98. Come together Session 22.06.25
Dear colleagues and friends from the Danube Region and other European countries,
we cordially invite you to the 98th Session – Danube-Networkers invite: “Come together! Connecting people by culture!”
Time and date: Sunday, 22nd of June 2025, 18:30 (6.30 pm) German, Spanish and Italian time, some countries 7.30 pm (19:30) (Bulgarian, Romanian, Serbian, Ukrainian time), in other countries 5.30 pm (17.30) (in England)
We invite you to enjoy piano music of a Spanish university student, traditional songs by Ukrainian, Bulgarian and Serbian singers. You will learn about Estonia as the European country with the most developed information technology, which will be presented by Estonian university students. We will discuss travelling around the Danube countries including a report by Carmen about their travel through the Danube countries in May. You will find out about the First Festival in Borisovo, Bulgaria, which can be visited in 2026.
This session will be moderated by Emiliya Velikova (University of Ruse, Bulgaria) and Carmen Stadelhofer (ILEU e.V., Germany)
The program:
• Коли заснули сині гори (eng. When the blue mountains fell asleep) – a song, performance by
Sofia Tkachuk (Odessa, Ukraina)
• Beauty and the Beast – performance with electronic piano by Luna Garbín Benítez, Universitat
Rovira i Virgili (Barcelona, Spain)
• „Estonia – a country of IT innovations“ – a presentation by Aleksandr Bondarev, Vladyslav
Neviazanyi, Ilja Nikolajev, NIkolai Filippov, Baddar Hani Badr Abobakr, Jekaterina Maslova
(Virumaa College of Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia)
by Anđela Terek (Gudurica, Serbia)
Stadelhofer (Ulm, Germany)
• U livadi pod jasenom (eng. In the meadow beneath the ash tree) – a traditional song performance
• In a campervan through the Danube countries – ViMA group of interest, a presentation by Carmen
• Discussion – How do you plan your travels?
• Фестивал “Баница вита и златна пита” (eng. Festival „Banitsa and Golden Bread“) – a presentation
by Pavlina Ivanova, President of the Union of Pensioners of the Slivo Pole Municipality (Borisovo,
Bulgaria) and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Emiliya Velikova, University of Ruse (Ruse, Bulgaria)
• Георги на Рада думаше (eng. George says to Radha) – a song, performance by the group for
authentic folklore „Grandmothers from Brashlen“, (Brashlen, Bulgaria)