Le Réseau Alpin des Espaces Protégés
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The Alpine network of protected areas, that means we all together, must continue to develop, to think future-oriented and to be even more powerful and assertive. For this we need you all. |
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ALPARC needs a legal basis and structure in order to be able to implement larger shared projects, but also and above all in order to give a greater image and international weight to the protected areas of the Alps. The principal leitmotiv, however, remains the provision of concrete, efficient and grounded contributions towards the application of the Alpine Convention and its protocols, especially as regards the “Protection of nature and safeguarding of landscapes”. |
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The last General Assembly , which took place in Poschiavo /CH on 7th of September 2012, was marked by a common declaration of the present protected areas, indicating their intention to create an association ALPARC: “Aware of the ecological, economic and social stakes, and appealing for a better coordination and coordination of the actions implemented throughout the Alps, the protected Alpine areas and territorial communities signing the present declaration have decided to pool their reflections in order to create the ‘ALPARC – Alpine Network of Protected Areas’ association, a tool of Alpine cooperation”. |
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The date of this constitutive assembly is now scheduled: it will take place on Friday morning, 18th of January 2013, in the heart of one of the big alpine protected areas event, the Danilo Re Memorial, organised for this 18th edition by the Vanoise National Park in Pralognan–la–Vanoise /F. |
The founding members of the association will be exempt from admission fees.
Please confirm your participation at this important assembly by simple e-mail to info@alparc.org before 21st December 2012. The documents referring to the agenda will be sent after your registration.
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9.00 a.m. |
Welcome by the President and Vice-presidents of the International Steering Committee ALPARC |
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Welcome by the Director of the Vanoise Nationalpark |
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Welcome from the French Authorities |
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9.30 a.m. |
History, evolution and objectives of ALPARC |
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10.00 a.m. |
Proposal of Statutes and Internal rules, short discussion |
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10.30 a.m. |
Proposal of a first framework program 2014-2020 |
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11.00 a.m. |
Creation of the association by membership declarations |
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11.30 a.m. |
Election of the Council of ALPARC |
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12.00 a.m. |
Festive session and media release |
The Constitutive Assembly will take place during the Danilo Re Event. The morning of the 18th is not covered by competitions of the Trophy and gives the opportunity to all protected areas managers, or representatives, to join the meeting.
The Alps have great potential for the use of renewable energy. This, however, means increasing pressures on nature. How much energy in the Alps is currently generated from wind and hydropower, from biomass and solar sources? How much is theoretically possible, and to what extent is using renewable energies justifiable?
The recharge.green project partners are at present working flat out to find answers to these questions. They will present the first results during the
and discuss with experts and interested parties. Below you will find the conference programme.
Espace transfrontalier Marittime - Mercantour : Les Alpes de la Mer
Forts de la création du GECT « Parco europeo/Parc européen Alpi Marittime Mercantour », le Parco Alpi Marittime et le Parc national du Mercantour souhaitent hisser le territoire vers la plus haute distinction mondiale.
Avec les parcs de Marguareis, delle Alpi Liguri, la Province d'Imperia et l'Area protetta regionale "Giardini Botanici Hanbury", ils sont candidats à l'inscription au patrimoine mondial de l'Unesco.
Une étape importante vient d'être franchie en avril 2013 avec l'inscription du site sur les listes indicatives par les Etats français et italien.
Lundi 18 novembre 2013 sera la journée de lancement public de cette candidature.
Pour réussir, une candidature doit être portée par tous les acteurs du territoire, aussi nous comptons sur vous pour la soutenir et vous invitons à réserver cette date pour découvrir le dossier et ses porteurs.
Veuillez trouver ci-joint le programme provisoire; le programme définitif et la fiche d'inscription seront disponibles mi octobre.
Voyage d'étude: inscriptions ouvertes
Construire et rénover durable au Liechtenstein et au Vorarlberg
CIPRA International et CIPRA Slovenija ont le plaisir de vous inviter au voyage d'étude sur la "construction durable" qui aura lieu au Liechtenstein et au Vorarlberg (Autriche) du 7 au 9 Novembre 2013. Construction intelligente, rénovation, efficacité énergétique, impact écologique des matériaux, aménagement du territoire : de nombreuses thématiques seront illustrées lors de visites de bâtiments.
Une occasion de visiter des bâtiments hors du commun et d'échanger avec des architectes, ingénieurs et décideurs locaux, mais aussi avec d'autres participants de tous les pays alpins.
Visites et discussions en allemand, traduction simultanée en slovène, traduction simultanée en français si assez de participants.
EUROPARC Annual Conference 2013 will be hosted by the Hortobágy National Park and will take place in Debrecen, Hungary and the Hortobágy National Park from October 9 - 13, 2013.
The “blue gold” of the Alps is limited in quantity and thus in high demand for use as drinking water, snow or electricity. At its Annual Special Conference in Bozen/Bolzano in October, CIPRA will be asking who has the right to this elixir of life and who has responsibility for it.
