New Euromontana member: the Development Centre Heart of Slovenia [15 / 02 / 2016]
In December 2015, Euromontana welcomed a new member: Development Centre of the Heart of Slovenia. Heart of Slovenia, is a development agency from Litija, connecting 10 municipalities east from the capital city Ljubljana. In cooperation […]
MEP NEKOV has submitted written questions on the optional quality term ‘mountain product’ to the European Commission [11 / 02 / 2016]
Mr. Momchil Nekov, Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Bulgaria, submitted three written questions on mountain products to the European Commission (EC) on the 21st December 2015. The aim was to have precisions on […]
Sign the petition for a White Paper on Rurality [8 / 02 / 2016]
The production of a White Paper on rurality by the European Commission is nowadays a strategic step and a urgent need for the success of the broader European project and the future well-being of the […]
Interreg Europe: second call will soon be opened [4 / 02 / 2016]
The Interreg Europe Programme will open its second call from 5 April until 13 May 2016. It is a new possibility to define collaborative projects, focusing on the implementation of the ESIF (European Structural and […]
Meeting of the Civil Dialogue Group on Quality and Promotion of the 9th December 2015 [29 / 01 / 2016]
On the 9th December 2015, Euromontana attended the meeting of the Civil Dialogue Group on Quality and Promotion of Agri-food Products. Please click here to access the report of the meeting (only for members).
The GREENOVATION Challenge, Sogn og Fjordane County Council (Norway) [27 / 01 / 2016]
Autumn 2015 – The GREENOVATION Challenge, a Junior Achievement Innovation camp in Norway gathering participants from Bulgaria, Romania and Norway This autumn 2015, our Norwegian member Sogn og Fjordane County Council, visited Firda high school […]
Final rethink conference – Rethinking the links between farm modernisation, rural development and resilience in a world of increasing demands and finite resources [21 / 01 / 2016]
The 2th December 2015, Euromontana attended the final ’rethink’ conference on the links between farm modernisation, rural development and resilience. The ‘rethink’ project, coordinated by the IfLS (Institute for Rural Development Research) in Germany, was […]
What is High Nature Value Farming? [20 / 01 / 2016]
In their starting paper, the EIP-AGRI Focus Group on High Nature Value (HNV) farming profitability defined HNV farming as ‘a relatively new concept that has developed since the early 1990s to describe those farming systems […]
The EIP-AGRI Focus Group on Innovative Short Food Supply Chain Management released its final report [18 / 01 / 2016]
For 1 year, the EIP-AGRI Focus Group Innovative Short Food Supply Chain (SFC) management worked on ‘how to stimulate growth of short food supply chains in Europe, both in terms of numbers of producers involved […]
From Bucharest to Bern, learning from the SAB on the valorisation of mountain products [4 / 12 / 2015]
The second week of November, Alice Dos Santos, our intern working on mountain products, was invited by our member the Swiss Centre for Mountain Regions (SAB) to get some insights on how to successfully promote […]
Discovering Lombardy’s reality on mountain products [24 / 11 / 2015]
In the beginning of autumn 2015, our Italian member ERSAF – the Regional Agency for Services to Agriculture and Forestry in Lombardy – welcomed our intern working on mountain products for twelve days. They showed […]
Euromontana participated in the workshop on the spatial programme Copernicus among local and regional authorities [6 / 11 / 2015]
On 20 October in Milan, Euromontana participated in the joint workshop of the NEREUS(1)/ESA projects “Improving Copernicus User Uptake among Local and Regional Authorities”. The workshop hosted by the Lombardy Region attracted over 200 participants […]
Territorial Cohesion and the Open Days 2015 [4 / 11 / 2015]
The Open Days 2015, organised by the Committee of the Regions, were the occasion for Euromontana to get to know the latest research and policy developments of the European Union (EU) regions to improve territorial […]
Have you registered yet for the second workshop on Forestry Innovation of the 24th November 2015? [3 / 11 / 2015]
The network European Regions for Innovation in Agriculture, Food and Forestry (ERIAFF) in partnership with Euromontana and other European organisations involved in the forestry sector, are organising the workshop “Inform-Prioritize-Collaborate: Cooperation of regions on innovation […]
Open Days 2015: EUSALP event “ecological transformation- an asset for the economy” [2 / 11 / 2015]
On 14th October 2015, the event “Ecological transformation- an asset for the EUSALP economy” took place as part of the Open Days 2015. The Open Days are an annual four days event organised by the […]
