1. The EU Strategy for the Danube Region

2. Ms. Andreja Jerina Slovenia National Contact Point of Slovenia The Strategy delivers. It makes valuable results visible. EU S TRATEGY FOR THE D ANUBE R EGION (EUSDR) | www.danube-region.eu

3. Ms. Snezhina Marinova Bulgaria PAC 11, Bulgaria The Danube Strategy is a chance for further streamlining, coordinating and stepping up cooperation between the law enforcement bodies. It depends on us, on the relevant states involved to grasp the opportunity and turn it into reality. EU S TRATEGY FOR THE D ANUBE R EGION (EUSDR) | www.danube-region.eu

4. Ms. Irena Lukač Slovenia PA 10, Slovenia; Center of Excellence in Finance, Slovenia Rapporteur EU S TRATEGY FOR THE D ANUBE R EGION (EUSDR) | www.danube-region.eu

5. Mr. Strahil Karapchanski Bulgaria Vice-Mayor of Ruse, Bulgaria The Strategy reconsiders and reshapes the processes of the political agenda-setting within the Danube Region in the context of multi-level governance. EU S TRATEGY FOR THE D ANUBE R EGION (EUSDR) | www.danube-region.eu

6. Mr. Midhat Džemić Bosnia and Herzegovina Directorate for European Integration of Bosnia and Herzegovina The Danube Strategy needs alignments with the financial instruments it is supposed to use and with programming time schedules. It also needs alignment of EUSDR National Contact Points and National IPA Coordinators in case of candidate and potential candidate countries EU S TRATEGY FOR THE D ANUBE R EGION (EUSDR) | www.danube-region.eu

7. Ms. Snezana Filipovic Republic of Serbia PA 10 Steering Group Member representing Serbia The Strategy is supposed to deepen institutional cooperation especially by establishing institutional networks and by enabling the exchange of "best practices" within the Danube Region EU S TRATEGY FOR THE D ANUBE R EGION (EUSDR) | www.danube-region.eu

8. Ms. Daniela Urschitz Austria PA 10, City of Vienna To the Commissions three No's for the macro-regions, let us add the Councils three Yeses: yes to complementary founding, yes to the coordination of institutional instruments, yes to the definition of new projects. EU S TRATEGY FOR THE D ANUBE R EGION (EUSDR) | www.danube-region.eu

9. Mr. Helmut Habersack Austria University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna Providing project support and funding information will help promoters to realise the projects like DREAM which carry on the idea and aims of the Danube Strategy! EU S TRATEGY FOR THE D ANUBE R EGION (EUSDR) | www.danube-region.eu

10. Capacity Building

11. Mr. Peter Langer Germany Coordinator of the Council of the Danube Cities and Regions "Cities and regions and their networks are crucial stability factors in the Danube Region and play a central role in the implementation of the EUSDR." EU S TRATEGY FOR THE D ANUBE R EGION (EUSDR) | www.danube-region.eu

12. Cooperation

13. Ms. Martina K. Sommer Austria Network coordinator: FemCities, Vienna The FemCities network uses the EUSDR as impetus to strengthen communication on gender equality issues in the Danube Region. Cooperation multiplies output and benefits all. EU S TRATEGY FOR THE D ANUBE R EGION (EUSDR) | www.danube-region.eu

14. Financing

15. Ms. Marlene Hahn Austria Project Manager at Metis GmbH, Vienna There is no lack of financial instruments but there exists diverse difficulties for project promoters to access those instruments. EU S TRATEGY FOR THE D ANUBE R EGION (EUSDR) | www.danube-region.eu