in the Danube Region and the Strategy of Serbia)
Recent Site Updates
- New image galleries in the Multumedia section: Landscapes and People and Old Postcards
- A press cliping section has been added to the About the Organisation page.
- New articles added to the Tourism section of the library in English, German and Serbian.
- The information on the Staff of the ISF "DRC" is updated according to the Annual Assembly Meeting (see below)
- We added a sharing/bookmarking widget to make it easier
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If you find our site interesting, please spread the word. - A project description was added about the Middle Danube - Iron Gate Euro-region
Danube River
Danube is the longest international river in Europe. It flows trough Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Moldavia and Ukraine. Its spring is in Schwarzwald ("the black forest") and it mouths into the Black Sea. It is 2.850 km long, the navigable part is 2.414 km.
Danube is in the center of the European network of navigable inland waterways. After the Main-Danube connection was created, Danube became a part of the trans-European waterway linking seaports at the North Sea (Rotterdam, Amsterdam) and at the Black Sea (Constanca) - 3.505 km long. An example to show the great importance of the Rhine-Mine-Danube waterway: the first attempt to connect Rhine and Danube was made as early as in 793. Charlemagne, the Frankish emperor, started a canal construction to link the two rivers. Works were soon suspended, but remnants of a canal, near Graben in Bavaria, witness them. The idea came to life only 12 centuries later.
There are also other ideas for linking Danube with other rivers and trough them to other seas, e.g. Adriatic Sea, Aegean Sea.