Alpine Ecosystem Services – mapping, maintenance and management

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Alpine Space

Date of latest update: 2023-08-11

Description

Description (EN):

Ecosystems and their services go beyond national borders and need a transnational approach for their dynamic protection, sustainable use, management and risk prevention. As a basis for joint action, public authorities, policy makers, NGOs, researchers and economic actors – the AlpES target groups – need a common understanding of ecosystem services, comparable information on their status and support in using appropriate tools for integrating them in their fields of work. The AlpES project’s overall objective is to introduce ecosystem services as a regional/transnational environmental governance framework and train and support the AlpES target groups in understanding, valuing and managing them. More than 20 key stakeholders from the Alpine space will be involved personally in the project development in order to enter in a mutually profitable dialogue and assist them in practically applying the ecosystem services concept. In close collaboration with stakeholders, AlpES will (1) develop an Alpine ecosystem services concept, (2) carry out a mapping and assessment of ecosystem services for the Alpine Space area including the testing in selected study regions across the Alpine Space, (3) provide stakeholders with the results through an interactive web GIS and (4) ensure a multi-level and cross-sectoral transfer of AlpES results to a maximum number of stakeholders via a suite of innovative, tailored and transferable learning tools and targeted activities.

Achievements (EN):

In October 2018, storm Vaia knocked down 42.000 hectares of woodlands in the Italian Alps. Several mountain villages suddenly found themselves under new avalanche paths as winter approached. Protection against snow slides is just one example of the contributions of ecosystems to human well-being, although they are often overlooked until it is too late. AlpES worked to raise awareness and involve stakeholders, but also to answer the need for information of many policymakers. To achieve this, the project partners gathered the policy tools available in the Alpine countries and harmonised the mapping and assessment of ecosystem services.

Website: http://www.alpine-space.eu/

Expected Results (EN): Level of integration of the ecosystem services approach in the policy systems of the Alpine Space

Expected Outputs (EN):

The AlpES main results contribute directly to the programme result indicator: the AlpES target groups share a common understanding of the ES concept and are able to use the AlpES cluster of tools and suite of training modules and interactive formats on ES management in their work; in particular, civil servants and decision makers are equipped with the information necessary for integrating the ES concept into planning/decision-making processes from the AS local to the transnational level.

Thematic information

Sustainable management of natural resources Governance, partnership

Specific Objective: Enhance the protection, the conservation and the ecological connectivity of Alpine Space ecosystems

Thematic Objective: (06) preserving and protecting the environment and promoting resource efficiency by:

Investment Priority: (06d) Protecting and restoring biodiversity and soil and promoting ecosystem services, including through Natura 2000, and green infrastructure

Partners (10)

Lead Partner: Europäische Akademie Bozen/Bolzano - Accademia Europea Bolzano

Department: Institute for Alpine Environment

Address: Viale Druso 1, 39100 Bolzano, Italy

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.eurac.edu/

Total budget: EUR 446 834.27

ERDF budget: EUR 379 809.13

Landesverwaltung Fürstentum Liechtenstein, Amt für Umwelt

Name: Landesverwaltung Fürstentum Liechtenstein, Amt für Umwelt

Department: Office of Environment

Address: Dr. Grass-Strasse 12, 9490 Vaduz, Liechtenstein

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.llv.li/#/12298/amt-fur-umwelt

Total budget: EUR 112 700.00

Regione Piemonte

Name: Regione Piemonte

Department: Environment, Territorial Government and Protection Directorate Strategic Planning and Green Economy Sector

Address: Corso Bolzano 44, 10121 Torino, Italy

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.regione.piemonte.it/

Total budget: EUR 148 429.97

ERDF budget: EUR 126 165.47

Institut für Umweltplanung und Raumentwicklung

Name: Institut für Umweltplanung und Raumentwicklung

Department: /

Address: Amalienstr. 79, 80799 München, Germany

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.ifuplan.de/

Total budget: EUR 275 594.95

ERDF budget: EUR 234 255.71

Centre d'études et d'expertises sur les risques, l'environnement, la mobilité et l'aménagement

Name: Centre d'études et d'expertises sur les risques, l'environnement, la mobilité et l'aménagement

Department: Country planning Department /Coastlines-Energy and Biodiversity Unit

Address: Pôle d'activités CS 70 499, 13 593 Aix en Provence cedex 3, France

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.cerema.fr/

Total budget: EUR 253 438.00

ERDF budget: EUR 215 422.30

Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften

Name: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften

Department: Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research

Address: Technikerstr. 21a, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.mountainresearch.at/

Total budget: EUR 258 106.68

ERDF budget: EUR 219 390.68

Universität Innsbruck

Name: Universität Innsbruck

Department: Institute of Ecology

Address: Sternwartestrasse 15, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.uibk.ac.at/ecology/

Total budget: EUR 201 197.81

ERDF budget: EUR 171 018.14

Zavod Republike Slovenije za varstvo narave

Name: Zavod Republike Slovenije za varstvo narave

Department: /

Address: Tobačna ulica 5, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.zrsvn.si/

Total budget: EUR 201 897.88

ERDF budget: EUR 171 613.20

Fondazione Montagna sicura - Montagne sûre

Name: Fondazione Montagna sicura - Montagne sûre

Department: /

Address: Località Villard de La Palud 1, 11013 Courmayeur, Italy

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.fondazionemontagnasicura.org/

Total budget: EUR 217 442.92

ERDF budget: EUR 184 826.48

Regione del Veneto

Name: Regione del Veneto

Department: Department of EAFRD Managing Authority, Parks and Forests / Organizational Unit for Parks and Forests

Address: Via Torino 110, 30172 Venezia Mestre (VE), Italy

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.regione.veneto.it/

Total budget: EUR 149 864.42

ERDF budget: EUR 127 384.76

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Summary

Project name (EN): Alpine Ecosystem Services – mapping, maintenance and management

Project acronym: AlpES

Project start date: 2015-12-16

Project end date: 2018-12-15

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 2 265 506.90

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 1 829 885.86

Total EU funding (co-financing rate): 85.00%

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 1 829 885.86.

Documents

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Reports

Ecosystem Services and Governance in the Alps: Tools and Tips for Effective Environmental Management and Territorial Development

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.alpine-space.eu/projects/alpes/en/home

Publication date: 2020-01-27

Document date: 2018-11-01

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Videos / films

What are ecosystem services?

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://www.alpine-space.eu/projects/alpes/en/home

Publication date: 2020-01-30

Document date: 2018-08-01

Languages: en

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Financing programme

2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Alpine Space

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2023-08-11

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64 / 64 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

752 / 752 (100%)

Notes on the data

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Alpine Ecosystem Services – mapping, maintenance and management

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