These four different projects focus on different targets:
- BALKANTOURIST Project is to to promote and develop the upland tourism on the Balkans as an explicit tool for SME development and cooperation and active economic growth;
- SUMONDENE Project (Sustainable Mountain Development Network) is to provide methodological and operational tools in order to create a network of experts working in the field of project planning for mountain areas development: ecosystem management, environmental protection, socioeconomic, technological, legal and financial-administrative management, etc. The objective of the network is not only to make good use of experts and academics but also to benefit of contributions from professionals, public administrators, functionaries, MEPs and operators who are all directly involved in the management of sustainable development of mountain territories;
- MAFRAMONT Project (Managing fragile ecosystem: towards sustainable mountain development of the Balkans) is to provide methodological and operational tools in order to build capacity of experts in project planning for the mountain areas development: ecosystem management, environmental protection, socioeconomic, technological, legal and financial-administrative management, etc. The capacity building is foreseen not only to make good use of experts and academics but also of contributions from professionals, public administrators, functionaries, MEPs and operators who are all directly involved in the management of sustainable development in the mountain territories in the region;
- BE COVENANT Project is to promote low-carbon strategies among Balkan upland communities in line with the goas and objectives of EU 2020 and Covenant of Mayors.
1.2 Infrastructure concerning environmental issues, 1.3 Assistance for project preparation, 2.2 Sustainable development through efficient utilization of regional resources, 2.3 People to people actions
Bulgaria
Sofia city
Sofia city
Association for Development of Mountain Municipalities in the Republic of Bulgaria
The Association of Mountain Municipalities in the Republic of Bulgaria (ADMMRB) is established in the middle of 2006 by an initiative
group consisting of local government representatives, business sector and other persons for solution of problems concerning
heavier climate, economic and social conditions that the mountain municipalities have to develop in. Main objective of the
Association of Mountain Municipalities in the Republic of Bulgaria is to achieve a change that should bring to bridging the gap
between the economic development of mountain areas and this of the rest of Bulgarian municipalities. The main focuses of the
Association’s work are as follows:
- Forming a National policy targeted to development of mountain areas, incl. adoption of a special Mountain Areas Act;
- Raising the administrative capacity and support to the mountain municipalities in project preparation and absorption of EU
Structural funds;
- Providing of actual information concerning best European and World practices in the field of sustainable development and
innovative approaches in local self-government;
- Cooperation with the European Association of Elected Representatives from Mountainous Areas and other similar organizations in
Bulgaria and abroad;
- Development of active cross-border cooperation with similar organizations on the Balkan Region;
- Creation of an entire program for implementation of above mentioned objectives relevant to the European integration and current
globalization processes.
Briefly, the objective of the Association is, by active involvement in the European integration process to be achieved a balanced and
sustainable economic development of these municipalities. The decision for participation of a municipality in ADMMRB is taken by
the municipal council. It appoints also its representatives in ADMMRB. The structure and activity of the ADMMRB are regulated by its
Charter. The idea is the representatives of mountain municipalities to come together to solve the specific problems resulting from an
objective reality that is common – heavier conditions – both climate and economic – in which the citizens have to work and live.
