The Mountain Partnership's 2023 training course "GROW – Agrobiodiversity in a changing climate" featured an innovation contest on the importance of biodiversity for creating jobs in agriculture. Participant Ysa Calderón...
The University of Milan's University of the Mountain (UNIMONT) campus is now accepting applications for the master's degree programme "Valorization and sustainable development of mountain areas" (MOUNTAINSIDE – class LM-73).
Taught...
“Mountain solutions for a sustainable future – innovation, adaptation, youth and beyond” is the theme of this year's International Mountain Day (IMD) on 11 December.
Over centuries, mountain communities have developed...
The 12th World Congress on Snow, Mountain and Wellness Tourism identified key challenges, among them climate change and evolving consumer trends, while recognizing the role tourism can play in the...
During a side event at the 68th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW68), Mountain Youth Hub co-founder and co-leader Ritikaa Gupta from Canada called for the...
A new brief has been published that synthesizes experience and learning captured on the Adaptation at Altitude Solution Portal that show how Indigenous knowledge (also termed local or traditional knowledge) has...
European mountainous regions host communities deeply entrenched in pastoral traditions within which pastoralist women play an indispensable role in sustaining local practices, preserving ecological balance, and fostering socioeconomic development. To...
The Journal of Maps is inviting submissions for an article collection on geohazards and their susceptibility mapping for land use planning and risk management. Contributions concerning (but not limited to)...
Mountain Partnership member the International Federation of Mountain Guides Associations launched a statement during the UN 2023 Climate Change Conference with the support of the Zero Water Day Partnership, a...
The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution on 26 February 2024 to declare 2027 as the International Year of Sustainable and Resilient Tourism.
The resolution invites the World Tourism Organization...
"Mountainlikers: Sustainability and wellbeing, the keys to mountain tourism" will be the theme of the 12th edition of the World Congress on Snow, Mountain and Wellness Tourism, which will take...
Mountains and climate justice were highlighted in a series of events at the World Social Forum 2024 Nepal. In collaboration with Mountain Partnership member the Karnali Integrated Rural Development and...
From October 2023 to August 2024, the Eureopean Union (EU)-funded MOuntain Valorisation through INterconnectedness and Green Growth (MOVING) project is exploring the diverse challenges and opportunities within Europe's mountain regions...
The Mountain Partnership Secretariat is pleased to announce the call for applications for the 17th IPROMO summer school. This annual training programme on sustainable mountain development is jointly organized by...
Mountain societies are highly vulnerable to the potentially severe impacts of climate change on their livelihoods and well-being. The remote location, ageing infrastructure, poor access to information and markets and...
Over 50 high-level mountain experts, including several Mountain Partnership members, convened in Brussels, Belgium, on 11 January 2024 to discuss the future of Europe's mountain regions and enabling post-2027 European...
European transhumance and the Swiss alpine pasture season have been recognized as intangible cultural heritage by the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
Transhumance refers to the seasonal movement of...
Mountain Partnership members are invited share their inputs for the Mountain Partnership Secretariat's 2023 Annual Report.
Each year, the Annual Report celebrates the key achievements of both the Secretariat and Mountain...
The Mountain Partnership is guided by an 18-member Steering Committee that supports the implementation of the 'Mountain Agenda' and tracks the achievements and impacts of their respective electoral groups.
In the...
The Mountain Partnership Secretariat (MPS) presented examples of successful interventions to support mountain farmers at the international conference "Enabling resilient and sustainable food systems in the Hindu Kush Himalaya" held...
