Innovation to counter emigration

Emigration and the brain drain in the Alpine region: a new EU project involving CIPRA aims to counteract this trend. It is testing innovative governance models to strengthen mountain regions and create a win-win situation for regions of origin, destinations and young emigrants.

CIPRA International

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People — Apr 08, 2013

CIPRA Internationale Alpenschutzkommission | Schaan, LI

Communicate and find common ground

Working across borders for the environment – Wolfgang Burhenne, founder member of CIPRA, and Andrea Matt, Executive Director of CIPRA Liechtenstein, talk about their activities as networkers.

People — Apr 08, 2013

CIPRA Internationale Alpenschutzkommission | Schaan, LI

Young Alps

Everyone’s talking about the future. But usually without involving those to whom it actually belongs. CIPRA supports young people in articulating their hopes and demands.

“The Climalp excursion was a breakthrough”

Spatial development — Apr 08, 2013

CIPRA Internationale Alpenschutzkommission | Schaan, LI

“The Climalp excursion was a breakthrough”

The local authority in Saint-Jean-d’Arvey decided to use local timber to construct an energy-efficient multipurpose building. In an interview with the Mayor Jean-Claude Monin, we learn how the idea was inspired by a CIPRA visit to Vorarlberg.

“Fact-finding trips like Climalp are some of my favourite assignments”

People — Apr 08, 2013

CIPRA Internationale Alpenschutzkommission | Schaan, LI

“Fact-finding trips like Climalp are some of my favourite assignments”

CIPRA communicates in four languages of the Alps and also in English. The resulting translation load is handled by several translators and interpreters. Reinhold Ferrari is one of them.

Events

2025-05-27T00:00:00+02:00 2025-05-27T23:59:59+02:00 online May 27, 2025	Webinar - Successfully organising sustainable procurement with proCURE	online
2025-06-27T08:30:00+02:00 2025-06-28T13:00:00+02:00 SAL - Saal am Lindaplatz, Landstrasse 19, 9494 Schaan, Liechtenstein Jun 27, 2025 - Jun 28, 2025	FutureForum Alps 2025	SAL - Saal am Lindaplatz, Landstrasse 19, 9494 Schaan, Liechtenstein

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Projects & activities

Nature — Mar 27, 2014

CIPRA International

Ecological Continuum Initiative

[Project completed] Nature does not stop at the boundaries of protected areas or national borders. And, more and more often, man’s interventions in nature and the landscape are dissecting habitats and lastingly obstructing the exchange and migration of fauna and flora. This is putting Europe’s unique biodiversity in the Alps at risk.