11th International Danube Conference on Culture: SHAPING CONFIDENCE BY CULTURE
Date/Time
September 12, 2024 - September 13, 2024
Ganztägig CEST/CET
General Objectives:
- Presentation of international projects, project ideas, networks, and financing opportunities;
- Discussion on challenges and future questions;
- Strengthening and further developing of cultural diversity in the Danube Region;
- Networking, exchange, discussion, and face to face encounters;
Main Topics:
Regenerative Cultural Tourism
To achieve broad-based change, as many Danube-Region-actors as possible must actively participate in shaping the new approach, the new sustainability in various areas – and across generations – to be able to identify with it. Particularly innovative approaches and pilot projects for a new kind of sustainable/regenerative cultural tourism in the Danube Region will be presented and discussed.
Ecology in Arts and Culture
The contribution of art and culture to the 2030 Agenda is a cross-sectional matter. Art and culture in all their traditional and innovative, as well as in material and immaterial forms are omnipresent and contribute to the economic, social and ecological goals of the SDGs. The aim is to shed light on the synergy between the cultural sector and the implementation of the SDGs.
Culture Tourism and Art for Kids, Youth, and Families
Showcasing innovative institutions and concepts from the Danube Region as role models for better leisure and educational opportunities for this target group. The KinderKunstLabor St. Pölten is a new exhibition house for contemporary art that thinks interdisciplinary, both for and with a young audience.
EUSDR Financial Resources
The EUSDR Culture and Tourism Priority Area (PA3) presents its significant flagship project and plans for the future. In particular, the results of the low-threshold Danube Small Project Fund program, which is specially tailored “for small project initiators”, show the positive impact such initiatives can have on the entire Danube Region.
Preliminary Conference Program
Day 1, Thursday, 12.9.2024 – KlosterUND Krems an der Donau
9:30 Registration
10:00 Welcome Speeches
10:30
Keynote „Imagine Dignity & Regeneration.”
Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, Director General of International Cultural Relations, Ministry for Foreign Affairs Austria
10:45
Discussion panel „Regenerative Cultural tourism.”
11:30 Artistic program
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Introduction to the Program
13:15
Keynote „Ecology in Art and Culture.”
Robert Fleck, Art Academy Düsseldorf, Department of Art and Public
13:30
Discussion panel „Ecology in Art and Culture.”
14:15 Artistic Program
14:30
Interview with the Governor of Lower Austria: Johanna Mikl-Leitner
Discussion panel with politicians from the Danube Region
15:30 Artistic program
16:00 End of the official program
19:00 Departure to Dürnstein in der Wachau
Sight-seeing and dinner
Day 2, Friday, 13.9.2024 – KlosterUND, Krems an der Donau
9:30 Registration
10:00 Welcome – Summary of the first day and introduction to the program
10:15
Keynote „Art and Culture for Children, Youth and Families.”
Mona Jas, Art Director of the KinderKunstLabor St. Pölten 3
10:30
Discussion panel „Art and Culture for Children, Youth and Families”
11:15 Artistic program
11:30
Keynote „Creating New Resources: Danube Small Project Fund.”
Paul Langer, Europäische Donauakademie Ulm
11:45
Discussion panel „Creating New Resources: Danube Small Project Fund.”
12:30 Lunch
13:30
Departure for a Boat Trip on the Danube
Please register for the International Danube Conference on Culture here.
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