European Citizen’s Prize and „Lily of Europe” 2015

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Double Award for International Project „The Wanted Danube“

BRUSSELS/BERLIN/ULM (DANET) – The European Parliament has awarded the Ulm-based international project “The Wanted Danube”, represented by its coordinator Carmen Stadelhofer, with the “European Citizen’s Prize 2015”, as confirmed now by European Parliament Vice President Sylvie Guillaume in Brussels. EU Parliament members Evelyne Gebhardt (Germany, SPD) and Michael Theurer (Germany, FDP) had nominated the friendship project with its 6.000 participants from eight European countries along the river Danube, which was wrapped up in July 2014, for the competition.
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The DANET Day in Bulgaria – Ruse, Borisovo, Ryahovo, and Silistra

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The European Association “Danube-Networkers for Europe(DANET) e.V., the University of Ruse and the Union of Pensioners‘2004-Ruse organized a Danube-Networkers Day on 15 May 2015, Friday. A number of events took place both in Ruse and in the villages of Borisovo and Ryahovo, The DANET delegation included Chairperson of DANET, Mrs. Carmen Stadelhofer,  and three representatives of organizations, very involved by voluntary work in the project “The wanted Danube”, Bertram Wegemer, ILEU e.V.,  Stefani Meyer, a teacher in a high school in Illertissen  (near Ulm)and Inga Engels from the “Donaubüro/Danube Office” of the towns Ulm/Neu-Ulm.

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“The wanted Danube” connects people

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Danube-Networkers Day in Jamena, and Backa Palanka in Serbia, and Vukovar in Croatia

Jamena is a small Serbian village near to the river Sava and the Bosnian and Croatian border. The proposal to organise a Danube-Networkers-Day in Jamena together with the primary School OŠ “Filip Višnjić” was created in the frame of a visit of the Danube-Networkers-Delegation from Ulm in October 2014 in Jamena. The whole village was hit by flood in March 2014. The guests from Ulm brought a donation of 3.000 Euro to the primary school to help them to refurnish some school classes and to buy new school materials. This support was possible through donations collected on the base of the woolen  “Danube-pieces” made in the frame of the project “The wanted Danube

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Empowering civil society in the Danube region: 50 participants and great ideas at DANET’s first qualification seminar

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Ulm/Bad Urach (DANET) – The Ulm-based non-profit association „Danube-Networkers for Europe“ (DANET) e.V. has organized its first qualification seminar for 50 civil organization chief executives from all countries situated at the Danube river. The participants stayed in the “Haus auf der Alb” conference house in Bad Urach from December 8 to December 12. Goal of the seminar was to enhance the cooperation of civil society organizations all over the European Danube Area by dealing with project supporting measures.

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1st DANET Qualification Training aimed at strengthening the civil society and collaboration in the Danube region by capacity building

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We are pleased to announce a first Qualification Training aimed at strengthening the civil society and collaboration in the Danube region by capacity building. This training, will take place 8th-12th December 2014 in Bad Urach and is financially supported by the Baden-Württemberg Stiftung and other sponsors.

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Danube-Networkers have donated 6.000 Euro

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„The Wanted Danube“ became a fruitful action

The representatives of the Danube Networkers (DANET) presented two checks each with a donation in the amount of 3.000 EUR to the teams of the care center for children and youth with disabilities Zvjezdica in Gunja (Croatia) and the primary school OS “Filip Visnjic” in Jamena (Serbia). Those two institutions were strongly hit by the flood catastrophe in May 2014. The donations were collected within the international project “The wanted Danube”. The coordinator of this project Carmen Stadelhofer and the project manager of the DANET Mirjana Klapprodt visited Gunja and Jamena at the beginning of October and got a impression of the destruction caused by the flood. During the trip, they also visited partner organisations in Serbia and Croatia who were involved in this project and discussed the prospective activities within a new project initiative called “The Danube moves us”.

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The establishment of the office “Danube Networkers for Europe e.V.” (DANET)

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With a support of the State Ministry of Baden-Württemberg we established the office “Danube Networkers for Europe e.V.” (DANET) on the 01/07/2014 in Ulm. We are glad to appoint Mirjana Klapprodt as a Project Manager on full time in our office. Mirjana Klapprodt comes from an inter-cultural background and has experience in intergenerational dialogue and cooperation between young and old people. She has been working for many years in adult education in different European countries. Ms Klapprodt has also worked as Marketing Executive at a further education institution in London.

Our office in Ulm: Olgastr. 109 109, 89081 Ulm, Tel.: +49 731 50-26691

Office hours: Monday to Friday, 9am to 5.30pm.

Working meeting of the Danube – Networkers (DANET)

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The representatives of the Danube – Networkers and their partners participated in a working meeting organised by ZAWiW within the 9th Danube Festival in Ulm. This was a good opportunity to discuss the prospective projects and the future plans. A brainstorming session showed the possibilities for new projects in the future.This working session as well as  the Civil Society tent “The Danube Networking” was supported by the Baden-Württemberg Stiftung.

Foundation of the international organisation “Danube-Networkers for Europe, Network for Learning in Later Life, Social Participation and Intergenerational Dialogue (DANET)e.V. in Ulm the 14th of March 2014

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The 14th of March 2014 the members of the informal Network “Danube-Networkers” ,existing since 2008, founded the international organisation “Danube-Networkers for Europe, Network for Learning in Later Life, Social Participation and Intergenerational Dialogue (DANET)e.V.

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