EconoMountain brings new economic activities and resources and competitive ways to make forestry fuel withdrawals, to gain control over fire. The social innovation is a new technique of grazing, which uses goats for mountain devastation/fuel control. It is intended, therefore, to control the intensity, period and timing of grazing. The management includes the partnership with a shepherd to optimise the work. The project also has an information and communication component - kitchen workshops -, aiming to change the habits of consumption towards a responsible consumption, valuing the most sustainable productions (mushrooms, honey, ...) and exploring niche markets.

• Protection of the ecosystems against fire; • Redefinition of the use of animals in landscape management; • Decrease of the forestry fuel management cost; • Increase the area of conducted grazing; • Jobs for shepherds; • Raise awareness among the community about the real effect of resource and landscape management; • Increase the value of what is produced by the forestry resources; • Increase the competitiveness of the territory by decreasing the risk of fire (reduce investment risks and bring new investors and new productions (e.g., resin, mushrooms); • Increase the provision of services of tourism in the area - generation of wealth – and awareness/recognition by tourists of the value of the services provided by ecosystems; • Increase the proximity between consumer/markets and producer; • Increase sustainable consumption by changing eating habits.