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Global coordination network for #MountainResearch collaboration. We are making connections for #OurChangingMountains.
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📰 Our November newsletter is live!
It’s packed with updates from across the global #MountainResearch community — from a major ERC-funded project in East Africa to new research on accelerating mountain #ClimateChange.

Discover what’s happening across #OurChangingMountains:
bit.ly/MRINewslette... ⛰️🌍✨
🏔️🤔 What makes governance work in #OurChangingMountains?

📝 A new MRI #MountainGovernance Working Group global survey uncovers where progress soars & where it stalls, from #SpatialPlanning and #LandRights to the availability of Geo/GIS data.

🔗 Find out more: bit.ly/MRIMountainG...

#MountainsMatter
December 3, 2025 at 9:23 AM
🔍🌄 Looking for #ResearchFunding to strengthen monitoring, data, or information in #OurChangingMountains?

💡 The @geomountains.bsky.social Small Grants Call 2026–2027 is now open! 👇 Priority regions: the Andes, Central Asia, East Africa, South Caucasus, & Hindu Kush Himalaya.

⏰ Deadline 20 Feb 2026
📢 GEO Mountains Small Grants Call 2026–2027 now open!
#ResearchFunding up to CHF 10k for projects on mountain monitoring, data, & info. Projects that consolidate the state of knowledge or advance #TransformativeResearch are particularly encouraged.

🗓 Deadline: 20 Feb 2026
🔗 Apply: buff.ly/yQDG01i
December 2, 2025 at 10:30 AM
🌍 New research finds #mountain #ClimateChange is accelerating faster than predicted, altering snow, rainfall, & ecosystems – with significant consequences for billions of people.

🌄💧 Stemming from an MRI-funded workshop, the research calls for urgent monitoring & #ClimateAction: buff.ly/2LTqhSu
December 1, 2025 at 8:15 AM
📰 Our November newsletter is live!
It’s packed with updates from across the global #MountainResearch community — from a major ERC-funded project in East Africa to new research on accelerating mountain #ClimateChange.

Discover what’s happening across #OurChangingMountains:
bit.ly/MRINewslette... ⛰️🌍✨
November 28, 2025 at 11:41 AM
🚨 Deadline approaching!
APN 2025 Call for Proposals open for CRRP & CAPaBLE programmes. Funding starts Oct 2026. Early career researchers encouraged!

⏰ Summary Proposals due 30 Nov
🔗 mountainresearchinitiative.org/funding-oppo...

#ResearchFunding #OurChangingMountains #AsiaPacific #EarlyCareer
November 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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🌄 Glacier retreat in Peru is changing mountain water – & human health.

Join the NexGLAS project’s closing event, where researchers will share new findings on acid rock drainage in the Negro River Catchment in Peru.

🗓 Fri 21 Nov
⏰ 9–10:30am Peru / 15–16:30 CET
📍 Zoom: tinyurl.com/4uzsb5xd
November 20, 2025 at 1:54 PM
🌄 MRI Chair Jörg Balsiger is among the guest editors of this MRD focus issue, which explores innovation in mountains as multidimensional & context-specific.

📖🌿 Articles examine how social, institutional, tech, & scientific innovations can advance – or hinder – sustainable mountain development. 👇
1/2 How can innovation contribute to sustainability in mountains? Articles in this focus issue explore the question from different angles, providing insights from China and various European mountain contexts and showcasing the diversity of the concept. Have a look: bioone.org/toc/mred/45/3
November 19, 2025 at 3:22 PM
📖🌍 New global report highlights why disaster-resilient infrastructure in #OurChangingMountains is essential for protecting people, #ecosystems, & downstream communities.

🔗 tinyurl.com/c7kkszma

⛰️🛣️ Engineering + #NatureBasedSolutions + Indigenous knowledge = a more #resilient future.

#ClimateAction
November 19, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Pavan 𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘭. (2024) look at mammalian diversity in the eastern Andean slopes, a biodiversity hotspot with high conservation priority, with high endemicity and new species of mammals revealed through DNA barcoding. Read the full study here: buff.ly/GLwWblD #Didelphimorphia #Peru #Rodentia #Yungas
November 19, 2025 at 8:00 AM
📣✍ Apply now!

@belmontforum.bsky.social’s Advancing Leadership Program is open for applications – a 1-year transdisciplinary fellowship for researcher–societal actor “TD Pairs.”

⏰ Deadline 24 Nov 2025
🌍 Open worldwide
🔗 bit.ly/48lkSek

#FundingOpportunity #Transdisciplinary #OurChangingMountains
November 18, 2025 at 1:09 PM
🗨️ "For us to be taken seriously, the flood has to be huge or the entire village has to be carried away."

⛰️ Til, a remote village on the Tibetan border, was already seeing population decline. Now, recent #NaturalDisasters have many questioning their future there: bit.ly/4o5lcT7
#OurChangingMountains
This Nepal village has survived for 1,000 years. Now recurring floods threaten its future
Til, the remotest of three villages in the Limi valley on the Tibetan border, was already wrestling with a dwindling population but a series of natural disasters has led many to consider where their f...
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:46 AM
🌿📢 Expert reviewers needed!
IPBES has opened the external review of its assessment on monitoring biodiversity & nature’s contributions to people.

