Project information

HIGHLANDS.3 – Collective Approach of Research and Innovation for Sustainable Development in Highlands

Grant agreement ID: 872328

Duration: January 1, 2020 – August 31, 2025

Funded under: H2020-EU.1.3.3.

Overall budget: € 2 484 000

EU contribution: € 2 484 000

Coordinated by: Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW), Austria

Primary coodinator: Dr. Oliver Bender

Coordinator: Dr. Fernando Ruiz Peyré

Coordinating Assistant: Kevin Klar, Matías Ghilardi

The HIGHLANDS.3’ goal is to contribute to Inclusive Sustainable Development in Highlands (ISDH) through collective and impact-driven Research & Innovation (R&I), based on capacity building, sharing of local-global knowledge, experience, and tools. It will drive a co-innovation process through secondments and research and innovative sessions (R&IS) involving public/private and non-academic partners, to build a shared vision of ISDH, enhance the capacities of researchers, managers, users, policymakers, thus bridging the gap between research and development. Our activities will be organized in 5 integrated work packages (WP): Coordination & management (WP1); Methodology & capacity building for ISDH (WP2); Analysis, comparison and modelling of ISDH (WP3); Building a multi-actor ISDH Decision-Support Platform (DSP) (WP4); Communication, Dissemination & Exploitation of results (WP5). The project HIGHLANDS.3 consists of a network of 41 institutions including 30 partners from Europe (~35% non-academic), and skilled and motivated female and male researchers and local stakeholders. The work plan will run 8 successive R&IS (5 in Europe, 3 outside) to promote the exchange among participants as a foundation for innovation. Each R&IS will build upon collective learning principles and a holistic systemic approach, exposing participants to a wide range of world views that will encourage experimentation with practice. Each R&IS will focus on a particular aspect of sustainable highland development and will include collective learning, collaborative research, and capacity building on data collection/analysis, modelling. To complement the R&IS, long-term secondments will be implemented for researchers and practitioners to deeply train and work together on specific issues identified by the consortium. Collected data on ISDHs will be stored in an online collaborative and interactive decision-support platform that will then be transferred to existing mountain networks.

Work packages

WP1: Coordination and Management

Leaders: Fernando Ruiz Peyré (IGF/ÖAW, AT), Oliver Bender (IGF/ÖAW, AT) and
Jean-François Tourrand (TLS, FR)

WP2: Methods & Capacity Building for ISDH analysis and modelling

Leaders: Luis Santos (IPT, PT), Valentina Stoica (UBUC, RO) and Juan Maria Trillo (USC, ES)

WP3: Analysis, comparison and modelling of ISDH

Leaders: Marie Houdart (INRAE, FR) and Facundo Rojas (IANIGLA, AR)

WP4: Building a multi-stakeholder ISDH decision-support Platform (DSP)

Leaders: Fernando Ruiz Peyré (IGF/ÖAW), Matías Ghilardi (IGF/ÖAW), Kevin Klar (IGF/ÖAW), Jean-François Tourrand (TLS, FR), Valentina Stoica (UBUC, RO) and Valeria Paul Carril (USC, ES)

WP5: Communication, dissemination, and exploitation of results

Leaders: Emanuel de Castro (AGE, PT), Robert Hafner (UIBK, AT) and Davy McCracken (SRUC, UK)

Monitoring and Evaluation Committee

Lynda Allouche (Universite Ferhat Abbas Setif 1, Algeria)
Gillian Bowser (Colorado State University, USA)
Martin Coy (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
Bernard Hubert (INRAE, France)
Ruijun Long (Lanzhou University, China)
Martin Price (Perth College, United Kingdom)
Jorge Recharte (Instituto Montaña, Peru)
Liz Wedderburn (AgResearch, New Zealand)
Susanne Wymann (University of Bern, Switzerland)

TLS Participation

H3: Final Workshop of the H3 Project, Portugal, 13–14 July 2025

TLS Participation: Lynda Allouche (for Univ. of Setif, Algeria), Mariana Vogg, Celeste Bonnet, Eric Cornut, Sylvie Cornut.

H3: Xth R&IS (Research & Innovation Session)

H3- The HIGHLANDS Project. H3: 8th R&IS(Research & Innovation Session), June-July 2025 (1 month) in Spain and Portugal
TLS Participation: Mariana Vogg, Celeste Bonnet, Eric Cornut, Sylvie Cornut.

