On 9 June 2026, MONA held its first policy workshop as part of the Sustainable Tourism and Mobility Forum (STMF), hosted by Breda University of Applied Sciences and co-hosted by the Province of Noord-Brabant. The forum brought together a wide range of organisations working at the intersection of tourism and mobility, including the European Travel Commission, NECSTouR, POLIS Network and the European Tourism Association.
This year's forum theme was Sustainable Tourism Mobility and the New European Tourism Strategy, with a particular focus on the roles and skills needed to support integrated mobility planning for sustainable tourism.
The MONA workshop took place during the afternoon parallel session on connecting mobility and tourism through integrated planning approaches. Participants included representatives from the tourism, mobility and industry sectors as well as municipalities. The session opened with introductions from participants and a presentation of the MONA project, before moving into a workshop discussion on barriers, experiences, challenges and policy perspectives related to sustainable mobility in nature areas.
The workshop is part of MONA's broader effort to bring its findings to decision-makers at regional, national, Interreg programme area and EU level. Rather than focusing solely on technical solutions, MONA aims to contribute to the policy debate by sharing its interdisciplinary approach, which combines nature conservation, visitor flow management, accessibility and mobility. Two policy papers and two policy workshops are planned as part of this work, with the first workshop providing an opportunity to test and refine the project's draft policy recommendations with an external audience.
The feedback gathered will be integrated into the MONA policy recommendations. A second policy workshop will follow, with the aim of broadening the reach of the project's findings and ensuring they resonate with a wider group of stakeholders.