Le Réseau Alpin des Espaces Protégés
Les inscriptions au 2ème Congrès commun FCEN/RNF (Dunkerque - 7 au 10 octobre 2015) sont ouvertes. Nous vous invitons donc à visiter le site internet dédié à l'événement :
http://www.congres-commun-rnf-fcen.com
Vous y trouverez toutes les informations utiles : programme, tarifs, informations pratiques… et, à la rubrique ‘Inscriptions’, un module vous permettant de vous inscrire et d’effectuer votre paiement en ligne.
LIFE IN THE ALPS – People, Arts and Culture
Sporty and artsy, young and old; traditional and innovative; farmers and gamers, we look for it all!
Show us what active and vibrant Alps mean to you. Capture the everyday activities of the people living in the Alps, show generational exchange and passing of knowledge; try to capture the emotions of life in the Alps and/or the Alpine Culture in making. Participate in the 2015 edition of the Photo-contest of the Alpine Convention! Show us your view of Alpine everyday-life.
More information : http://www.alpconv.org/en/activities/contest/photocontest2015/default.html
On 16th July 2015, groups of young people have arranged to meet in several Alpine protected Areas (APA) and natural sites throughout the Alps in order to share a physical, human, cultural and artistic collective experience in the mountains.
This is a collective project originating from the “Mountain Environment Education in the Alpine Protected Areas” working group, organised for the first time this year by ALPARC and Educ’Alpes, the network of French mountain education actors.
“Youth at theTop” is first and foremost an international project: a collective action will be organised simultaneously in six Alpine countries (France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Germany and Slovenia), which will create links between the different countries and symbolically go beyond administrative and language barriers by considering the Alps as a sole region.
So this will be a day that will mobilise several Alpine actors around a unifying, original action. Above all it will be a friendly project to allow young people to “live an experience”, with the aim of making them aware of the value and importance of these mountain territories and developing (or giving back) a feeling of belonging there. The evening of 16th July will be a high point of the operation when the young people will come together around a collective artistic action on the theme of light. Their restitutions will then be shared and highlighted.
Despite the novelty of the event, the protected areas and other mountain education actors have lost no time in mobilising. Indeed, for this 1st test edition, 24 APA managers have chosen to take part. In addition to them, there will be 5 events run by an APA/ local operator partnership and one event organised by a refuge outside the protected areas which is an active member of Educ’Alpes, making a total of 31 events.
You can find all the 2015 “Youth at the Top” events attached here, as well as in our online calendar.
An Internet site, as well as a Facebook page, are being prepared for more effective communication of the information about the project and to facilitate exchanges between the various actors:
www.youth-at-the-top.org
https://www.facebook.com/YATevent
The “Youth at the Top” project has the financial support of our partner the German Ministry for the Environment
The Alps offer ideal conditions for nature-based tourism.
Ten criteria according to scientific principles were defined in the recent publication by Dominik Siegrist, Susanne Gessner and Lea Ketterer Bonnelame.
The purpose of the 10 scientific criteria laid down by the writers is to help tourism industry professionals and destinations to respond better to demand and improve standards of quality. They include the protection of nature, landscape maintenance or environmental education.
Dominik Siegrist reminds us of the many examples of nature-based tourism that already exist in the Alps, such as the “climbing villages” of Austria, those certified villages which have chosen the path of sustainable tourism in line with tradition. He calls on political leaders to face up to their responsibilities by adapting regulatory conditions. This idea has won support in Germany: the two villages of Ramsau and Hinterstein are due to receive this seal of approval soon. Involvement and motivation on the part of the population have been vital in the procedure of approval, one of the criteria set out by the writers.
Incidentally, the HSR Hochschule für Technik Rapperswill is organising a congress on the subject on 10th June 2015 under the title “Savouring Nature instead of Event Burnout”
Source : CIPRA International, http://www.cipra.org/fr/nouveautes/aller-plus-loin-que-le-tourisme-durable? and additional information : http://www.alpenverein.de/presse/bergsteigerdoerfer-hinterstein-ramsau_aid_15232.html (de), Siegrist, D., Gessner, S., Ketterer Bonnelame, L. (2015). Naturnaher Tourismus. Qualitätsstandards für sanftes Reisen in den Alpen. Bristol-Schriftenreihe 44. Bern. http://www.haupt.ch/index.php?cl=details&anid=9783258079226 (de)
The role of scientific councils 
Experts from science, protected mountain areas and administration will discuss the role of scientific councils regarding science and management in protected areas.
