Light in the window: 12 municipalities working together to obtain their goals [5 / 04 / 2013]
In the small Norwegian villages, many of the old farms were unoccupied while new generations of young people were seeking to move outside the cities and to rent them. The project “Light in the Window” […]
Call for successful good practices involving young people [5 / 04 / 2013]
Demographic change and declining rural populations are important issues in most EU Member States and greatly influence the economic performance of many rural areas. Supporting the continued presence of young people in rural areas is […]
Distance learning for adults and CIT in the rural areas [22 / 03 / 2013]
Adult education centre “Cuenca Minera” of Montalbán (Teruel) has created a mentor class with the aim of providing all kind of students with flexible high quality distance learning. This method has been set up all […]
Mountain product labelling and socio-cultural dimension [22 / 03 / 2013]
Euromontana focuses this week on consumers’ perception of mountain products and reviews different labelling schemes and practices. This 5th and last article, based on the study « Labelling of agriculture and food products of mountain […]
Distance learning for adults and CIT in the rural areas [22 / 03 / 2013]
Adult education centre “Cuenca Minera” of Montalbán (Teruel) has created a mentor class with the aim of providing all kind of students with flexible high quality distance learning. This method has been set up all […]
Mountain product labelling and socio-cultural dimension [22 / 03 / 2013]
Euromontana focuses this week on consumers’ perception of mountain products and reviews different labelling schemes and practices. This 5th and last article, based on the study « Labelling of agriculture and food products of mountain […]
Guide to Social Innovation [21 / 03 / 2013]
DGs EMPL and REGIO have together produced a “Guide to Social Innovation”, which is now available to download. “Social innovation” refers to any innovative measure which has explicitly social (as opposed to merely technological or […]
Guide to Social Innovation [21 / 03 / 2013]
DGs EMPL and REGIO have together produced a “Guide to Social Innovation”, which is now available to download. “Social innovation” refers to any innovative measure which has explicitly social (as opposed to merely technological or […]
6th Forum for the Future of Agriculture: focus on sustainable intensification [15 / 03 / 2013]
Euromontana attended on March 5th the 6th Forum for the Future of Agriculture (FFA) in Brussels. During the day five sessions were held on the topics of food production in Africa, the CAP and the […]
Permanent crops: key to crop products in mountain areas [15 / 03 / 2013]
This week, thanks to the study « Labelling of agriculture and food products of mountain farming » realised by DG AGRI, Euromontana focuses on mountain crops. Despite the fact that the share of arable land […]
Euromontana launches the “Toward Mountains 2020 ” process [15 / 03 / 2013]
Euromontana communicated to all its contacts on March 14th the document elaborated in the framework of the 1st step of the “Toward Mountains 2020” process. Feedback received is already excellent and we hope it will […]
Euromontana communicated its position on revised regional aid guidelines [15 / 03 / 2013]
Euromontana responded on March 11th to the consultation organised by DG Competition of the European Commission on the draft revised regional aid guidelines. Our contribution comes in continuity with our work undertaken in 2011 and […]
6th Forum for the Future of Agriculture: focus on sustainable intensification [15 / 03 / 2013]
Euromontana attended on March 5th the 6th Forum for the Future of Agriculture (FFA) in Brussels. During the day five sessions were held on the topics of food production in Africa, the CAP and the […]
Peak performance for mountain student [13 / 03 / 2013]
A graduate from a Perth-based centre has won a prestigious award for her thesis. Elena Ferrario, a 33 year old who studied at the Centre for Mountain Studies at Perth College UHI, part of the […]
The Silvaprotect-CH project [12 / 03 / 2013]
The SilvaProtect-CH project has been launched by the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN) to define which forests have a protective function. Furthermore the computerized geo-information data used in the project have allowed defining […]
