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and Spatial Management, Jagiellonian University, and published by the MRI Berne
Office (Ostapowicz and Sitko, 2009 ). These products testify the interest, willing-
ness, and active support of the S4C community to give the Carpathian mountain
research a new impetus and profile.
To sustain the S4C network on a long-term basis, the initiative needs to be for-
mally established in the region. For that purpose, shortly after its launch in May
2008, the S4C initiative received the support of the Conference of Parties of the
Carpathian Convention at their meeting in Bucharest in June 2008. To sustain the
science initiative on a long term, a 2nd S4C Meeting has been scheduled for June
9-10, 2009, at the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava targeting at (1) the
formation of an S4C Steering Committee, (2) the preparation of the first Forum
Carpathicum scheduled for September 15-17, 2010, in Kraków, Poland, and (3) the
discussion between representatives of National Science Academies and Carpathian
scientists on the long-term establishment of S4C.
23.2.2 South Eastern European Mountain Research Network
The evolution of the Carpathian science network is an encouraging example for
other regions that have undergone strong political, historical and environmental
changes during the last decades. Although the mountains of Southeastern Europe
are plentiful and host diverse cultures and habitats, Global Change researchers of
this region have not become very visible within the European science community.
With the emerging European funding opportunities and new options to establish
research partnerships within Europe, it is high time to give mountain science in the
Balkan area a profile (Fig. 23.3 ). Examples from other mountain ranges such as
the Carpathians can be taken as a model. Specific priorities, structures and opera-
tional modes, however, need to be freshly defined by the research community of the
Balkan region.
Countries covered by the South Eastern European Mountain Research Network
(SEEmore) are Albania, Bosnia and Herzegowina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece,
Fig. 23.3 In 2009 mountain researchers from Southeastern Europe launched the SEEmore
network to address problems of environmental and socioeconomic change in the region
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