Region Małopolska joins Euromontana [8 / 12 / 2021]
Region Małopolska is situated in the southern region of Poland. It is divided into 19 country districts, 3 townships (Kraków, Nowy Sącz, Tarnów) and 182 municipalities. It covers the area of 15,183 km² (which constitutes […]
Let us know about the 2021-2027 Cohesion Policy in your mountain areas! [2 / 12 / 2021]
Most of European countries are about to finalise the Operational Programmes to distribute the funds of the 2021-2027 Cohesion Policy. What will the 2021-2027 Operational Programmes focus on in your country? Will they include specific […]
Forest fires worsens year by year: what is the status in Europe? [1 / 12 / 2021]
On October 2021, the Joint Research Centre published the 21st edition of its annual report on forest fires in Europe, Middle East and North Africa related to the year 2020. According to this report, in […]
Internship opportunity – Communication – from March 2022 [1 / 12 / 2021]
Euromontana, the European association of mountain areas offers in its Brussels office a 6-month internship as Communication Intern from March 2022 onwards. Only students able to provide a traineeship agreement from a university will be selected. […]
Montana174’s website is online: discover more about Cohesion Policy in the mountains! [29 / 11 / 2021]
How do mountain territories already benefit from the Cohesion Policy? What specific measures will the Cohesion Policy include for mountains in the 2021-2027 period? What are these opportunities? If you wish to answer to these […]
Romanian mountains must do their best to remain attractive to young people, says our Vice-President Radu-Adrian Rey [25 / 11 / 2021]
Euromontana’s Vice President, Radu-Adrian Rey, was invited on 12th November 2021 for an interview by the national radio channel Radio Romania Antena Satelor to present some key findings of Euromontana’s survey on mountain youth. After […]
Climate change adaptation: Spessart’s all-year around tourism strategy [23 / 11 / 2021]
Spessart is a German range of low wooded mountains, in the states of Bavaria and Hesse in Germany. Each year, the region has about 1.35 million overnight stays and over 13-million-day visitors. In winter, skiing […]
What sustainable jobs for young people in the mountains? [18 / 11 / 2021]
The Erasmus+ project “Youth4EmblematicMountains”, which follows the Interreg Med project EMbleMatiC, recently organised the « train the trainers » series of webinars to reflect on innovative education tools for mountain youth and investigate their aspirations […]
Cultural heritage: an asset rooted in the territory synonymous with attractiveness for our mountains! [17 / 11 / 2021]
What does cultural heritage represent in mountain areas? How to better preserve and valorise this place-based resource? How can it be a driver for socio-economic changes in mountain areas? These are the questions to which […]
2022 work programme of the European Commission: what policies for the mountains next year? [16 / 11 / 2021]
What European policy action will impact the mountains in 2022? Euromontana analysed the European Commission’s annual work programme for the year to come. From the European Green Deal to digitalisation of transports, mitigation of the […]
The European Rural Observatory must support the analysis of post-COVID-19 ruralisation trends argues Euromontana [15 / 11 / 2021]
How to encourage generation renewal, young people to stay, newcomers to settle? Which barriers do they face and how policies can help to overcome them? These were the questions raised during the conference of the […]
2022 will be the European Year of Youth [10 / 11 / 2021]
Announced last September by Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, the European institutions want to make 2022 the European Year of Youth and the official proposal is published. By doing so, the […]
“Stay in the countryside – it pays off”: showing young people the opportunities in Polish mountainous regions [8 / 11 / 2021]
Many young people leave mountain regions because they see few opportunities on the labour market and have no prospects for the future. In four Polish mountainous regions, a campaign was conducted to inform young people […]
Cultural heritage can drive development and innovation in mountain areas says Euromontana [4 / 11 / 2021]
Mountains cover nearly 30% of the EU territory. Together with rural and remote areas they are home to 57% of the population and account for 46% of the gross added value produced in the EU […]
Valorisation of agricultural waste through large-scale bioeconomy in Norway [3 / 11 / 2021]
It is frequent that only meat and dairy products are valued outputs from mountain farms. Nonetheless, by-products generated in producing meat and dairy products can be transformed into high-quality products, thereby creating an additional income […]
