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.

Informing and training to help better communicate natural risks in the mountains

LIFE FRANCA used a participatory approach to raise awareness and train citizens and the various actors who communicate or intervene during floods.

Climate change
Opti’soins: a mobile maternity unit for mountain women

The “Opti’soins” initiative aims to address these inequalities and better identify the need for mobile care. 110 pregnant women in 4 mountain areas benefit from this new medical assistance.

Territorial cohesion, Demography
Funding mobile services in ageing villages to improve quality of life for older adults

To encourage companies in engaging in the Silver Economy sector in ageing mountain villages, a call was launched to support the development of new mobile goods and services useful for senior citizens in the market.

Territorial cohesion, Forests
Citizen science turns people into alpine lakes observers

The SIMILE project not only used technology to improve the monitoring of Alpine lakes, but also involved citizens.

Nature
“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