Focus Group 'Competitive and resilient mountain areas'
Which innovative approaches and innovations linked to agriculture, forestry and bioeconomy can foster the competitiveness and the socio-economic and environmental resilience of mountain areas and their communities?
Tasks
- Collect and highlight innovative approaches and inspiring success stories on new ways of capitalising agri-food, forestry products and other bioeconomy products, including ways to cope with challenges posed by climate change, land abandonment, improve the coexistence between farming and large carnivores and take advantage of new opportunities such as social farming or health-based agritourism.
- Identify challenges and opportunities to strengthen the competitiveness and resilience of mountain areas. These can be, for example, related to business models, markets and value chains, access to traditional and local knowledge and capacity building, new technologies and digital solutions.
- Explore the role of social innovation and ways to increase social resilience and reinforce social communities in mountain areas, for example attracting and engaging new citizens in the agricultural, forestry or bioeconomy sectors.
- Identify the needs to support innovation in mountain areas.
- Propose ideas for potential Operational Groups and other innovative projects.
- Identify research needs coming from practice and possible gaps in knowledge.
Focus Group members
| Mr/Ms | Surname | First name | Profession | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr. | Arion | Felix | Expert from an organisation, network, group or enterprise | Romania |
| Ms. | Costa | Cristina Amaro | Researcher | Portugal |
| Mr. | Dreer | Johannes | Farm advisor | Germany |
| Ms. | Dzhambazova | Rositsa | Expert from an organisation, network, group or enterprise | Bulgaria |
| Ms. | Fernández Pérez | Liliana | Farm manager or owner | Spain |
| Ms. | Fidanska | Bozhura | Researcher | Bulgaria |
| Mr. | Fischer | Markus | Expert from an organisation, network, group or enterprise | Austria |
| Ms. | Jarosch | Julika | Expert from an organisation, network, group or enterprise | France |
| Mr. | Jitea | Ionel Mugurel | Researcher | Romania |
| Mr. | Kazoglou | Ioannis (Yannis) | Researcher | Greece |
| Ms. | Keena | Catherine | Farm advisor | Ireland |
| Mr. | Lazaro | Juan Antonio | Other | Spain |
| Mr. | Lundin | Sten-Rune | Civil servant | Sweden |
| Mr. | Mateus | Tiago | Expert from an organisation, network, group or enterprise | Portugal |
| Ms. | Murphy | Bridget | Farmer | Ireland |
| Mr. | O'Driscoll | Colm | Innovation support agent / innovation broker | Italy |
| Mr. | Perlik | Manfred | Researcher | Other |
| Mr. | REDMAN | Mark | Expert from an organisation, network, group or enterprise | Romania |
| Ms. | Riguccini | Nadia | Civil servant | Italy |
| Ms. | Stotten | Rike | Researcher | Austria |
Facilitation team
| Mr. | Kirchweger | Stefan | Austria | Coordinating expert |
| Ms. | Guimarey Fernández | Beatriz | Spain | task manager |
| Ms. | Karasinski | Céline | France | co-task manager |
Working documents
Four Mini Papers have been developed within the frame of the EU CAP Network Focus Group ‘Competitive and resilient mountain areas’ with the purpose of providing input to the Focus Group discussions and final report.
The information and views set out in these Mini Papers are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the official opinion of the Commission. The Commission does not guarantee the accuracy of the data included in this Mini Papers. Neither the Commission nor any person acting on the Commission’s behalf may be held responsible for the use which may be made of the information contained therein.
If you wish to cite these Mini Papers, please refer to them as ‘Annexes to the final report of the EU CAP Network Focus Group ‘Competitive and resilient mountain areas’, 2024’.
Resources
Annex 2 - Mini Paper 1: Good governance for managing sustainability and resilience in mountain areas
(PDF – 901.72 KB)
Annex 2 - Mini Paper 2: Social resilience in mountain areas
(PDF – 450.39 KB)
Annex 2 - Mini Paper 3: Agroecological approaches for sustainable agriculture and forestry for competitive and resilient EU mountain regions
(PDF – 410.84 KB)
Annex 2 - Mini Paper 4: Value-chains innovations for competitive and resilient mountain areas
(PDF – 889.67 KB)
