WEDNESDAY 26TH OCTOBER 2022

Location: La Nave della Sila Museum

 

8.30 – 9.30 

Registrations

 

9.30 – 9.45 

Official opening: Welcome by Juanan Gutiérrez Lazpita, President of Euromontana

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09.45 – 10.10

Welcome words by Italian organisers: Roberto Occhiuto, President of the Calabria Region, Cristiano Fini, CIA agricoltori Italiani President and Francesco Curcio, President of Sila National Park

 

10.10 – 12.00

Session 1: How can European policies support a smarter approach in mountain areas?

Moderator: Juanan Gutiérrez Lazpita, President of Euromontana

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High level panel:

• Elisa Ferreira, Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms (via video message)

• Ole Gustav Narud, State Secretary in the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development, Norway

• Herbert Dorfmann, Member of the European Parliament and member of the Intergroup on Rural, Mountainous and Remote Areas & Smart Villages

• Władysław Ortyl, Marshal of the Podkarpackie Region, Poland & member of the European Committee of the Regions

• Roberto Berutti, member of the Cabinet of the European Commissioner for Agriculture Janusz Wojciechowski

• Giuseppe Blasi, Head of Department for European and International Policies and Rural Development at the  Italian Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry Policies

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Questions & answers 

 

12.00 – 14.00

Lunch

 

14.00 – 15.30

Session 2: How can smart governance help shape future-oriented mountain areas?

Moderator: Guillaume Corradino, Director of Euromontana

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Specific governance in EU mountains - Panorama of good practices in different EU countries.

Stefano Sala - UNIMONT, University of Milan

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Round table: how can we leverage new participatory processes to design and implement smarter territorial development strategies?

• The importance of participative democracy in cohesive communities. Tom Jones, President of the European Rural Community Alliance (ERCA)

• The New European Bauhaus of Mountains. Giulia Paoletti, Researcher at Eurac Research

• Perspectives from the Trans-Pyrenean Youth Forum. Idoia Arauzo González, Coordinator of the Development and Dynamisation Unit of the Pyrenees Working Community

• Perspective from the EUSALP Youth Council. Maxime Bernard, Youth Councillor for EUSALP

• The importance of governance in a smart village project. Thierry Antoine-Santoni, Senior Lecturer at the Pasquale Paoli University of Corsica & Scientific coordinator of the Smart Paesi project

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Questions & answers

 

15.30 – 16.00

Coffee-break

 

16.00 – 17.45

Session 3: How to develop innovative solutions for a better quality of life in the mountains? Sharing good practices

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Three parallel workshops to exchange good practices from the field and to see how a better quality of life can be developed in the mountains and how population can wish to come and stay in the mountains. Each workshop with consist in the showcase of inspirational initiatives, followed by an interactive discussion on how to tackle the challenge. The output of the discussions will directly feed the Final Declaration of the European Mountain Convention. Please select your workshop when registering.