Danube Education Forum 2013

11./12.4.2013: "Education and Skills for Jobs, Growth and Stability". Prof. Heinz Trasch and SDZ-director Jürgen Raizner were invited to the Danube Education Forum. Rectors and pro-rectors from all over Romania met to discuss the future role of universities in regional economic development. Smart Specialisation Strategies for individual regions are in preparation with reference to the universities. The teaching must be made practical. Know-how and technologies of the universities must be made available to companies in the region. Secretary Tudor Prisecariu (Romanian Ministry of Education) highlighted the responsibility of universities to social and economic development of the regions. Just three days before, he was informed,together with the Minister of Research, located at the Steinbeis Danube Centre in Stuttgart, on transfer concepts. Also the organizer and host of the Danube Education Forum, Prof. Daniel Breaz, Rector of the University of Alba Iulia, was previously at Steinbeis. Common goal: the construction of the Danube Knowledge Alliance as a further component of the Danube Alliance.