Newsletter May 2011
mountain.TRIP newsletter may 2011
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Welcome to the latest mountain.TRIP update!
The goal of the mountain.TRIP project is to provide stakeholders, end-users and practitioners with readily accessible and understandable forms of research-based information relevant to sustainable
development in mountain regions. You don't know about mountain.TRIP yet?
We hope you will enjoy our update with insights, results and activities of the EU-funded mountain.TRIP project.
Yours sincerely, mountain.TRIP team from Euromontana, the European Association of Mountain areas.
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INFORMATION PRODUCTS TO BE DISCUSSED DURING REGIONAL WORKSHOPS
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The second cycle of workshops aims to fine-tune the information products that were produced based on the results of former mountain research projects. Some prototypes of these products are already available online.
Knowledge on sustainable development: transfer between mountain practitioners (Workshop in Austria – 25th May)
Explaining research results through videos? Have a look how we did it and get inspired for your own project: http://www.mountaintrip.eu/products/diamont-tutorial.html
For more information on the workshop please contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Making better use of research results – transferring knowledge of sustainable olive farming in mountain areas (Workshop in Spain - 7th June)
You are interested on how research can be made available in a poster exhibition. Have a look at our prototype: http://www.mountaintrip.eu/products/sustainable-olive-farming.html
For more information on the workshop please contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Carpathian Fine Food: from your farm to everyone's table! (Workshop in Romania – 9th June)
Brochures as means of making your research results survive and available to practitioners? We elaborated such brochures. Check them here http://www.mountaintrip.eu/products/euromarc.html
For more information on the workshop please contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Knowledge on sustainable development: transfer between mountain areas (Workshop in Poland – 8th June)
We will seek recommendations for the transfer of DIAMONT results and solutions into the Polish Carpathian region, in the context of the availability of spatial data for sustainability analysis in mountain regions in Poland.
For more information on the workshop please contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
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WHY YOU SHOULD JOIN MOUNTAIN.TRIP – Insights from Zoltán Kun (PAN Parks) and Aurelia Ulrich (CIPRA) members of the mountain.TRIP practitioners board
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Talking to Zoltán Kun from PAN Parks:
What was you intention to use mountain.TRIP as a means to communicate on mountain sustainable development?
First of all I wanted to get in touch with people who are active on mountain related issues with special interest in biodiversity. So I joined the biodiversity group on mountain.TRIP. My main interest is to liaise with researchers, because of two main reasons: collecting research evidences of biodiversity protection in mountains (special interest in wilderness) and generating potential new research ideas. These would be very beneficial for PAN Parks Foundation
My second intention was to see how on online community works. Can we actually mobilise researchers to share ideas and experiences. I wanted to know that because PAN Parks Foundation also considers starting an online community.
Read the complete interview on http://www.mountaintrip.eu/interview-zoltan-kun.html
Talking to Aurelia Ulrich from CIPRA:
What was you intention to use mountain.TRIP as a means to communicate on mountain sustainable development?
I became aware of the project's intention to build a community and distribute information on mountain sustainable development, especially to transfer results from research to practitioners. As CIPRA follows similar objectives and carries out activities we consider interesting for the mountain.TRIP community and the users of its website we chose to distribute our information by its website.
Read the complete interview on http://www.mountaintrip.eu/interview-with-cipra.html
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FUNCTIONALITIES OF THE mountain.TRIP PORTAL
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mountain.TRIP provides you with the opportunity to promote your own events. Events can be added by every user that is registered. Go to "community", "my account", "applications" and register your event. You can also find interesting events from other mountain.TRIP stakeholders. You might have seen this one already.
Lots of discussion groups are waiting for your contribution. You just need to register and choose "community", "my account", "applications". Then you can not only go through ongoing discussions but also add your own one asking the mountain.TRIP stakeholders for their opinions.
Interested in mountain specific news? On the mountain.TRIP portal you find updated news every day. Furthermore you can submit your own news and make them public on the portal. Just write an email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
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The next mountain.TRIP Update is planned for June 2011.
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CONTACT
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mountain.TRIP Project Management:
Fides Braun,
Institute of Mountain Research: Man & Environment (IGF)
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Responsible for this issue of the mountain.TRIP update:
Birte Vietor, Marie Guitton (Euromontana)
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