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Euromontana (European association for mountain areas)

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Generals Informations
Creation date: 30/11/1994
Structure type:
- NGO
- Independant service provider

Intervention type: European

Employement number: 4

Main objective:

To promote living mountains, integrated and sustainable development and quality of life in mountain areas



Coordinate
Country:
Belgique
Adress:

c/o Casa Lombardia, 2 Place de Champ du Mars1050 BrusselsBELGIUM

Phone:
00 32 2 280 42 83
Fax:
00 32 2 280 42 85
Contact:
info_ANTI_SPAM_@euromontana.org
Web:
www.euromontana.org/

Presentation

Euromontana is the European multisectoral association for the cooperation and development of mountain territories. It embraces regional and national mountain organisations throughout greater Europe, including regional development agencies, local authorities, agriculture organisations, environmental agencies, forestry organisations and research institutes.

Euromontana has its origins in an FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) sponsored seminar on mountain agriculture in 1953, which generated subsequent mountain conferences at two yearly intervals. In 1974, the Confederation of European Agriculture (CEA) set up a permanent working group for "socio-economic issues in mountain regions". Called "Euromontana", the group comprised agricultural representatives from the countries of the Alps and Pyrenees and perpetuated this sequence of biannual conferences.

In 1994, Euromontana decided to establish new relations with the Central and Eastern European countries and to include representatives of sectors other than agriculture, such as rural development and the environment

. In 1995, Poland hosted a Euromontana conference in Krakow that was so successful that it was agreed to establish Euromontana as an independent legal entity. The representatives of 14 European nations (Albania, Bulgaria, Scotland, Spanish Basque Country, France, Greece, Italy, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Czech Republic) convening in Rome on 4 March 1996 declared themselves the founding members of the association.

Today, Euromontana represents 69 organizations of all kinds in 18 European countries.

Themes activities

Raising the mountains’ issues on the European policy agenda and defending the interests of the mountain populations

Promoting cooperation and dialogue between all sectors present in mountain areas and between different mountain areas in Europe

Promoting sustainable livelihoods in the mountain areas by supporting value adding activities such as those related to mountain products

Advocating for equitable framework conditions for the mountain populations through the recognition of mountain externalities, mountain on-costs, territorial cohesion and universal access to services of general interest

Activities