Your feedback is required - sustainable mountain development - transforming research into practice!

The mountain.TRIP project aims to transfer research findings on sustainable mountain development into practice and to address the gap between the available scientific information and the information needs of practitioners in mountain regions. The project is funded by the European Commission.

With survey details about the research information, needs of practitioners working in mountain regions and insights on the best ways of addressing these needs can be obtained. The link to this survey is:

http://www.mountaintrip.eu/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view=wrapper&Ite....

The questionnaire is available in English, Spanish, Romanian, Polish and German.

The MountainTRIP project: EU funded research projects dealing with sustainable development in mountain areas of Europe produced and will produce valuable results and information. This research information can support and improve the daily work that is done within the field of sustainable mountain development tremendously - if it was available and understandable.

The problem of having a gap between EU project findings and the needs of policy- and decision-makers, stakeholders in economy and environment, end-users etc. was recognised and the Mountain.TRIP project was initiated in order to bridge this gap. Euromontana, the European association for mountain areas is one of the 6 partners of this 2 years research project.

The objective of Mountain.TRIP is to provide actors dealing with mountain development with readily accessible and understandable forms of research-based information by Transforming Research Into Practice.

This is a huge challenge and we won’t be successful without feedback from the end-users’ side: we need the opinion of people working in the field of sustainable mountain development on the availability of information. Our targets are associations, civil society organisations, policy makers, industry representatives etc working on issues linked with sustainable mountain development.

We would like to get the views of organisations on this project. One of our first tasks in the project is to identify the information needs of end-users: what type of information is needed? How should information be presented?

Have a look on the mountain.TRIP webpage (www.mountaintrip.eu) for more detailed information. You can contact Marie Guitton (Marie.Guitton@euromontana.org) or Birte Vietor (Birte.Vietor@euromontana.org)for further information.