Projects in communities
The core and single biggest budget item of DYNALP² are projects in communities which make a real contribution towards implementing sustainable development and the Alpine Convention. Projects in the amount of €20,000 and €40,000 are sponsored by up to 50%.
DYNALP² projects focus on one or more of the following topic areas:
Regional Value Added, Governance Capacity, Protected Areas, Mobility, New Forms of Decision Making, and Policies and Instruments.
These topic areas are drawn from CIPRA’s Future in the Alps project. Background information on the topics and examples of projects can be found here.
Networking communities
Alongside the projects themselves, the fact of networking communities is a core task of DYNALP². Joint events such as workshops, excursions and international conferences fulfil that task.
Workshops
Theme-related workshops are to be expanded under DYNALP² as experience has shown that the benefits for communities are very high. After brief introductions to the theoretical aspects, representatives of Alpine communities obtain practical experience from other communities and are able to witness initial results on field trips. Discussions provide a means of sounding out the transferability to their own community of what they see and hear.
Field trips
DYNALP² provides theme-related field trips which are usually scheduled to tie in with the workshops in terms of both content and timing.