Organizations
The Geographical institute was founded in 1946 by the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Since 1981, the Institute has been one of the constituent members of the Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Until 1992 the Institute was mainly engaged with researching glaciers, glacial and fluvial transformation of the land surface, flooded areas, natural...
Geogian Mountain Federation (GMF) is a National NGO established in 2001 under support of Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). GMF is specialised in projects and programs supporting mountain communities in: (i) Lobbying for their interests; (ii) Generating incomes; (iii) Improvement their skills and capacities for self-organising; (iv) Know-how and technology transfer; (v) Tourism...
Iran Mountain Zone is the first and the only bilingual web directory of Iran’s mountains and mountaineering. The web site has gone online since 2002 - International Year of Mountains - and became popular for the vast range of information provided.
The core group organises mountain tours throughout the country, which has made MountainZone one of the best specialised mountaineering outfitters in...
Mountain Sports Club was created in 1999. Our club unites people of different age and trades which like to travel in mountains and to scale peaks. We also investigate animal and flora of mountains, history, culture of peoples living in high-mountainous areas and problems of steady development of mountain regions. Our work covers the Southern Caucasian region, but we are interested also with...
What do we do?
We organize the International Himalaya Film Festival
We give lectures and show films
We provide publications
We are involved in fundraising activities to enhance the quality on information
Agricultural Products Certification and Supervision Organization, under the distinctive title AGROCERT is a Private Law Legal Entity operating for the public benefit under the supervision of the Ministry of Rural Development and Food (L. 2637/98).
The mission of AGROCERT is the contribution to the improvement of rural population income, the reinforcement of agricultural economy and the...
The objectives are to developp biological researches about alpine ecosystems and to perform educational activities for the public.
This company for applied information technology was founded as a service company for geoinformation. Since 1999 we have realized various services at first hand: consulting, projecting, development, distribution, and maintenance of software and different solutions within the range of spatial information technologies and project- and product-oriented system development focused mainly on...
The work of the WMPA is motivated by three major objectives:
- to make mountains understood in an international arena and at the level of each country and continent
- to organise North-South and South-South exchange and co-operation between mountain territories and populations, in order to share knowledge, means and experiences
- to support and develop the local initiatives of the association’s...
International Friends of Nature was founded in 1895 with the aims of nature protection and social rights for teh workers movement. It is now an worldwide active organiation mainly working in the fields of Sustainable Development, Regional Development and tourism.