University of the Mountains (Greece)

The “University of the Mountains” was founded as a movement, an organization, an act of integral vertical intervention towards the grassroots of society, with the aim to:

• Transform the role model of prosperity into one that will combine sustainable development with the restoration of lost human relationships and the cultural identity of those small societies;
• Protect the human and natural environment;
• Reinforce traditional economy through modern management tools for the suspension of the exploitation of natural resources;
• Eliminate delinquency and dependence on loan finances and subsidies; and
• Redefine the feeling of human happiness via human criteria rather than financial data.

The “University of the Mountains” is a project for the rallying of a dynamic community of researchers, academia, social partners and citizens of the mountainous rural areas which function in conditions of original interaction and mutual learning.