The three-week course will have an internationally recognised faculty and will address all major aspects of the Alps.
The range of topics is wide. It includes geography, history, cultural studies, spatial planning and development, actors and NGOs in the alpine space, the forest and wildlife, landscape and regional development, tourism and agriculture, energy and transport, and the Alpine Convention. Teaching will take the form of lectures, seminars and excursions, and will offer a combination of theoretical and practical aspects. This year there will be German-Italian simultaneous translation.
In the last four years more than sixty people from seven different countries have attended this international and interdisciplinary course. Students discover the alpine space in all its facets - from the land of legend to the historical, cultural and economic realities, from its problems to the potential solutions, from the constraints of economy to the calls of ecology.
The summer academy is a valuable continuous education experience for young university and college graduates and for everyone whose work brings them into contact with the Alps.
On 29 and 30 August there will be a seminar on the subject of "Leisure and transport". That is also the subject of an optional four-week project, which will last from 9 September to 4 October.
The deadline for registration is 31 May 2002. There are still some places available! Further details and registration http://www.cipra.org
CIPRA-International, Postfach 142, FL-9494 Schaan, T 00423 237 40 30, F 00423 237 40 31, cipra@cipra.org