Magma geopark presents the GEOfood MANIFESTO! The GEOfood MANIFESTO has been developed in the course of the last three months by Magma Geopark team with the support of Naturtejo UNESCO Global Geopark and thanks to the cooperation with the Future Food Institute. The...
Magma geopark is working to get the Eco-lighthouse certification Magma geopark AS is in a process where the goal is to be certified as an Eco-lighthouse company (a national environmental certification, complying with the European standard EMAS). This means that we...
Visit from Sunnhordland geopark On January 21 and 22, Magma Geopark was visited by our colleagues in Geopark Sunnhordland. An educational and inspiring meeting where we focused on exchanging experience and bests practice. Representatives from a potential new UNESCO...
You may have known that Norway has eight places on UNESCO’s World Heritage List – but did you know that we also have three geoparks and two creative cities? Have a look at the map and find out where the other UNESCO Global Geoparks of Norway are located....
Closer cooperation and focus on tourism between municipalities in Magma In connection with our work in the EU project Ruritage, it became clear last autumn that close cooperation was needed between the five municipalities of Magma Geopark; Flekkefjord, Lund, Sokndal,...
Magma signed a contract with Future Food Network Magma geopark has signed a contract with Future Food Network which is part of the global network Future Food. The network focuses on education and innovation in the global food systems. Future Food is an...
European Geopark Network celebrates 20 years In June 2000, four Geoparks took the initiative to establish the European Geopark Network. The very first geoparks in this network were: Reserve Geologique de Haute-Provence – France...
Magma represented at an inspirational meeting for young farmers On January 16th, Magma Geopark was invited to the “Inspirational meetings for young and new farmers” under the auspices of the Agricultural Agency in Eigersund and Sokndal and Opportunities in...
Each of the UNESCO Global Geopark got 100.000 Euro each : this is a strong recognition of the important job the Geoparks do locally and internationally within the Global Geoparks Network and a strong recognition of the importance of the UNESCO International Geoscience...
The next two days Magma is in Bologna at the Dipartimento di Architettura – Università di Bologna for the Ruritage project meeting together with the other 5 replicators. The aim is to get guidance and help to finish our Action Plan for implementation of our 3...
Among the exciting activities, the Magma team learned about Apulia Local food system and its development through the initiative farmersdinner. They also met up with the mayor of Cagnano Varano, Claudio Costanzucci Paolino, to discuss future plans related to the usage...
Last week Magma Geopark attended the RURITAGE meeting in Appignano del Tronto, that was a good opportunity to meet all project partners and exchange good practices within the rural regeneration strategy. The project aim to regenerate rural areas though participatory...
Magma Geopark, together with several local partners, had an opportunity to visit the Wild Atlantic Way in Ireland, as part of the EU project Ruritage. The goal of the trip was to observe the good practices in tourism development, exchange knowledge and learn from our...
The 25th to 27th of September Magma Geopark successfully participated at the 19th European Conference on UNESCO Global Geoparks hosted by Sierra Norte de Sevilla UNESCO Global Geopark, Spain. The Magma representatives presented to the audience the RURITAGE project and...
The Geotourism seminar at Stord gave us useful input on dissemination and exciting geology. We had a chance to learn more about innovative ways of interpretating geological heritage and also present our chosen ICT projects. Both Magma Geopark and Gea Norvegica had...
