Category: “Come Together” Sessions

Dear colleagues and friends from Europe and other areas

We are pleased to invite you to our Come Together Session, a cultural gathering dedicated to important dates, traditions, and holidays in the Danube region.

Time and date: Sunday, 26th of July 2026, 06.30 pm (CET), in some of your countries 07.30 pm, in other ones 05.30 pm.

During this session, participants will discover and explore interesting holidays and celebrations from Serbia, Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Germany, while also enjoying traditional and popular songs from Serbia and Romania. The event will offer a space for learning, exchange, and celebrating the cultural richness of our region.

To make the session more inclusive and accessible, the content will be available in English, with translations into Romanian, Serbian, German and Bulgarian.

Join us for an inspiring intercultural experience full of music, traditions, and shared stories from the Danube region!

The program

Access to the session:

Danube Networkers invite: Come Together – Connecting people by culture!

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88667915552?pwd=RGxOMnRkd0lXQWpsTm83bHZoVmJCZz09

Meeting-ID: 886 6791 5552

Kenncode: 569068

We look forward to sharing this special session with you!

Dear colleagues and friends from Europe and other areas,

You were invited to a special “Tastes of Home Come Together” session. Participants could look forward to a warm and engaging gathering that gently guided them through the rich and diverse world of traditional food and cultural identity. Through presentations, music, and shared reflections, they explored authentic culinary practices from different regions, discovering how food connected us to our roots and to one another.

The program wove together insights into a traditional Sardinian dish and edible grasses, a presentation of the Bosnian specialty punjene paprike, and explorations of Bulgarian cuisine, including the symbolic meaning of bread in Bulgarian cultural heritage. Complementing these moments, a group of Bulgarian singers brought atmosphere and emotion through traditional melody.

Throughout the event, participants were invited to reflect and engage in a discussion about the tastes of home — considering our connection to traditional foods, how our preferences had evolved over time, and what factors had contributed to these changes. By alternating between informative presentations, musical interludes, and open conversation, the program created a sense of closeness, shared memory, and cultural continuity.

Bilyana Todorova, Ivanka Baltova and Vasilka Avramova from Bulgaria moderated the session.

The program: Program

Kind regards Biylana Todorova, Ivanka Baltova and Vasilka Avramova 

Dear colleagues and friends from Europe and beyond,

Participants from Slovakia, Bulgaria, Serbia, and Romania were presenting a diverse range of museums and small collections, showcasing local heritage, community-based collections, lesser-known histories, and unique cultural treasures of the Danube region. Special focus was placed on small museums and private collections that preserve often-overlooked stories essential to understanding our shared cultural landscape.

We kindly apologize for the technical problems we experienced with the recording. Unfortunately, the recording is therefore not available. However, we are pleased to share all presentations with you, so that you can still follow the contributions and revisit the valuable materials prepared by our speakers.

The Program : 104th-Come-together-Program.pdf

Presentations:

Danube-Museum-Elena-Muste

Komarno-museums-Krapkova-Grunwald

Lepenski-vir-Milica-Stankovic

History-Museum-Emily

The Vrsac Group

Dear colleagues and friends from Danube areas and other countrie!

24 February 2026 marks the fourth anniversary of the outbreak of Putin’s murderous war of aggression against Ukraine.

We cordially invite you to an online session to remember the war in Ukraine, which has now been going on for four years, and its consequences for all Ukrain citizens.

On this evening, Ukrainians directly linked online from Ukraine in the session and Ukrainians who have found refuge in Ulm will report on the big challenges to overcome everyday life, but they will also give examples of music, songs and photos to remind us of a peaceful, beautiful Ukraine, which they so dearly miss and hope it will be restored soon and one which is worth preserving with courage

In a session of togetherness beyond borders, we want to create space for solidarity, reflection and connection.

The program: will be made by Ukrainans

Best regards, we look forward to your participation.

Carmen

We cordially invite you to the 102nd Session – Danube-Networkers invite: “Come together! Connecting people by culture!” It’s the second session prepared by the DCT-Scouts. This time the Session is prepared by the DCT-Scouts Group from Bulgaria.

Time and date: Sunday, 25th of January 2026, 

18:30-20.00 (6.30-8.00 pm) German, Spanish, Italian and Serbian time,

7.30 pm (19:30) (in Bulgaria, Romania),

8.30 pm (20.30) (in Turkey),

5.30 pm (17.30) (inEngland), etc.

Developments in many countries raise the question of why people seem unaware of the importance of citizen participation in democratic processes. However, it appears that opportunities for participation are often not even known. During this 102nd session of “Come Together!” the results of the video competition will be presented and a discussion will engage awareness about the development of democracy.

We invite you to enjoy a session accompanied by beautiful piano music, songs and poems from Serbia, Turkey, Bulgaria and Spain.

This session will be moderated by the Bulgarian Scout Group from Ruse (Emiliya Velikova), Slivo Pole (Pavlina Ivanova, Vasilka Avramova) and Karavelovo (Ivanka Baltova).

