Team

Co-director
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Working for the Alps: when and where necessary

Background: Change Manager, Journalist, Cheese maker & pastoralist, businessman

Languages: German (mother tongue), English, French

My favourite place in the Alps: those small meadows at those last mountain streams that still roar unused and unspoilt over rocks

What excites me: Encounters

Co-director & Head of Communications
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Working for the Alps: Tuesday-Friday

Background: Journalism, MAS in Communication Management and Leadership

Languages: German, English, French, Italian (advanced), Spanish (basic)

My favourite place in the Alps: a sun-warmed rock in San Romerio – high above the “Valposchiavo” in southern Switzerland

What excites me: Stories of people, for people, with people

Project Manager / Economic transition
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Working for the Alps:  almost always and everywhere

Background: Regional Development, Organizational Development, Moderation- Conflict Management

Languages: French, German, English, Italian

My favourite place in the Alps: the whole terrain in the Silvretta in the Vorarlberg region of Austria 

What excites me: language itself, backcountry ski-touring, music, the sea

Project Manager / Economic transition
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Working for the Alps: Monday-Friday

Background: Communication Sciences, Sustainaible Tourism Management

Languages: German, English, French (advanced)

My favourite place in the Alps: Anywhere the sun awakes me from a cosy bivouac

What excites me: rugged landscapes and mountains, high valleys with meandering rivers, cooking with high-quality products, every single minute on my bike(s)

Project Manager / Social Innovation
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Working for the Alps: Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday

Background: Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability, Youth Participation, process- and workshop facilitation, project management, social innovation

Languages: Dutch (Native speaker) German, English

My favourite places in the Alps: our vegetable garden in Bofel, hiking the Liechtensteiner mountains, climbing the Alpstein, bouldering in the Magic Wood (CH), sledging with my daughter in Malbun...

What excites me: to foster a connected and sustainable society in the Alps

Project Manager / Services
Contact

Working for the Alps: Monday - Friday

Background: master degree in conference interpreting, Higher vocational college for tourism

Languages: German (mother tongue), Italian, English, French, basic skills in Spanish and Portuguese

My favourite place in the Alps: unspoiled coniferous forests & mountain pastures (such as in the High Tauern National Park)

What excites me: nature in kitchen, cellar and garden, travelling and international dialogues

Project Manager / Economic transition & Nature and People
Contact

Working for the Alps:  Monday-Thursday

Background: Social- and Cultural Anthropology, Regional- and Location Management, Regional Development

Languages: German (Native Speaker), English (advanced), French (basic)

My favourite place in the Alps: in winter, on my skitouring skies in the backcountry, above the treeline – anywhere but gladly in the Montafon

What excites me: outdoors, immersed in nature, alone or in the company of equally enthusastic people, natural cuisine, typical regional food, good coffee

Project Manager / Social Innovation
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Working for the Alps: Tuesday - Thursday

Background: foreign exchange trading, environmental engineering (Bachelor)

Languages: German, English

My favourite place in the Alps: in Prättigau with a view of the Rätikon chain (CH)

What excites me: to feel when everything is "in flow", mountain and high tours, immersing oneself in other cultures, different concepts of life and the people behind them

Project manager / Communication
Contact

Working for the Alps: Tuesday-Thursday

Background: German Philology, Media Studies

Languages: German, English

My favourite place in the Alps: campfire on the banks of river Dornbirner Ach

What excites me: singing, dancing, and the lust for life (in the Alps)

Project Manager / Communications
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Working for the Alps: Monday - Friday

Background: Master in Psychology and Political Science

Languages: German (mother tongue), English (advanced), French, Italian and Spanish (basic)

My favourite places in the Alps: Dolomites

What excites me: nature, mountain sports, environmental psychology, books and movies

Project Manager Communications
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Working for the Alps: Monday – Friday

Background: Journalism, PR in Tourism, Master in Communication Science/Journalism

Languages: German (mother tongue), English (advanced), Italian (basic)

My favourite places in the Alps: Villach, where I grew up. Innsbruck, where I used to live several years. And Montafon valley

What excites me: climbing mountains, exploring new places and sharing my passion for the Alps with others

Administration/HR Assistance
Contact

Working for the Alps: Tuesday (all day), Wednesday - Friday (mornings)

Background: French and English Studies

Languages: German, English, French,

My favourite place in the Alps: my garden with a beautiful view onto the Alps

What excites me: pleasureable dining and drinking, untouched snowy slopes glistering in the sun, Yoga

Assistent to the management and administration
Contact

Working for the Alps: Monday-Thursday

Background: Master in Business Administration – Major Public and Nonprofit Management

Languages: German, French, English

My favourite place in the Alps: Maggia valley in Switzerland

What excites me: Forests, travelling, cinema, reading

Administration and Projects
Contact

Working for the Alps: Monday-Friday

Background: Foreign Applied Languages in Business and Tourism, HR and European Regional Development

Languages: Italian (mothertongue) German, English, French, Norwegian and Spanish (good knowledge)

My favourite place in the Alps: that indefined place where the sun meets the mountains

What excites me: music, laughing people, dialects, proverbs, historical books and the smell of coffee…

Project assistant
Contact

Working for the Alps: Tuesday-Friday

Background: Plant and Soil Sciences, Biodiversity Conservation and Management

Languages: French, German, English, Italian

My favourite place in the Alps: The mountain pastures (Alps) where I worked : Monte San Lucio, Ticino, with 100 goats and 8 cows, Staffel alp Zermatt, with 27 cows, above the Geneva lake, and with 600 sheep and a baby in Starlera, Grisons.

What excites me: Earth architecture, Tango, choir singing and travelling without the need of airplanes

Intern
Contact

Working for the Alps: Montag - Freitag

Background: Slawistik, Journalismus

Languages: Deutsch, Englisch, Russisch, Spanisch (Grundkenntnisse)

My favourite place in the Alps: Jägersee, Kleinarl, Salzburg

What excites me: Menschen, Musik, Buecher, Sprachen

Intern 
Contact

Working for the Alps: Monday – Friday

Background: Degree in Environmental Sciences and Management in Copenhagen (Denmark) and Uppsala (Sweden) with “focus” on climate change

Languages: German, Slovene, English, Italian and Spanish (moderate knowledge, but with all fours it works well)

My favourite place in the Alps: Where I grew up – at the foot of the Karavanks. But also the Stilfser Joch in South Tyrol and the Lechtal Alps. 

What excites me: Long-distance train rides, Singing in a choir, Music instruments, forests, creative vegetarian food, local accents

European Voluntary Service (Erasmus+) 
Contact

Working for the Alps: Monday – Friday

Background: Biology (BSCi) and Ecology (MSCi)

Languages: Slovene, German, English

My favourite place in the Alps: Prisank/Prisojnik

What excites me: Nature - from earth to the sky, environment, food, sports, people, music, my dog