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AlpPlan Network

Introduction

  • Provides an independent platform for the transnational knowledge exchange on good practices and future solutions for sustainable land-use and territorial development
  • Brings together practitioners and scientists from the entire Alpine region with an interest and expertise in spatial planning

AlpPlan (alpine spatial planning network) is a European Working Group (EWG) in the Alpine region, resulting from a cooperation of the Interreg Alpine Space project OpenSpaceAlps and the Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association (ARL). The realisation of the objectives set by the Alpine Convention and their coordination by means of spatial planning form an important framework for the activities of the network.

The overall objective of AlpPlan is to promote cooperation and coordination in the field of spatial planning in the Alpine region, especially from a cross-border perspective. Through mutual exchange and cooperation, the network is committed to contributing to sustainable territorial development from an ecological, economic and social perspective. The benefit of the network is seen particularly in the fact that AlpPlan brings together both scientific expertise and practice-oriented application perspectives. In doing so, the network takes on a role that accompanies political strategies and processes in an advisory function, but generally offers an independent and open exchange between the members. 

AlpPlan is committed to ensuring close cooperation with appropriate institutions. This includes in particular the working bodies of the Alpine Convention and the action groups of the EU Strategy for the Alpine Region (EUSALP).

The activities of the network include for instance:

  • Conferences and workshops, targeted at current topics of alpine territorial development
  • Elaboration of scientific and application-oriented publications
  • Cooperation with European Cooperation projects (e.g. within the Interreg Alpine Space programme)

The AlpPlan Steering Committee (SC) consists of:

  • Chairperson: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Hubert Job (Chair of Geography and Regional Science, Julius-Maximilians-University, DE)
  • Deputy Chairpersons: Sergeja Praper Gulič (Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia, SI), Philipp Vesely (Salzburg Institute for Regional Planning and Housing, AT)
  • Secretary/organisational assistant: Constantin Meyer (ARL – Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association)
  • ARL Headquarter: Prof. Dr. Andreas Klee (ARL – Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association, Head of the Central Department)

For any requests about the AlpPlan network, please get in touch with us via e-mail: alpplan@arl-net.de

The following Focal Persons have been appointed to advise the Steering Committee and act as a link to the planning and research community as well as international networks:

  • Quentin Drouet (Researcher, Université Savoie Mont Blanc, FR)
  • Živa Novljan (Permanent Secretariat of the Alpine Convention)
  • Luisa Pedrazzini (Researcher and consultant, Italian Insitute for Urban Planning, IT)
  • PD Dr. Marco Pütz (Research Group Regional Economics and Development, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, CH)
  • Dr. Arthur Schindelegger (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Institute for Landscape Planning, AT 

 

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„Current cooperation with the Interreg Alpine Space project PlanToConnect (2022-2025)

AlpPlan/PlanToConnect Expert Platform on Green Infrastructure, Ecological Connectivity and Spatial Planning

If you would like to get informed regularly about events and updates of the Expert Platform, we kindly invite you to sign up for the mailing list here.

Participants

M.Sc.
Constantin Meyer
Organisational assistant, Member
Prof. Dr.
Sabine Weizenegger
Contributor, Member
Dipl.-Geogr.
Florian Lintzmeyer
Contributor, Member
PD, Dr., Dipl.-Geogr.
Marco Pütz
Contributor, Member
m.i.a.
Katja Martinčič
Contributor, Member
Dr.
Gesa Geißler
Contributor, Member
Dr.
Ahmed Shams
Contributor, Member
PhD in Geography and Spatial Planning
Quentin DROUET
Contributor, Member
Anne-Sophie Hofmann
Contributor, Member
MMag.
Elisabeth Stix
Contributor, Member
Philipp Vesely
Contributor, Member
Maddalena Gioia Gibelli
Contributor, Member
Viola Maria Dosi
Contributor, Member

Timeline

AlpPlan Summer Course 2025
AlpPlan at CIPRA's annual conference 2025
Joint AlpPlan/PlanToConnect workshop in Obergurgl (AT)
AlpPlan Doctoral Colloquium 2024
AlpPlan/PlanToConnect workshop and assembly in Ljubljana (27-28 November 2023)
AlpPlan Summer Course 2023 "Mountains of Opportunities"
„Advancing Green Infrastructure Planning in the Alpine region“ – Workshop and general assembly of the AlpPlan network in Vienna
OpenSpaceAlps final conference/AlpPlan network conference
International online conference (in collaboration with StMWi)
Capacity building seminar for young professionals
Strategic online workshop (in collaboration with StMWi)
Kick-off-meeting

Results

ARL News

AlpPlan Doctoral Colloquium 2024

“Empowering young researchers in alpine territorial development”
Format: online meeting (invited participants only)
Date/time: Friday, 26 April 2024, 09:00 – 13:00 CET

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Open Space Planning in the Alpine Region

New clip in our video series Statements on Planning: Constantin Meyer from the University of Würzburg and member of ARL's European Working Group AlpPlan Network interviewed Prof Hubert Job from the University of Würzburg.

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Updates

Alp PLan

AlpPlan at DKG‘23

At the German Congress of Geography (DKG’23) in Frankfurt am Main (DE), Hubert Job and Marco Pütz hosted an AlpPlan thematic session with insights and discussions around the implications of climate change and energy transition for Alpine spatial planning.

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OpenSpaceAlps & ALpPlan Network Conference

After more than two years of fruitful project work, the OpenSpaceAlps project is approaching its end. The central project results will be presented at a final conference and discussed with relevant stakeholders. The conference will be held along with the annual meeting of the AlpPlan network. The conference will take place on 31 May and 01 June 2022 in Bolzano/Bozen, South Tyrol (Italy) at Eurac Research.

