Laura Haberfellner, CIPRA International Lab
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.
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alpMedia | Schaan, LI
Trucks nose-to-tail on the Brenner, with or without rail tunnel
A study by the Swiss traffic research institute progtrans on plans for a Brenner railway tunnel has called into question the purpose of the project. Even if the base tunnel were to be completed by 2015, the number of trucks on the Brenner would increase by 2,000 a day by 2025.
alpMedia | Schaan, LI
Montagnalibri - The mountain book exhibition of the Trento Film Festival
The Montagnalibri mountain book fair is being held in Trento/I between 29 April and 7 May for the 20th time. Book presentations and meetings, discussions and round tables with authors, mountaineers and connoisseurs of Alpine history are to be held daily.
Francesco Pastorelli | CIPRA Italia | Torino, IT
Piedmont mountain population demands its rights
In Turin/I on 22 February representatives of civilian society from the mountain regions of the Piedmont presented their signed Piemonte Alpine Treaty. The document is the result of intensive debate and discussions, and denounces the political, economic and cultural discrimination of the Piedmont mountain regions compared with the power centres in the pre-Alps and cities.
alpMedia | Schaan, LI
Two new publications on the subject of climate change
The Mountain Research Initiative has published two new English publications on the subject of climate change.
Events
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Webinar - Successfully organising sustainable procurement with proCURE | online | |
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FutureForum Alps 2025 | SAL - Saal am Lindaplatz, Landstrasse 19, 9494 Schaan, Liechtenstein |
Projects
CIPRA International
GaYA
[Project completed] Governance and youth in the Alps - Young people tend to leave the Alpine space because they lack personal and professional fulfilment. Furthermore a majority of decision-makers remain unaware of the benefits a young active population brings to society.
CIPRA International
Alpine Partnership for Local Climate Action (ALPACA)
[Project completed] Rising temperatures, rockfalls, lack of snow: global warming is clearly noticeable in the Alpine region. The «Alpine Partnership for Local Climate Action» has the intention to bring together cities, municipalities and networks in order to work together for more climate protection. With this initiative, CIPRA International, «Alliance in the Alps» and «Alpine Town of the Year» want to strengthen the transregional exchange of knowledge and experience. The goal of positioning the Alps as a model region for climate protection is also in line with the Alpine Convention.
CIPRA International
whatsalp
[Project completed] Starting 3rd of June 2017, a group of Alpine experts were hiking through Austria, Switzerland, France and Italy from Vienna to Nice in the course of the project “whatsalp”. They documented the current state of the Alps and exchanged experiences with different people on-site and on the way.