{"id":2142,"date":"2025-06-25T22:20:55","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T22:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digiman.hu\/?page_id=2142"},"modified":"2025-07-01T13:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T13:14:10","slug":"smile-incubator","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ddriu.hu\/en\/smile-incubator\/","title":{"rendered":"SMILE Incubator"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The SMILE Incubator<\/strong> project responds to key challenges faced by the Danube Region\u2019s remote rural areas, including high emigration rates, brain drain, ageing populations, and a growing gap between urban and rural territories. At the same time, digitalisation and the evolving media landscape are reshaping how individuals communicate, access information, and participate in public discourse\u2014especially via social networks.<\/p>

To address these developments,the project establishes a transnational Social Media Leadership Incubator that will empower rural youth with essential skills, competences, and tools for civic participation and leadership. By enhancing social media literacy and leadership capabilities, the project promotes active citizenship and supports the development of sustainable democracies across the Danube Region.<\/p>

SMILE Incubator builds institutional capacities through three interlinked components:<\/strong><\/p>

  • comprehensive assessment of youth participation and leadership in rural areas, including position papers and policy recommendations;<\/li>
  • The development of a transnational stakeholder cooperation network to strengthen rural youth leadership;<\/li>
  • Tailored capacity-building activities and toolkits to support social media-based leadership and civic engagement among youth.<\/li><\/ul>

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    The project will produce concrete and transferable outputs such as strategic guidelines, policy recommendation guides, action plans, training materials, and the SMILE Incubator badge awarded to active youth participants. These activities will be carried out by a balanced consortium of 20 organisations from all 14 Danube Region countries, representing higher education, NGOs, public institutions, and civil society.<\/p>

    Main data of the project:<\/strong><\/p>

    Project Name:<\/strong>\u00a0Social Media Leadership Incubator for Danube Region<\/p>

    Project Code:<\/strong>\u00a0DRP0301090<\/p>

    Partners:<\/strong>\u00a020 organisations (1 Lead Partner, 15 Project Partners, 4 Associated Strategic Partners) from 14 countries<\/p>

    Lead Partner:<\/strong>\u00a0School of Advanced Social Studies in Nova Gorica \u2013 Slovenia<\/p>

    Project Partners:<\/b><\/p>

    • Faculty of Information Studies in Novo mesto (FIS)\u00a0\u2013 Slovenia<\/li>
    • Rudolfovo \u2013 Science and Technology Centre Novo mesto (RUDOLFOVO)\u00a0\u2013 Slovenia<\/li>
    • Foster Europe, Foundation for strong European regions (FOSTER EUROPE)\u00a0\u2013 Austria<\/li>
    • Center for Civil Society Promotion (CPCD)\u00a0\u2013 Bosnia and Herzegovina<\/li>
    • Research Centre \u201cRegional and Global Development\u201d (REGLO)\u00a0\u2013 Bulgaria<\/li>
    • Rochester Institute of Technology Zagreb (RIT)\u00a0\u2013 Croatia<\/li>
    • Metropolitan University Prague (MUP)\u00a0\u2013 Czech Republic<\/li>
    • Steinbeis 2i GmbH (SEZ)\u00a0\u2013 Germany<\/li>
    • South Transdanubian Regional Innovation Agency (STRIA)\u00a0\u2013 Hungary<\/li>
    • NGO OIKUMENA\u00a0(OIKUMENA)<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u2013 Moldova<\/li>
    • Association for Responsible and Sustainable Development (UZOR)\u00a0\u2013 Montenegro<\/li>
    • Babe\u0219-Bolyai University (UBB)\u00a0\u2013 Romania<\/li>
    • Danube Area Research Center (DAREC)\u00a0\u2013 Serbia<\/li>
    • University of Economics in Bratislava (EUBA)\u00a0\u2013 Slovakia<\/li>
    • International Institute for Regional Media and Information (IRMI)\u00a0\u2013 Ukraine<\/li><\/ul>

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      Budget:<\/strong>\u00a0EUR 1 980 000<\/p>

      Funding programme:<\/strong>: Danube Region Programme<\/p>

      Project Duration<\/strong>: 01.04.2025 \u2013 30.09.2027<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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      SMILE Incubator A SMILE Incubator projekt a Duna R\u00e9gi\u00f3 elmaradottabb vid\u00e9ki t\u00e9rs\u00e9geiben jelentkez\u0151 demogr\u00e1fiai kih\u00edv\u00e1sokkal foglalkozik, mint a fiatalok elv\u00e1ndorl\u00e1sa, a k\u00e9pzett munkaer\u0151 elv\u00e1ndorl\u00e1sa, a lakoss\u00e1g el\u00f6reged\u00e9se, valamint a v\u00e1rosi \u00e9s vid\u00e9ki ter\u00fcletek k\u00f6z\u00f6tti egyenl\u0151tlens\u00e9gek n\u00f6veked\u00e9se. Ezzel p\u00e1rhuzamosan a digitaliz\u00e1ci\u00f3 \u00e9s a m\u00e9diat\u00e9r folyamatos \u00e1talakul\u00e1sa \u2013 k\u00fcl\u00f6n\u00f6sen a k\u00f6z\u00f6ss\u00e9gi m\u00e9dia t\u00e9rnyer\u00e9se \u2013 \u00faj lehet\u0151s\u00e9geket teremt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2142","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ddriu.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ddriu.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ddriu.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ddriu.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ddriu.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2142"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ddriu.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3066,"href":"https:\/\/www.ddriu.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2142\/revisions\/3066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ddriu.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}