Bioeconomy has an enormous potential for Green Growth and professional development and thus is considered as a key discipline of the 21st century. EU's bioeconomy strategy ...

• Agriculture and forestry
• Clustering and economic cooperation
• Innovation capacity and awareness- raising
• Knowledge and technology transfer
• Sustainable management of natural resources

Ecological connectivity (EC) is the basis of Alpine (&global) habitat & species protection. However, much work remains in realizing an integrative concept of ecosystem and ...

• Sustainable management of natural resources

Ecosystems and their services go beyond national borders and therefore need a transnational approach for their protection, sustainable use, management and risk prevention. As a ...

• Knowledge and technology transfer
• Institutional cooperation and cooperation networks
• Regional planning and development
• Sustainable management of natural resources

Foodways are socioeconomic and cultural practices related to food production and consumption. Food heritage is a strong source of identity for Alpine populations. It goes beyond ...

• Agriculture and forestry
• Cultural heritage
• Rural and peripheral development
• Tourism
• Sustainable management of natural resources

The AlpGovs’ main objective is to support effective and efficient EUSALP implementation in a systematic transnational approach through designing and testing appropriate ...

The Alps are a sensitive ecosystem to be protected from pollutant emissions & climate change. Continued growth in freight traffic volume leads to environmental problems. These ...

• Multimodal transport

The globally attractive Alpine Space cities face common challenges through growing land use pressure. It strains vulnerable natural & cultural assets of periurban landscapes ...

• Institutional cooperation and cooperation networks
• Clustering and economic cooperation
• Regional planning and development
• SME and entrepreneurship

capacity development of public and private organizations for Social Impact Bonds

• Health and social services

Non native trees can support the adaptation of European forests and urban areas to climate change. The expected benefits and potential risks of non native trees to European ...

• Climate change and biodiversity

ARDIA-Net aims to develop a multi-level, multi-national, coherent RDI area for the AS (Alpine RDI Area – ARDIA). ARDIA is incorporated in a smart way into already existing ...

• Governance
• partnership

ASIS (Alpine Social Innovation Strategy) project objective is to increase Knowledge, change Behavior and Influence attitude by initiating, developing and promoting a new vision of ...

• Innovation capacity and awareness- raising

ASTAHG aims at improving the governance capacities of regional Active and Healthy Ageing (AHA) policies and easing the transferring of innovation and initiatives within the Alpine ...

• Governance
• partnership
• Health and social services
• ICT and digital society

ASTUS assists local authorities in identifying and adopting an adequate local low carbon strategy and action plan, in order to foster long term low carbon options.

• Transport and mobility

Historic architecture – traditional mountain farmhouses as well as historic villages and towns – is a symbol of the Alpine region’s cultural diversity and forms a ...

• Cultural heritage

Transitioning to a circular economy (CE) & helping organisations rethink the relationship between business models, design, supply chain, technology & outputs, requires a ...

• Innovation capacity and awareness- raising
• Health and social services

BE-READI ALPS adapts start-up support services to the needs of mature SMEs in the
Alpine Space and offers them a “second life” by giving them access to new ...

• Innovation capacity and awareness- raising
• Institutional cooperation and cooperation networks
• Knowledge and technology transfer
• New products and services
• SME and entrepreneurship

BIFOCAlps project is tackling a common challenge to many Alpine Space (AS) regions: due to globalisation, many enterprises in Manufacturing Sector (MS) are not as competitive as ...

• ICT and digital society
• Improving transport connections
• Innovation capacity and awareness- raising
• Knowledge and technology transfer
• Evaluation systems and results

testing support services for companies to enhance transnational business transfer and transfering the outcomes at policy level to synchronize programs and approaches

• Clustering and economic cooperation
• Innovation capacity and awareness- raising
• SME and entrepreneurship

Smart Living Technologies are becoming a core topic for AS based leading tech providers but AS weaknesses prevent the area to become a leading destination for excellence in this ...

• Clustering and economic cooperation
• ICT and digital society
• Knowledge and technology transfer
• New products and services
• SME and entrepreneurship

The overall objective of the project is to reduce the emissions of carbon dioxide in the Alpine Space.

• Climate change and biodiversity

The aim is to improve the sustainability of the Alpine built environment by developing the 1st assessment tool at territorial scale, contextualized to regional specificities.

• Climate change and biodiversity
• Education and training
• Energy efficiency
• Sustainable management of natural resources

Cultural Heritage is the ground of people’s identity and strongly contributes to Alpine economy.
But natural disasters represent a major threat to these resources.
Risk ...

• Cultural heritage
• Cooperation between emergency services
• Education and training
• Innovation capacity and awareness- raising
• Institutional cooperation and cooperation networks

Innovating for better health & social care for senior citizens in the Alpine Space

• Health and social services

DesAlps, through design thinking process, can help start a new wave of business innovation through cooperation, new decision-making processes and more sustainable added value ...

• SME and entrepreneurship
• Innovation capacity and awareness- raising
• Education and training
• Green technologies

Increasing the attractiveness of dual education for skilled crafts and trades in the Alpine Space

• Education and training
• Innovation capacity and awareness- raising
• SME and entrepreneurship

The new European project e-Moticon has as main objective the promotion and dissemination of the e- mobility in AS regions: Italy, Austria, France, Germany and Slovenia.
The ...

• Transport and mobility

e-SMART designs, tests and validates transnational instruments for an integrated planning of e-mobility smart grid services and charging stations for local public transport and ...

• Logistics and freight transport
• Improving transport connections
• Infrastructure
• Transport and mobility

Ecosystem services provided by lakes and rivers are facing serious threats under the pressure of anthropogenic impacts, climate change, biodiversity loss and invasion of exotic ...

