Upcoming events
Save the date: Forum Alpinum 2024
12. – 14. June 2024 in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia
The Alps – A Refuge for Bio- and Geodiversity?
Save the date: AlpWeek 2024 – Alps in our hands
23.-25. September 2024 in Nova Gorica, Slovenia
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Past events
Conference
05.-07.09.2022
AlpWeek 2022 – Alps in transition
Brig-Glis, Switzerland
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Conference
02.-03.06.2022
Dritter internationaler Inn-Dialog
Innsbruck, Austria
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Conference
09. – 11.12.2020
AlpWeek Intermezzo 2020 – Youth & Climate – How can young people in the Alps be involved in shaping their future?
Nice, France
Young people’s views on climate change in the Alps will be the main theme of the AlpWeek Intermezzo 2020, to be held from 9th to 10th December 2020 in Nice (France).
Climate change is certainly a global phenomenon, but its impact is particularly acute in the mountains, with the disappearance of glaciers, an increase in natural hazards such as landslides, and changes in snow cover and watercourse patterns. It is also changing at a much faster rate in mountainous areas (up 2°C in the Alps since the pre-industrial era) than the global average increase of 1°C.
The living environment and occupations considered today as typically ‘Alpine’ will no doubt evolve in the future, due in particular to climate change. At the AlpWeek Intermezzo 2020, the focus will be on what this means for the younger generation. How do young people perceive the changes in landscapes and natural environment linked to climate change? What environment will they live in?
The AlpWeek Intermezzo 2020 will provide an opportunity to compare views and experiences in order to come up with answers to these questions. Change will come about more quickly if young people are actively involved in, or even devise the solutions sought themselves. The organisers of the AlpWeek Intermezzo 2020 therefore feel it is essential to grant them a prominent role in the programme and debates that will be held during the event.
To this end, they invite not only young people, but also non-profit organisations, educational institutions, incubators, careers guidance organizations, researchers, civil servants, politicians, as well as anyone who lives and works in the Alps to come together and share their ideas and experiences. For this, a combination of traditional methods of cooperation between political or public stakeholders will be proposed as well as discussion methods that are more conducive to the participation of young people.
Learn more: https://www.alpweek.org/past-alpweeks/alpweek-2020/
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