Alexandra Senn, CIPRA Youth Council
Youth workshop on biodiversity
What is the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) all about? Alexandra Senn can tell us more about it. She is a member of the CIPRA Youth Council and participated in an international workshop on the latest IPBES report.
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“Young Glacier Voices” presented at the Forum Alpinum
Félicie Weiss, part of the project Young Glacier Voices as representant from the partner organisation Girls* on Ice Austria, participated to the Forum Alpinum 2026. We asked her a few questions about her experience.
Maya Mathias-Seger, CIPRA International
20 years of the Youth Parliament
Turbines in drinking water and solar panels on dams: with these and other ideas, the Youth Parliament to the Alpine Convention, which met in the French city of Chamonix in mid-March 2026, aims to strengthen climate resilience in the Alps.
Sofie Terzer, CIPRA International
Collapsing Alpine glaciers
Austria’s ice giants are shrinking rapidly and literally crumbling away; Germany will soon be ice-free. Research shows that retreating glaciers mean we are losing not only water reservoirs, but also archives of human history.
Stephan Tischler, CIPRA Austria
Point of view: The good traveller leaves no traces
Traffic jams, noise, exhaust fumes: this problem affects not only densely populated urban centres but, owing to the still overwhelmingly dominant share of motorised transport, also the Alpine regions. Yet we have long known that there is another way, says Stephan Tischler, transport scientist at the University of Innsbruck and Chair of CIPRA Austria.
Events
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International Youth Camp - Hike to the Remains of the Triglav Glacier | Triglav Glacier, Slovenia | |
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Get things rolling - Moving mobility forward in the Alps | EURAC, Drususallee 1, Bolzano/I | |
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Webinar: Too much water, too little water | online | |
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Symposium 2: Vernacular Buildings in the Anthropocene | Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna (Austria) |
Projects
Alpine Youth on the Move
The “Alpine Youth on the Move” project strengthens young people's participation in topics such as sustainability, mobility, and political processes. Young people plan and organize activities and gatherings for a community.
The Olympic and Paralympic Games – French Alps 2030: A Battle of narratives concerning Mountain areas?
The topic of the 2030 Winter Olympics is causing conflicts among stakeholders in the French Alps, which often revolve around public consultation and social acceptance of this type of sporting event. Several environmental and civic NGOs have taken up the issue by quantifying the ecological impacts or by developing arguments regarding the socio-economic impacts—whether favorable or unfavorable to the sustainable development of mountain regions — as a basis for dialogue with public authorities. Factually, there has been no public consultation process as such, but rather an objective announced by the government to “build together” within existing bodies such as the Massif committees, without questioning the hosting of the 2030 Winter Olympics in the French Alps.
Water governance in mountain regions: what about high-altitude reservoirs?
Water governance and water management in mountain regions have been a focus for the CIPRA network for many years, with past and upcoming events on this topic. Acting as Europe’s water towers, the Alps supply water to thousands of people and irrigate the fields and industries of some of the EU’s most dynamic regions. Natural water-related risks (whether from excess or shortage) and the measures devised by local communities to mitigate them are at the heart of this study.