FORUM TRAMONTANA III
19–21 October 2026
Shkodër and Lëpushë, Kelmend, Albanian Alps, Albania
From 19 to 21 October 2026, the European Tramontana Network held its 3rd International Forum in Albania, hosted by GO2Albania in Shkodër and in the Albanian Alps.
The public programme planned for 20 October in Shkodër, which included the presentation of the photography exhibition “Kelmendi qysh se u fotografue s’pari” (“Kelmendi, ever since it was first photographed”), had to be cancelled due to the political protests that took place during the days of the Forum.
The Forum was nevertheless an extremely productive meeting. The internal working sessions among the partner organisations took place in a spirit of collaboration and were dedicated to the last year of the Tramontana IV project, in which many activities are still to be developed in the fields of research, digital archives, artistic creation, education and public engagement.
The Forum also gave the partners the opportunity to get to know the Albanian Alps, an area of remarkable anthropological and environmental richness. During the collective walk in Lëpushë, in Kelmend, the partners crossed mountain landscapes and summer pastures and came into contact with the houses, shepherds’ huts and living heritage of the local communities.
The Tramontana Network brings together 11 members from 7 countries: Binaural Nodar (Portugal), Audiolab (Spain), Ràdio País, Numériculture Gascogne and Eth Ostau Comengés (France), La Leggera APS, LEM-Italia and Bambun APS (Italy), Akademia Profil (Poland), Orma Sodalitas Anthropologica (Romania) and GO2Albania (Albania), dedicated to the documentation, research, preservation and creative dissemination of the intangible cultural heritage of European rural and mountain communities.