The workshop will be based on the presentation of various models in organising scientific councils existing in different countries and for different categories of protection. Afterwards, different aspects of scientific councils as an interface between science and protected areas will be discussed: To what extent and under what conditions are scientific councils able to promote scientific research in protected areas? To what extent and under what conditions can they support the management and the policy of a protected area and mediate conflicts? How can they contribute to building networks and cooperation?
Outcomes of the workshop will be recommendations concerning the establishment and the management of scientific councils, an analysis of scientific councils as interfaces between science and mountain protected areas (article in a scientific journal) and inputs to a planned Alpine Space project on the governance of protected areas and the contribution of science.
As the number of participants is limited to 40, the date of registration will be taken into account in the selection of participants.
Please find below the announcement, the programme and the registration form to send back to iscar@scnat.ch
The organising institutions:
ISCAR Jean-Jacques Brun, Thomas Scheurer
LabEx ITEM Isabelle Arpin, Philippe Bourdeau, Fabien Hobléa, Sophie Tocreau, Gaëlle Ronsin
ALPARC Guido Plassmann
For further information: http://www.iscar-alpineresearch.org/
It was in 2007 that the Danube River protected areas first stressed the importance of Danube-wide cooperation. The fall of the Iron Curtain and the extension of the European Union around the same time had changed the political map of South East Europe. The door was open for international cooperation; at the same time the dynamic development of the economy in that region and the increasing pressure on the natural treasure of the Danube created a desperate need for shoulder to shoulder cooperation in the field of conservation.
In a statement of intent the setting up of a network of the Danube River Protected Areas was expressed as a common goal: for the development and implementation of a Danube-wide strategy of conservation, to establish a Danube-wide voice for conservation, but also to strengthen each individual protected area through transnational exchanges of experience. In this construction phase, the Danube River Protected Areas was already drawing benefit from the experience of ALPARC: there were motivating discussions and experiences were exchanged about the challenges raised by transnational cooperation.
In 2009 DANUBEPARKS was officially established. Today the network includes 20 protected areas in almost every country along the Danube (Romania, Moldova, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia, Austria and Germany). Danube-wide projects in the fields of riverside woodland management, fluvial dynamics, river restoration, species protection and nature tourism were implemented and made DANUBEPARKS a “flagship project” of the EU Danube region strategy. DANUBEPARKS sees as its next priority the strengthening of the Danube as a habitat corridor. Here again it is useful to look at the Alpine region ; after all, the network of Alpine protected areas have an examplary project in ECONNECT.
The exchange of experiences with ALPARC has also influenced an important structural decision in the Danube River Network of Protected Areas: In 2014 the DANUBEPARKS Association was set up and so the groundwork was laid for a long-term active role in the Danube region. The setting up of a network, support during the successful implementation of EU projects through project partnership, strategy development in areas such as green corridors or wilderness , exchange on the strategic orientation of protected areas networks and the mutual reinforcement within the framework of macro-regional strategies in the EU are only a few examples of how inspiring the cooperation between the network of protected areas in the Alpine region (ALPARC) and the Danube region (DANUBEPARKS) can be.
DANUBEPARKS is grateful for this both friendly and constructive cooperation and looks forward to facing future challenges together!
Georg Frank
DANUBEPARKS General Secretary
A l'occasion du vingtième anniversaire du festival International des Métiers de Montagne du 20 au 23 novembre à Chambéry et dans la continuité des échanges sur les équilibres et solidarités ville-montagne engagés l'an passé à Chambéry, nous vous donnons rendez-vous jeudi 20 et vendredi 21 novembre au centre de congrès Le Manège pour 2 journées de colloque:
"1+1=3, Ville-montagne, une valeur augmentée"
Une solidarité plus ou moins explicite s'est créée au fil des temps entre le haut et le bas, entre la montagne et l'urbain, une solidarité financière, économique, sociale, organisée aussi autour des loisirs et de la récréation.
A la suite du colloque de 2013 "Equilibre et solidarité ville-montagne", cette solidarité est à nouveau explorée:
- Existe-t-il une économie spécifique à la montagne de proximité ?
