Participate in the Reading Mountains Festival of the Alpine Convention [22 / 08 / 2016]
The Reading Mountains Festival Based on the success of the 1st edition, the Alpine Convention is organizing the Reading Mountains festival again this year and we invite you to participate! The “Reading Mountains” festival is […]
The 2016 International Mountain Film Competition [1 / 08 / 2016]
Are you interested in making a short film about mountains? Then apply for the 2016 International Mountain Film Competition promoted by The Mountain Research Centre (CIMO), the School of Agriculture (ESA) of the Polytechnic Institute […]
2° newsletter for the South Eastern Europe Focus Group [15 / 07 / 2016]
15.07.2016 Danijel Bertovic (PINS, Croatia), the coordinator of the SEE Focus Group has gathered some specific information that could be of great interest, especially for the members of this South Eastern Europe Focus Group. This […]
Ordering local food through social networks [14 / 07 / 2016]
14.07.2016 Social networks are becoming more and more popular, but did you know that you can even use them to order local, fresh fruit and vegetables? It has become possible thanks to a network of […]
Tips and tricks from the Horizon 2020 InfoDay 2016 on the Societal Challenge 2 [13 / 07 / 2016]
In the frame of the Horizon 2020 Info Week, Euromontana participated in the InfoDay on the Societal Challenge 2 on the 28th June 2016. At this occasion, the European Commission presented the H2020 2016-2017 Work […]
Visit our brand new website for the SILVER TOURISM project! [13 / 07 / 2016]
Euromontana participates in a new Erasmus + project called “Silver Tourism” for 2 years. This project aims to provide the necessary training for the tourism sector to take advantage of the opportunities created by the […]
Registrations for the Open days are now open ! [12 / 07 / 2016]
Previously called “Open Days”, the 2016 European Week for Regions and Cities will take place on 10- 13 October 2016 in Brussels. Under the headline ‘Regions and cities for sustainable and inclusive growth’, the programme […]
Smart and innovative rural regions [12 / 07 / 2016]
Inspired by the European focus on smart regions, 2 members of Euromontana: Lars Hustveit (Sogn og Fjordane County Municipality, Norway) and Gianluca Lentini (Poliedra – Politecnico di Milano, Italy) have written an article that highlights the dimension […]
CoR has published a draft opinion about Services of General Economic Interest [12 / 07 / 2016]
The Committee of the Regions (CoR) will soon adopt an “own-initiative opinion” on State Aid and Services of General Interest (SGEIs). The draft is supposed to be adopted this autumn 2016. Indeed, due to the […]
Study and model Europe’s forests using the now publicly available EFISCEN forest inventory data and model [7 / 07 / 2016]
Alterra and the European Forest Institute have made publicly available their twenty-year-old European Forest Information Scenario Model (EFISCEN). The model contains a database of forest inventory data from 32 European countries. The database includes information […]
Visit our brand new website for the SIMRA project! [7 / 07 / 2016]
The new Horizon 2020 project SIMRA (Social Innovation in Marginalised Rural Areas) has officially started on the 1st April 2016 for four years. The project aims to categorise and understand social innovation in different settings […]
ENRD Seminar “Changing our Mindsets – Seizing Opportunities in the Green Economy” [6 / 07 / 2016]
On the 1st July 2016, the European Network for Rural Development (ENRD) hosted a European Seminar on “Changing our Mindsets – Seizing Opportunities in the Green Economy” in Brussels. The event brought together managing authorities […]
Friends of EUSALP – EUSALP and the Juncker Plan: EFSI Investment Platforms to foster growth in Europe [28 / 06 / 2016]
On June 22, 2016, the Friends of EUSALP held a meeting on investments and growth in the Alpine Region. The objective of the meeting was to discuss the Juncker Plan and the European Fund for […]
How can irrigation and soil fertility be improved while also reducing the environmental impact of farming? The use of no-till methods [28 / 06 / 2016]
Context: In 2002, Nuno Marques, a Portuguese farmer of beef, cereals, and forestry, in collaboration with the Instituto de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais Mediterrânicas (ICAAM), young graduates, and irrigation and veterinarian services began a project […]
SIMRA (Social Innovation In Marginalised Rural Areas) has kicked off [20 / 06 / 2016]
Scientists from across Europe and the wider Mediterranean area met at the James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen (Scotland) at the end of May 2016 to mark the start of a 4-year project addressing some of the […]
