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Final Conference & AlpPlan Network Conference

After more than two and a half years of working together, the OpenSpaceAlps project partners invite to the final conference. At the event, the central outcomes of the project will be presented to professionals, policymakers, scientists and interested citizens engaged with spatial planning issues in alpine areas. The AlpPlan network, one of the major project achievements, will be promoted as well.

EUSALP Landscape Conference

The EUSALP Landscape Conference deals with the transformation processes of Alpine landscapes in the context of the ongoing climate crisis. The aim is to foster an exchange about land use conflicts related to renewable energy production.

Roadshow stop #3 in Rosenheim: Natural Hazards

The EU Strategy for the Alpine Region (EUSALP) is on the road in the Alpine countries and will come to Inn Museum in Rosenheim in May 2022. Various exhibitions, diverse activities suitable for all generations, exciting lectures, and discussions await you. The focus will be on natural hazards and managing strategies for local communities as well as how EUSALP can support them in meeting the challenges of natural hazards. Residents from Rosenheim, families, children, young people, senior citizens, interested people from the region as well as international partners and guests are all cordially invited. We look forward to welcoming you!

EU Green Week 2022

The EU Green Week is an annual opportunity to debate European environmental policy with policymakers, leading environmentalists and stakeholders from Europe and beyond. This year's edition focuses on the European Green Deal - the EU’s sustainable and transformative growth strategy for a resource-efficient and climate-neutral Europe by 2050.

Climate bridges to south-eastern Europe

The Climate Bridges project strengthens cooperation for transnational climate protection in the Western Balkans. Together with other NGOs, CIPRA Lab is setting up a network platform for this purpose – and is looking for good climate protection examples from south-eastern Europe.

What nature provides in the Alps

Alpine pastures that provide us with food; trees that create a pleasant microclimate; Alpine landscapes that heal and touch. CIPRA's 2021 Annual Report focuses on the value of nature and shows how we can protect Alpine ecosystems.

Waale, Suonen, Wasserleiten

Vital for the cultural landscape and biodiversity, and the epitome of community resource management: an application to UNESCO aims to turn traditional irrigation practices into an intangible cultural heritage asset.

Alpine soils: allies in climate protection

The soils of the Alps make a decisive contribution to climate protection. But intensive land use and rising temperatures are endangering them: not only are they losing their valuable function as carbon reservoirs, but they may even become a source of greenhouse gases themselves.

IPCC report: climate crisis in the Alps

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the effects of the climate crisis are greater than we thought: glaciers are melting in the Alps and there are more rockfalls and droughts. What else awaits the Alps? And how can we deal with it?

Ski resorts for sale

Vail Resorts from the USA is taking over Andermatt-Sedrun in Switzerland, while a British company is buying Via Lattea in Italy. This is the role played by international investors in the ski circus of the Alps.

The Alpine tourism of the future

The results of CIPRA's Reset Alpine Tourism project show how the tourism industry can function in a more resilient and environmentally friendly way.

#alpinechangemaker wanted

Projects for a good life in the Alps: highly motivated people from the Alpine region can apply until 15 May with ideas for the “Alpine Changemaker Basecamp” (ACB). They can look forward to a transdisciplinary project week, exchanges with like-minded people and a one-year mentoring programme.

Point of view: the excessive character of the Olympics

High construction costs, unused sports facilities, environmentally damaging large-scale projects: loud criticism continues to surround the staging of the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina/I. We must ask whether such sporting events still have a place in the Alps, says Vanda Bonardo, President of CIPRA Italy.

CIPRA celebrates 70 years of Alpine protection

Connecting people, overcoming borders, protecting the Alps: For 70 years CIPRA has been working for a good life in the Alps. What might the Alps of the future look like? On the occasion of its birthday on 5 May, CIPRA is also taking a new look at itself.

70 Years CIPRA

3rd EU Macro-Regional Strategies Week

The EU Macro-Regional Strategies Week is organised by the European Commission and brings together the stakeholders of the european macro-regional strategies, such as EUSALP for the Alpine region. This year the event focuses on Youth, the European Green Deal and Social Change, and follows the motto Engage, Empower, Evolve. The aim of the event is to Engage stakeholders from across the four EU macro-regional strategies and the EU institutions, to Empower them to take charge of the opportunities offered by the macro-regional strategies in order to Evolve their macro-regions towards a smart and sustainable future in the 2021-2027 programming period.

