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'

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.

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.

Project website: CaucaSusT

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.

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."

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.

Flyer: Greening the Economy in the Alpine Region

Website Alpine Convention

22.4.2017

Being in Yerevan / Armenia for a training in the project CaucaSust - Transdisciplinarity for Sustainable Tourism Development in the Caucasus Region. Together with IMC Krems and BOKU, Vienna. Very exciting workshop with Armenian and Georgian university teachers.

Project website: CaucaSusT

3.4.2017

A workshop for Kulturkontakt Austria in lovely Tirana was held for directors and teachers of Albanian tourism schools. The task was to include issues of sustainability into touristic curricula.

26.2.2017

A workshop for partner agencies of Weltweitwandern brought participants from 14 countries together to a desert hiking experience combined with intensive discussion units.

6.1.2017

Stratagem - simulation game for the sustainable development of an emerging nation.

Dennis Meadows, author of ‚Limits of Growth‘, developed the strategic simulation game Stratagem. It is a computerized board game simulating the more or less sustainable development of an emerging nation. Christian Baumgartner offers to groups to moderate the simulation game.

Time needed: 6-8 hours.

Folder: STRATAGEM (pdf, 2.1 MB)