INVITATION
Danube Region Business Conference 5
Belgrade, 10 – 11 November 2005
Experts’ meeting
“Co-operation between Business and Science
in the Danube Region: Obstacles and Perspectives”
10 November 2005
On 27 May 2002 the foreign ministers of 13 countries in the Danube Region launched the Danube Co-operation process at their meeting in Vienna, followed by a second conference in Bucharest in July 2004. The initiative is supported by the European Commission and by the Stability Pact for South-Eastern Europe and should foster co-operation without creating new institutions.
In this framework will take place
the 5th Danube Region Business Conference on 10 and 11 November 2005 in Belgrade.
Within the conference the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe, supported by the Danube Rectors’ Conference, organises a workshop on the item “Co-operation between business and science in the Danube Region: Obstacles and Perspectives”.
Distinguished personalities from throughout the region contributed to a publication on the topic and took part in a meeting of experts taking place in Bucharest in October 2003. The recommendations from this conference, formulated by the experts and attached to this letter, may serve as an impulse for our current discussions. Our aim is to consult opinion-makers (politicians and entrepreneurs as well as universities) to strengthen the future co-operation between science and business in the Danube Region.
It would be a great honour, if you could accept our invitation to participate in the experts’ meeting on 10 November 2005 from 12:30 to 17:30 in the Belgrade Sava Center.
A draft programme will be sent to you as soon as available.
The final recommendations will be presented to the whole conference audience in the morning of 11 November 2005.
Please inform yourself about the conference programme on the homepage www.drbc5.org
The attached pre-registration form can be sent by October 10th, 2005 to
Gerald Rosskogler, Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe, Hahngasse 6/1/24, 1090 Wien, Austria, Phone: +43/1/3197258-19, Fax: +43/1/3197258-4, E-Mail: