Final Report Part II of the Socio-Economic Assessment of the Danube Region: Challenges and Recommendations for cooperation towards sustainable development

Summary:

A socio-economic study has been commissioned by the coordinator of Priority Area (PA) 8, located within the Ministry of Finance and Economics Baden-Wuerttemberg. It is financed by the Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy of the European Commission and co-financed by the Ministry.

One aim of the study is to analyse the current situation in the Danube Region with respect to prosperity, entrepreneurship/SMEs and cooperation activities to identify the obstacles which hinder the improvement of the situation.

In the second part, we performed a qualitative analysis for which we basically used two qualitative approaches. Firstly, we carried out so called focus group and secondly, we initiated a discussion on an online discussion platform. In addition, we received input from other persons interested in the Danube Region and the EUSDR via E-Mail. We used this input as a cross check of the statements we received in the focus groups and the online discussion. As the methods we used in this part are a bit less common in policy consulting we say a few more words about them in the following than we did in the description of the approach in part I above. Nonetheless, this is only a sketch. The detailed description can be found in the appendix to this report, where we would like
to refer the interested reader to.

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ESO Records

First Progress Report https://www.europeansources.info/record/first-progress-report-of-the-socio-economic-assessment-of-the-danube-region-challenges-and-recommendations-for-cooperation-towards-sustainable-development/

Second Progress Report https://www.europeansources.info/record/second-progress-report-of-the-socio-economic-assessment-of-the-danube-region-challenges-and-recommendations-for-cooperation-towards-sustainable-development/

Final Report Part I https://www.europeansources.info/record/final-report-part-i-of-the-socio-economic-assessment-of-the-danube-region-challenges-and-recommendations-for-cooperation-towards-sustainable-development/

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