One of the central topics of the EDA is the promotion and qualification of future executives as well as young scientists in the Danube region. The EDA has therefore established a scientific network in cooperation with universities in Ulm and Neu-Ulm and universities in Budapest, Novi Sad (Serbia) and Ruse (Bulgaria), in the framework of which annual “Danube Schools” are held for students and young scientists from the Danube countries. Lecturers are renowned professors from various disciplines and “Danube experts”. The “Danube School Series” serves to promote and qualify young scientists with regard to management competencies – a central topic within the framework of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region. It sees itself as a qualified contribution against the “brain drain”, the still prevailing emigration of young elites from the Southeast European Danube countries.