The program: ​Come together Program 2026-01-25.pdf​

Language: The session will be in English with translation into Romanian, Bulgarian, German, Ukrainian and Serbian.

Access to the session:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88667915552?pwd=RGxOMnRkd0lXQWpsTm83bHZoVmJCZz09

Meeting-ID: 886 6791 5552

Kenncode: 569068 

If you are directed to a waiting room, please wait. The session will open at 6.30pm (CET).

Dear colleagues and friends from Europe and other areas

We cordially invite you to the 101th Session – Danube-Networkers invite: “Come together! Connecting people by culture”  

Time and date: Sunday, 14th of December 2025, 06.30 pm (CET), in some of your countries 07.30 pm, in other ones 05.30 pm.

This Sunday you are invited to a special“Christmas Come Together” session.

Participants can look forward to a warm and festive gathering that gently guides them through the diverse Christmas and New Year traditions of the Danube region. Through poetry, music, and short presentations, they will experience the atmosphere of holiday cities, hear authentic voices from Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and feel how each community celebrates this special time of year.

The program is designed to alternate between emotional moments of poetry, cheerful melodies, personal introductions, and visual insights into festive streets and Christmas markets. Together, these elements create a sense of closeness, unity, and cultural richness.

Participants can expect a welcoming atmosphere, a friendly spirit, and the feeling of being part of one large, connected community—no matter which country they come from.

Tomislav Milunov, Vrsac (Human Aging Foundation), will moderate the session.

The program: ​

Language: The session will be in English with translation into German, Romanian, Serbian, Bulgarian and Ukrainian.

Access to the session:

Danube Networkers invite: Come Together – Connecting people by culture!

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88667915552?pwd=RGxOMnRkd0lXQWpsTm83bHZoVmJCZz09

Meeting-ID: 886 6791 5552

Kenncode: 569068

Dear colleagues and friends from Europe and other areas

We cordially invite you to the 100th Session – Danube-Networkers invite: “Come together! Connecting people by culture”  

Time and date: Sunday, 19th of October 2025, 06.30 pm (German time), in some of your countries 07.30 pm, in other ones 05.30 pm.

This Sunday you are invited to our 100th Come Together Session where we will have a review of the Highlights from the last 99 Sessions and you have the opportunity to share with us what Come Together means for you! We are honored that Mrs. Gisela Erler will share some opening greetings with us and that we can welcome the Vice Mayor of Slivo Pole, Mrs. Borislava. Discover with us the beginnings of Come Together, what effect the Sessions had on confirming community building and how they helped to fostering European Identity. Together, we will also take a moment to remember those who shaped the sessions with their presence and passion but are no longer with us. Poems and songs from different countries will accompany the entire session, a true celebration of connection, culture, and togetherness. 

Carmen Stadelhofer (ILEU e.V.) will moderate this session.

The program:

Language: The session will be in English with translation into German, Romanian, Serbian, Bulgarian and Ukrainian.

Access to the session:

Danube Networkers invite: Come Together – Connecting people by culture!

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88667915552?pwd=RGxOMnRkd0lXQWpsTm83bHZoVmJCZz09

Meeting-ID: 886 6791 5552

Kenncode: 569068

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Program:

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• “Processes of historicization in European contemporary art” – presentation by Dr. Vincentziu Puscasu, “Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati, Faculty of Arts (Galati, Romania)
• Discussion in groups – Traces of Europe in your town
• “Caledonia” – Scottish folk ballad,  music and lyrics by Dougie MacLean, performance by Gabriele Flemming (Ulm, Germany)
• “European Soirée – Who am I?” – meet two interesting European personalities: game performance by Pavlina Ivanova, Union of the Third Age (Slivo Pole, Bulgaria) & Rosemarie Kurz (Graz, Austria)
• Surprise song from Bulgaria!

Thank you to all the people who participated in our Come-Together-Session on the 25. February 2024! We had aproximately 70 people all over ten countrys join us. These sessions would not work without you and we are grateful to all of you.

There were many lovely people who presented songs/poems and told us their story. We also had two presentations about Trench Candles by Anastasia Smetanyuk and Camouflage Nets for the soldiers by Svitlana Boyko.
The trench candles are very importand for the soldiers fighting in the Ukraine for their country, but even more importandly, for their lives. These Candles help them to keep warm and not get recognized by the enemy.
The camouflage nets are made by volunteers and help the soldiers to cover dugouts, trenches, and equipment. The materials are financed through donations and by selling various handmades.
If you would like to support these projects please contact them under:

Anastasia Smetanyuk: Candles for the defenders
Need in paraffin or donations
PayPal tkozurak@gmail.com

Svitlana Boyk: Camouflage Nets
Need in material/can sell handmade
PayPal dz.bilonoh@gmail.com

Again a big thank you to all the participants and we hope to see you join our next sessions.

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Program