- Y-at-il un partage possible des ressources naturelles du haut entre plusieurs acteurs et entre ceux du haut et ceux du bas ?
- Qu'en est-il des services publics ou privés de proximité ?
- La vie des gens de cette montagne peut-elle être améliorée avec des services numériques ?
En montagne, peut-être encore plus qu'ailleurs, la capacité de l'homme et de la femme à imaginer, inventer et construire l'avenir est au centre de tout. Qu'il ou elle soit chercheur, entrepreneur, salarié(e) d'entreprise, professionnel indépendant, que son champ d'intervention soit local ou mondial, individuel ou collectif, c'est bien son sens de l'observation, sa créativité, son savoir-faire qui dessineront les métiers de la montagne de demain.
En préambule de ces deux journées, jeudi 20 novembre de 9h à 10h30, une séance d'ouverture sera consacrée à cette "montagne de talents" où l'innovation scientifique et technologique, la recherche et la satisfaction de nouveaux marchés, la performance des entreprises sont indissociables de l'équilibre environnemental, de l'innovation sociale, de la formation des jeunes générations comme des conditions de vie et de travail des salariés sur le terrain.
La montagne, terre d'excellence pour un vrai développement durable.
toutes les infos sur le site internet du Festival International des Métiers de Montagne: http://www.metiersmontagne.org/#!prog-colloque/cfws
Entrée gratuite sur inscription en nous retournant complété le bulletin ci-joint par fax au 04 79 60 20 74, mail à m.marchal@chambery-tourisme.com ou en s'inscrivant directement sur le site du festival.
La Région Rhône-Alpes, l’Etat de Genève et leurs partenaires ont le plaisir de vous annoncer la tenue d’un colloque international consacré aux corridors biologiques les lundi et mardi 30 et 31 mars 2015 à Divonne-les-Bains (F) ! L’Esplanade du Lac vous accueillera pour deux jours d’échanges, de visites et de débats sur le thème :
Quand la nature dépasse (enfin) les bornes !
Biodiversité et territoire : 10 ans de mises en cohérence
La Région Rhône-Alpes, l’Etat de Genève et leurs partenaires ont le plaisir de vous annoncer la tenue d’un colloque international consacré aux corridors biologiques les lundi et mardi 30 et 31 mars 2015 à Divonne-les-Bains (F) ! L’Esplanade du Lac vous accueillera pour deux jours d’échanges, de visites et de débats sur le thème :
Quand la nature dépasse (enfin) les bornes !
Biodiversité et territoire : 10 ans de mises en cohérence
La participation au colloque est gratuite. Les inscriptions sont obligatoires et seront ouvertes à partir de mi-novembre 2014. Davantage d’informations à venir.
Informations pratiques et inscriptions sur www.colloque-corridors.org.
Pensez à réserver dès maintenant ces deux dates !
Avec nos meilleures salutations,
Luisa Alzate et Aline Blaser
Région Rhône-Alpes et Etat de Genève
Pensez à réserver dès maintenant les 30 et 31 mars 2015 !
Informations pratiques et inscriptions (à partir de mi-novembre 2014) sur :
www.colloque-corridors.org
ALPARC and the Gesäuse National Park are pleased to invite you to the common Workshop
„Wildlife and connected habitats” 11th and 12th of December 2014
in Admont – Gesäuse National park – Styria / Austria
The National Park Hohe Tauern - Tyrol will host the General Assembly 2015 of the Alpine Network of Protected Areas - ALPARC in the frame of the Memorial Danilo Re.
The National Park Hohe Tauern organizes for the first time in the history of ALPARC its General Assembly. The park, who is one of the founding members of the network and very active since the beginning, will so welcome the two most important events of the ALPARC calendar 2015 in the Defereggental in the valley of St. Jacob.
The 20th edition of the Danilo Re Memorial will take place from Thursday 22nd to Sunday 25th January 2015 in St. Jakob in Defereggental, in the Hohe Tauern National Park, Tyrol, Austria
This will also be the venue for the 2nd General Assembly of the ALPARC association and the first festive event in the context of the 20th anniversary of the Alpine Network of Protected Areas.
More information at the new Danilo Re webpage at this link!
