Implementing organizations

Starkmacher e.V. (founded in 2006) is a civil society non-profit organisation and accredited stakeholder for youth support and extracurricular youth education in Germany. It is an organisation run by and for people, who carry the promotion and development of young people‘s potential close to their hearts. The main function is to empower primarily young people and disadvantaged children, and to enable a positive reaction to lacking orientation, missing values and increasing violence. The main areas of work cover non-formal education, global learning and youth work in various social and ethnic contexts. Starkmacher e.V. has implemented two other projects in the Danube region before: The youth projects "Let's Bridge Danube" and "Future Lab", which have contributed to youth participation and intercultural learning.

Zero Waste Society is an NGO based in Kiev that focuses on raising awareness on waste reduction and education about sustainable alternatives to waste. Its main activities include educational events (e.g. lectures, workshops) in schools, universities, businesses and youth exchanges. The aim of the NGO’s activities is to protect the environment and human health by promoting the Zero Waste movement and responsible consumption, as well as the creation of educational informational materials and educational programmes for the purpose of dissemination of up-to-date information on the state of the ecological situation in Ukraine.

Zero Waste Society gives workshops and holds events informing people about alternative ways of consumption and waste reduction.

D. A. Tsenov Academy of Economics is a leading higher education institution of economics and business in Bulgaria with more than 80 years of history, 145 000 alumni and a well-established reputation in education and science. The sustainable development concept is incorporated in most of our initiatives, projects and study programmes. The partnership arose in 2016 when the German-Ukranian project group “Let's Bridge Danube” visited the academy in Svishtov to find out more about Bulgarian youth’s challenges and perspectives. The academy was an important partner in the past project “Future Lab” bringing together youth from various Danube countries to develop sustainable and entrepreneurial ideas.

D'Avent is a Romanian Non-Profit Organization working on promoting sustainable living by growing and supporting successful active communities. We act towards promoting a circular economy and becoming a flagship for the upcycling movement in Romania by empowering communities to act for sustainable development and responsible consumption. Creative recycling means for D'Avent passionate people transforming objects, materials and all kinds of stuff into interesting and useful things, or simply to create pure art and craziness ... as a manifestation of one’s own creativity. The partnership has come up through the project network of “StartUpcycling” in 2016, developing several youth programmes on alternative waste reduction and creative recycling.

The Association UEZ (founded in 2004) is a non-profit organization creating programmes for human and sustainable development in various social fields. The basis of all the activitities is to highlight the co-existence and dignity of man, as well as to promote the principles of Economy of communion, a new model of sharing economy. The NGO is actively promoting the construction of ethical goals and values in business and a culture of peace in society. UEZ thus organizes educational and creative workshops, lectures, congresses, seminars and other events co-operating with state, civil and international institutions that strive for similar objectives. Since 2016, UEZ has become a Croatian hub in an International Incubation Network of Economy of Communion, a global project for incubating new businesses that want to work for an alternative economy system – more just and fair to society and the environment. UEZ was a partner in the past Danube project “Future Lab” and further European projects with Starkmacher e.V.