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The Global Water Partnership Central and Eastern Europe organized summer school was held in Warsaw, Poland (July 2018) to support youth experts preparing their message to the climate summit UNFCCC COP24 (Katowice, 12/2018).
PA5 Hungarian coordination took part on the last two days of the event to help the dialogue between young leaders and policy-makers on water and climate change policies.

Registration for the 7th Annual Forum of the Danube Strategy is now open. We kindly invite you to register for the event, join the discussions and get in contact with the PA5 coordination!

THE NEXT PIRATE ATTACK AGAINST WASTE - The sixth Plastic Cup is starting on 4th of August. The JOINTISZA project will also launch a boat, having the EU Strategy for the Danube Region PA4 and PA5 colleagues also on board. (Press Release of Plastic Cup)

Hungary will host the 7th ASEM Sustainable Development Dialogue on “Sustainable and Integrated Water Management in the 21st century – addressing imminent challenges”, a high-profile event to be held between 11 and 12 September 2018 in Budapest. The aim of the two-day event is to promote the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals and targets related to water and sanitation, as well as to achieve progress on the implementation of the Danube-Mekong Cooperation Initiative launched by Hungary in 2012.

Today is a special occasion to call the attention to the assets of the Danube River and risks endanger the beauties of our unique riverine system. On the 29th of June each year, the 14 countries of the Danube Basin jointly celebrate one of Europe's greatest river system. In the margin of the Danube-Day, on 28 June an International Danube Day event on "Challenges of plastic waste in the Danube region and beyond" was organized by EUSDR priority areas on "water quality" and "environmental risks", in Budapest, Hungary.

28 June 2018: a day dedicated to stop plastic floods in the form of an international workshop and round table discussion taking place in Budapest. Signs of pollution are intensely present in the whole Tisza basin. Plastic waste can be observed in the main protected areas of the Danube Delta and has an impact on the Black Sea environment as well, resulting in cross-border complaints from downstream countries. The Danube Day event organized with the support of the JOINTISZA project under the partonage of EUSDR PA4 and PA5 aims to call attention to the mounting problems of plastic waste pollution in line with offering a networking platform in policy and NGO level to find joint solutions for the emerging waste problem. Preliminary registration to the event is open until 20 June 2018 and limited up to 80 participants.