About us

Who We Are

A cross-border alliance of 15 partners from 6 Danube countries - Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Ukraine - universities, NGOs, regional authorities and professional organisations who decided that the rural villages of the Danube Region deserve the same quality of professional attention that cities take for granted. Not charity. Not tourism branding. Not another report that sits on a shelf. We bring architects, landscape planners, heritage specialists and sustainability experts directly into village communities - to listen first, then to co-create tools that the communities themselves can use long after we leave. Architecture and Rural Landscape Identity Guides, built from the bottom up. Governance structures that give village clusters real agency. Knowledge that stays. Seven pilot micro-regions. Six countries. One river connecting them all. Because the Danube's villages are not problems to be managed. They are landscapes with stories, materials, traditions and knowledge.

Lead Partner

Budapest University of Technology and Economics

Műegyetem rakpart 3., 1111 Budapest, Hungary (HU)

Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Centre

Bartók Béla út 10-12., 1111 Budapest, Hungary (HU)

Pest County Municipality

Városház utca 7, 1052 Budapest, Hungary (HU)

Politehnica University of Timişoara

Piaţa Victoriei 2, 300006 Timişoara, Romania (RO)

Regional Development Agency "Branicevo-Podunavlje" Ltd Pozarevac

Stari korzo 30/3, 12000 Požarevac, Serbia (RS)

University of Belgrade, Faculty of Architecture

Bulevar kralja Aleksandra 73/2, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia (RS)

Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urban Planning Bucharest

Academiei 18-20, 010014 Bucuresti, Romania (RO)

Romanian Order of Architects

Pictor Arthur Verona 19, 010312 Bucuresti, Romania (RO)

National Tourism Cluster "Bulgarian Guide"

r.d. Zona B-5 bl. 10, entr. B, 1303 Sofia, Bulgaria (BG)

Association of Danube River Municipalities "Danube"

Knyazheska St. 15, 7000 Ruse, Bulgaria (BG)

Ivan Patzaichin – Mila 23 Association

Nufarului 63, 827062 Mila 23, Romania (RO)

Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture Osijek

Vladimir Prelog 3, 31000 Osijek, Croatia (HR)

Municipality Kneževi Vinogradi

Hrvatske Republike 3, 31309 Kneževi Vinogradi, Croatia (HR)

Izmail State University of Humanities

Repina str. 12, 68600 Izmail, Ukraine (UA)

Mehedinți County Council

Str. Traian 89, 220132 Drobeta-Turnu Severin, Romania (RO)

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