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.
To decrease car dependency, a tailored made low-carbon transport strategy targeting the daily mobility of workers was implemented in Sankt Veit im Pongau.
To facilitate the access to care services, the Provincial Government of Castellón set up in 2018 the ‘Rural Taxi with Medical Purposes’.
The initiative Law Carbon Dairy Farm aims to propose concrete actions to each farmer, consistent with the constraints of the farm, including altitude and the lack of mechanisable land in order to reduce the carbon footprint of milk production.
Cozzano has embarked on its energy transition by investing in sustainable production, with the ultimate aim of becoming a positive energy village.
Cozzano is a community of 270 inhabitants located in the high valley of Taravo in southern Corsica. By using connected devices and collecting environmental data, Smart Paesi’s partners want to increase the climate and energy resilience of the village.
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.
Mont Lait is a French dairy producer brand benefiting from the EU Optional Quality Term “mountain product”. Mont Lait managed to take profit of the term to keep the added value in mountain areas and redistribute it to producers while also raising awareness on the importance of maintaining mountain agriculture.
The Life to Grasslands project’s main aim is to improve the unfavourable status of dry grasslands and ensure the long-term conservation of these habitats, as well as plant and animal species connected to them.
In the cross-border region between Germany and Austria, the KlimaAlps project wants to encourage individual climate action and nature protection.