H3- The HIGHLANDS Project. H3: 7th R&IS (Research & Innovation Session), March 2025 (1 month) in Vietnam
TLS Participation: no

H3- The HIGHLANDS Project. H3: 6th R&IS (Research & Innovation Session), November 2024 (1 month) in Cabo Verde
TLS Participation: no

H3- The HIGHLANDS Project. H3: 5th R&IS (Research & Innovation Session), February-March 2024 (1 month) in Malawi
TLS Participation: no

H3- The HIGHLANDS Project. H3: 4.2nd R&IS (Research & Innovation Session), from 2023, September, 6th to October, 5th (1 month) in Greece(Balkans)
TLS Participation: Liz Wedderburn, Peggy Strankmann, Claudio Antônio Pozo, Celeste Bonnet, Mariana Vogg, Jean-François Tourrand (2023.09.26-10.07, 10 days).

H3- The HIGHLANDS Project. H3: 4.1st R&IS (Research & Innovation Session), from 2023, September, 6th to October, 5th (1 month) in Romania (Carpathians)
TLS Participation: Jean-François Tourrand (2023.09.06-25, 20 days), Eric Cornut and Sylvie Cornut (also for VetAgroSup), one month each one, Toufik Madani (for Univ. of Setif, Algeria)

H3- The HIGHLANDS Project. H3: 3rd R&IS (Research & Innovation Session), from 2023, February, 26 to April, 5 (1,25 month) in Argentina (Austral Andes/Patagonia, Central Andes/Mendoza, Northern ArgentinaAndes/Tucuman)
TLS Participation: Claude Antoine Pozo, Enzo Fasioli, Celeste Bonnet, Jean François Tourrand, Enzo Fasioli, Eric Cournut for PNR-LF and Sylvie Cournut for Vetagro-Sup

H3- The HIGHLANDS Project. H3: 2nd R&IS (Research & Innovation Session), from 2022, September, 11 toOctober, 10 (1 month) in Alps (Austria,Italy, France and Slovenia).
TLS Participation: Liz Wedderburn, PeggyStrankmann, Carine Pachoud, Mariana Vogg, Claudio Pozo, Ibrahim Daoud, Jean François Tourrand

H3- The HIGHLANDS Project. H3: 1st R&IS (Research & Innovation Session), from 2021, September, 25 to October, 24 (1 month) in Massif Central, France and Catalunya Pyrenees, Spain
TLS Participation: Carine Pachoud, Marie Opplert, Mariana Vogg, Cassia Kozloski (for UFGSM, Brazil), Sylvie Cournut, Claudio Pozo, Eric Cournut, JeanFrançois Tourrand

From June 2021: Building the conceptual model of H3 Platform. Coordination: Valentina/UB-RO & Barbara/KU-PL) in partnership with Mabelle Chedid (TLS & AUB-LB), starting by what the demands of the users of the H3 Platform.

From May 2021: Review of diverse existing platforms in order to have a better idea of the objectives and uses of these platforms. Coordination: Mabelle Chedid (TLS & AUB-LB)

2021.06.03-16. H3: 1st H3 Coordination Workshop/Event, 2021, June , 3-16, Saint Remy sur Durolle, France

The H3 Webinar Series

2021.02.24. 5th Webinar: Climate Change in Mountain Area

2021.02.10. 4th Webinar: Food Studies and Mountain Agriculture
-Presentation: "Promoting traditional mountain foods: acase-study from the West Bekaa and Chouf, Lebanon", by Mabelle Chedid (TLS, FR & AUB, LB)

2021.01.27. 3rd Webinar: Sustainable Development in Mountain Area
-Presentation of the 3 Highlands.3 research sites: QuartaColônia/Fourth Colony, Serra Gaucha and Serra da Mantiqueira, By Rafaela Vendruscolo (TLS, FR & IFFar) and Mariana Mezzomo (UFSM,BR)
-Presentation: “Potentialities of territorial development with sustainable production and tourism: the case of the FourthColony - Rio Grande do Sul/ Brazil”, by Rafaela Vendruscolo (TLS,FR & IFFar) and Mariana Mezzome (UFSM, BR)

2021.01.13. 2nd Webinar: Natural Protected Areas and EnvironmentalGovernance
-Presentation: "Territorial Pact for socio-ecological Coviability: building a new world to save ourfuture" by Olivier Barrière (IRD, FR), Noémie Cabannes(EPC-CAC, FR) and Rémi Leenhardt (TLS, FR)

2020.12.11. 1st Webinar / Openning Session International Mountain Day