Institute for Alpine Environment - Projects
Since its foundation, the Institute for Alpine Environment is working on projects regarding Global Change, Sustainable Development and Research in Protected Areas, and it is hosting international Conferences & Seminars. The single projects are interconnected thanks to the current main research topics of the Institute:
- Ecosystem research and landscape ecology of mountain environments, with a special focus on global change
- Biogeochemical cycles
- Functional biodiversity
- Ecosystem services
- Sustainable development
The projects reflect particularly the multidisciplinarity of the Institute’s research activities. This synergy between different disciplines gave a significant contribution to the foundation of some new Institutes at EURAC: Institute for Regional Development and Location Management, Institute for Renewable Energy and Institute for Applied Remote Sensing.
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- HydroAlp - Modelling the interaction between water cycle, vegetation and climate in Alpine environments
Financing: Autonomous Province of Bozen - South Tyrol
Period: 2011-2014
- AlmAtlas -Comprehensive survey and description of summer alpine pastures of the ARGEALP-area in form of an Atlas.
Financing: Regierungschefkonferenz (ArgeAlp)
Period: 2011-2013
- EMERGE - Retreating glaciers and EMERGing Ecosystems in the Southern Alps
Financing: Dr. Herzog-Sellenberg-Stiftung für Geographie & Dr. Erich Ritter-Stiftung - Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft
Period: 2011-2013
- Forest Check - Forests in focus - Geoinformation technologies for small-scale forest assessments and inventories
Financing: Förderprogramm Sparkling Science, Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft und Forschung, Austria
Period: 2010-2013
- Reactivating pastures - on the way to diversity
Financing: EU Interreg IV A Bayern - Österreich
Period: 2010-2013
- EcoRAlps - Ecosystem services and restoration of traditional land-use systems in the Southern Alps
Financing: Stemmler-Stiftung & Flora-Immerschitt-Stiftung - Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft
Period: 2010-2013
- Climate Change – Impacts of Climate Change on Alpine Ecosystems
Financing 2008-2011: Autonomous Province of Bozen - South Tyrol
Period: 2008-2018
- Landscape structure analysis - Comparative analysis of the different landscape developments and the causal factors responsible for them
Period: 2001-2015
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- KuLaWi - (Agri)cultural landscape - Strategies for the cultural landscape of the future
Financing: EU Interreg IV Italien - Österreich (Project nr. 4684)
Period: 2009-2012
- BioCatch – Impacts of changes in climate and agricultural practices on plant diversity and water resources in the sub-alpine zone
Financing: financial support by involved countries
Period: 2008-2011
- MASTA - Measures and strategies for a sustainable mountain agriculture
Financing: EU Interreg IV A Italy - Austria
Period: 2006-2011
- Meadow championship 2010 - Who has the most beautiful meadow of South Tyrol?
Financing: Autonomous Province of Bozen - South Tyrol & Sennereiverband Südtirol
Period: 2010
- Top-Climate-Science - Water balance and global change: future perspectives about climate and land use changes in mountain areas
Financing: Programme Sparkling Science, Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research
Period: 2008-2010
- HydroPass - Water quality and land use
Financing: Autonomous Province of Bozen - South Tyrol
Period: 2002-2010
- Hislab - historical-ecological analysis of different soil uses in Tyrol
Financing: Mountain Agriculture Research Unit - Universität Innsbruck
Period: 2007-2009
- Ahornboden - Study about the potential impact of agriculture on the maple population within the protected area of "Großer Ahornboden"
Financing: Amt der Tiroler Landesregierung - Abteilung Umweltschutz
Period: 2006-2007
- Land use changes and their affects on biodiversity and on carbon and nitrogen balances in Tyrol
Financing: Amt der Tiroler Landesregierung - Abteilung Bildung
Period: 2005-2008
- NIGIS - Impact of nitrate deriving from agriculture on Southtyrolean waterbodies
Period: 2004-2006
- GeoBASE - A Europe-wide standardized basic training program in Geographical Information Systems
Financing: EC "Leonardo da Vinci"
Period: 1998-2000
- INTEGRALP - Mountain meadows undergoing change
Financing: EU Interreg II A Italien - Österreich
Period: 1995-1999
- Long-term development of the agricultural structures in South Tyrol - Analysis of the structures, their changes and possible developments under different scenarios
Period: 1995-1999
- ECOMONT - Ecological consequences of land use change on European mountain ecosystems
Financing: EU FP4 (Project nr.: ENV4-CT95-0179) |
Period: 1995-1998
