14 / 11 / 2022
YESpecialists: boosting entrepreneurship education for youth employment in the mountains
Many rural and mountainous areas face the outmigration of young people, who leave to seek employment in urban areas. In order to face the employment challenge and to improve the image of mountain work, the […]
Read more...5 / 10 / 2022
Romania celebrates the National Mountain Day
By Ph.D eng. Dănuț Ungureanu – Director of the Romanian National Agency of Mountain Area Romania celebrates the “National Mountain Day” each September 14, which marks the traditional date of the end of grazing in […]
Read more...7 / 07 / 2022
Training unaccompanied minors to mountain jobs for a future in the Pyrenees
The Pyrenees are experiencing various socio-demographic trends in the mountains, including an ageing population, an exodus of young people and an increase in the number of unaccompanied minors. By offering training in traditional mountain sectors, […]
Read more...25 / 11 / 2021
Romanian mountains must do their best to remain attractive to young people, says our Vice-President Radu-Adrian Rey
Euromontana’s Vice President, Radu-Adrian Rey, was invited on 12th November 2021 for an interview by the national radio channel Radio Romania Antena Satelor to present some key findings of Euromontana’s survey on mountain youth. After […]
Read more...18 / 11 / 2021
What sustainable jobs for young people in the mountains?
The Erasmus+ project “Youth4EmblematicMountains”, which follows the Interreg Med project EMbleMatiC, recently organised the « train the trainers » series of webinars to reflect on innovative education tools for mountain youth and investigate their aspirations […]
Read more...1 / 10 / 2021
Raising awareness on SDGs using drones in mountain schools
“Educatie la Inaltime”, literally “Education Up High” in English, is a project started in Romania in 2019 in the mountainous County of Hunedoara. The project aims at using the drones to teach differently. Through this […]
Read more...5 / 05 / 2021
Is the new Erasmus+ programme closer to mountains?
On 25th March 2021, the Guide of the 2021-2027 Erasmus+ programme and the first call for the year 2021 have both been published. The new Erasmus+ programme will bring some relevant changes with respect to […]
Read more...30 / 04 / 2021
Pastoral schools on the rise: Italy welcomes the “Scuola Nazionale di Pastorizia”
Transferring pastoral knowledge to preserve vibrant rural areas Over millennia, pastoral societies have accumulated knowledge and skills on how to successfully manage pastoral systems. Their work contributes to maintain vibrant rural areas, benefitting the rural […]
Read more...16 / 11 / 2020
ODISSEU Rural internships to boost youth employment
ODISSEU is a Spanish programme which aims at facilitating the return of young people to rural areas through employment. This programme of the Catalan region runs awareness raising, training and networking activities with rural companies […]
Read more...16 / 09 / 2020
Piccole Scuole: distance learning to maintain schools in remote villages
The Piccole Scuole Movement is a network of small schools created by INDIRE, the Italian National Institute for Documentation, Innovation and Educational Research. The movement aims at offering equal education opportunities in remote villages, in […]
Read more...27 / 05 / 2020
Places still available for the online MSc in Sustainable Mountain Development at the University of the Highlands and Islands
Do you want to understand and make a real difference towards the sustainability of mountain regions? If you are working in, or are interested in mountain areas, this course is ideal. Places are still available […]
Read more...12 / 09 / 2019
The Desafio programme: a “rural Erasmus” to fight depopulation in rural and mountain areas
Desafio is a rural internship programme aiming at revitalising rural and mountainous areas by improving their attractiveness among students. Created in 2018 by the Chair on Depopulation and Creativity of the University of Zaragoza, Spain, […]
Read more...5 / 07 / 2019
Helping the unemployed to get out of the woods
The Spanish Foundation “Caja de Burgos” initiated together with the Provincial Council of Burgos a forestry training for rural unemployed persons from the Province. The course aimed at answering the education needs of local unemployed […]
Read more...16 / 05 / 2019
Become an expert of “Social innovation in rural areas”!
A one-week training course on social innovation in rural areas will take place at the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Zaragoza on 18-22 November 2019. The course is organised in the framework of the H2020 EU-funded […]
Read more...15 / 05 / 2019
Cultural Routes: an e-learning tool to drive mountain areas on the path of sustainable tourism
The first online training course on Cultural Routes is now available. Developed within the Routes4U programme, this e-learning module aims at fostering regional development in macro-regions through the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe. […]
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