Slow Tourism: a cross-border and transectorial approach in the Butinier Pays du Mont Blanc [24 / 04 / 2014]
The ‘Butinier au Pays du Mont Blanc’ encourages slow tourism. It is a network of product and service providers across the French, Italian and Swiss sides in order to allow for a slow-pace, authentic discovery […]
A house like a sheep: the new Climalp report on sustainable construction and refurbishment [22 / 04 / 2014]
In winter they stay warm and in summer they keep cool: thanks to their wool, sheep have a natural isolation that allows them to adapt to temperature. Buildings should work in the same way to […]
Mobility in geographically and demographically challenged regions [18 / 04 / 2014]
The Committee of the Region (CoR) wants to draw the European Commission’s attention on a better mobility for all, including the remote regions. Gordon Keymer, from the CoR, is going to meet the EC at […]
SODEBUR welcomed MOG partners in Spain on 9th April 2014 [17 / 04 / 2014]
Context: Society for the Development of the Province of Burgos (SODEBUR), organized its MOG study visit on 9th April 2014. Two partner organizations (Provincial Government of Teruel and Region of Epirus) gained more detailed information […]
Implementation of EU policies for youth employment: still much to do [15 / 04 / 2014]
On 1st April 2014 a public hearing on the implementation of EU policies for youth employment took place at the European Economic and Social Committee. During this event, the European Commission, national experts and representatives […]
La 4° lettre d’information de DANTE est disponible [15 / 04 / 2014]
La 4° lettre d’information de notre projet DANTE est disponible en version anglaise. Elle se concentre sur les résultats des six derniers mois : une conférence de mi-parcours a été organisée pour présenter les premiers […]
ZIVI: a car-share platform in Hungary [10 / 04 / 2014]
Zivi is a cheap and comfortable travelling alternative through a modern, user-friendly website. It helps drivers and passengers find each other to co-share in rural areas. It increases loading rates of cars and costs are […]
Mobile mail service in Hungary [7 / 04 / 2014]
The mobile mail service is operating in villages with less than 600 inhabitants. The service represents a mobile/moving post office. The essence of this initiative consists in the fact that the postman has a car […]
Euromontana contributed to the ESPON 2020 consultation [7 / 04 / 2014]
Euromontana submitted on March 31st its contribution to the public consultation on the ESPON 2020 programme. Welcoming the general approach in the draft which tries to strike a balance between top down research and bottom-up […]
The Restructuring of the Wood Sector in Europe: Towards a Green Economy [7 / 04 / 2014]
On 25th March 2014, Euromontana attended the final conference of the project “Wood2Good”, entitled “The Restructuring of the Wood Sector in Europe: Towards a Green Economy“. Wood2Good is a one year project, funded by the […]
New multi-annual LIFE work programme has been published [7 / 04 / 2014]
The new LIFE work programme for 2014-2017 has been published. It defines for the next four years the priorities, the typed of funded projects, the methodology and the budget of this programme. It will fund […]
New Guidelines for Sustainable Energy Investments buildings [7 / 04 / 2014]
DG Energy is providing a new guidance document to help Managing Authority (MA) in charge of the implementation of European Structural and Investment Funds to plan and deploy Sustainable energy investments buildings in their Operational […]
Euromontana called upon the European institutions to move on on Mountain foods [28 / 03 / 2014]
The procedure of approval of the delegated act on the optional quality term ‘mountain product’ is in its final phases. The European Commission notified on 11th of March to the Council and Parliament the final […]
Teruel is looking for partners for Erasmus+ Sport [28 / 03 / 2014]
Collaborative partnerships are a type of projects under Erasmus+ Sport. They are networks of at least five non profit organisations or public bodies from all fields from at least five different Programme Countries. The Provincial […]
An OECD working paper measures contributions of regions to aggregate growth [26 / 03 / 2014]
In line with the research-results disseminated on the occasion of the RURBAN conference, the OECD published a collectively authored working paper on the contributions of regions to aggregate growth in the OECD. Authors recall that […]
