Good practices database

Welcome to Euromontana’s mountain good practices database!

Here you will find a range of past and ongoing initiatives that are inspiring to drive change in the mountains! The database includes practices from all over Europe, covering a wide range of topics and using a variety of funding instruments. If you are leading sustainable development in your mountain community, you can also submit your own good practice! For any questions or requests, please contact communication@euromontana.org.

“Good for biodiversity, good for the climate: hay milk, simply good”: promoting the environmental sustainability of mountain foods

Austrian and German hay milk producers decided to promote the sustainability of haymilk through a communication campaign funded by the European agrifood promotion calls.

Climate change, Mountain products
Dinara back to LIFE: restoring mountain grassland birds’ habitats

Dinara back to LIFE shows that traditional methods such as pastoralism are essential for the good management of mountain grasslands.

Nature
Training unaccompanied minors to mountain jobs for a future in the Pyrenees

The AVENIR project has developed a global approach to the integration of unaccompanied minors, focusing on vocational training but also on their social, cultural, and linguistic integration.

Territorial cohesion, Demography
“Mountain municipality – Youth, our future”: a label to encourage municipalities to act for youth

In order to encourage municipalities to act in support of young people and for the attractiveness of the territory, a label aims to recognise the efforts of these municipalities and to give them a positive and attractive image towards new inhabitants.

Demography
GORTA: when social innovation helps revitalise abandoned land

The GORTA Operational Group’s social innovation approach has demonstrated that dialogue between stakeholders can help overcome land abandonment and generational renewal by creating new models of land use adapted to each farm.

Common agriculture policy
Return of Young People to Aragon: supporting access to employment in mountain regions

This multi-annual initiative aimed at facilitating the return of young Aragonese who have left the territory due to the lack of jobs.

Demography
Soča Evergreen: a year-round tourism strategy in the Soča Valley

The Soča Valley in Slovenia is a popular destination for outdoor tourism. However, the high seasonality of activities can have negative effects on the concentration of tourist flows, on sensitive natural areas and on the sustainability of jobs in the sector.

Sustainable tourism
Balcões Móveis: bringing administrative services closer to mountain citizens

To tackle the challenges of access to administrative services for isolated rural mountainous residents, the Intermunicipal Community of Terras de Trás-os-Montes created in 2018 itinerant services points.

Territorial cohesion
Rhodoshop: a One-Stop-Shop on energy efficiency for the Rhodope’s municipalities

The Rhodoshop initiative replicates the One-Stop-Shop concept at regional level to support stakeholders in identifying and accessing funds channelled towards energy efficiency.

Energy, Research & innovation