The website was created to implement Danube SKILLS, a project financed by the European Union from Operational Programmes (ERDF, IPA).
The main objective behind the Danube Logistics Promotion Centre (DPLC) in Slovakia is to provide useful information and databases for developing inland waterway transport. In Slovakia, the DLPC is supposed to link public and private inland waterway transport companies, focusing on the following information:
Funding programme: Danube Transnational Program (DTP)
Priority axis: Priority 4 – Well-governed Danube Region
Specific objective 4.1: Improve institutional capacities to tackle major societal challenges
Project duration: 30 months (January 2017 – June 2019)
Project budget: € 2,023,100
Co-financing rates: 85% ERDF, IPA and 15% State Budget
Main objective of Danube SKILLS:
The project consortium includes 22 partners involved in education, training and the inland waterway sector. Other partners are public authorities, nongovernmental organisations and international associations from Austria, Germany, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria and Romania, as well as associated strategic partners from France, Hungary, Croatia, Czech Republic, The Netherlands and Belgium.
Project website: http://www.danubelogistics.gov.sk/en