AlpS
| alpS - Center for Climate Change Adaptation
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 2002 |
| Seat |
Innsbruck , Austria ⊙
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| management | Maximilian Riede (Managing Director), Johann Stötter (scientific director) |
| Number of employees | 10-20 |
| Branch | Research, development and advice in the field of natural hazards, risk management, sustainability and climate change adaptation |
| Website | www.alp-s.at |
The alpS - Center for Climate Change Adaptation ( Center for Natural Hazard Management , in short: alpS ) is a university-related, internationally active engineering and consulting company that supports companies, municipalities and countries in their sustainable development and in dealing with the consequences, opportunities and risks of climate change, strengthens. As a research and advice center based in Innsbruck , alpS researches, develops, advises and communicates primarily on the risks and opportunities of climate change and on climate change adaptation in mountain areas.
history
The Kplus -Zentrum alpS-Center for Natural Hazard Management was founded in October 2002, on the occasion of the avalanche disaster in Galtür . The supporting company was the alpS Center for Natural Hazard Management GmbH as a joint venture between the University of Innsbruck, BOKU Vienna, the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the regional energy industry. The main focus was on the research of natural hazards and the development of appropriate solutions for the optimized handling (management) of these. The seven-year Kplus funding phase began on October 1, 2002 and ended on September 30, 2009.
At the end of the Kplus phase, the alpS center was able to successfully apply for the second COMET center tender of the Austrian government after six months of interim funding (October 1, 2009 to March 31, 2010) and was a K1 center from 2010 to 2017 within the framework of this federal research funding program.
alpS research essentially consists of the COMET-funded K1 center alpS - Center for Climate Change Adaptation as well as research projects that are financed by funding programs (K projects). In addition, there has been a private sector consultancy since 2007. AlpS is currently in the second funding phase of the current seven-year K1 funding cycle, which ended on March 31, 2017.
organization
Since the restructuring in 2018, the Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck has been 100% shareholder .
From 2002 to 2018 the hydrogeologist Eric Veulliet acted as commercial and scientific managing director, and as scientific director the geographer Johann Stötter , professor at the University of Innsbruck.
construction
The fate of alpS GmbH is on the one hand responsible for the shareholders' meeting and on the other hand the alpS management is operationally responsible. The COMET-K1 center, supported by the GmbH, has a center management consisting of the four-person scientific management and the management. The center management is supported by an advisory body consisting of representatives of the shareholders, international experts as well as representatives of the federal states and funding agencies. This 16-member Strategy Board helps shape the research strategy and supports scientific excellence, the development of an international presence and the networking of alpS. The progress of the center is regularly evaluated internally by the Strategy Board on the basis of key indicators.
financing
The sponsors are in particular the public sector ( Research Promotion Agency - FFG, Land Tirol , Land Vorarlberg ). The public funding quota is a maximum of 55 percent of the eligible and proven project costs.
The alpS consulting business area is operated as a registered business.
Cooperations
In addition to the shareholders, there is close cooperation with authorities such as the civil and disaster control of the state of Tyrol and the Tyrolean municipalities, as well as research associations within the framework of the Alpine Convention .
Activity and fields of work
The alpS center is divided into the areas of alpS research and alpS advice .
alpS offers expertise on climate change , climate change adaptation and sustainability in the areas of land, water and energy, in particular on:
- Energy and infrastructure
- tourism
- Land use and resources
- Natural hazard and risk management
- Agriculture and Forestry
- Communication and awareness raising
- Sustainable community and regional development
Research - alpS Research
As the sponsor of the K1 Center, alpS researches the consequences, opportunities and risks of global climate change for regional and local human-environment systems. alpS climate change adaptation research in mountain areas is interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary in the areas of land, water and energy. The research focuses on risk management and sustainable development of mountain regions. The research concept follows the alpS CCA cycle (Climate Change Adaptation Cycle) .
- ClimPact - recording the effects of climate change
- ClimRisk - Analysis of threats and opportunities
- ClimFit - Development of suitable adaptation strategies and technologies
- ClimCom - awareness raising and communication
- ClimAct - implementation of measures, monitoring , evaluation
alpS develops technologies and strategies for sustainable adaptation to climate change, such as innovations for forecasting and monitoring systems for the prevention of natural disasters , tools for risk management, concepts for adapted land use, water and forest management and the like.
alpS projects are dedicated to both applied research and the development and implementation of adaptation measures.
Advice - alpS advice
AlpS consulting advises institutions and companies on the basis of their scientific expertise. The core competencies in alpS consulting are application-oriented solutions in the area of risk management, sustainability and energy development planning for municipalities and regions. With the ORTIS software solution, alpS has developed an instrument that is intended to make information and complex methods usable in risk management for users in local authorities and companies. For example, the civil and disaster control of the state of Tyrol and in particular the East Tyrolean city of Lienz were recognized by the United Nations (UNISDR - The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction ) in 2011 for their communal risk analyzes based on the alpS solution as part of the global Making Cities Resilient campaign : My City is Getting Ready recognized as a global role model.
In addition, advice on holistic community development and communication as well as training is offered.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Commercial register data Creditreform / firmenabc.at: Company alpS GmbH in Innsbruck ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ alpS GmbH - Center for Natural Hazard Management. Infobox in: City of Innsbruck, Austrian Alpine Association: Alpine Convention: Innsbruck News No. 1, 2005, 2nd year, p. 2 (pdf, dietiwag.at).
- ↑ Head of the Week: Eric Veulliet. University of Innsbruck, January 31, 2005.
- ^ Alps: organization. Retrieved November 19, 2014 .
- ↑ Ten years of alpS - Center for Climate Change Adaptation. Othmar Kolp on MeinBezirk.at, October 5, 2012.
- ^ Alps: climate change adaptation
- ↑ alps-beratung.at
- ↑ alpS: ORTIS. Retrieved November 19, 2014 .
- ↑ United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Europe (UNISDR EUR): Alpine cities feel heat from climate change ( Memento from October 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive )