Danubian Small & Medium Sized Cities

DANUBIAN SMCs ERASMUS+ Project aims to address the topic of small and medium-sized cities (SMCs) in lower Danube regions especially because these cities are facing very challenging processes closely linked to shrinkage and declining at all urban life levels, and because the knowledge level in planning and urbanism is still limited, being necessary an interdisciplinary openness through a more complex and complete approach of this issue. The problematic of Danubian SMCs cities put in light the larger diverging levels of development in different Danube River territories, being a matter of integrative and large-scale regional planning development. Based on knowledge transfer and exchange of experiences between the 7 important universities based both in Central-Western and Lower Danube regions, focusing on education, Danubian SMCs strengthen the transnational dialogue and the inclusiveness in the Danube region. This  story map  explores and makes visible in an interactive way certain qualitative and quantitative aspects of the Danubian SMCs and is the transcription of the „Storytelling (web) maps/narrative mapping” teaching method, as part of the first DANUBIAN_SMCs intellectual output „Methodological guidelines and new theoretical and practical methods of interdisciplinary teaching for assessing small and medium sized cities on Danube”. This result addresses an important and very specific question of the possible use of the open-source platforms by collecting specific information and developing it with innovative tools with easy access by the general public. This is an important support for the future academic and regional collaborations.

DANUBIAN_SMCs Project has been (partially) funded by the ERASMUS+ grant program of the European Union under grant no. 2019-1-RO01-KA203-063878. Neither the European Commission nor the project’s national funding agency ANPCDEFP are responsible for the content or liable for any losses or damage resulting from the use of these resources. The European Commission’s support for the production of this publication does not constitute an endorsement of the contents, which reflect the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

Project coordinator: Mihaela Hărmănescu | Quality manager: Angelica Stan Communication manager: Sorin Vasile Manea | StoryMaps developer:  Monica Amuza