AUSTRIA | LIECHTENSTEIN EUSALP CO-PRESIDENCY 2025 “COOPERATION EMPOWERS TRANSFORMATION”
On January 1st 2025 Austria and Liechtenstein are taking over the EUSALP Presidency for one year. This year will not only mark 10 years of EUSALP, but also be the first time that two countries will take over the EUSALP Presidency together. Moreover, in Austria the Presidency will by assumed in partnership between two federal Ministries and the Länder of Tyrol, Carinthia, Salzburg and Vorarlberg.
The Alpine Region is facing important transformation processes to keep its outstanding natural assets, maintain its outstanding quality of life and to also remain one of the European powerhouses. Mobility transition, Energy transition and the transformation of the construction industry towards circularity are amongst these main transformation challenges and can only accomplished in cooperation of all alpine states and regions. Cooperation empowers transformation will therefore be the motto of the Austrian-Liechtenstein Co-Presidency.
1. Mobility transition: sustainable, energy-efficient, multimodal
The Presidency's key goals include maximizing existing infrastructure to shift traffic from road to rail, developing sustainable mobility services in the Alps, and ensuring climate-resilient infrastructure.
2. Energy transition: Future-proof and sustainable establishment of renewable energies
The EUSALP Presidency 2025 focuses on establishment and expansion of a resilient infrastructure, balanced energy supply, conflict management in renewable expansion, and collaboration among Alpine countries for energy security.
3. Transformation of the construction industry: Circular construction and renovation
The EUSALP 2025 presidency focuses on working together to develop common principles for the circular economy, methods for extending the life cycle of buildings, the use of regional raw materials, job profiles and training in circular construction, and guidelines for action and support measures for circular construction projects. The aim is to accelerate the exchange of good practice, experience and expertise through cooperation across the Alpine regions.
Moreover, the Austrian-Liechtenstein co-presidency will also focus on important institutional objectives to improve the governance of the strategy:
1. Continue steering the process of revision of the EUSALP Action Plan
2. Improving the effectiveness and focussing of the working groups, also with regard to coherence with the Action Plan
3. Ensuring and improving technical support for EUSALP stakeholders after the current funding period and embedding
4. Strengthening youth participation
5. Close cooperation with the Alpine Convention and Interreg Alpine Space.
Austria and Liechtenstein are aware of their responsibility to lead EUSALP into a new period of enhanced cooperation after ten years in order to master the current and future tasks and challenges for the Alpine region.
We are confident that this will succeed if all participating states and regions and their representatives support the work processes with attention, commitment, courage, a spirit of cooperation and the resources necessary for collaboration.
EUSALP 2025 Calendar
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