International Mountain Day Photography Contest [25 / 11 / 2014]
In the context of the International Mountain Day, on 11th December 2014, the Municipality of Dénia (Spain), with the support of the Mountain Partnership Secretariat and the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN (FAO), […]
“Working for you”: a new website from the EU with good practices [24 / 11 / 2014]
“Working for you” is a new website from the European Union with examples and good practices funded by different European funds. You can find examples related to different topics and funding such as the establishment […]
“Promoting European local food systems” Position Paper [21 / 11 / 2014]
Last 16th October 2014 Euromontana participated in the “Promoting Regional food systems event” where a Position Paper on “Promoting European local food systems” was launched in the presence of the European Commissioner for the Expo […]
Euromontana supports the Intergroup on “Rural, mountain and isolated areas” [21 / 11 / 2014]
Euromontana in collaboration with other European networks as ECM (European Countryside Movement), RED (the Rurality Environment and Development Association) and FREE (Future of Rural Energy in Europe) supports the establishment of a parliamentary intergroup devoted […]
Social farming to develop rural tourism: the example of the L’Olivera cooperative in Spain [17 / 11 / 2014]
Background If European farms provide food production and countryside maintenance, they can also provide health and therapeutic benefits: it is the aim of social farming or “Green care”. This concept consists in using the farm […]
WikiAlps helps you to gain more information on sustainable spatial development in the Alps [17 / 11 / 2014]
The WIKIAlps project aims at contributing to a balanced and shared sustainable spatial development in the Alpine Space. In order to reach this goal, the wiki www.wikialps.eu has been set up, that provides concise and […]
Policy Recommendations of Interreg IV C programme [14 / 11 / 2014]
The Joint Technical Secretariat (JTS) of Interreg IV C has done a capitalisation exercise during the last two years to offer a detailed insight into the knowledge gathered by the projects working on similar regional […]
Facilitating EU transnational tourism flows for senior and young people in low and medium seasons [13 / 11 / 2014]
COSME programme has launched a new call for proposals for tourism. This article aims to summarise the key points of this call to help mountain people to answer. The deadline to apply is 15th January […]
“Goodies from the farm”:high-tech tool to connect consumers and local food producers [11 / 11 / 2014]
In Austria, an EAFRD funded project has been developed in order to encourage the modernisation of the European agri-food sector as well as the direct sale approaches. The project led by the Austrian Chambers of […]
SmartMove:Promotion of rural public transport [10 / 11 / 2014]
The SmartMove project aims to promote the use of rural public transport via a personalised travel marketing approach. Active mobility consultancy (AMC) campaigns are a form of direct marketing in which citizens are directly approached […]
Presentations of the IXth European Mountain Convention [7 / 11 / 2014]
The IXth European Mountain Convention “Quality from the mountains: prosperity for people and territories” took place between the 22nd and the 24th October 2014 in Bilbao, Spain. The event count on the presence of almost […]
Euromontana presented Move On Green project during the Open Days [2 / 11 / 2014]
Gordon Keymer, the Committee of the Regions’ spokesperson on transport in remote areas, organised a session on “Mobility for challenged regions”, at the Committee of the Regions (CoR), on 7th October 2014, during the Open […]
Smart specialisation strategies on ICT and tourism [30 / 10 / 2014]
ERRIN (European Regions Research and Innovation Network) and NECSTOUR (Network of European Regions for a Sustainable and Competitive Tourism) networks have prepared some good practices factsheets on ICT and tourism to see how some regions […]
A mobile app for pedestrians and cyclists in the Swiss parks [28 / 10 / 2014]
In 2007, 19 Swiss natural parks and projects of parks gathered under the Swiss park network. This association aims at representing the interest of its members, supporting them in the creation and management of natural […]
Press release on the IX European Mountain Convention [20 / 10 / 2014]
Bilbao will host the IX European Mountain Convention on mountain products on 22-24 October 2014 Under the title “Quality from the mountains: prosperity for people and territories”, mountain stakeholders are going to discuss the opportunities […]
