At the beginning of 2010, the European Commission started to develop a strategy for the Danube region. This process is open to all stakeholders of the countries concerned - Danube countries from or outside of the European Union - including all actors of civil society, NGOs, academic institutions.

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Danube Basin Civil Society Network Project

The European Group for Public Administration (EGPA) will organize its 2010 Annual Conference in Toulouse, France, on September 8-10, 2010. The main conference theme will be Temporalities, Public Administrations & Public Policies.

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EGPA 32nd Annual Conference

The European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA) will held a special seminar week in Maastricht, the Netherlands, between 26 and 29 April, 2010, focusing on the relationship between the European Union and its closest neighbors in the Western Balkans, in Eastern Europe and in the Mediterranean.

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EIPA Seminar

The Sustainable Cities and Towns Campaign aims to help local governments across Europe to mainstream sustainability best practice and to implement the Aalborg Charter and Aalborg Commitments to achieve tangible results in local sustainable development.

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The Sustainable Cities and Towns Campaign

The Open Society Institute (OSI) and mySociety teamed up to help people in Central and Eastern Europe build transparency and democracy websites suited to the needs and realities of their countries. The projects have to generate some kind of meaningful transparency, accountability, or democratic empowerment of another kind and must seize the unique benefits that the Internet brings with it, such as scalability, two way communication, and easy data analysis.

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mySociety website