Peter Langer

is head of international cooperation at the European Danube Academy. After studying history, political science and German language and literature in Heidelberg, he was founder and director of various cultural centers (Roxy Ulm) and festivals (International Danube Festival Ulm/Neu-Ulm). Peter is a lecturer for cultural management, cultural history and European studies of the Danube region (among others in Berlin, Ludwigsburg, Budapest, Vienna, Ruse and Ulm). He established the Donaubüro Ulm/Neu-Ulm, a project and development agency for political, cultural and scientific cooperation with Southeastern Europe, and directed it until 2010.

Peter was instrumental in the preparation and implementation of the Danube Conferences in 2006, 2008 and 2010 at the Baden-Württemberg Representation to the EU in Brussels, which provided important impulses for the development of the European Union Strategy for the Danube Region. He is the spokesman and general coordinator of the Council of Danube Cities and Regions, founded in Budapest on June 11, 2009, which makes a significant contribution to the implementation of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region. In 2010, Erhard Busek appointed him as his deputy at SECI (Southeast European Cooperative Initiative) in Vienna. As part of the implementation of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region, he works in the steering committees for culture and tourism, competitiveness and institutional capacity building. Peter is representative of the Council of Danube Cities and Regions in the ARGE Donauländer, is a member of the board of the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe (IDM) in Vienna and a participant in the Joint Government Commissions of Baden-Württemberg with Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Serbia.