1.2 - INTERREG IIIB Alpine Space Programme

58 3.1 Living Space Network
environment and cultural heritage
Lead partner
Bayerisches Staatsministerium
für Umwelt, Gesundheit und
Verbraucherschutz
Other partners
Land Salzburg
Land Tirol
Land Vorarlberg
MLR Baden-Württemberg
Provincia A. di Trento
Provincia A. di Bolzano
Cantone Ticino
Kanton St Gallen
Kanton Graubünden
Project website
www.livingspacenetwork.bayern.de
Contact person
Hans-Dieter Schuster
Tel +49 (0)89 9214 3253
Fax +49 (0)89 9214 3497
hans-dieter.schuster
@stmugv.bayern.de
Duration
05.2003 – 12.2005
Total budget in EUR
300.000
ERDF in EUR
124.500
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Drafting and adopting joint practicable concepts for the preservation, development and
networking of selected living spaces of significance to the EU,
taking Natura 2000 into special account
The Project intends to open up new cross-border paths. Over 60 experts from widely varying specialist sectors
and countries are working together on the project.
Aim
Explain the partner countries’ existing activities for networking
living space, and draft a “cross-frontier networking
strategy” on the basis of existing conservation areas and
endangered habitats
Develop pilot projects focussing on “cross-frontier Alpine
running waters” and “protection of cross-frontier bat populations
in the Alps” so as to find possibilities for specific networking
measures
Bring together players dealing with or affected by issues involving
the living space network (e.g. authorities, scientific
institutions, associations and private individuals) and create
new forms of cross-frontier cooperation
Communicate the project results to those interested in the
Alpine region (e.g. local governments, specialist authorities,
scientific institutions, associations) using multi-media (website,
print media, seminars)
Activities
“Alpine Bat Protection”
”Cross-border bat protection in the Alpine Rhine Valley” between
Graubünden, St. Gallen, Vorarlberg, Principality of
Liechtenstein:
Development of a cross-border hunt habitat concept for
certain types of bats
Coordination of cross-border protection measures between
these countries
Coordination of the various nature conservation strategies
for land use
“Alpine Running Waters”
“Optimisation of water extraction for snowmaking systems
in Vorarlberg, Lech”
The concept offers several solutions, including extending
the duration of the snowmaking period and adding a storage
pool in order to collect water during periods of heavy
precipitation. The concept has been submitted to the state
government and local authorities for discussion and im-
plementation.
“Pasture concept for the Lech Valley in Tyrol”
The following were developed in joint discussions with
land owners and farmers
Overall concepts for the investigated areas
Measures to improve the condition of the living space
This will be carried on via the ÖPUL programme (Austrian
Programme for the Agricultural Environment).
Outcomes and results
“Lechfloss 2005”
Several thousand participants, including kindergartens
and schools, visited more than 80 nature tours run by nature
experts from May to October 2005
“Information and visitor control concept for the protection of
gravel-nesting bird types in the Lech Valley in Bavaria”
“International Congress – Alpine Bat Protection”, 28th and
29th April 2005 in Trient
More than 100 participants from the Alpine countries
Bat information events on both days for schools and kindergartens
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