The glaciers, springs, streams, rivers and lakes of the Alps provide water to 170 million people. This valuable substance is also indispensable for agriculture, tourism and leisure, nature and the landscape, not to mention energy production. Interest in this scarce resource is enormous: but who gives, who takes and who decides over the water trough provided by the Alps?
It is ten years since CIPRA submitted to the Alpine countries its proposal for a water protocol. Yet today there is no common legal basis for the use and protection of water in the Alps. At its Annual Special Conference/Symposium, to be held at the European Academy in Bozen/Bolzano from 10 to 12 October in the International Year of Water Co-Operation, CIPRA will be giving centre stage to the responsibility for the blue gold of the Alps. How do municipalities co-operate in water management? How will society deal with the causes and consequences of climate change? Who decides in which streambed water or hydropower should flow? What is needed to make politicians and citizens take sustainable action? Narratives will include approaches to the Rhine, the largest river in the Alps, and accounts from Annecy, the city with the cleanest lake in Europe. There will also be field trips organised to demonstrate how South Tyrol deals with its water.
Programme and registration at: www.cipra.org/fr/
Cette importante manifestation se tiendra du 9 au 12 octobre 2013 à Saint-Martin Vésubie, dans le Mercantour, site volontairement choisi pour profiter du 20e anniversaire de présence avérée du loup en France afin de dresser un état des lieux à la fois rétrospectif et prospectif, dépassant très largement l’échelle locale. L’initiative (et le pilotage) du symposium en reviennent, ce qui est original, à l’Université.
Le titre du colloque : « Vivre ensemble avec le loup. Hier, aujourd’hui… et demain? » est à lui seul un véritable challenge. L’enjeu est de réunir à la fois des acteurs (de tous types, institutionnels et privés) et des chercheurs (historiens de toutes périodes mais aussi géographes, sociologues, ethnologues, biologistes..) dans un colloque ouvert au public et à finalité « sociale ». Il s’agit de dresser un état des lieux comparatif et de proposer des perspectives d’aménagement du statut de l’animal sauvage en France et en Europe, à la lumière des expériences du passé et de l’actuel. (…) »
The Park of Triglav is the only Slovenian national park. Spread over 84,000 hectares, it covers almost the entire territory of the Slovenian Julian Alps.
Thanks to a project Leader, co-financed by the European Union, the park Triglav has decided to launch a project similar to the "Quality Charter" of the National Park Dolomiti Bellunesi, to build a network of farmers and tourism actors bearing the mark of the park.
Source of Information: http://www.dolomitipark.it/it/dettaglio.php?id=23731 30/09/2013
The mayor of Liptovsky Mikulas (Slovak republic) reveals why he involved his town and his country in the organisation of the 2nd Nature & Sports Euro'Meet 2013. He also tells us how the Liptov region, in the heart of Europe, is wonderful for outdoor sports...
Call for experiences
The cornerstone of the Nature & Sports Euro’Meet are the theme seminars. After a proposition from the organisator, the European steering committee had chosen 4 themes seminars to build this edition :
We are launching the call for experiences and propose you to share your project, innovating policies, or exemplary actions relating to tourism and outdoor sports and invite you to present them during the 2nd Nature & Sports Euro'Meet in Liptovsky Mikulas (Slovakia, October 2013).
For further information on the 2nd Nature & Sports Euro'Meet 2013: www.nature-sports.eu
se tiendra les 2, 3 et 4 octobre 2013 dans le Parc de la Haute Vallée de Chevreuse dans le département des Yvelines.
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One key to solving the climate problem can be found in the building sector: private households in the Alps are responsible for over one third of final energy consumption.
Significantly reducing CO2 emissions and improving the quality of life must therefore be achieved through energy-efficient restoration with the use of ecological materials. The appropriate rules are also determined by the cities in which some two thirds of the Alpine population live.
The focus of the workshop being held on 19 September 2013 in Gap, France, is on the municipalities as clients for construction projects. How should they build? Where are the greatest challenges? How can a municipality persuade its residents of the need for energy-efficient restoration and building works? Some of the answers are provided by the "Alpine Towns of the Year" of Bozen/Bolzano in Italy and Sonthofen in Germany.
The GreenAlps project has been recently approved in the frame of the 5th call of the ETC Alpine Space Programme. The main aim of the project is to capitalize on the results of previous projects in order to draft a long term, sustainable and integrated environmental policy vision for the Alps. GreenAlps will go beyond classical policy recommendations by giving concrete perspectives for several key sectors, in order to explain how ecological connectivity and sustainable use of natural resources are the basis for the provision of Ecosystem services.
The Lead Partner (LP), the Alpine Network of Protected Areas, launches a tender for management support for all tasks of the overall transnational project administration, co-ordination and financial management. Find the procurements, the terms of reference and all other relevant documents below. Participation is open to all legal persons who are established in a Member State of the European Union or in a country or territory of the regions covered and/or authorised by the specific instruments applicable to the programme under which the contract is financed. Deadline for tender submissions is the 28. 10. 2013.