The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) is seeking candidates for a number of vacancies with varying deadlines. The vacancy announcements, job descriptions and online application form can be...
The Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), Fundación para el Desarrollo de la Cordillera Volcánica Central (FUNDECOR) and ProalSUR, with support from the Mountain Partnership Secretariat, are organizing...
The advanced course “Recording rock-art: new technologies for the documentation and management of mountain and valley heritage” will be offered by the University of Milan (through its branch known as the...
The 2015 Quarterly Reflection edition of the electronic newsletter of the Karnali Integrated Rural Development and Research Centre (KIRDARC) opens with a story about an “umbrella rally” that KIRDARC hosted in...
In an effort to attract new, young minds to the Mountain Sentinels Collaborative Network, (MSCN), the Early Career Mountain Sentinels group was created which began as a brief cocktails and...
Since becoming the third recipient of the UIAA Mountain Protection Award (MPA) in late 2015, the team at KTK-BELT, led by Rajeev Goyal and Priyanka Bista, has invested the Award...
The Italian Ministry of Environment, in its role as Italian Delegation to the Alpine Convention, is hosting a meeting to present the Fifth Report on the State of the Alps:...
The launch of two books, "Montanhas" by Planeta Tangerina, led by illustrator Madalena Matoso, complete with activities for children, and "Passo a Passo" by Pedro Cuiça, about trekking and walking...
We are deeply saddened to report the loss of Mahmut Temiz, who represented the Government of Turkey within the Mountain Partnership. Born in Turkey in January 1968, he passed away...
Several events took place on the African continent to honour International Mountain Day (IMD) 2015. In Algeria, the association Assirem Gouraya organized the fourth edition of the Mountain National Festival,...
Like every year, many organizations in Asia enthusiastically observed International Mountain Day (IMD) in December 2015. The FAO Representation Office in Iran organized a conference in which Alessandro Amadio, the...
The Science for the Carpathians (S4C) initiative invites scientists, representatives from policy, economy, management, and doctoral students interested in the Carpathian Mountains to the 4th Forum Carpaticum “Future of the...
For International Mountain Day (IMD), 67 events were organized worldwide in which mountaineers, mountain lovers, governments and institutions gathered on 11 December 2015 to celebrate mountain environments and inhabitants. Celebrations took...
The question whether mountains and other high elevation regions of the world are warming more rapidly as compared to other portions of the planet is of tremendous interest to many...
The latest 2015 edition of the electronic newsletter of Argentina’s National Committee for Sustainable Development in Mountain Regions opens with a look back at its founding of ten years ago....
A workshop dedicated to exchanging good practices, sharing lessons learned and assessing the results on several surveys on the perception of mountain products was held on 18 December 2015 in...
The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) in collaboration with the National Trust for Nature Conservation (NTNC) has established the ‘Chitwan National Park Air Quality Observatory’ to monitor air...
Little Earth visited last autumn several villages of the Bartang valley, in the western Pamirs in Tajikistan, where the organization carries out its activities on energy efficiency and renewable energy...
MiratecArts kicked-off on the morning of 1 January 2016 the second edition of Montanha Pico Festival in the island mountain of Pico, Azores-Portugal, with the opening of the exhibition "The...
This Open Issue offers transformation, systems, and target knowledge in its 3 peer-reviewed sections. In the first paper, a participatory process through which the national objectives of food security and...