On the war in Ukraine

A war has broken out in Europe that contradicts everything CIPRA stands for: Intensive cooperation across language barriers and cultural differences, cross-border cooperation and the search for development opportunities that strengthen people and nature.

Climate Bridges

[Project completed] The Climate Bridges project strengthens cooperation for transnational climate protection in the Western Balkans, from Croatia via Bosnia-Herzegovina to Albania. Together with other NGOs, CIPRA Lab is setting up a network platform for this purpose.

EUSALP 5th Mobility Conference & Mobility Days Tyrol 2022

Building on six years of macro-regional cooperation in the Alps, the conference will focus on the future developments of transalpine transport and mobility over the next two decades towards a carbon-free Europe by 2050. Mobility stakeholders and political representatives will present and discuss concrete solutions for a more sustainable Alpine macro-region. In light of the European Year of Youth 2022, the younger generation will also be actively involved to help shaping future mobility.

Truck promotion instead of ecology

The European Parliament has shown no understanding. Even the last rescue attempts by three parliamentarians were shot down. The new toll regulation for road haulage on European motorways will lead to the one-sided promotion of hydrogen and electric engines. This will lead to a massive disadvantage for freight transport by rail and to even more trucks.

XII European Mountain Convention: “Smart mountains: how to make our territories attractive and future-oriented?”

The XII European Mountain Convention aims to define a sustainable strategy for the development of smart mountains towards 2050. The Convention goals are to present the economic, social or environmental challenges faced by European mountains and provide innovative solutions to these. It will thus showcase smart initiatives for key sectors in mountain areas, such as tourism and agriculture, and will provide the basis for more integrated and effective public policies, contributing to the sustainable development of mountain areas and the quality of life of mountain communities.

Youth4Mountains Series: The role of technology and innovation in mountain youth entrepreneurship

Is it possible to promote innovation in remote areas? Through the collaboration between the research, industry and policy world, it is possible to give new centrality to mountain areas and attract youth in these territories.

Youth4Mountains Series: Sharing mountain regions’ examples on innovative and sustainable tourism

Sustainable tourism aims to join recreational activities with ecological and social requirements. In order to address this challenge, the diversification of existing businesses can increase the competitiveness of mountain areas while granting the valorisation and preservation of local resources.

Youth4Mountains Series: A multifunctional approach for mountain agricultural businesses

How to identify future challenges and opportunities for small and medium-sized mountain businesses? The workshop will share existing best practices carried out by youth in mountains, underlining the importance of agriculture in biodiversity conservation, in order to enhance the rich patrimony of knowledge and traditions while granting a sustainable development in mountain areas.

Youth At the Top 2022

The 8th edition of Youth At the Top will take place throughout several Alpine and Carpathian protected areas and natural sites. Kids and teens are invited to join local events to take part in this international initiative. Each group will go for a mountain hike and an overnight stay that they won't forget. The event is the opportunity to raise awareness on Nature conservation and preservation among the youngests. For the 2022 edition, these questions will be addressed within the framework of the common theme "Water in all its forms".

European Solidarity Corps

Alpine-wide network for shepherds

What are the possibilities and challenges for a cross-border organisation for shepherds in the Alps? CIPRA held an online conference on 27 January 2022 with representatives from agricultural colleges, national authorities, nature conservation groups and shepherds' organisations to find answers.

Trucks on (de)tour

One third of the lorries on the Brenner motorway are rerouted to save toll costs. In doing so, they take detours of up to 120 kilometres, as a study from Tyrol/A shows. But the European Parliament does not take this into account.

Securing the future of the Via Alpina

A modern information and networking platform, improved safety and easier orientation along the trail: the Via Alpina, the transalpine long-distance hiking trail, is getting a makeover in 2022. CIPRA International started a crowdfunding campaign to support this project.

Onto the slopes by helicopter

Is heliskiing in the public interest? Vorarlberg extends its authorisation by two and a half years: CIPRA Austria calls for greater emphasis on climate protection.