Euromontana contributed to the European Commission's public consultation on the brain drain and how to mitigate the challenges of demographic decline using the instruments and funds of Cohesion Policy.
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.
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.
Being young in a mountain area: youth’s needs and aspirations in 2022
In 2022, 10 years after its first survey, Euromontana publishes a new Europe-wide report on mountain youth. The report brings the voice of 1134 young mountain people aged 18-29 from 18 EU and non-EU countries.
“Stay in the countryside – it pays off” campaign for youth
To encourage young people to stay and live-in rural areas, the « Stay in the countryside – it pays off » campaign was carried out in 2018 in the four mountainous regions of Małopolskie, Świętokrzyskie and Podkarpackie and Lubelskie.
Between depopulation and massification: how to promote sustainable development?
This policy brief for Euromontana members examines policies that can help regions tackle depopulation while avoiding the effects of seasonal overtourism
Ageing in mountain areas – Contributions of Euromontana for the Green Paper on Ageing
Given the importance of the ageing challenge for most mountain areas, Euromontana recently participated to the European Commission’s consultation on the Green Paper on Ageing to provide recommendations on how to adapt measures at national, regional and local levels.
ODISSEU Rural internships to boost youth employment
ODISSEU is a programme which aims at facilitating the return of young people to rural areas through employment. This programme of the Catalan region runs awareness raising, training and networking activities with rural companies in order to counterbalance the depopulation and masculinization of the region’s rural territories.
The Desafio programme: a “rural Erasmus” to fight depopulation in rural and mountain areas
Desafio is a rural internship programme aiming at revitalising rural and mountainous areas by improving their attractiveness among students. Created in 2018 by the Chair on Depopulation and Creativity of the University of Zaragoza, Spain, the programme connects rural public and private organisations willing to train young people