Outcomes

Keynote presentations:

• Smart economy – Genís Roca, President, Fundació.cat
• The future of European mountain value chains – Thomas Egger, Director, Swiss Association for Mountain Regions
• Reconciling territorial development and demographic decline – Enrique Garcilazo, Deputy Head of the Regional Development Division and Head of the Rural Unit, OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities
• The new Catalan strategy for mountains regions – Carlos Guàrdia Carbonell, General Director for Mountain Policies, Government of Catalonia
• Working for and with nature in mountain areas – Ulrike Müller, Member of the Bavarian Parliament
• Laying the foundations for success: how to attract and retain workers – Joan Martí, Director of Business Strategy, ACCIÓ (public agency for the competitiveness of Catalan businesses), Government of Catalonia
• Beyond the local: how to take advantage of rural-urban linkages – František Kubeš, Head of Strategic Development and Cooperation Department, Brno City Municipality

Workshop 1

• MOVING: Bringing value to Mountains through Value Chains – Mar Delgado-Serrano, Full Professor, University of Cordoba
• Collective promotion of French mountain products through the ALTITUDE association – Jérémie Bosch, Mountain Officer, La Coopération Agricole
• From meat and wine to apples and dairy products: the strengths and challenges of South Tyrolean quality products – Cristina Stuffer and Elisa Hölzl, Economic researchers, Institute for economic research from the Chamber of Commerce Bolzano

Workshop 2

• Cadí, the Catalan Pyrenees dairy cooperative – Anna Puigcercós, General Director, Cadí
• Wool, a natural resource from the mountains of Europe – Marie-Thérèse Chaupin, Coordinator and Delegate for European relations, ATELIER-Laines d’Europe association
• Pyrenean bike manufacturers: an example of a strategy creating territorial value – Joël Maitia, Europe and Cross-Border Cooperation Project Manager, Pyrenees Agency
• Bringing the secondary sector back to Valmalenco valley – Leonardo La Rocca Project and innovation manager, CISA Consulting and Giuditta Mascetti, Junior project manager, CISA Consulting

Workshop 3

• Caucasus Trading Platform – Bridge to global markets for the niche products of the South Caucasus – Natia Chopliani, Deputy Executive Director, Caucasus Network for Sustainable Development of Mountain Regions
• Climatig – How much will climate change cost you? – Danijel Bertović, Chief Executive Officer, Sensum Consulting

Workshop 4

• From the Pyrenees to the World: outdoor 360º – Lluís Rabaneda, Chief Executive Officer, RocRoi
• Cerdanya’s MICE strategy: a public-private agenda to boost competitiveness – Adriana Cantos, representative, business association Empresariat Cerdanya
• Social entrepreneurship in the mountain areas – Elena Badeanschi, International Relations and Projects Manager, Federation of Trentino Cooperatives

Workshop 5

• EmbleMatiC Mediterranean Mountains network & project:A rethinking tourism practice in the Med hinterland areas – Dr. Konstantinos Zapounidis, Head of Unit, Department of Projects and Programmes Management, Pieriki Anaptixiaki S.A.-O.L.A
• European Tourism Sustainability – Monitoring 2030 – Adrian-Radu Rey, President, RoMontana (Romanian National Association for Mountains and Rural Development)
• FGC Turisme: Transitioning to a sustainable tourism model for mountain resorts – Bernadette Campà Roca, FGC Turisme
• Transitions of Mountain Resorts : the case of St Pierre de Chartreuse/Le Planolet Ski resort – Emmanuelle George, Researcher, INRAE (French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment)

Workshop 6

• Economic incentives for ecosystem services from extensive grazing – Elena Górriz, Co-Head – Socioeconomics and Governance of Rural Systems, CTFC (Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia)
• Integrating grazing into fire risk management strategies – Raphaële Charmetant and Anne Rouquette, Pastoralism Officers, Occitanie Chamber of Agriculture
• Resilient landscapes in Catalonia – Josep Milà Puigdomènech, Biologist, Technical Office of the Catalan Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food, Government of Catalonia
• The ‘Del Parc al Plat’ initiative and the forest climate credits of Catalonia – Marc Garriga Lujan, Director, Alt Pirineu Natural Park

Workshop 7

• Experience from Làctics l’Esquella – Isabel Guasch, Chief Executive Officer, Làctics L’Esquella
• Women and generational replacement in mountain economies: challenges and opportunities – Laia Ciuraneta Martí, Member, Alliance of Organisations of Rural Women – PIMEC Foundation | ADR
• The Epirus Mountain Labs Network – Sotiris Tsoukarelis, Founder and President, The High Mountains social cooperative
• RURALPLAN, Innovative planning in shrinking societies – Kjell Overvåg, Professor, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences

Workshop 8

• How Realserma Rural tackles housing in rural mountain areas of Spain – Débora Serrano Martínez, Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Realserma Rural
• Forest Sharing®: The innovative platform for aggregated and sustainable forest management – Ilaria Zorzi, PhD and Project Manager, Bluebiloba, innovative startup – University of Florence spin-off
• Rooting Territorial Equity – Elisabeth Tuà Sardà, Activity Coordinator for the Regional and Urban Planning and Architecture Authority, Government of Catalonia
• The moutain parliament & the sustainable housing plan – Simon Moulines, Mission director, Region Occitanie