Swiss Green Economy Symposium
30.10.2017, Winterthur
Panelist in the Innovation-Forum 16 of the Swiss Green Economy Symposium 2017 - Sustainable Tourism, representing the HTW Chur.
News
Seminar 'Sustainable Tourism: Challenges, Fields of Action and Strategies for Enterprises
12.-14.10.2017, Alpbach
With and for the Pädagogische Hochschule Tirol and the BMLFUW team of the Austrian Ecolabel. In the great Congress Center Alpbach.
Industrial culture on the Fischa Cycle Path, Fischamend (Lower Austria / AT)
9.10.2017
Presentation of the concept for the staging of the industrial culture on the Fischa cycle path in the LEADER region Römerland-Carnuntum (Lower Austria). Together with Ulrike Balek / pronatour.
Workshop on the World Tourism Day and the IY2017
27.9.2017
On the occasion of this year's World Tourism Day on "Sustainable Tourism - A Tool for Development", representatives of regional politics, tourism associations and companies from 15 regions from Austria, Germany and Switzerland met at Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna.
Invited by the Federal Ministry for Science, Research and Economy (BMWFW) in co-operation with the German Ministry of Economic Affairs and the Swiss State Secretariat and accompanied by the MODUL University Vienna - and Christian Baumgartner - the topics sustainable growth (employment, infrastructure, Innovation), resource efficiency, environmental protection and climate change as well as cultural assets and natural heritage at the center of the event.
Evaluation for a EuropeAid project in Kyrgyzstan
2.-10.9.2017
Being in the south of Kyrgyzstan and doing an evaluation of the EU-financed project 'INITIATIVE - INnovative Income Tools and Integrated Approaches To Improve Villagers’ Employment'. It's simply an amazing country.
Visiting a new apple orchard in 1-May-village near the Uzbek boarder. Possible through drip irrigation by hose pipes produced from local plastic waste. Great project!
Article on EcoHimal ' Innovative Income Generation in Kyrgyzstan'
Summer School Iceland on Sustainable Leadership
18.-27.7.2017
Back from Summer School Teaching in Iceland (Bifröst university). Great experience again including playing Stratagem (Sustainable development of an emerging country), a hike onto a fresh volcano from 1973 and a visit to an ocean-start-up cluster for sustainable marine production.
Tbilisi / Georgia: Exciting 2nd Teacher Training Workshop in the CaucaSusT Project
9.-13.7.2017
2nd Teacher Training Workshop in the CaucaSusT Project (Transdisciplinarity for Sustainable Tourism Development in the Caucasus Region). Really enjoying it here. For the IMC Krems, together with BOKU, Vienna.
Green Job Training / Romania
18.-22.6.2017, Romania
A destination management workshop in Transylvania / RO (together with Urs Wagenseil, FH Luzern) for AER and CIPRA CH brings you quite near to the bears. Not only from the hide, but in the evening also in the garden of our B&B.
'Sustainability and Tourism - 25 years after Rio'
14.-16.6.2017, Wergenstein / CH
On the occasion of Rio+25, HTW Chur and ZAHW Zurich organized a conference on 'Sustainability and Tourism' in Wergenstein / CH. My input at this conference "Squaring the circle or the camel through the bottleneck? Sustainable tourism as a challenging multi-stakeholder approach."
Conference 'Greening the Economy in the Alpine Region' in Rosenheim / DE
11.5.2017
The Alpine area is a unique territory with outstanding nature and landscapes and impressive cultural diversity. The sixth Report on the State of the Alps (RSA 6) describes the status of Green Economy approaches by presenting selected topics and indicators.