International Mountain Conference 2025: Labex ITTEM takes part

Article updated August 29, 2025

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.

Severalfocus sessions andworkshops are 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.

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

Discover the sessions proposed by Labex ITTEM members:

• Carine Pachoud (with Felix Dorn, Jutta Kister and Kirsten Koop): Visions and conflicts in socio-ecological transformation in mountain territories
• Jean-Baptiste Grison (with Arielle Vidal): Adding value to the wool: which opportunities for mountain regions?
• Robin Lesné (with Hugues François, Marc Langenbach and Pascal Mao): Digital transition of outdoor sports and tourism in moutain area
• Camille Morel (with Isabelle Arpin and Sandra Lavorel) : Nature-based solutions in protected areas: an opportunity to improve management practices?
• Iago Otero Giorgi (with Anna Giorgi, Kirsten Koop, Annemarie Polderman, Carolina Adler and Theresa Tribaldos) : Transformative changes towards Living Well
• Kirsten Koop (with Amélie Coulbaut-Lazzarini and Clémence Perrin-Malterre): New relations between humans and other than humans in mountain territories
• Riccardo Beltramo (with Philippe Bourdeau, Marc Langenbach, Jean Miczka, Sophie de Rosemont and Stefano Duglio): Tourism(s) in Mountain Huts in search of Sustainable Management Solutions
• Emmanuelle George (with Andrea Omizzolo, Philipp Corradini, Stefano Sala and Raffaella Balzarini): Transition processes of mountain resorts and tourism destinations