Danubian Small & medium Cities:
Good practices and cross border cooperations
Danubian Small & medium Cities: Good practices and cross border cooperations
COORDINATOR: Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) / 12-13 December 2022
The E3 Multiplier event organized by the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) was a 2-day event, held on the first day in the small, multi-ethnic Danube town of Ráckeve, Hungary, near Budapest, and on the second day in Budapest.
BME coordinated the work for the elaboration of the materials for “O2 – Report of data collection of good practices and teaching/ learning cross- border cooperation on Danube SMCs for transferring research and innovation in continuing education” booklet and oversaw the editing process.
Since the small multi-ethnic town of Ráckeve, Hungary, home to Hungarian, Serbian, and German communities was featured in the O2 booklet in several chapters it only made sense to use it as the venue for Day 1 of the multiplier event. It took the form of a hands-on study trip and was very interactive - attendees were shown around all the sites where research had been conducted and/or activities and project events took place: the Ráckeve riverbank, the abandoned MHSZ Clubhouse and its grounds that will be rehabilitated and repurposed to functions as a community center, the city center, the reconstructed floating boat mill that is moored just off the downtown area and was the result of a grassroots community effort, and the Museum of Fishing They also had the opportunity to ask questions, experience the role of the Danube River in the urban environment of Ráckeve and even to connect to local actors and inhabitants. The power of civic participation and active involvement was experienced first-hand by attendees and moderators/tour guides alike.
The targeted audience was a mix of local stakeholders with various professional backgrounds, but mainly coming from the fields of architecture, urbanism, cultural heritage, community development and academia. The event was highly publicized in traditional media outlets and on social media channels managed by BME, or BME related project teams such as the communication crew of the DANUrB+ project
Day 2 of the E3 multiplier event was less interactive, but by no means less exciting. Kristály Színtér Budapest, a conference and exhibition hall that used to be an old and decommissioned mineral water bottling plant on Budapest’s Margaret Island served as a meaningful venue to the final component of the event. After a short introduction to the DANUBIAN_SMCs project and its goals, Dr. Angelica STAN of UAUIM did an extensive presentation of the processes that led to the emergence and production of the 3 intellectual outputs, with special focus on how O2 came about. All stages fo the learning process on the topic of sustainable and inclusive development of Danubian small and medium-sized cities were covered including stage #1 – the theoretical inputs, stage #2 – co-participative data collection; stage #3 – synthesis and diagnosis; stage #4 – concept; stage #5 – strategic planning; and finally stage #6. – co-design. All these stages will foster the creating competencies for deeply understand the Danubian small and medium-sized cities specifics, the building of trust and co-participative attitude regarding the inclusiveness, the enhancing of creating knowledge about the hidden values of Danubian small and medium-sized cities, the creating of skills of interdisciplinary learning, developing skills for innovative concept and design, and last, but not least the understand and application of energy efficiency concepts from and architectural and planning perspective.
The targeted audience was a mix of local stakeholders with various professional backgrounds, but mainly coming from the fields of architecture, urbanism, cultural heritage, community development and academia. The event was highly publicized in traditional media outlets and on social media channels managed by BME, or BME related project teams such as the communication crew of the DANUrB+ project.
