Culture night 2025

Once again this year, we are offering two events on Culture Night. One for children in the afternoon and a concert in the evening for everyone.

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The Danube Office

The Danube Office Ulm/Neu-Ulm is a non-profit limited company of the cities of Ulm and Neu-Ulm and a municipal motor of cooperation in the Danube region. It is divided into three core areas of activity: Projects, Network and Events with the International Danube Festival - the Danube Office has been facilitating, supporting and promoting encounters, understanding, interregional cooperation and development in the entire Danube region since 2002.

Thematic focal points are the areas of: Sustainable mobility, environment, development cooperation, youth, culture as well as current socio-politically relevant topics & challenges of particular importance.

Particularly in our role as the first regional centre, our region Ulm & Neu-Ulm, with its close historical ties to the Danube, would like to strengthen cooperation in the Danube region as a driving force and source of impetus.

In doing so, we support the goals of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region and the plans of the state of Baden-Württemberg to expand and strengthen relations with South-Eastern Europe at all levels in the interest of its future viability. The cities of Ulm and Neu-Ulm strive to make this a common concern of the states of Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria.

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News

A democracy at war

16 July 2025

Ukraine's political system in a state of emergency

We would like to invite you to an event on 16 July 2025 at 19:00 of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom and the Haus der Begegnung Ulm:

The focus is on the question of how Ukrainian democracy has developed over the past three decades and how it is currently facing the challenges of the Russian war of aggression.

Programme:

Lecture by Dr Franziska Davies, historian at the LMU Munich
Discussion with Dr Franziska Davies and journalist Vseslava Soloviova
Moderator: Karoline Gil (German Council on Foreign Relations)

Participation is free of charge and takes place in the Haus der Begegnung. (Grüner Hof 7, 89073 Ulm). Prior registration is required.

To the registration: https://shop.freiheit.org/#!/Veranstaltung/jvvqc

PASCH train through Germany: with Petar in Würzburg

07.07.2025

Petar Kostić has already been involved in various youth projects and events organised by the Danube Office and the Cultural Officer for the Danube Region, such as Light and sound or Danube Online.

He has been a DAAD scholarship holder for three years and is studying Latin and German language and literature at JMU Würzburg. In the following two videos, he explains how he came to study in Germany, or more precisely in Würzburg, and how the German language helped and accompanied him.

Part 2 HERE

Crisis, protest, change? - Serbia's political system at a crossroads!

01.07.2025

Recording of the event at the Danube Office on 26 June 2025 in cooperation with the Southeast Europe Society. On the podium were:

Philine Bickhardt - Research assistant and journalist, Zurich
Dr Vedran Džihić - Political scientist and author, Austrian Institute for International Politics, Vienna
Krsto Lazarević - Journalist and podcaster ("News from the Ballaballa Balkans"), Berlin
Lazar Miletić -Student of the Faculty of Economics, Belgrade

Moderation: Dr Christian Hagemann - Managing Director, Southeast Europe Society e. V., Munich

Projects

Danube Guides Action 2

Danube Guides Action 2" is a follow-up project to the "Danube Guides Action" project funded by the State Ministry of Baden-Württemberg.

Active2Public Transport

The "Active2Public Transport" project aims to reduce CO2 emissions in the transport sector in the Danube region.

EEA Along the Danube

The European Energy Award is a quality management and certification procedure that is already established in the European reference...

Our network

Networked everywhere

The network is the backbone of the Danube Office's work. Whether in the area of projects or events, without a strong network of partners these would hardly be realisable.