One of the main aims of both ALPARC and the Alpine Convention is the creation of an ecological network. This network could be created by establishing ecological corridors between protected areas, through nature conservation agreements and sustainable land management.

In 2004, the Permanent Committee of the Alpine Convention commissioned ALPARC to carry out a study of the existing national and cross-border links between protected areas, which would then form the basis for the planned network. The findings of this study have confirmed the real potential in the Alps for creating a genuine ecological continuum, which will help to conserve the outstanding biodiversity in the Alps in the long term and will facilitate species migrations within the Alps and to/from neighbouring mountain ranges.

In 2006, the Alpine Convention set up a specific working group to examine this issue: the Ecological Network Platform . ALPARC, represented by the Protected Areas Task Force, together with other international partners (CIPRA, the International Scientific Committee on Research in the Alps (ISCAR), WWF), are actively contributing to this process. Some protected areas of the network ALPARC are also strongly involved in the process as "pilot regions".