International Mountain Conference 2025: contributions are invited

The next edition of theInternational Mountain Conference, a key event in mountain research, will take place in Innsbruck (Austria) from September 14 to 18, 2025.

Organized by the Mountain Regions research axis of the University of Innsbruck, this international event provides an opportunity for multiple exchanges and interactions – in a variety of formats – between researchers from different disciplines. It offers a comprehensive overview of mountain research and current issues. In 2022, over 1,000 scientists from some 60 countries took part.

The call for papers for the 2025 edition is open until February 20, 2025. Several of the proposedfocus sessions andworkshops will be coordinated by Labex ITTEM members on a variety of themes in the field of human and social sciences, as was the case for the last edition in 2022. The full program will be available in July 2025.

Further information on the event website: https: //imc2025.info/

Discover the sessions proposed by Labex ITTEM members:

• Carine Pachoud (& Kirsten Koop): Competing visions of socio-ecological transformations in mountain territories: analyzing the role of conflicts
• Jean-Baptiste Grison: Adding value to wool, from globalization to the circular economy: which opportunities for mountain regions?
• Robin Lesné (& Hugues François, Marc Langenbach, Pascal Mao) : Digital transition of outdoor sports and tourism in moutain area : transformation of practices in recreational activities, research and management
• Camille Morel (& Isabelle Arpin): Nature-based solutions in protected areas: an opportunity to improve management practices?
• Marie Forget (& Alice Nikolli): Mountain Territories as Emerging Extraction Frontiers. Balancing Energy Transition, Resource Exploitation, and Territorial Reconversion
• Iago Otero (& Kirsten Koop): Transformative changes towards Living Well in mountains: How does it feel?
• Raphaël Lachello (& Sandrine Allain) : Alpine Forest players facing climate change crisis: adaptation, transition and new players
• Kirsten Koop (& Amélie Coulbaut-Lazzarini, Clémence Perrin-Malterre) : New relations between humans and other than humans in mountain territories
• Riccardo Beltramo (& Philippe Bourdeau, Marc Langenbach, Sophie de Rosemont): Tourism(s) in Mountain Huts: Climate Change, Tourism flows, Visitor Impacts, and Sustainable Management Solutions
• Emmanuelle George (& Raffaella Balzarini): Transition processes of mountain resorts and tourism destinations: state of the art, levers and barriers. An international perspective