Schlagwort-Archiv: EUSALP

Mapping the Scene: Cartographic sketches on the EUSALP cross-cutting priorities

The Swiss Presidency of the EU Alpine Strategy (EUSALP) 2023 has focused on transversal topics and their political relevance. At the end of the presidency, the Annual Forum and the General Assembly took place in Bad Ragaz (19th Oct 2023), where four cross-cutting priorities were discussed: a) Promoting Digitalisation for the Alps, b) Accelerating the Energy Transition for a Carbon-Neutral Alpine Region, c) Promoting a Joint Water Management Transition and d) Boosting Circular Economy. We were...

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Cross-border mobility in the Alpine Region – ARPAF Cross-border final report

Cross-border commuting is of growing importance due to the ongoing efforts of political liberalisation and the growing cross-border integration of economic activities. In the Alpine region (EUSALP) cross-border commuting shows much higher values than the European average: 0,9% cross-border share amongst the employees on the EU level, and 1,6% within the Alpine region, i.e. almost the double value. This is one of the main insights of our final report of the ARPAF cross border project. The map ...

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New publication on the spatial logic of macroregions – the Alpine example

A new paper has just been accepted by European Planning Studies (EPS): The paper discusses what could be the potentials of macroregional strategies. In recent years, European regional policy has seen a surprising popularity of macro-regional strategies. We focus on the example of the Alpine strategy EUSALP and discuss which potential comes along with its underlying regionalization logics. We argue, firstly, that the still young regionalization process of the EUSALP neither follows the understan...

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Alps 2050: Inception Report and Delphi study

The ESPON project Alps 2050 aims to develop spatial perspectives towards the year 2050 - helping to achieve a succesfull and sustainable regional development. The project consortium - led by the University of Erlangen - has now concretised the project's appraoch and shows first preliminary results in the Inception Report. In these days, an online survey starts, involving experts from all over the Alpine region (so-called Delphi study).The experts cover seven countries, the national, region...

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Die Alpen als Makroregion?

Seit Anfang des Jahres ist wird die Makroregion Alpen etabliert, und zwar unter dem Namen EUSALP.  Auch deshalb ist mein Forschungssemester in Bozen wirklich spannend: Jetzt im Sommersemester 2016 darf ich an der Europäischen Akademie (EURAC) in Bozen in der Abteilung für Regionalentwicklung zu diesem Thema arbeiten, umgeben von den alpinen Bergen. Neben verschiedenen Arbeiten und Recherchen im Bereich der politischen Geographie und Regionalentwicklung konnten wir auch ein Interview zu diese...

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Exkursion zur „EUSALP“… (1)

Am Montag ist das diesjährige ‚große Geländepraktikum‘ in die Alpen gestartet: Im Mittelpunkt stehen Fragen zur Regionalentwicklung in verschiedenen Alpenstaaten, und hierbei insbesondere die Rolle der sogenannten ‚Makroregionalen Strategie‘, im europäischen Jargon als EUSALP bezeichnet. Über knapp zwei Wochen besuchen wir zum einen wichtige Institutionen und Akteure in diesem Prozess: In den vergangenen Tagen haben wir das Bayerische Umweltministerium, die Cipra Österreich und die Arge Alp besu...

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