MOVING is organising a significant foresight exercise at the European level. Planned for 11 January 2023, this event will take place at the Representation office of Toscana and Pays de la Loire Regions, in Brussels, Belgium. Please note that attendance is by invitation only.

The European workshop will bring together experts and stakeholders to discuss scenarios and policy options at the European scale. The goal is to draw conclusions that will support the best local and regional scenarios for sustainable development and resilience in mountain areas across Europe. This event marks a crucial step in consolidating the results of local case studies conducted in 23 regions, with a focus on benchmarking mountain regions’ resilience and sustainability performance and exploring innovative approaches to secure the long-term provision of public goods.

If you have any requests or questions, please write directly to the organisers of the event: Origin for Sustainability.

MOVING organised the workshop: Unlocking the Power of Mountain Value Chains. The event was held from the 6th to the 8th of November 2023 in Hungary, and it gathered around 100 local actors from 16 countries.

The MOVING Clusters workshop was organised as part of the cross-case comparison of value chains and the foresight exercise. It aimed to identify gaps, discuss implications, and co-create recommendations for enabling environments in mountain areas, with a strong focus on the resilience and sustainability of value chains.  

Participants explored five major topics addressed by the MOVING clusters — (i) social and demographic change, (ii) value and quality products, (iii) innovation and infrastructure, (iv) nature and ecosystem services, and (v) governance— integrating regional foresight exercises and fostering exchanges between stakeholders.

The key objectives of the workshop were: 

• Introduce and discuss the results of the MOVING project and their relevance to the future of mountain areas.
• Provide the opportunity to get to know, and share experiences with people from other mountain regions with similar interests and concerns to your own.
• Involve you in identifying what is needed from our communities, businesses and policy-makers to “unlock the power of mountain products” for supporting the future of mountain areas.

MOVING organised its third European Multi-Actor Platform (EU MAP) webinar on 5 October 2023, from 10 AM-12:30 AM (CET). The topic of the event was focused on the constraints and opportunities of protected natural sites for mountain value chains.

The objectives of the webinar were:

• Provide an update about the Nature Restoration Law in Europe;
• Provide information on the protection of nature in the mountains;
• Explore the findings of MOVING’s study on how the presence of protected natural sites impacts value chains across the 23 mountain regions;
• Exchange knowledge, practices, and lessons learned on the implications that the presence of protected areas has on mountain value chains;
• Present the MOVING project’s progress and results, and publicize the EU MAP.

Have a look at the agenda.

Presentations and recordings:

1. MOVING progress and results, Mar Delgado (UCO)

| Presentation, Video

2. MOVING Cluster on Nature and Ecosystem Services, Tomáš Uhnák (CZU)

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3. Nature Restoration Law: progress & updates, Kenny Meganck (IEEP)

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4. National Restoration Plans & implementation at the Member State level, An Cliquet (University of Ghent, SER Europe Legal Working Group)

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5. Stocktaking from the World Network of Mountain Biosphere Reserves, Roberto Aquerreta (WNMBR)

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6. Results from the MOVING study: impacts of protected natural sites in MOVING mountain value chains, Blanca Casares (AEIDL)

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7. Sheep pasture farming in the Nature Park Almenland, Sandra Karner (IFZ)

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8. Testimonial from the Southern Romanian Carpathian Mountains value chain, Alina Alexa (Highclere Consulting)

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9. Wrap-up round table, Tommaso Campedelli (scientific coordinator of LIFE ShepForBio) and Stefano Sala (UNIMONT and member of Euromontana)

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MOVING organised an European Multi-Actor Platform (EU MAP) webinar on 8 November 2022, from 9.30 to 1.15 (CET), on European Quality schemes: the added value for mountain value chains.

The objectives of the webinar were;

• Find out more about MOVING project results and the EU MAP;
• Provide an update of the new EU quality policy, according to the EC legislative proposals;
• Inform about the implementation and added value of the EU quality schemes and the implications for mountain value chains;
• Enhance the exchange, learn and interact at the EU level on the application to mountain value chains.

Have a look at the agenda.

Presentations and recordings:

1. MOVING: first half of the project – progress and results, Mar Delgado (UCO)

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2. MOVING Community of Practice and the EU Multi-Actor Platform, Miranda García (AEIDL)

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3. New EU quality policy and the implications to mountain value chains, Branka Tome (DG AGRI – Unit F.3 Geographical Indications)

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4. AREPO’s position and policy recommendations on the EC proposal on the revision of EU GIs, Francesca Alampi and Giulia Scaglioni (AREPO)

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5. Implementation of the EU optional quality term “mountain product”, Guillaume Corradino (Euromontana)

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6. Serra da Estrela PDO Cheese value chain, Catarina Esgalhado (University of Evora)

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7. Alto-Molise Dairy value chain, Raiza Rocha (University of Molise)

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8. Trento PDO Wine value chain, Ekaterina Kleshcheva (VINIDEA)

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9. Sjenica lamb PDO value chain, Tamara Zivadinovic (MENA Group)

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And if you want to learn more about this topic, check out these articles!

• The revision of the EU Geographical Indications system by Francesca Alampi (AREPO).
• Interview with Lukas Flinzberger (University of Göttingen) about Protected Designations of Origin and correlations with social-ecological landscape values.
• Farm certification schemes for sustainable agriculture: specifications for origin and quality of the final products by Blanca Casares (AEIDL).
• FAO guide to learn how to tailor the evaluation for the development and improvement of Geographical Indication by Giulia Scaglioni (AREPO).

Please, do not hesitate to contact mga@aeidl.eu (Miranda García) for further information.

In June 2022 will take place the Pisa 2022 14th International Conference of European Society for Ecological Economics (ESEE).

Multi-Actor Platforms / Living Labs are increasingly considered by innovation policies as drivers of transformative change. Indeed, the interaction between stakeholders is supposed to generate innovation adapted to the needs of users and their context and to promote inclusion.

DESIRA, MOVING and SHERPA H2020 projects organise a special session in the ESEE 2022 Congress about Living Labs & Multi-Actor Platforms in rural areas: conceptualisation & case studies. It will be an opportunity to share experiences in this field and to reflect on how to consolidate methods and concepts around this approach.

MOVING organised an European Multi-Actor Platform (EU MAP) webinar on 16 December 2021, from 10:00 to 12:00 (CET).

Participants came together to:

• Find out more about MOVING project results and the EU MAP, and
• Get to know some of the specific traditional or emerging value chains working on innovation and climate change resilience in the MOVING project.

Have a look at the agenda.

Presentations and recordings

1. MOVING: first year of progress and results, Mar Delgado (University of Córdoba) | Presentation, Video
2. MOVING Community of Practice and the EU Multi-Actor Platform, Blanca Casares (AEIDL) | Presentation, Video
3. Los Pedroches PDO Iberian Ham value chain, Sherman Farhad (University of Córdoba) | Presentation, Video
4. Speyside Malt Whisky value chain, Kirsty Blackstock (The James Hutton Institute) | Presentation, Video
5. Certified ecotourism Southern Romanian Carpathian Mountains value chain, Cătălina Rogozan (Highclere Consulting) | Presentation, Video

Please, do not hesitate to contact bca@aeidl.eu (Blanca Casares) for further information.