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Plug-in IT services for small and medium-sized businesses

The Alise project (Alps IT Service Network) is designed to provide those small and medium-sized businesses for which IT operations have become a burden with all the IT services they require directly from the Network.

State subsidies for regional products compatible with EU law

Buying products from the region strengthens regional economic cycles and is kinder on the climate. However there has been some debate within the EU whether the subsidising of regional products by members state governments actually obstructed the European single market.

Record investments in French winter sport areas

In 2004 France's winter sport resorts invested 348 million euros - more than ever before - in refurbishment and upgrade measures. In the last ten years, such investments have increased by about 200 percent compared with only 50 percent for ski area turnover. The number of skier days per season is now stagnating at 63 million.

Deregulation of public services accentuates regional polarisation in Switzerland's alpine regions

A new study by the Swiss National Research Programme NFP 48 entitled Landscapes and Habitats of the Alps has shown that the deregulation of public services has accentuated inequalities between centres and peripheries in alpine regions.

Mountain regions and the elderly and disabled

Services for the elderly and the accessibility of accommodation by the disabled are the two key issues of a seminar at Feltre in Italy on July 2. The seminar is being held as part of the Interreg IIIA Programme Montagna Accessibile (Mountains Within Reach) of the Belluno Province and the Federal Province of Tyrol/A.

Italy: MOMO project for the development of new technologies in mountain regions

The EU MOMO project, which focuses on applied research benefiting small and medium-sized companies, was recently unveiled in the Italian region of Friuli Venezia Giulia. Plastic materials for nanotechnology for example are to be developed at the Centre for Technological Innovations in Amaro.

Comprehensive study on mountain areas in Europe

The European Commission recently published the results of a study on the economic and social situation of European mountain areas. The study provides an in-depth analysis of mountain areas in 29 countries in Europe, including the EU Member States, the 10 new Member States and Switzerland.

Presentation of an international umbrella brand for leisure & fitness holidays in the Alps

From the end of this year 80 businesses from Bavaria, Austria, Switzerland and southern Tyrol are to join forces and carry the new umbrella brand Alpine Wellness International GmbH.

Centre for nanotechnology in the French Alps

The first European network for nanobiotechnology, Nano2life, is being co-ordinated in Grenoble/F since February 2. So after Paris Grenoble is now the second largest research centre in France, with 18,200 people working in 200 laboratories.

Promoting produce from mountain regions

The "Mountain Group" of the Forestry Department at the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has announced a new research project. Between September 2003 and March 2004 examples of good practice from all over the world are to be collated and evaluated, focusing on instances where quality products from mountain regions contribute to strengthening the local economy without impacting on the environment.

The Alps are becoming more and more of a theme park

On 29 November Coca-Cola AG inaugurated its Alpen Club Micky Maus in the ski resort of Arosa/CH.

Conference of Regions in Kranjska Gora/SI

On 24 October 2003 representatives of the seven pilot regions of the EU research project REGALP convened at the Conference of Regions for an exchange of experience at Kranjska Gora/SI.

Germany: Regional and ecological produce for Allgäu clinics

In future clinics in the Allgäu region are to be provided with nutritionally balanced meals made from regional and ecological produce. Bavaria's Agricultural Minister Josef Miller referred to the brand programme Aus gutem Grund [On Good Grounds] as a milestone in regional marketing. He added that the initiative could well pave the way for the use of regional produce in community catering.

Economic Strategies in Mountain Regions

Environmental benchmarking for local authorities: From concept to practice

The environmental dimension

Die regionalwirtschaftliche Bedeutung des Nationalparktourismus

Das Schweizer Berggebiet 2004 - Fakten und Zahlen [Swiss Mountain Regions 2004 - Facts and Figures]

Relief for the Environment and for Traffic through Regional Economies

The alpine space as a sustainable business location

Final Report on Decoupling Transport Impacts and Economic Growth

Development Policies and the Environment: Using Environmental Accounts for Better Decision Making

Conservation policy and the regional economy: the regional economic impact of Natura 2000 conservation sites in Austria

Alternative Job Search Strategies in Remote Rural and Peri-urban Labour Markets

Den Wert der Alpenlandschaften nutzen (Utilising the value of Alpine landscapes)

The futures of the Alps

Weather catastrophes and climate change

OEBB - Mobiler technology

8th International Drystone-Walling Congress, Visp, Switzerland "Drystone Walls in Alpine Regions"

The value of landscape in the eyes of both residents and tourists: implicit price and strategies of reconciliation