Carpathian Day

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Celebrate the Carpathians through Carpathian Day on or around 26 September! This is a yearly celebration of our diverse and common identities, landscapes, heritage and love for the Carpathian region.

The Carpathian region holds a wealth of traditions, cultural sites, biodiversity, and unique habitats and species. Carpathian Day aims to create annual momentum for highlighting these great cultural and natural landscapes and foster a sense of pride and belonging across the region. Celebrating Carpathian Day helps cultivate a Carpathian identity, raise environmental and cultural awareness of mountain landscapes, and inspire further protection and sustainable development of local communities.

Join us in hosting your own Carpathian Day projects, events, roundtables, exhibitions and festivals to strengthen relationships, environmental and cultural awareness, promote intercultural exchanges and embrace diversity.

Are you planning on hosting a Carpathian Day event? Share your planned activities with us!

Whether you are an NGO, a public administration, a corporate entity or a citizen who loves the Carpathians, you can be part of the celebration.

Carpathian Day 2024

“Our identity lies in our heritage”

The Carpathians are characterized by longstanding human-nature interactions. This Carpathian Day, integrate both natural and cultural heritage to celebrate the voices, connections and traditional knowledge of all who live in the Carpathian region.

Check out registered Carpathian Day events for 2024 throughout the region in the map below. Click on the icons for more information and details about each local event.

Participate in Carpathian Day

Everyone has a part to play in Carpathian Day!

Share on Social Media

#CarpathianDay24 #CarpathianDay

Share your love of the Carpathians on 26 September with the world using the hashtags #CarpathianDay24 and #CarpathianDay. If you are participating in a Carpathian Day event, take a picture and highlight the experience! Follow along with other Carpathian Day celebrations as well, and tag @CarpathianConvention on Facebook.

Host an Event

Whether you are an NGO, a public administration, a corporate entity or a citizen who loves the Carpathians, consider hosting an event or organize activities to promote our diverse and common identities, landscapes and heritage. Be sure to share your event with us for further promotion!

Need ideas or inspiration? Read the descriptions from the registered events in the map above. Additionally, Romania has been celebrating International Day of the Carpathian Mountains on 26 September for several years: check out what Retezat National Park did to celebrate in 2023.

Carpathian Day and the Carpathian Convention

The Conference of the Parties to the Carpathian Convention welcomed “the idea of establishing the Carpathian Day to further promote the protection and sustainable development of the Carpathians and the Carpathian Convention activities at various levels,” and invites the Parties, relevant stakeholders and the Secretariat to contribute (Decision COP7/1).

The Carpathian Education for Sustainable Development Expert Network is the main entity coordinating the organization and promotion of Carpathian Day (Decision COP7/19) with support from the Carpathian Convention Secretariat, the Carpathian Network of Protected Areas (CNPA) and the Science for the Carpathians Network (S4C).