mountain.TRIP email update 20/10/10

mountain.TRIP update
Mountain Sustainability: Transforming Research into Practice

Welcome to the first mountain.TRIP update!
We hope you will enjoy our first update with insights, results and activities of the EU funded mountain.TRIP project.

Yours sincerely, Fides Braun & Claudia Drexler

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RESULTS
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Work package (WP) 2 - Identify relevant FP5-7 and other projects implemented in European mountain areas and evaluate their potential for the transformation of knowledge into practice.

The outcomes of mountain.TRIP WP2 are now available in form of a video interview with Catalina Munteanu of the Centre for Mountain Studies, Perth College, UK, and as press release.

They can be summarized with the question “ European mountain sustainability research: where are the outcomes?” Learn more at: http://www.mountaintrip.eu/project/results.html or watch the video on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/mountaintripeu

Contact WP2: Catalina Munteanu < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it >

WP3 - Identify practitioners relevant to and working in European mountain regions and assess their information needs.

The outcomes of mountain.TRIP WP3 are now available in a presentation and a short text by Birte Vietor, Junior Project Officer at Euromontana, the European association of mountain areas in Brussels.

One of the working hypothesis of the mountain.TRIP project was that the use of modern information and communication tools to retrieve information for the professional life is gaining importance – such as online videos, internet based social networks, or podcasts. But this hypothesis has to be revised: the results of the mountain.TRIP survey show that those modern tools are currently not that much used by the mountain.TRIP target groups. Read more at: http://www.mountaintrip.eu/project/results.html

Contact WP3: Birte Vietor < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it >

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PROGRESS
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Practitioner Consultation Workshop:
Sustainable development in EU mountain regions - Options for communicating research to practitioners, 9 November 2010, Brussels

The workshop will serve as an opportunity to discuss mountain.TRIP information strategies and product ideas to transfer research findings on sustainable mountain development into practice. Drawing on a database of available EU projects and a survey of research information needs of practitioners working in sustainable mountain development, the mountain.TRIP project has been developing information strategies and specific product ideas to address the information needs of different groups of practitioners. Please contact us if you are interested in supporting and providing feedback to the mountain.TRIP team in developing relevant information and dissemination products for selected target groups of mountain practitioners!

http://www.mountaintrip.eu/component/content/article/174.html

Contact workshop: Sophie Herbert < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it > or Susanne Müller This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it (for logistics)

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PAST EVENTS
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Knowledge transfer between research and practice is a vast field of action, with many players, and with a broad range of existing best practice examples.
The mountain.TRIP team organized sessions at several mountain research conferences in order to discuss the mountain.TRIP approach, to get input on what has already been done, and on where there is a need for action.

Find the summaries of the mountain.TRIP sessions with the links below.

Forum Carpaticum, 15 – 17 September 2010, Krakow, Poland
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Global Change and the World’s Mountains, 26 – 30 September 2010, Perth, UK
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Forum Alpinum, 6 – 9 October 2010, München, Germany
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OUTLOOK
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By the end of November the revised mountain.TRIP information strategies and product ideas can be consulted on the mountain.TRIP website. We need your feed-back and comments in order to develop communication products that can contribute to bridging the gap between research and practice.

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IMPRESSUM
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The next update is planned for March 2011.

Fides Braun,
Institute of Mountain Research: Man & Environment (IGF)
mountain.TRIP Project Management

Claudia Drexler,
the Mountain Research Initiative (MRI)
mountain.TRIP Product Development