🐛 Review period: 5 Nov 2025–7 Jan 2026
🦋 Register: bit.ly/4pBchKH

#Biodiversity #IPBES #SciencePolicy #OurChangingMountains #MountainsMatter
November 18, 2025 at 10:00 AM
🌄 Attending #COP30 in #Belém?

Don't miss this key discussion on how communities in #OurChangingMountains are building #resilience 💪, creating #watersecurity 💧, & shaping global #adaptation policy 🌎.

🗓️ 15 Nov 2025
⏰ 10:00–10:45 (UTC -03:00)
📍 COP30 Cryosphere Pavilion & Online
🔗 bit.ly/4hWnCSI
November 14, 2025 at 9:06 AM
🚨 Call for papers!

🍃 Nature Humanities & Social Sciences Communications is seeking contributions for an Article Collection on #TransdisciplinaryResearch for #TransformativeChange.

⏰ Deadline 31 Dec 2026
🔗 Learn more: bit.ly/4p7UgDe

#OurChangingMountains
November 13, 2025 at 2:38 PM
📣 Don't forget to submit your abstract for our #EGU26 session on Global Environmental Change in Mountain Social-Ecological Systems: Advances & New Perspectives.

⏰ Deadline: 15 Jan 2026
‼️ IMPORTANT ➡️ To apply for financial support, submit by 1 Dec 2025.
🔗 bit.ly/4njx183

#OurChangingMountains
November 12, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Reposted by Mountain Research Initiative
Does a circular economy lend itself as a sustainable way forward for high mountain regions? In a Delphi survey among stakeholders in Valle d’Aosta, Italy, Domenico Tassone and Dario Musolino found it would—but transitioning requires cultural change and targeted policies: doi.org/10.1659/mrd....
November 11, 2025 at 10:15 AM
#OurChangingMountains: Where #biodiversity & #ClimateAction meet. 🏔️

Join this #COP30 side event to explore #adaptation solutions & governance models from mountain regions worldwide.

📅 14 November 2025
🕖 18:30 – 20:00 (UTC -03:00)
📍 Side Event Room 7, Blue Zone, UNFCCC COP30
🔗 bit.ly/4qYAQCM
November 11, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Very excited to be working with some excellent partners across Europe and Africa to strengthen our understanding on the importance of Mountains for navigating future climate, biodiversity and sustainability challenges @mtnresearchmri.bsky.social
@yesiuoy.bsky.social
@anthropocenebio.bsky.social
Rob Marchant, Laura Pereira, Unai Pascual, and Thomas Hickler will use their ERC Synergy Grant to understand how nature and societies interact in and beyond mountain socioecological systems ⛰️

@rob-marchant.bsky.social @laurap18.bsky.social @upascual.bsky.social

👉 buff.ly/ZQhLp4h

#ERCSyG
November 10, 2025 at 9:06 AM
⛰️ Big #MountainResearch news! 🎉AFRI-CAN, a project exploring #EastAfrican mountain social ecological dynamics, has been awarded an #ERCSynergyGrant!

🌍 Headed by MRI colleague @rob-marchant.bsky.social, it will explore how mountain ecosystems & communities can thrive amid change.

🔗 bit.ly/AFRI-CAN
November 7, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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🚀 New from GEO Mountains: Inventory of In Situ Observational Infrastructure — v3 is here!

Now with 100k+ entries, improved network links, & mountain range attribution based on GMBA v2.

Discover who’s measuring what, where, & how across #OurChangingMountains. 🌍🏔️

🔗 Explore: bit.ly/InSituInvent...
November 6, 2025 at 2:25 PM
📢 Call for abstracts!

Join our World Biodiversity Forum #WBF2026 session on
'Social Innovation & Collective Action in Socio-Ecological Systems for #TransformativeChange in #Biodiversity Futures in Mountain Regions.'

⏰ Deadline 18 November
🔗 More here: bit.ly/MRIatWBF2026

#OurChangingMountains
November 5, 2025 at 3:45 PM
✨💻 Check out the new GEO Mountains website!
➡️ geomountains.org

🌏 The refreshed platform provides a more modern, intuitive, & functional experience – making it easier for users to explore activities, access resources, & connect with the growing GEO Mountains community.

#OurChangingMountains
We’ve launched our new GEO Mountains website! 🎉

✨💻 Explore our refreshed design, improved project matrix, & new publications & resources sections – all built to make mountain data more accessible & useful.

Check it out 👉 geomountains.org

#OpenData #EarthIntelligenceforAll #OurChangingMountains
November 5, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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📢 Vacancy announcements:

ICIMOD is actively hiring for three roles within our Strategic Results, Partnerships and Business Development Unit.

💼Senior MEL Specialist (Project Position)
💼Senior Project Management Specialist (Project Position)
💼Consultant for Project Design and Proposal Development
November 4, 2025 at 10:54 AM
📣 Last chance to register for the @belmontforum.bsky.social's Resilience CRA!

We’re proud to be part of it, supporting #MountainResearch on vulnerability, #resilience, & highland–lowland linkages with up to CHF 20,000 per project.

⏰ Deadline 7 Nov 2025
🔗 bit.ly/4n6Rm04

#OurChangingMountains
November 4, 2025 at 2:41 PM
🗞️ In case you missed it in your inbox, here are some highlights from our October newsletter.

⛰️ In it, you'll find new research and upcoming events, plus job, funding, and publication opportunities from across #OurChangingMountains.

🔗 Catch up here: bit.ly/MRINewslette...
October 31, 2025 at 8:01 AM