How the municipality of Alzen quadrupled its population in 40 years [1 / 01 / 2019]
Following the sudden death of André Rouch, President of the Parc Naturel des Pyrénées Ariégeoises and member of Euromontana, on 31 December 2018, Euromontana wishes to honour his dynamism and enthusiasm for his mountains and […]
Call for Papers – International Mountain Conference 2019 [20 / 12 / 2018]
Article sent it by Thomas Dax, Bundesanstalt für Bergbauernfragen (BABF) / Federal Institute for Mountainous and Less-Favoured Areas After three global mountain research conferences organised by the Centre for Mountain Studies at Perth, Scotland (2005, […]
Commission is consulting on EU product policy and circular economy [19 / 12 / 2018]
Within the context of the Circular Economy Action Plan, the European Commission has launched a public consultation on its initiative “Towards an EU Product Policy Framework contributing to the Circular Economy”. This consultation aims to gather […]
What are current challenges and needs of the forestry and wood sector? Please share your views in the ROSEWOOD needs surveys [18 / 12 / 2018]
ROSEWOOD is a European Horizon 2020 project dedicated to Sustainable Wood Mobilisation. it aims to build a trans-European network for the transfer of best practices & innovations in sustainable wood mobilisation. This network wants to […]
Interview of the month: Meeting Windy K. Moe from the Eastern Norway Research Institute [17 / 12 / 2018]
Windy K. Moe is a mountain farmer as well as the person in charge of communication for the Eastern Norway Research Institute, one of Euromontana’s members. In this interview, we will learn more about how […]
Internship opportunity – Pastoralism – March 2019 [14 / 12 / 2018]
Euromontana is recruiting an intern to work on pastoralism, starting in March 2019. Position: Intern Study Officer You will be under the responsibility of the Project Officer of Euromontana and your responsibilities will include: […]
Sign the AlpFoodway project’s petition to support the nomination of Alpine food heritage on the UNESCO’s Intangible Heritage list [11 / 12 / 2018]
In October 2018, the AlpFoodway project officially initiated the process for inscribing Alpine food heritage on the UNESCO Intangible Heritage List. The project partners hope that this inscription will be the end result of this […]
The role of the shepherd: Tradition and technology for the conservation of mountain pastures [7 / 12 / 2018]
On 26 November 2018, the LIFE project OREKA MENDIAN organised its halfway seminar in Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spanish Basque Country) on “The role of the shepherd. Tradition and technology for the conservation of mountain pastures“. During the […]
MigrAction: Generations on the move [6 / 12 / 2018]
The development of a migration route The Valleys of Stura and Ubaye, in Italy and France, have always been at the heart of economic migration movements; from the Italian side, people moved to France to […]
A retrospective snapshot of the European Mountain Convention 2018 [5 / 12 / 2018]
Come and discover (or rediscover) the images of the European Mountain Convention 2018, which took place in Vatra Dornei, Romania, through two television broadcasts. The report of the Romanian national television (subtitled in English) The […]
A new project brochure for SIMRA [4 / 12 / 2018]
SIMRA project has passed its half-way point! And over these two years we have been working hard: we have agreed on a definition for social innovation, characterised marginalised rural areas across Europe and the Mediterranean […]
The BRIDGES project needs you! [3 / 12 / 2018]
BRIDGES is a European-wide project targeting territories with geographical specificities i.e. mountain areas, islands, coastal areas, and sparsely populated areas. The project is funded by the ESPON EGTC. According to the project partners, key policy […]
Marisa’s testimony: “A life in the mountains” [27 / 11 / 2018]
Thanks to our SIMRA research project, on social innovation in marginalized rural areas, we had the opportunity to hear from Marisa Rodriguez, a Spanish woman from the Leon region, who is one of the founders […]
The Mountain Dimension of Cooperation – Feedback from the Experts Seminar in Brussels [23 / 11 / 2018]
On 9th November 2019, DG REGIO organised a one-day seminar that gave the opportunity to share results and lessons learnt from the cooperation for the development of the mountainous areas in the EU within the […]
Silver SMEs: call for good practices [21 / 11 / 2018]
SILVER SMEs is an Interreg Europe project which aims to support SME-related regional policies in rural and mountainous areas to develop products and services of benefit for the senior population. Euromontana and three of […]