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AlpPlan network international conference 2021 in collaboration with StMWi

The Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association (ARL), the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy (StMWi) and the Interreg Alpine Space Project “OpenSpaceAlps” jointly organized the international conference “Towards sustainable spatial development - transnational lessons on the safeguarding of open spaces and the reduction of land take” in order to facilitate transnational exchange on that matter in the Alpine Space.

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Strategic online workshop (in collaboration with StMWi)

In the context of the “AlpPlan” alpine spatial planning network, the Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association (ARL), the Interreg Alpine Space project “OpenSpaceAlps”, and the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy; Department of Regional Planning (StMWi) have joint forces in order to host a strategic online workshop on 18th May 2021.

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Chair
Hubert Job
Sergeja Praper Gulič
Philipp Vesely
Organisational Assistant
Constantin Meyer
Coordinator HQ
Andreas Klee
Contributors
  • Blanka Bartol, Ministry of Natural Resources and Spatial Planning, Ljubljana
  • Univ.-Prof. Susanne Becken, Griffith University, Gold Coast
  • Maxime Bernard, EUSALP Youth Council, Innsbruck
  • Dominik Bertram, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen
  • Uni.-Prof. Dr. phil. Ludger Brenner, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico City
  • Dipl.-Ing. Jernej Červek, ,
  • Claudio Chiapparini, Regione del Veneto, Venezia
  • Prof. Dr. Tobias Chilla, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen
  • Juliette Conrad, Agence nationale de la cohesion des territoires, Paris
  • Oriana Coronado, ALPARC - The Alpine Network of Protected Areas, Chambéry
  • PhD Francesca Dal Cin, Prince mohammad bin fahd university, Al Khobar
  • PhD Serena D'ambrogi, Istituto superiore per la protezione e la ricerca ambientale, Roma
  • Marco Del Fiore, Politecnico di Torino, Torino
  • Viola Maria Dosi, ,
  • Mag. rer. nat., Mag. (FH) Christian Drechsler, Amt der Tiroler Landesregierung, Innsbruck
  • PhD Quentin Drouet, University of Savoie Mont Blanc, Le Bourget-du-Lac Cedex
  • Benoit Fanjeau, Conseil départemental de l'Hérault, Monpellier
  • Dr. Elisa Frank, Akademie der Naturwissenschaften Schweiz, Bern
  • Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gesa Geißler, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin
  • Prof. Maddelena Gioia Gibelli, Studio Gioia Gibelli, Milano
  • Anne-Sophie Hofmann, Regierung von Oberbayern, München
  • Nusa Hudoklin, Development Center Novo mesto, Novo mesto
  • Leila Izard, Université de Genève, Geneva
  • Dr. Annika Keeley, Center for Large Landscape Conservation, Bozeman
  • Mag. Paul Kuncio, CIPRA Österreich, Wien
  • Ph. D. Alice Labadini, Autonome Provinz Bozen - Südtirol, Bozen
  • Markus Lambracht, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen
  • Peter Laner, Eurac Research, Bozen
  • Dipl.-Geogr. Florian Lintzmeyer, ifuplan - Institut für Umweltplanung und Raumentwicklung GmbH & Co. KG, München
  • Katja Martinčič, ,
  • PhD Marcello Modica, University of Udine, Udine
  • PhD Gabriella Negrini, ,
  • Assist. Prof. Dr. Matej Nikšič, Urbanistični inštitut Republike Slovenije, Ljubljana
  • Živa Novljan, Ständiges Sekretariat der Alpenkonvention, Innsbruck
  • Dr. Hermann Öggl, Amt der Tiroler Landesregierung, Innsbruck
  • Dr. Arch. Luisa Pedrazzini, Istituto Nazionale di Urbanistica, Roma
  • Arch. Claudio Perin, ,
  • Pina Klara Petrović Jesenovec, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana
  • Dr. Guido Plassmann, ALPARC - Le Réseau Alpin des Espaces Protégés, Chambéry
  • Dipl.-Ing. Walther Pohl, ,
  • Sergeja Praper Gulič, Urbanistični inštitut Republike Slovenije, Ljubljana
  • Matevž Premelč, ZaVita d.o.o., Ljubljana
  • Dipl.-Ing. Catarina Proidl, Fürstentum Liechtenstein, Vaduz
  • Dr. Marco Pütz, Eidgenössische Forschungsanstalt für Wald, Schnee und Landschaft, Birmensdorf
  • Oberregierungsrat Niklas Scheder, Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Wirtschaft, Landesentwicklung und Energie, München
  • Dr. Arthur Schindelegger, Universität für Bodenkultur Wien, Wien
  • Mag. Richard Schossleitner, Büro für Geografie & Raumforschung, Salzburg
  • Dr. Ahmed Shams, University of Reading, Reading
  • Marc Stannartz, ,
  • Elisabeth Stix, Rosinak & Partner ZT GmbH, Wien
  • Kerstin Ströbel, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Würzburg
  • Dr. Thomas Thaler, Universität für Bodenkultur Wien, Wien
  • Philipp Vesely, Salzburger Institut für Raumordnung und Wohnen GmbH, Salzburg
  • Dipl.-Ing. Sylvie Vigneron, French National Agency for Territorial Cohesion, Grenoble
  • PhD Angioletta Voghera, ,
  • Dr. Sabine Weizenegger, Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften Kempten, Kempten (Allgäu)
  • Thomas Wimmer, EUSALP Youth Council,
  • Dipl.-Ing. Katharina Zwettler, Bundesministerium für Klimaschutz, Umwelt, Energie, Mobilität, Innovation und Technologie, Wien

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