A European outdoor initiative
wildRISE is building a new way to experience Europe's mountain territories — where outdoor sports, nature and local communities grow stronger together.
★★★★★★★★★★★★ Co-funded by the European Union · ERASMUS-SPORT-2025 · Project No. 101246075 · Dec 2025 – Apr 2028
The wildRISE vision
Europe's mountain and rural territories are some of the most extraordinary places on the planet. They hold biodiversity, cultural memory, and a quality of life that can't be manufactured.
wildRISE starts from a simple conviction: outdoor sports can be a force for regeneration. When people move through a territory consciously — running its trails, restoring its paths, discovering its producers — they don't just enjoy it. They strengthen it.
Through a gamified digital platform, real-life events and policy tools for local authorities, wildRISE is building a replicable model that any European region can adopt to make outdoor sports and nature-based tourism genuinely sustainable.
How to get involved
Get involved
Every person who participates in wildRISE leaves a mark — on the landscape, on the community, on the model. Here's what your involvement looks like depending on how you want to engage.
The outdoor sports person
Trail runners, cyclists, hikers — wildRISE gives you curated routes across mountain territories with missions that turn every outing into something more meaningful than a distance logged.
Your footprint
Every kilometre on a wildRISE route generates data that helps local authorities plan better, more sustainable access to the territory.
The eco-volunteer
Trail restoration, biodiversity monitoring, cleanup days — eco-volunteering actions are hands-on, community-driven and happen in genuinely beautiful places. You work with people who care.
Your footprint
Each action is documented and feeds into the Blue Passport framework — real evidence shaping regional policy on sustainable outdoor tourism.
The changemaker
The Green Passport is most powerful when built with — not just for — the territories it serves. Whether you're a regional authority, a mountain destination, an outdoor federation or a conservation body, your voice helps define what responsible tourism can look like in practice.
How to contribute
Join as a pilot territory, co-design local challenges, or contribute data and governance insight. Public administrations and stakeholders who engage now help shape the framework before it scales.
The Green Passport
Active challenges · 2027
Complete remaining missions to earn your trail seal
The Green Passport turns a walk in the mountains into a layered experience — sport, environmental action, cultural discovery and community connection, all in one place.
Curated mountain routes with sustainability missions built in. Complete all steps, earn your Legacy Insignia — a mark of genuine engagement with the territory.
From trail running and mountain biking to snowshoeing and nordic walking. wildRISE routes are designed for every season.
Sustainable competitive formats for trail running and cycling — where finishing means you've also contributed to the territory.
Pilot event
The first major wildRISE live experience takes shape in the Pyrenees — a multi-day event combining trail competition, eco-volunteering, cultural immersion and the live test of the Green Passport platform.
From the project
Agenda
Pilot actions, eco-volunteering sessions, workshops and the Pyrenees event — all coming over the programme. Register below to be among the first to know.
The wildRISE programme is just getting started. Activities and events will be announced here as they are confirmed. Stay tuned — or register your interest below and we'll notify you directly.
Keep me updatedProject partnership — coordinated by ADESP
