13 / 04 / 2023
Opti’soins: a mobile maternity unit for mountain women
In some mountainous regions, women face growing inequalities in access to maternity care. In Auvergne (France), 220 municipalities are located 30 minutes or more from the nearest health care structure. The “Opti’soins” initiative was launched in […]
Read more...31 / 03 / 2023
Funding mobile services in ageing villages to improve quality of life for older adults
Population ageing is expected to accelerate in many rural and mountainous areas in the coming decades. This trend poses challenges for the quality of life of older people, particularly in terms of ensuring the availability […]
Read more...16 / 02 / 2022
Balcões Móveis: bringing administrative services closer to mountain citizens
The closure of public administrations and the access to services of general interest are challenges that arises in more and more mountain territories, especially if they are isolated. To address this problem, the Intermunicipal Community […]
Read more...1 / 04 / 2021
A Rural Taxi with Medical Purposes
In the Province of Castellón (Spain), the lack of transport offer challenges the quality of life of local communities and complicates the access to healthcare infrastructures for vulnerable groups. To facilitate the access to care […]
Read more...24 / 06 / 2020
Alpine Maternity: social innovation improves healthcare in mountain areas
In 2015, in the Bern Canton, Switzerland, the obstetric department at Zweisimmen hospital was closed. As a response, the local population (counting about 3 000 inhabitants) created in the same year a cooperative to maintain […]
Read more...18 / 05 / 2020
How to develop services of general interest in the Alps?
Services of general interest (SGI) like telecom connections, energy supply, postal and transport services are of vital importance for mountain and rural areas. In the Alpine area, a Think Tank is making reflections on the […]
Read more...4 / 05 / 2020
Meanwhile in Norway: the coronavirus crisis puts emergency preparedness in rural mountain municipalities on the agenda
By Tor Arnesen, senior research scientist at the Eastern Norway Research Institute About half of the Norwegians has access to a second home, and many people divide their time and lives between an apartment in the […]
Read more...2 / 04 / 2020
A cross-border hospital to make up for the lack of medical care in the Pyrenees
The EGTC Hospital of Cerdanya is the first cross-border hospital in Europe. Located in the municipality of Puigcerdà, in Spain, a few meters from the French border, it aims at providing healthcare services on both […]
Read more...24 / 02 / 2020
A village delivery service for the rural ageing population
Spain is among the European countries with the highest share of people aged 80 and more, with 6% of their population belonging to this age group (Eurostat, 2016, data on life expectancy). In addition, most […]
Read more...3 / 07 / 2019
How to foster social farming in mountain areas?
On June 25, 2019, Euromontana attended a conference in Brussels on “Social Agriculture and Care Farm: Work opportunity, Social Partnership and Inclusion” organised by the Care-T-Farms project. Care-T-Farms is an Erasmus + programme, willing to […]
Read more...19 / 02 / 2019
Enhancing the cultural heritage of mountain areas: a new booklet of good practices
Inspired by the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018, the Schignano Workshop (Province of Como, Italy) and from the XI European Mountain Convention, ERSAF (the Lombardy regional body for agricultural and forestry services) published a […]
Read more...12 / 02 / 2019
Good practices of rural sustainable mobility presented during SMARTA workshop
Started in May 2018, SMARTA – Sustainable shared mobility interconnected with public transport in European rural areas (developing the concept of ‘smart rural transport areas’) – is a two-year European-funded project which aims to understand […]
Read more...5 / 11 / 2018
Boosting cross-border regions with eGovernance solutions
During the European Week of Cities and Regions 2018, organised in Brussels, on 9-11 October 2018, a session focused on how digital solutions can help public administrations boost growth and reduce the obstacles and administrative […]
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