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- SinaiAlps - Integrated Cluster of Centralized Rural-Urban Nano-economies in the High Mountains of Sinai Peninsula (Middle East) and Alto Adige-Südtirol (Alps)
Financing: private
Period: Sinai Peninsula Research 'Survey/Phase I' 2000-2010 - SinaiAlps Project 'Analysis/Phase II' 2010-2013
- ProVision - Tools of models for a sustainable economy
Financing: Programme proVISION, Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research
Period: 2008-2011
- DIAMONT - Data Infrastructure for the Alps: Mountain Orientated Network Technology
Financing: EU Interreg IIIB - Alpine Space (Project nr.: A/III/1.1/29)
Period: 2005-2008
- "Objective 2"- Environmental Monitoring -Supervision of environmental aspects of projects implemented in South Tyrol within the EU "objective 2"-programm aimed to revitalising areas facing structural difficulties
Financing: Ministero dell'Ambiente e della Tutela del Territorio e del Mare & Autonomous Province of Bozen - South Tyrol - Landesagentur für Umwelt
Period: 2003-2006
- Biodiversity - Conservation and sustainable use of mountain ecosystems in the context of the Agreement on Biological Diversity and the Alpine Convention
Financing: Umweltbundesamt der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (UBA, Project nr. 202 11 221)
Period: 2002-2008
- South Tyrol model - Success factors of a region
Financing: Bank of Trient and Bozen - IntesaBic Group
Period: 1997-2002
- Territorial impact analysis in the Alpine region - Method evaluation by means of a pilot project
Financing: Autonomous Province of Bozen - South Tyrol
Period: 1997-1999
- SUSTALP - Evaluation of the instruments available to the European Union in respect to their effectiveness in shaping the agriculture of the Alps under ecologically sound aspects
Financing: EU FP4 (Project nr. ENV4-CT97-0442) |
Period: 1997-1999
- Environmental impact analysis in the Alpine region - Necessity for, demands on, and perspectives of a specific environmental impact analysis (EIA) for the Alpine region
Financing: Autonomous Province of Bozen - South Tyrol
Period: 1994-1996
- The Mountain Forest Protocol - Demands on the forest, demands on society. A symposium on the implementation of the Mountain Forest Protocol of the Alpine Convention
Period: 1994-1996
- Agriculture in the Alpine region – indispensable but without future? An Alpine-wide account of current problems and their possible solutions: A conference for the implementation of the Mountain Agriculture Protocol of the Alpine Convention
Period: 1994-1996
- Ecologically motivated subventions for the alpine region - Evaluation from the point of view of conserving the local, biotic, and landscape resources
Period: 1993-1996
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- Acceptance in protection areas - Survey of local residents and tourists in the Stilfserjoch National Park
Financing: Autonomous Province of Bozen-South Tyrol - Abteilung Natur und Landschaft & EU Interreg II Italien - Schweiz
Period: 2001-2004
- An idea for the Rieserferner-Ahrn Nature Park - Acceptance study, idea contest, and influence control for the Rieserferner-Ahrn Nature Park
Financing: Autonomous Province of Bozen - South Tyrol - Amt für Naturparke
Period: 2001-2003
- Lesson units: Lesson materials for nature classes and environmental education
Financing: Autonomous Province of Bozen - South Tyrol - Abteilung Natur und Landschaft & EU Interreg II Italien - Schweiz
Period: 2001-2002
- Research in the Stilfserjoch National Park - Development of strategy paper and monitoring concept
Financing: EU Interreg II Italien - Schweiz
Period: 1998-2005
- Luxes 407 - An extraterrestrial alien discovers the mountains
Financing: Autonomous Province of Bozen - South Tyrol - Abteilung Natur und Landschaft & EU Interreg II Italien - Schweiz
Period: 1998-2002
- Expansive protected areas in the Alps - Data, facts, background
Period: 1994-1998
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- XIX Congress S.It.E. - Dalle vette alpine alle profondità marine
Financing: Autonomous Province of Bozen - South Tyrol - Landesagentur für Umwelt, Südtiroler Sparkasse Foundation, City of Bozen & Export Organisation South Tyrol - Chamber of Commerce Bozen
Dates: 15. - 18.09.2009
- Interdisciplinary Mountain Research - Internationales Symposium für junge Wissenschaftler zur Berggebietsforschung
Financing: European Commisison, Ministero dell'Ambiente e della Tutela del Territorio e del Mare & Autonomous Province of Bozen - South Tyrol
Dates: 29.09. - 02.10.2004
- HeadWater '98, Headwater Control IV: Hydrology, Water Resources and Ecology in Headwaters
Financing: UNESCO, FAO/EFC, IAHR, IECA, IUFRO, WASWC, EU, Autonomous Province of Bozen -South Tyrol, City of Meran, Meraner Kurverwaltung, Etschwerke Bozen
Dates: 20. - 23.04.1998
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