About the HUB

Join the COOPOWER Transnational Dialogue HUB!

Connect with people and organisations across the Danube Region who are working to create better opportunities for vulnerable young people.

By joining the HUB, you can receive updates, discover useful resources and events, exchange experience, share your own work, and build new professional connections.

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Why a Transnational Dialogue HUB?

Vulnerable youth across the Danube Region face shared challenges institutional and structural barriers, limited access to opportunities, and inadequate support services yet the responses to these challenges are still largely fragmented along national and sectoral lines. The COOPOWER Transnational Dialogue HUB was created to bridge this gap. It enhances the policy dialogue between stakeholders on the challenges of vulnerable youth in disadvantaged regions, brings local issues to the transnational level, and increases transnational learning and knowledge exchange.

Our philosophy: co-creation and stakeholder engagement

The HUB is built on the conviction that effective solutions for youth labour market integration cannot be designed in isolation. They emerge from the structured, ongoing dialogue between project partners, associated strategic partners, local practitioners, young people themselves, and policymakers at every level. The HUB therefore functions as the engine of transnational coordination across the project, ensuring coherence, quality, and strategic alignment.

It does this through three core functions:

Transnational knowledge exchange regular HUB meetings between project partners and strategic stakeholders, joint learning on good practices and methodologies, and the aggregation of experiences emerging from the Local Cooperation Incubators (LCIs).
The "Dialogue for Youth" online event series bringing in external experts and practitioners for thematic discussions on key issues such as NEETs, outreach approaches, and intersectoral cooperation models.
Preparation of policy dialogue channelling lessons learned from the LCIs to national and EU policy levels throgh the Policy Dialogue Forum and the Final Policy Conference.

Explore the HUB resources

The knowledge, experiences, and practical results shared through the Transnational Dialogue HUB are collected in the COOPOWER Library.

The Library provides access to:

webinars from the Dialogue for Youth series;
podcasts featuring local experiences, stakeholder perspectives, and youth voices;
video recordings and short audiovisual materials;
selected good practices from across the Danube Region;
findings from the territorial and diagnostic analyses;
tested approaches and cooperation models developed through the pilot actions;
the COOPOWER Toolbox, including six piloted models of intersectoral cooperation;
local strategies and the Transnational Strategy.

The Library serves as a single access point for project knowledge and helps practitioners, policymakers, researchers, and other stakeholders find materials relevant to their work.

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Who is part of the HUB?

The HUB is a virtual networking space bringing together diverse stakeholders whose shared purpose is to support vulnerable young people and advocate for relevant policies:

The 9 Project Partners (PPs) and Associated Strategic Partners (ASPs)
Members of the Local Cooperation Incubators
National, regional, and local-level stakeholders identified through the LCI stakeholder mapping and the Policy Advisory Group
EU-level stakeholders
Representatives of relevant transnational projects

Follow HUB activities

Updates on upcoming webinars, podcasts, policy events, project meetings, and other activities connected to the Transnational Dialogue HUB are published in the main COOPOWER News & Events section.

This keeps all project updates in one place and makes it easier to follow the latest opportunities, events, and results.

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Connected to the Danube Region Programme

The COOPOWER Transnational Dialogue HUB is part of the wider Interreg Danube Region Programme community. Through the Programme, projects and organisations from across the Danube Region work together to address shared territorial, social and economic challenges.

The HUB contributes to this wider framework by connecting stakeholders, sharing knowledge and bringing local experiences related to vulnerable youth and labour market inclusion to the transnational level.

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