People — May 07, 2025
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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Communicate and find common ground
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.
Young Alps
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.

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Events

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May 27, 2025 		Webinar - Successfully organising sustainable procurement with proCURE online
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Jun 27, 2025 - Jun 28, 2025 		FutureForum Alps 2025 SAL - Saal am Lindaplatz, Landstrasse 19, 9494 Schaan, Liechtenstein

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Projects & activities

I-LivAlps
People — Feb 17, 2016
CIPRA International
I-LivAlps
[Project completed] Youth participation as tool to fight the demographical change threatening the Alps - this was the topic of the project “I-LivAlps: LivingLabs with young people in the Alps”. The motor of the process were active, skilled, engaged young people, coordinatet by competent youth leaders and a stable and efficient international network able to foster local activities at the national level in order to anchor youth participation. 36 participants from 6 alpine countries, aged between 15 and 30 years, with different cultural and educational backgrounds were working together with national NGOs to get new skills to become proactive in their community.
alpMonitor
Jul 16, 2015
alpMonitor
[Project completed] Sustainable development is not simply limited to nature protection. As a guiding idea that touches virtually all areas of life, sustainability should be discussed at every lunch, every workshop, schoolroom or parliament. Through the project alpMonitor, CIPRA International, together with the national CIPRA branches, strongly focuses on the responsibilities modern societies have in the shift towards sustainable development. The actual objective is «the good life» in the Alps. CIPRA’s approach is based upon the values of participation, solidarity and frugality.
Alpine Rhine Valley Green Belt
Nature — Mar 31, 2015
CIPRA International
Alpine Rhine Valley Green Belt
[Project completed]

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