"Tramontana Network II" project continues, broadens and deepens the previous “Network Tramontana I" project ( 2012-2013) and includes eight partner organizations: the seven founding members from three countries - France (3), Italy (3), Portugal (1) - plus a new Spanish cultural organization. The project’s objectives are the documentation, treatment, restitution and dissemination of oral heritage from rural and mountain communities of Europe, including romance languages speaking regions. The latter is a vast, rich and articulated cultural tissue that needs to be taken into account and protected not only for heritage or academic archiving purposes, but also and especially for a consequent revitalization of these areas, through a closer intergenerational transmission of knowledge. This is only possible with a direct and participatory involvement of target communities, where a sense of self-awareness can respond to a demand for cultural anchoring which is increasingly evident especially among youngpeople. Moreover, the knowledge that is being collected by this project can sometimes be in a process of erasure, which in turn can generate immediate, and sometimes surprising,connections between past and present. To meet this challenge, our network is able to deploy and put together both scientific and technical expertises, which are diverse but complementary. During the course of the project a dense set of activities will be deployed: 400 field surveys, a rich series of publications (scientific/mainstream, paper/digital, online/offline, text/multimedia) and community-driven cultural events in the involved territories; where all of our disciplines will be convoked: socio-and-ethno-linguistics, anthropology and history, ethnomusicology and ethno-choreology, soundscapes and contemporary art.