The Danubius Award was created in 2011 by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Science, Research and Economy (BMWFW) and the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe (IDM) with the intention to honor persons with extraordinary achievements in their scientific activity and output in relation to the Danube Region.

We specifically encourage candidates from the countries Moldova,

Montenegro and Ukraine to hand in their application: the deadline is prolonged

until 7th of June 2017 at 23:59!

The DRC general assembly held on November 6, 2015 decided to establish DRC Fund for Incentives. 

This fund will be funded from the budget of DRC into which each full member of DRC contributes 500 € per year as DRC membership fee. 

The purpose of the fund is to support the cooperation of DRC members which contributes to achieving the goals of EU Strategy for the Danube region in the priority areas where the universities have a strong position and their participation is exclusively needed.

DEADLINE FOR THE APPLICATIONS for 2017 is January 31, 2017.

More information and the guidelines for this Fund for Incentives can be found on the intranet. If you don't have access, please send an email to info@drc-danube.org 

DRC annual meeting and DRC 2016 General Assembly was held at the Danube University Krems on November 9-11. The topic of the conference was

Vision | Knowledge | Prosperity

The Universities Contribution to EUSDR

Good Practices and Challenges

Further information can be found here. 

Save the Date!

Vision | Knowledge | Prosperity

The Universities Contribution to EUSDR

Keynote Speech in the context of the Annual Conference of the Danube Rectors Conference 2016

His Excellency the President of the Republic of Bulgaria Mr. Rosen Plevneliev

The Danubius Award was created in 2011 by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Science, Research and Economy (BMWFW) and the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe (IDM) with the intention to honor persons with extraordinary achievements in their scientific activity and output in relation to the Danube Region.

The DRC general assembly held on November 6, 2015 decided to establish DRC Fund for Incentives. 

This fund will be funded from the budget of DRC into which each full member of DRC contributes 500 € per year as DRC membership fee. 

The purpose of the fund is to support the cooperation of DRC members which contributes to achieving the goals of EU Strategy for the Danube region in the priority areas where the universities have a strong position and their participation is exclusively needed.

DEADLINE FOR THE APPLICATIONS for 2016 is January 15, 2016.

More information and the guidelines for this Fund for Incentives can be found on the intranet. If you don't have access, please send an email to info@drc-danube.org 

The Danubius Award was created in 2011 by the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe (IDM) and the Austrian Federal Ministry for Science, Research and Economy (BMWFW) with the intention to honor persons with extraordinary achievements in their scientific activity and output in relation to the Danube Region. 2015 this award has been, for the second time, complemented with a specific price for young scientists - the „Danubius Young Scientist Award“.

We are especially happy that this year’s Danubius Award was given to former DRC president and DRC honorary president em. Univ.-Prof. DI Dr. DDr. h.c. Leopold März.

More information as well as the awardees of the Danubius Young Scientist Award can be found in the press release below:

DRC annual meeting and DRC 2015 General Assembly was held at the University of Maribor on November 4-6. The topic of the conference was

“Harmonisation of the Danube Higher Education Area”

A detailed report of the conference programme will be online soon here. 

The JRC Annual Event 2015 in Ulm will take stock of the continuing scientific support activities for the Danube region and will focus on the JRC expertise that supports the European Commission priorities of boosting jobs and growth, building a European Energy Union and supporting the digital single market through smart specialisation in the Danube region.

The program of the 5th Danube eRegion Conference – DeRC 2015: Cross-border eSolutions & eServices Prototypes Development (Location: Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia, Dimičeva ulica 13, 1000 Ljubljana, Time: Monday-Tuesday, September 21-22, 2015) has been updated. 

The JRC has opened applications for the second edition of the Danube Innovation Partnership Summer School on IP Commercialisation and Technology Transfer.

This event, targets professionals with experience in intellectual property management and technology transfer, and is organised in collaboration with the World Intellectual Property Organisation, The National Research, Development and Innovation Office of Hungary, the Intellectual Property Office of Hungary, Semmelweiss University and the University of Debrecen.

Apart from the DRC Summer School, there are several opportunities for participation in summer schools from our partners of the DRC network. For two summer schools, the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe (IDM) awards one scholarship each, sponsored by the OeAD.

The Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe (IDM), Vienna,

IDResearch Ltd (IDR), Pécs the Faculty of Humanities and Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Pécs

 and the BOKU University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna are organizing the 12th Summer School on Regional Co-operation under the intellectual sponsorship of the Danube Rectors’ Conference