The High Mountains participated in the European Commission’s public consultation on the new Right to Stay: Your Region, Your Future strategy, submitting a comment based on their experience from the mountain and rural areas of Epirus and, in particular, from the
Eleni’s journey to our village began through The High Mountains’ open call for the management of their mountain greenhouses. Together with her family, she applied, was selected, and today lives in Demati, taking care of the greenhouses and
The High Mountains participated in the Energy Cities Annual Forum 2026, which took place in Guimarães, Portugal, from 28 to 30 April. Our participation took place together with our collaborators from CoHab Athens, with whom we have
On January 30, the first Mountain Café of the Ambassadors Network took place—an online meeting that primarily served as a space for getting to know one another, exchanging experiences, and engaging in open discussion. People from different regions of Greece shared thoughts, questions, and reflections on repopulation
In Demati, in eastern Zagori, a group of young people is attempting to reopen the conversation about the future of mountainous regions, choosing to live and create in the mountains. The initiative “The High Mountains,” founded in 2016, began in the mountainous…
In the public debate on rural development, a profound lack of understanding prevails among the state, producers, and society. The absence of a shared framework of understanding has led to mutual distrust and the perpetuation of structural problems, while the Greek countryside
The image of the country appears increasingly divided. On the one hand, the major urban centers are being pushed to their limits, with Athens and Thessaloniki facing an explosive rise in rents, traffic congestion, and the overloading of basic public services. On the other hand,
The Militaire News video opens a critical discussion about the Greek countryside, placing at its center the farmers and livestock breeders who are struggling both for subsidies and for the survival of mountainous regions. Through the remarks of Sotiris Tsoukarelis, founding member
The ERT program “Giving Life Back to the Greek Mountains” takes us to a side of mountainous Greece that rarely finds its place in public discourse in all its real complexity: a Greece that is defined not only by abandonment or
The Collaboration Hackathon and the Final Event of the program “Developing Cooperativism”, held on June 14 at the JOIST Innovation Park in Ioannina, offered living proof that the Greek regions can be fertile ground for new collective ideas, collaborations, and networks.