• Sustainable management of natural resources

Due to a lack of personal and professional fulfilment, more and more young people tend to leave the Alpine region. This results in a demographic change of society and leads to a ...

• Demographic change and immigration
• Education and training

GoApply will contribute to the vertical and horizontal integration and further development of national strategies and action plans on Climate Change Adaptation and will foster and ...

• Governance
• partnership
• Institutional cooperation and cooperation networks
• Climate change and biodiversity

Cities and regions in Alpine Space have mainly set their low-carbon objectives and adopted relevant strategies in energy, mobility, construction etc. - however cross-sectoral ...

• Waste and pollution
• Green technologies
• Sustainable management of natural resources
• Clustering and economic cooperation
• Water management

In the Alpine space, villages are often characterized by high environmental and cultural value, but penalised by strong marginality, linked to a difficult access to services that ...

• Climate change and biodiversity
• Agriculture and forestry
• Managing natural and man-made threats
• risk management

12 partners from 6 different countries has met into the GRETA project with the aim to demonstrate the potential of Near-Surface Geothermal Energy (NSGE) in the Alpine Space and to ...

• Energy efficiency

River hydromorphological processes have a key role to provide ecosystem services (ES) in Alpine Space.
The HyMoCARES project has developed a conceptual framework, currently not ...

• Water management
• Waterways
• lakes and rivers
• Managing natural and man-made threats
• risk management

IMEAS addresses common challenges on smart, sustainable and inclusive growth in the AS:
• enhance knowledge on territorial energy systems;
• boost policymaking, ...

• Energy efficiency
• Governance
• partnership
• Institutional cooperation and cooperation networks
• Regional planning and development

Services of general interest (SGI) are in the competence of authorities at different levels. Up to now, authorities and the service providers tend to have a strictly sectoral ...

• Health and social services
• ICT and digital society
• Rural and peripheral development
• Transport and mobility

The Alps are a sensitive environment and the negative impacts of transport (as a main source of emissions and land consumption) have massive impact on the life quality in this area ...

• Transport and mobility
• Multimodal transport
• Improving transport connections

Alpine soils perform key ecosystem services (ESS) that enable human well-being, ecosystem functioning and contribute to the biodiversity. The importance of sustainable Alpine soil ...

• Soil and air quality
• Sustainable management of natural resources
• Knowledge and technology transfer
• Governance
• partnership

The globally attractive Alpine Space cities face common challenges through growing land use pressure. It strains vulnerable natural & cultural assets of periurban landscapes ...

• Regional planning and development

MELINDA generates a participative development of a low carbon and sustainable urban, suburban and transnational mobility by smoothing the way to citizen awareness and engagement, ...

• Governance
• partnership
• Multimodal transport
• Transport and mobility
• Urban development

PEACE-ALPS tackles the problems related to the implementation of Sustainable Energy Action Plans (SEAPs) or any other Energy concepts already endorsed by Local Authorities (LAs) in ...

• Energy efficiency
• Green technologies

PlurAlps aims to increase the territorial attractiveness and social cohesion of mountainous and peripheral Alpine municipalities and regions through enhancing capacities for ...

• Community integration and common identity
• Demographic change and immigration
• Innovation capacity and awareness- raising
• Institutional cooperation and cooperation networks
• Social inclusion and equal opportunities

The overall objective of the project RockTheAlps is to reinforce and strengthen the implementation of rockfall risk prevention policy and mitigation strategy support in line with a ...

• Agriculture and forestry
• Managing natural and man-made threats
• risk management
• Regional planning and development

The Smart Specialisation concept is a lever of EU Cohesion Policy. Several EU regions developed Smart Specialisation Strategies (S3). Challenge is to implement S3 through clusters ...

• Clustering and economic cooperation

SaMBA (Sustainable Mobility Behaviours in the Alpine Region) aims to trigger behavioural changes that lead to the increased use of sustainable transport options in the Alpine Space ...

• Transport and mobility

The main aims of the SCALE(up)ALPS project are to foster the scaling up of Alpine Space (AS) startups and to brand the AS as a cooperative area
for innovative businesses and job ...

• Community integration and common identity

SESAM aims at providing innovative framework conditions to boost competitiveness of Alpine dairy farming while at the same time preserving traditional and culturally relevant ...

• Climate change and biodiversity

SMART ALTITUDE aims at enabling and accelerating the implementation of low-carbon policies in winter tourism regions. Technical solutions for the reduction of energy consumption ...

• Energy efficiency

SMART-SPACE intends to strengthen the cooperation within the system of innovation to promote smart digital solutions to traditional industrial sectors, according to partners' Smart ...

• Clustering and economic cooperation
• ICT and digital society
• Knowledge and technology transfer
• New products and services
• Innovation capacity and awareness- raising

Alpine Space rural communities, including mountain communities, are often deprived of highly needed jobs, good provision of services as well as of a favorable climate for ...

Rivers are the lifelines of sustainable development in the Alps. They provide clean drinking water for human use and irrigation for agriculture, they are home to a myriad of ...

• Waterways
• lakes and rivers

THE4BEES builds on the hypothesis: Energy is consumed by people rather than by buildings. Although most of the strategies to achieve energy efficiency in buildings focus on ...

• Energy efficiency

The project’s overall objective is to develop a common and highly transferable transformation strategy for AILs, evidencing and sustainably exploiting their potential in ...

• Cultural heritage
• Education and training
• Regional planning and development
• Urban development
• Waste and pollution

Among young generation there is little awareness of the values and opportunities offered by the natural and cultural heritage of the Alps. There is an urgent need to better inform ...

• Education and training
• Cultural heritage
• Innovation capacity and awareness- raising
• Institutional cooperation and cooperation networks