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We cordially invite you to participate in the high-level event co-organised by Pro Danube International in the frame of our Europe-wide campaign, dedicating the year 2022 to the promotion of Danube Logistics and Tourism under the motto

The aim of the campaign is to raise awareness on recent and planned developments focusing on new beginnings in line with the European policy framework, highlighting the strengths and opportunities of Danube waterborne transport, while bringing together policy and decision-makers, experts, and the business sector in order to achieve the European goal of increasing transport by inland waterways and short sea shipping by 25% by 2030, and by 50% by 2050.

Entitled "Inland Waterways Transport in the Danube: taking stock of the NAIADES III Strategy", the online event is co-hosted by MEP Carmen Avram, SEArica Vice-Chair for the Danube and the Black Sea & MEP Caroline Nagtegaal, SEArica member & EP rapporteur of "Towards Future-proof Inland Waterway Transport (IWT) in Europe". Pro Danube will set the regional perspective with inputs from key business stakeholders. 

The event is supported by SEArica - Seas, Rivers, Islands & Coastal Areas Intergroup of the European Parliament and is co-organised by Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions and Pro Danube International. 

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We are thrilled to announce our participation in a new project: H2 meets H2O. The aim of the exploratory project is to assess the feasibility and applicability of hydrogen supply along the Danube as a logistics backbone from a technical, legal, and socio-economic perspective.

Therefore, based on a multimodal supply concept, from the production of hydrogen up to the end-users, the logistical basis for a subsequent R&D project with innovative pilot applications for inland waterway vessels, railways and trucks shall be created. The preparatory work of the exploratory study will be structured along three pillars:

• Analysis of basic principles and implementation potential,
• Stakeholder analysis & network development,
• Result utilisation & monitoring.

• Project duration:  April 2022 – March 2023
• Total Budget:  306.939 € (€ 191.983 (62,55%) funded by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG))

Project partner: Pro Danube Management GmbH; Energieinstitut an der Johannes Kepler Universität Linz; Hafen Wien GmbH; Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften Landshut; via donau-Österreichische Wasserstraßen-Gesellschaft m.b.H.; WIVA P&G - Wasserstoffinitiative Vorzeigeregion Austria Power & Gas

A proud member of the PhysICAL consortium, Pro Danube cordially invites you to an event organised at the premises of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation, and Technology, to present, after 2 years of extensive research activities, first preliminary results. The keynote speech will be delivered in English by Fernando Liesa, General Secretary of ALICE, while the rest of the event will be held in German.

The preliminary agenda is available here.

Climate change is today one of the most pressing issues that the entire world is faced with, and the EU policy and legal framework are evolving accordingly. The EU Green Deal and in particular the ‘Fit for 55 package’ will require a profound and quick transformation of the waterborne transport sector in terms of technologies employed, operations, trainings, business models, and so on. One of the few ways this can be achieved is through increased RD&I activities starting today.

Under the motto “WeareWaterborne”, the LASTING project - of which Pro Danube is a proud member of - aims to inform and increase the waterborne transport stakeholders’ engagement in EU-wide RD&I activities. This will be done in particular by helping the stakeholders access the necessary funding and by providing them much of the key information regarding RD&I needs and information gaps.

In this context, we are pleased to invite you to LASTING’s stakeholders’ workshop, scheduled for 22 March 2022 from 09:30 – 13:00 o’clock, to discuss with you how the waterborne transport sector can face these challenges. We will present the project’s findings over the last year concerning the sector’s information gaps regarding RD&I needs, information availability, and accessibility regarding the various funding & financing opportunities that exist in the EU as well as selected national programmes for our sector. 

 

Furthermore, we will also touch upon the necessity of having a better information and communication campaign in the EU on such topics, so that as many stakeholders can obtain the much-needed information and funding in a timely manner. We can all play an essential role in communicating about the numerous opportunities.

This workshop is addressed in particular to those working in the R&I activities, on both technical and communication & PR aspects. Your help is crucial and that is why we would like to have your input!

  

In case you would like to join, please be so kind as to register via the link below by the 18^th of March, COB. We kindly encourage you to fill in the short questionnaire that we have included in the registration system, in order to have a better overview of our audience and their expectations.

The agenda is available here.

 

Please note that the event is planned to take place in online mode only.

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