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SIMRA (Social Innovation in Marginalised Rural Areas) has just started [14 / 04 / 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 […]

Are the CAP Greening measures well adapted to permanent pastures? [6 / 04 / 2016]

The European Forum on Nature Conservation and Pastoralism (EFNCP) released some country reports on application of the new “green” CAP (Common Agricultural Policy) to permanent pastures in 6 Member States (Bulgaria, Estonia, France, Ireland, Spain […]

Study “Cohesion in Mountainous Regions of the EU” for the European Parliament [31 / 03 / 2016]

Martin Price, from the Centre for Mountain Studies of the University of the Highlands and Islands and vice-president of Euromontana, edited the report on “Cohesion in Mountainous Regions of the EU”. Andreja Borec, from the […]

Don’t miss the chance: the second call for Interreg Europe will be launched soon [30 / 03 / 2016]

The second call of Interreg Europe will open from 5 April till 13 May 2016 (for detailed information, please click here). 64 projects out of the 261 proposals have been funded during the first call […]

Tolmin: “Alpine town of the year 2016” [24 / 03 / 2016]

By receiving the title of “Alpine town of the year 2016”, Tolmin (Slovenia) joined a respected community of 17 title holders and became the third Slovenian town holding this title (after Maribor in 2000 and […]

Branding mountain products, a taste of Norwegian Mountains [21 / 03 / 2016]

In 2015, at the IX European Mountain Convention of Bilbao, Marit Blomlie from the Valdres Region Park presented the example of branding of typical products from the mountainous region of Valdres. Valdres is the main area […]

Two funding opportunities in forest and water management [21 / 03 / 2016]

ERANET SUMFOREST call ‘Sustainable forests for the society of the future’ The ERANET SUMFOREST has announced that it will publish a new call on 21 March 2016, with pre-registration of project proposals on the platform […]

Financing the promotion of your mountain products: call opened by DG Agri [14 / 03 / 2016]

With the Regulation (EU) No 1144/2014 that entered into force on the 1st December 2015, the European Union (EU) renewed its promotion policy for agricultural products. This new policy has the ambition of being more […]

Opening of the Mountain Economy Center – CE-MONT in Vatra Dornei, Romania [10 / 03 / 2016]

On 9 December 2015 it was inaugurated in Vatra Dornei, Romania the Mountain Economy Center- CE-MONT. CE-MONT is the only research center for the mountain economy in the South East Europe. Its aim is to […]

Implementation of the EU optional quality term ‘mountain product’: where do we stand in the different Member States? [10 / 03 / 2016]

Rewarding 15 years of Euromontana commitment on the topic of mountain products, the use of the optional quality term (OQT) ‘mountain product’ was protected in November 2012 by the European Union with the (EU) regulation […]

How the lowlands have conditioned Italian growth [10 / 03 / 2016]

The European Research Centre (CER) and tsm – Trentino School of Management elaborated a study that analyses how altitude has influenced the regional development in Italy. La montagna perduta. Come la pianura ha condizionato lo […]

4th meeting of the Subgroup on innovation of the EIP AGRI [9 / 03 / 2016]

On 18th February 2016, Euromontana participated in the 4th meeting of the Subgroup on Innovation of the EIP-AGRI that took place in Brussels. The Subgroup, where Euromontana has a seat for the current programming period, […]

What is the opinion of farmers in the Biellese Alps on the optional quality term ‘mountain product’? [3 / 03 / 2016]

Alessandro Bonadonna, Assistant Professor of the Department of Management of the University of Turin, studied the opinions of farmers in the Biellese Alps on the optional quality term ‘mountain product’. To have access to the […]

Experts wanted for EIP-AGRI Focus Groups [1 / 03 / 2016]

EIP-AGRI, the agricultural European Innovation Partnership, is opening two new Focus Groups, one of which tackling the topic of ‘Sustainable mobilisation of forest biomass’ and it is looking for experts with practical experience or specific […]

How can the implementation of LEADER and Community-Led Local Development be improved? [25 / 02 / 2016]

On the 16th February 2016, the third meeting of the Rural Networks’ Permanent Subgroup on LEADER and Community-Led Local Development (CLLD) took place in Brussels. The aim of this meeting was to pursue the discussion […]

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This morning we were at the first 🇪🇺 EU CAP Network Thematic Group on Forest-Dominant Rural Areas and Municipalities!🌲A key issue in the mountains for:🪵 local wood chains🌱 unique biodiversity🔥 forest fires, which we are currently addressing with Fire-ResElena Feo (Euromontana) shared the outputs of her group: The need to take a multi-actor approach, which is under-represented compared to agriculture 👥Forestry should be integrated in the innovation system #AKIS 🤔Find out more: bit.ly/tg1forest ... See MoreSee Less
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🆕 FIRE-RES published its first deliverable!It goes through the lessons learned from Extreme Wildfires and creates a common basis for action to improve resilience to fire 🔥🌲 Check it out! ⤵fire-res.eu/fire-res-publishes-its-first-deliverable-on-lessons-learned-on-extreme-wildfire-events/Centre de Ciència i Tecnologia Forestal de Catalunya, CTFC Instituto Superior de Agronomia CEF - Centro de Estudos Florestais CEABN InBIO European Forest Institute (EFI) Tecnosylva Πανεπιστήμιο Αιγαίου Ειδικός Κονδυλίων Έρευνας Πανεπιστημίου Αιγαίου CoLAB ForestWISE INRAE Cnrs.fr Tiems Escola Nacional de Bombeiros Euromontana Wageningen University & Research Agenzia Regionale Forestas VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research NIBIO Osservatorio Balcani Caucaso Transeuropa Institut i Geològic de Catalunya CONAF INESC TEC Spire Global TESAF Dipartimento Territorio e Sistemi Agro-Forestali UNIPD Autoridade Nacional de Emergência e Proteção Civil Corma Chile ... See MoreSee Less
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Women matter for our mountains! 💪🌄 They are professors, project leaders, researchers, heads of policy units, directors or presidents of associations ➡️ Discover 13 testimonies from women who make a change in their territory in this booklet co-produced with Moving - Mountain Valorisation through Interconnectedness and Green Growth for the 11 December!📗 Read now: www.euromontana.org/en/women-move-europes-mountains-a-booklet-to-celebrate-mountains-women/ ... See MoreSee Less
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Today is #WorldWaterDay! Freshwater from mountains is fundamental for achieving global food security, as it is used by farmers to irrigate crops in many lowland agricultural regions. #MountainsMatter

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📢Attention everyone! 🎉Our first @YouTube video is now live!🎥 Check out highlights from RUSTIK's Pilot Region Kick-off event, where we had our first in-person knowledge exchange, training, and networking event with partners from the 14 Pilot Regions https://t.co/85Y89WO1PA

🌳 #Forests provide us with many ecosystem services & contribute to our well-being! But forest health and #resilience must be a priority in the face of climate change! ☀️🌡

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Happy International Day of Forests! Protecting #mountain forests and making sure they are carefully managed is an important step towards sustainable mountain development. #MountainsMatter

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Our @MOVINGH2020 workshop on sustainable mountain tourism concluded with a lunch of delicious #localfood...but (much to our delight🙂) the discussions just kept going! Would the last person to leave please turn the lights off #horizon2020 #ecotourism #carpathians #mountainsmatter

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