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The Harmonmissions Missions Forum took place on 16 June 2026 in Bratislava, marking the final event of the Harmonmissions project. Hosted at the Slovak Centre of Scientific and Technical Information, the event brought together stakeholders working on EU Missions, climate adaptation, water resilience, governance innovation and cross-border cooperation in the Danube Region.
The Forum reflected the core ambition of Harmonmissions: to make the EU Missions more visible, better understood and more actionable across the Danube Region.
It marked an important moment for reflecting on the results of Harmonmissions and exploring how its legacy can continue through cooperation with related initiatives. With its focus on making the EU Missions more visible and actionable in the Danube Region, Harmonmissions created a valuable space for exchange among projects working towards shared transformation goals.
From EU Missions to practical transformation
The Forum programme focused on the relevance of EU Missions for the Danube Region, with particular attention to climate-oriented Missions and the need to move from strategy to action. Discussions addressed the Danube Region governance model for climate-oriented EU Missions, the key functionalities and added value of the Harmonmissions platforms, stakeholder engagement and mission awareness-raising, as well as open calls and strategies for building future consortia.
In the afternoon session, Harmonmissions invited peer projects — TiCCA4DANU, DANURELY-WS, Danube-ADAPT and NONA – New Governance for New Spaces — to exchange experiences and identify synergies. The discussion focused on best practices among Danube projects, transferable outputs, and ways to strengthen cooperation around climate adaptation, water resilience, governance and green investment.
The exchange highlighted several common challenges: how to turn evidence and climate data into policy action; how to design governance models that work across municipalities, sectors and generations; how to make resilience projects more investment-ready; and how to ensure that project results remain useful after funding ends. These questions are central for the future of mission-oriented work in the Danube Region.
TiCCA4DANU contributed to the discussion as a Flagship project of Priority Area 7 Knowledge Society of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region. The project shared its perspective on city-region climate adaptation, Local Green Deals, transformative innovation policy and the need to connect local action with macro-regional cooperation.
The Forum showed that the continuation of Harmonmissions’ legacy will depend on collaboration among projects, institutions and stakeholders. Platforms, policy tools, training resources, governance models and communities of practice can create lasting value when they are connected and used beyond individual project timelines.
By bringing together complementary Danube projects, the Harmonmissions Missions Forum created an important space for dialogue and future cooperation. It confirmed the need to keep building bridges across the Danube Region and to strengthen a shared knowledge ecosystem for climate-resilient and mission-oriented transformation.
