Joint Session of the TRANSITECTS & AlpCheck 2 Projects Meetings
The Joint Session of the TRANSITECTS & AlpCheck 2 Projects Meetings was held on 13 July 2010 at FAO Headquarters in Rome. It included an introductory speech by the Mountain Partnership Secretariat’s Coordinator, Mr. Douglas McGuire.
The Joint Session was organized to coincide with the partners’ meetings of the two projects related to the European Programme Alpine Space. Main organizers were the Italian Ministry for the Environment and the Mountain Partnership Secretariat (FAO), which also benefitted of the support from other relevant institutions and organizations. The audience included participants in the projects coming from several countries of the Alpine arch such as Italy, Austria, Germany, France, Slovenia, as well as further institutional representatives from the Italian Ministry of Transport and UNEP.
Most of them came to take part in the two day working meeting of the TRANSITECTS Project, held on the 12 and 13 July 2010. The 6th Transnational Working Meeting of the TRANSITECTS Project’s Partners focused mainly on activities currently on schedule under the Project Work Packages, achieving the expected results. The project, promoted by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), focuses on the sustainability of transport in the Alps, addressing in particular the issue of freight and passengers’ displacements by railway.
On 13 July, also a Technical Meeting of the European Project AlpCheck 2 was held in FAO. AlpCheck 2 Project aims at improving sustainable mobility within the Alpine area and it is being co-financed as TRANSITECTS in the framework of the Alpine Space Programme. Partners responsible of some Working Packages met on 13 July in FAO to discuss further developments, and they continued working on 14 July in the EURAC Representing Office in Rome.
The Coordinator of the Mountain Partnership Secretariat, Mr. Douglas McGuire introduced the Joint Session with a speech regarding “Sustainable Mobility in Mountain Areas”. Mr. McGuire stressed the importance of multilateral projects focusing on mountain areas through different perspectives, such as TRANSITECTS and AlpCheck 2 are doing in the Alps. Projects or experiences focusing on transportation related to the mountain environment are welcomed by the Mountain Partnership Secretariat, which may facilitate exchanges and contribute to widening it from a European to a global scope.
Mr. McGuire also spoke about the SWOMM Side Event at the CSD18 (Commission on Sustainable Development) at the UN Headquarters in New York last May, describing it a successful experience of dissemination of the outcomes of research and activities carried out within the Alpine Space. The Side Event arose within the framework of the existing cooperation between the Italian Ministry for the Environment and the Mountain Partnership Secretariat.
After Mr. McGuire’s presentation, the partners from the two projects and other experts carried on working jointly in the Ethiopia Room, discussing common synergies and they engaging in the preparation of the upcoming WP7 cross-fertilization workshop.
Agenda of the Joint Session of the TRANSITECTS & AlpCheck 2 Projects
List of involved institutions and organizations
A Technical Study and Engineering Centre: CETE Méditerranée – France
A.L.O.T. s.c.a r.l. – Agency of East Lombardy for Transports and Logistics – Italy
Austrian Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology, Department I/K7 Combined Transport - Austria
Autonomous Region of Friuli Venezia Giulia – Central Directorate for mobility, energy and transport infrastructure – Italy
Board of Building and Public Works within the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior - Germany
Carinthian Regional Government – Department 7 – Economic Law and Infrastructure – Austria
European Academy of Bolzano Bozen – Institute for Regional Development and Location Management – Italy
German Association for Housing, Urban and Spatial Development – Germany
Government of Carinthia – Department of economic law and infrastructure – Austria
Governmental Office of Land Salzburg, Dept.of traffic engineering and public transportation – Austria
Governmental Office of the Land of Tyrol, Dept. of traffic engineering – Austria
Joint State Planning Department of Berlin and Brandenburg – Germany
Logistic Kompetenz Zentrum – Germany
Lombardy Region, Directorate General Handicraft and Services – Italy
Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea – Italy
Ministry of Transport – Italy
Ministry of Transport Slovenia – Slovenia
Mountain Partnership Secretariat (FAO) – UN
Regional Association Donau-Iller – Germany
Regional Union of Veneto Chambers of Commerce – Italy
Republic of Slovenia, Ministry of Transport, Slovene Roads Agency – Slovenia
Research Institute for Ecology and Economy Applied to Alpine Areas – Italy
Stuttgart Region Economic Development Corporation – Germany
TCI Röhling – Transport Consulting International – Germany
UNEP - UN
Valle d’Aosta Region – Italy
Veneto Region – Italy
Venice Port Authority – Italy
