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Exploring Future Scenarios for Mountain Areas in Valmalenco and Maniva Living Labs

On Tuesday June 18 in Lanzada (Sondrio province) and Monday June 24 at Passo Maniva (Brescia province), UNIMONT, center of excellence at the University of Milan, organized the second local workshop in collaboration with Lombardy Region as part of the Interreg Alpine Space TranStat project (Transition to Sustainable Ski Tourism in the Alps of Tomorrow). […]

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MOUNTAINSIDE students take action: pollinating a rare orchid to strengthen its population

The English-language Master’s Degree Course “Valorization and Sustainable Development of Mountain Areas” – MOUNTAINSIDE offers a distinctive, multidisciplinary, and “glocal” training experience, blending local perspectives with an international outlook.   During the past few weeks, students from the Master’s Degree Course “Valorisation and Sustainable Development of Mountain Areas” – MOUNTAINSIDE took part to a practical […]

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MOUNTAINSIDE & VALMONT on Tour! A multidisciplinary study trip to discuss strategic issues for the valorisation and sustainable development of the mountains

The students of the International Master’s Degree Course ‘Valorisation and Sustainable Development of Mountain Areas – MOUNTAINSIDE‘ and of the Bachelor’s Degree Course ‘Valorizzazione e Tutela dell’Ambiente e del Territorio Montano – VALMONT’ recently carried out a multidisciplinary study trip to the Parco Nazionale delle Foreste Casentinesi.   As in the tradition, also for the 2023-2024 Academic […]

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UNIMONT reports: Last days to join the ‘Call for speakers’ for the European Mountain Convention

Euromontana – the European multi-stakeholder network for sustainable development and quality of life in mountain areas – of which UNIMONT, a center of excellence of the Milan University, is a historical member and a member of the Board of Directors, is organizing in collaboration with the Government of Catalonia and CREAF, the 13th European Mountain […]

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Mountains and ancient civilisations: Collaboration between the Ge.S.Di.Mont. Research Center and the Centro Camuno di Studi Prestorici

The CCSP – Centro Camuno di Studi Preistorici and the University of Milan, represented by the Department of Cultural and Environmental Heritage of the University of Milan, member of the Ge.S.Di.Mont. Research Center, have been collaborating on research since 2022. The agreement, which sees the PrEcLab, the University of Milan’s Prehistory, Protohistory and Prehistoric Ecology […]

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‘A FUTURE FOR MOUNTAIN AREAS IN POST 2027 EU PRIORITIES’: UNIMONT in Brussels to discuss the future of Europe’s mountains

On June 13th and 14th, the final conference of the Horizon 2020 MOVING -MOuntain Valorisation through INterconnectedness and Green Growth project was held in Brussels. The experience of UNIMONT, Alpine centre of the University of Milan, which coordinates numerous European projects from a small mountain village was brought to the attention of international experts and […]

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UNIMONT reports a call for abstracts for the International Workshop of Alpine and Mountain Plants – iWAMP 2024

The 1st edition of the ‘International Workshop on Alpine and Mountain Plants – iWAMP 2024‘ will take place on October 23rd, 24th and 25th 2024 in San Michele all’Adige (Tn).   Alpine and mountain regions are well recognised as a hotspot of plant biodiversity that includes a high diversity of ethnopharmaceutically, food and cosmetically relevant […]

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MOUNTAINSIDE – Web Communication for Sustainable Mountain Valorisation

The English-language Master’s Degree Course “Valorization and Sustainable Development of Mountain Areas” – MOUNTAINSIDE offers a distinctive, multidisciplinary, and “glocal” training experience, blending local perspectives with an international outlook.   Francesco Tissoni, Researcher at the University of Milan and teacher of the “Web Communication Theories and Techniques” course at the UNIMONT hub, underlines the importance […]

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UNIMONT reports: Enrollment open for the webinar ‘Preparing for water resilience in the mountains’

As part of EU Green Week 2024 organised by the European Commission, Euromontana – the European multi-stakeholder network for sustainable development and quality of life in mountain areas of which UNIMONT, a center of excellence of the Milan University, is a historical member and a member of the Board of Directors, is organizing a webinar, […]

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A future for Mountain Areas in post 2027 EU priorities – UNIMONT at the Moving final conference

On June 13th and 14th, MOVING (MOuntain Valorisation through INterconnectedness and Green Growth) will hold a final conference in Brussels. This event, in which UNIMONT, Milan University Hub, has been invited to participate, will be an opportunity to highlight the key role of rural and mountain areas in achieving European policy objectives and targets by […]

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