Austria's Danube Day will get people dancing, puzzling, creating, climbing, investigating and rapping for the Danube! See if you can win a prize on the enormous Danube jigsaw puzzle; flashmob Vienna's Museums Quartier by waltzing for the Danube; investigate what lurks in the river waters; take the Danube Challenge or get creative in the Danube Art Master competition. A huge hi-tech display on the Millennium Tower will make everyone in Vienna aware of the importance of Danube Day and there are great competitions with loads of prizes. Read on to find out how you can join in!
Danube Day 2010 Press Release (in German): 25.6.10: Call for action and cross border cooperation 6.96 KB
DANUBE DAY 2010: GET ACTIVE FOR THE RIVERS!
Events
| Wien | 16.06.2010 | Danube Challenge: Donauauen National Park | 48.142795 | 16.579034 |
| Engelhartszell | 22.06.2010 | Danube Challenge: Engelhartszell | 48.505687 | 13.732620 |
| Wien | 25.06.2010 - 27.06.2010 | Millennium City und davor (Schiff) | 48.240344 | 16.386985 |
| Wien | 29.06.2010 - 18:00 | Tanz den Donauwalzer im MQ | 48.203471 | 16.359042 |
Vienna: Donau Punkt Genau at the Millenium City (25-27 June 2010)
Featuring a 6m by 10m jigsaw puzzle, this Danube game is made for giants! Come along to the Millennium City in Vienna and see if your brain is giant enough to solve our enormous game of "Donau Punkt Genau" (Danube On the Dot). With a daily prize of tickets for the Twin City Liner up for grabs, see if you can be the one to find all the locations on the Danube Basin map. They'll also be people on hand to tell you more about the Danube rivers in Austria and the 13 other countries they flow through.
Read about Vienna's Danube Day in Universum Magazine: Universum-Magazin 2.6.10 230.15 KB
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Vienna: Underwater world on the MS Negrelli (25-27 June 2010)
Jump aboard the Via Donau School Ship, docked outside the Millennium Tower, to see what's living underneath you in the river - live! An underwater live-cam will allow you to enter the mysterious underwater world of the River Danube. At the same time, a live link to the aquarium in Vienna's Schönbrunn Zoo will feature Austrian water animals. Another exhibition on-board focuses on Danube national parks and shipping. Visitors will be also asked to "post a wish" for the Danube in a competition with a grand prize of two Schönbrunn Zoo season tickets.
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Vienna: Danube Day on the Millennium Tower (25-27 June 2010)
The Danube Day logo will be displayed for all to see on the colossal 202 m tall Millennium Tower, reminding Vienna and the circa. 90,000 people that visit the Millennium City and Plaza everyday that it's Danube Day so come and join in the fun! The huge display will be clearly visible to the three million visitors to the "Donauinselfest" (25-27 June) - Europe's largest city festival.
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Read about Danube Day in the Donauinselfest programme: Programmheft Donauinselfest: Danube Day 2010 169.11 KB
Vienna: Flashmob at the Museums Quartier (29 June 2010; 18:00)
Come along to the Museums Quartier for an extraordinary Danube Day flashmob dance. Everyone is invited to meet in the MQ for a five minute Danube waltz - not the sedate affair of the Opern Ball, but a joyous celebration for our rivers! Check out Facebook nearer the day for last minute details of this "spontaneous" action for the Danube.
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Danube Challenge (16 & 22 June 2010)
Are you game enough to collect water creatures from the river, climb the giant spider's web, turn yourself into a mermaid and sing about what you've learnt in a rap song? Do you have the brain power to identify the creatures you find, follow their tracks, design a floodplain forest, pursue the clues in the scavenger hunt and get the answers right in the Danube quiz? Young people looking for excitement will be taking part in the Danube Challenge 2010. Following a nationwide qualifying competition where pupils had to draw the rare mud minnow, 400 children won the chance to compete in a day of water challenges to better get to know their Danube environment. Along with their teachers, they will be pond-dipping, tracking, climbing, body-painting and singing for the Danube!
16 June 2010: Donauauen National Park (pupils from eastern Austria).
22 June 2010: Engelhartszell, near the German border (pupils from western Austria).
Supported by the Environment and Education Ministries, in partnership with the Coca-Cola - Generation Blue "Trinkpass", Environment Minister, Nicholas Berlakovich, will welcome the intrepid youngsters at the Donauauen National Park event. For more information, see: www.wasseraktiv.at.
Latest news: Vienna has won the first stage of the Danube Challenge in the Donauauen National Park! Joined by the well-known swimming champion, Mirna Jukic, the teenagers battled hard despite pouring rain. For more details and photos, see www.generationblue.at/.
Danube Art Master competition (Deadline: 5 July 2010)
The search is on to find this year's young Danube Art Master. This international schools competition, overseen by the Danube Environmental Forum and now in its seventh year, challenges every pupil in the Basin to create a piece of environmental art inspired by their local river. The only rules are that you should be as creative as possible and think about what the Danube means to you. If you need some ideas, check out the Inspiration page. To find out how you can enter the competition, please email Stephan Bruck of AQA at bruck [at] aqa [dot] at and view: www.generationblue.at.
Download the fact sheet
For details of events and organisers, download the fact sheet: Danube Day 2010 in Austria 18.89 KB
Further Information
For the latest news on Austria's Danube Day, please contact:
Susanne Brandstetter of the Austrian Ministry of the Environment (Lebensministerium) on +43 1 968 73 18 - 0; office [at] aqa [dot] at.
To see how Austria celebrated Danube Day last year, click on Review 2009.
links
Donauinselfest Wien: www.2010.donauinselfest.at/
Generation Blue: www.generationblue.at/
Umweltberatung: www.umweltberatung.at/
WISA: www.wasseraktiv.at
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