Steinbeis Innovation Center Steinbeis-Donau-Zentrum

• Support for all stakeholders at a state, regional, municipal, and local level in developing macro-regional partnerships and projects
• Conceptual planning and realization of events aimed at promoting and implementing the European Danube Strategy
• Facilitation of the development process for implementing the European Danube Strategy
• Consultation on the planning of concrete actions in the South-East European Danube Region

• Strengthening of company competitiveness, including the development of business clusters
• Development of a knowledge society through research, education, and information technology
• Investment in people and skills
• Expansion of institutional capacities and partnerships
• Improvement of transportation connections and routes
• Promotion of sustainable energy forms
• Development of tourism and the arts as economic assets
• Improvement and protection of water quality
• Detection and assessment of environmental risks
• Conservation of biodiversity, countryside, and air and soil quality
• Regional focus: the European Danube Region spanning Germany (Baden-Wuerttemberg, Bavaria), Austria, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia, Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Moldova, and Ukraine (South)

• Mitigation of greenhouse gases in the Danube valley (EDAPHIC-BLOOM Danube) – a project under the European Climate Initiative (EUKI)
• Civil society and urban development: the promotion of civic engagement among young Romanians
• Design and organization of the Early Innovators Business Plan Competition for young Romanians at general education schools
• Promotion of research and innovation in the Danube region: identification of funding opportunities; collaborative development in the area of “Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy in a Bio-based Economy” (Danube-INCO.NET)
• Setting up of Danube Transfer Centers in Slovakia and Romania (Baden-Wuerttemberg pilot project aimed at strengthening competitiveness along the Danube corridor)
• Management of the official working group on Innovation and Technology Transfer in the Danube Region (EUSDR, Priority Area 8)

Steinbeis Transfer Magazine

• The Early Innovators Business Plan Competition (Transfer 2/2021)
  Steinbeis experts promote entrepreneurship among young people by running a business plan competition for young Romanians
• Transfer across borders (Transfer 1/2013)
  Steinbeis enterprises give their support to the EU Danube Region Strategy