Climate — Mar 17, 2026

Act now to protect forests: sign the #HandsOffNature petition!

More than 40 percent of the Alpine region is covered by forests. They are not only a defining feature of the landscape, but also a cornerstone of Alpine livelihood, providing building materials, supporting biodiversity, and delivering essential ecosystem services.

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Agriculture — Mar 05, 2020

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Bees: small in size, big in effect

Why we need honey, pollinators and biodiversity: This question is the subject of the themed issue of SzeneAlpen, to be published in March 2020.

Spatial development — Feb 27, 2020

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Fit for work

Change to bus, train, bike or e-bike: pilot companies in the Alpenrhein-Bodensee-Hochrhein region are testing healthy ways to work in the three-year Interreg project Amigo.

Climate — Feb 21, 2020

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How diversity is lost

Intensive agriculture and climate change: a recent study from Austria shows how much influence both have on the loss of biodiversity in Alpine regions.

People — Feb 21, 2020

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Sabbatical in the Alps

Take a longer break and give something back: The "Alpine Sabbatical" in Switzerland offers a meaningful alternative way of spending your free time.

Events

2026-03-23T00:00:00+01:00 2026-03-27T23:59:59+01:00 Mar 23, 2026 - Mar 27, 2026	Youth Parliament to the Alpine Convention: Climate Resilient Development
2026-03-24T00:00:00+01:00 2026-03-27T23:59:59+01:00 Ljubljana Mar 24, 2026 - Mar 27, 2026	The Better-Cities Event	Ljubljana
2026-04-07T00:00:00+02:00 2026-04-17T23:59:59+02:00 online Apr 07, 2026 - Apr 17, 2026	Local Peaks, Global Learning	online
2026-04-21T00:00:00+02:00 2026-04-23T23:59:59+02:00 MUCEM, Marseille/France Apr 21, 2026 - Apr 23, 2026	Transhumance as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity: A Way Forward?	MUCEM, Marseille/France
2026-04-22T00:00:00+02:00 2026-04-23T23:59:59+02:00 Vienna/Austria Apr 22, 2026 - Apr 23, 2026	Growing alternative crops for new market opportunities in a changing climate	Vienna/Austria

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Nature — Jun 30, 2016

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AlpES

[Project completed] Ecosystems and their services go beyond national borders and need a transnational approach for their dynamic protection, sustainable use, management and risk prevention. As a basis for joint action, public authorities, policy makers, NGOs, researchers and economic actors – the AlpES target groups – need a common understanding of ecosystem services, comparable information on their status and support in using appropriate tools for integrating them in their fields of work.

SPARE – Alpine rivers as society’s lifelines

Nature — Mar 23, 2016

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SPARE – Alpine rivers as society’s lifelines

[Project completed] What is the state of the Alpine rivers? How can we bring those responsible and other interested parties to committing themselves to holistic river management? The SPARE project strives to answer these and other questions.

People — Feb 17, 2016

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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.

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