When: May 28th
Time: 11.00 – 12.00 CET
Trails are among Europe’s oldest and most widely used public infrastructure, yet they remain politically invisible, under-funded, and structurally unsupported. At a time of accelerating biodiversity loss, climate impacts, an inactivity-related health crisis, and deepening urban–nature disconnection, ignoring the value of trails represents a missed strategic opportunity.
Well-managed trail networks deliver measurable public value across seven priority EU policy domains: health, nature restoration, (active) tourism, climate-neutral mobility, rural development, sport and social cohesion.
Despite this, the ENOS Trails Expert Group concluded trail governance across Europe is fragmented, under-resourced, and overly dependent on volunteer labour and the value of trails not being sufficiently recognized in EU, national and regional policy and strategy.
European Trails Policy Paper
As a result, the ENOS Trails Expert Group developed the European Trails Policy Paper. During this webinar, we will focus on both the policy problem and opportunities, addressing and explaining the underlying strategic policy gap, and why having and facilitating high-quality trails is particularly important right now.
Using case studies, we will explain the SROI and benefits of trails for society, concluding with policy recommendations at the EU, national, local, and digital levels.
This webinar also marks the launch of our stakeholder endorsement campaign, in which we will actively seek to expand this coalition to call for the formal recognition of trails as essential public infrastructure for the European Union, Member States, and local authorities.
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