The volume published by CESCI aims at unfolding the present conditions of cross-border cooperation within the Danube basin, i.e. the socio-economic features of border regions; framework conditions for cross-border cooperation; and best practice examples thereof, presented in 14 case studies.

The scientific frames of the project (hypotheses, methodology and templates of the research) have been set by the former director and deputy director of CESCI’s European Institute, Mr Zsolt Bottlik (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) and Mr László Jeney Corvinus University of Budapest).

The authors of the case studies were selected through a call launched on March 31st, 2014. CESCI as Lead Partner invited three contributors each from seven countries. Finally, we received tenders from six countries (from Austria no tenderer applied). Accordingly, the internal borderlands of the Danube region were divided for analysis among the winning tenderers, which were: Institut EuroSchola (Czech Republic), Institute for Spatial Planning (Slovakia), Regional Science Association (Serbia), Superna d.o.o. (Croatia), Institute of Geography of the Romanian Academy (Romania), and Sofia University (Bulgaria). Our colleagues at the

European Institute (Esztergom, Hungary) completed the research on the remaining border areas and they elaborated the comprehensive analyses on borderlands and cross-border cooperation within the macro-region.