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alpMedia | Schaan, LI
King Albert Mountain Award an Werner Bätzing
Last week the King Albert I Memorial Foundation honoured seven mountain experts with golden awards. One of the Awards went to Germany's Werner Bätzing as a "leading expert on problems of the Alps as a whole".
alpMedia | Schaan, LI
New handbook on sustainable agriculture in the Alps
The new "Guidelines for promoting sustainable agriculture in Alpine mountain regions" in four languages (de/fr/it/en) contains numerous recommendations for the planning and implementation of projects and measures aimed at promoting sustainable agriculture in Alpine mountain regions.
alpMedia | Schaan, LI
Conference publication with findings of the AlpWeek 2004
"The Alps of the Next Generation" was the theme of the AlpWeek 2004 held in Kranjska Gora/SI, a conference which looked at ways of finding solution approaches to current problems and staged a number of scientific discussions.
alpMedia | Schaan, LI
Delimitation of the Carpathian Convention area - Pilot study
Die Europäische Akademie in Bozen/I publizierte kürzlich eine englischsprachige Pilotstudie zur Implementierung internationaler Berggebietskonventionen.
Events
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Trento Film Festival | Santa Croce street, 67; I-38122 Trento | |
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ForumAlpinum 2026 | Aosta | |
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Webinar: The journey of water | online | |
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XIV European Mountain Convention | Sallanches / France | |
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Alps in Motion: new Alpine-wide Day of Action | alpswide |
Projects
CIPRA International
Alpine Dialogue
[Project completed] Energy transition does not stop at the gates of the Alps. A low carbon society and nuclear phase-out are on the political agenda of the Alpine governments. In sensitive natural areas of the Alps, the increased use of renewable energy can lead – and is already leading – to significant conflicts, for instance between the last natural rivers and hydropower.
CIPRA International
C3-Alps
[Project completed] C3-Alps stands for Climate Change Capitalisation, and that is precisely this Interreg Alpine Space Project has been all about.