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Partnership for Improvement of Danube Infrastructure and Navigation - PIDIN
5 years of inter-disciplinary and cross-sectoral dialogue
Foreword by Erhard Busek:
If one has a closer look at the Danube, ...
... one will certainly see that history has played again with this great River. It has again turned it into a dividing line – into an upper and lower Danube, into a developed Central Eastern Europe and a developing South Eastern Europe. Danube Cooperation efforts in the last two decades attempted to overcome this last dividing line in East Europe. Yet, as many times before, the joint vision is missing. Be it infrastructure, or any other topic there are as many opinions about the Danube Region, as inhabitants in it.
PIDIN is just one of the numerous efforts to identify the missing links, to bring the upper and the lower Danube together and provide public and private sector and other stakeholders with an opportunity to bridge the gaps, identify the missing links, re-establish communication, share experiences, understand “the other”, understand that “the other” is not an enemy, that the Danube does not belong to anyone in particular and that it is a common responsibility.
The Danube is a public good necessary to many people(s) and many groups, who use it in many different ways. For it there is no upper and lower Danube, for it there is only the continuous flow and the people it meets along the way. PIDIN brought together these different people at the same table and attempted to raise awareness about the need for communication and understanding, about the general right to benefit from the Danube, about our responsibility to benefit from it jointly and on a long-term basis, instead of each one of us separately and irresponsibly. We hope that in this way we managed to create at least some new, if only visionary, bridges, and that at least some of the PIDIN participants managed to cross them and see things from “the other” bank of the Danube River.
PIDIN is just one of the numerous efforts to identify the missing links, to bring the upper and the lower Danube together and provide public and private sector and other stakeholders with an opportunity to bridge the gaps, identify the missing links, re-establish communication, share experiences, understand “the other”, understand that “the other” is not an enemy, that the Danube does not belong to anyone in particular and that it is a common responsibility.
The Danube is a public good necessary to many people(s) and many groups, who use it in many different ways. For it there is no upper and lower Danube, for it there is only the continuous flow and the people it meets along the way. PIDIN brought together these different people at the same table and attempted to raise awareness about the need for communication and understanding, about the general right to benefit from the Danube, about our responsibility to benefit from it jointly and on a long-term basis, instead of each one of us separately and irresponsibly. We hope that in this way we managed to create at least some new, if only visionary, bridges, and that at least some of the PIDIN participants managed to cross them and see things from “the other” bank of the Danube River.
PIDIN Brochure (pdf)