TranStat 
TranStat - Transitions to Sustainable Ski Tourism in the Alps of Tomorrow
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Overview

Today, mountain resorts stakeholders are faced with a common challenge: coping with the effects of climate change without having a robust reference framework for action. The TranStat project aims to facilitate the adoption of co-constructed transition processes in Mountain Resorts (MR), understood as ski resorts and their territory.

Based on a participatory & inclusive approach, TranStat will aim at elaborating scenarios and co-constructed solutions able to respond to the challenges identified in the MRs. The challenge is to promote new models of economic, social and environmental development in order to support a lively future in the Alpine mountain areas, with a view to sustainability.

TranStat will address this overall issue through the creation of a physical & digital network of resorts in transition to share knowledge and experiences about the future.

Factsheet

  • 2021 – 2027
  • Climate resilient and green Alpine region
  • SO 1.1 - Promoting climate change adaptation and disaster risk prevention, resilience, taking into account eco-system based approaches
    • AG1 Research & innovation
  • 11/2022
  • 10/2025
  • 2.223.167 EUR
  • 1.593.318 EUR

Description

Partners

National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (Lead partner)
  • Lead partner
  • France
  • Rhône-Alpes (FRK2)
  • Saint-Martin-d'Hères Cedex
Grenoble Alps University
  • France
  • Rhône-Alpes (FRK2)
  • Saint-Martin-d'Hères
Regional Council Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
  • France
  • Rhône-Alpes (FRK2)
  • LYON CEDEX 2
University of Milan
  • Italy
  • Lombardia (ITC4)
  • Milan, Italia
Lombardy Region
  • Italy
  • Lombardia (ITC4)
  • Milan
Austrian Academy of Sciences
  • Austria
  • Tirol (AT33)
  • Innsbruck, Austria
alpS Gmbh
  • Austria
  • Tirol (AT33)
  • Innsbruck
ecoplus Alpin
  • Austria
  • Niederösterreich (AT12)
  • St. Pölten
Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • Slovenia
  • Zahodna Slovenija (SI04)
  • Ljubljana
Development agency for Upper Gorenjska
  • Slovenia
  • Zahodna Slovenija (SI04)
  • Jesenice
University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons
  • Switzerland
  • Ostschweiz (CH05)
  • Chur
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Outcomes


  • Stakeholder-driven Transition Method (STM)

    A practical, flexible and comprehensive collection of step-by-step instructions that supports Mountain Resorts in their participatory transition towards desirable futures by setting a Transition Framework and helping to identify, involve stakeholders in the transition processes and create a common understanding of desirable futures for them. It combines all created content within the WP with a heavy focus on stakeholders’ experiences and lessons learnt and will be part of the WP2.

  • Roadmap for transition processes

    Road map for transition processes : with a baseline and visual design, it will illustrate the different steps of the participatory approach : create the LLs, Diagnosis until the design of transition scenarios. In these different steps, the Roadmap will show and provide some concrete experiences based on the work done with and in the LLs and products from WP3 (A31 Transition pathways and 3.2 Short and ling-term thematic actions-sheets).

  • TranStat Policy Recommandation

    Based on the WP2 insights (A2.4) and the WP3 (A3.1), these policy recommandations will be structured on various chapters, one for Eusalp level and other for regional contexts. It will propose some adapted directions to swell the current policies to better support sustainable management in MRs.

Pilots


  • Kranjska Gora

    The ski resort Kranjska Gora is located in Gorenjska - Upper Carniola - Slovenia. For skiing and snowboarding, there are 20 km of slopes available. 14 lifts transport the guests. The winter sports area is situated between the elevations of 807 and 1,282 m. Since 1961, resort is hosting one of the oldest active alpine skiing competitions in the world - Vitranc Cup.  

  • Rogla

    The ski resort Rogla is located in the east part of Slovenia. For skiing and snowboarding, there are 12 km of slopes available. 13 lifts transport the guests. The winter sports area is situated between the elevations of 1,050 and 1,517 m. Two outdoor stadiums and a multipurpose indoor sports hall, are one of the highest elevation stadiums/indoor arenas in Europe.

     


  • Valmalenco

    Valmalenco ski resort, is a ski resort placed on the Valmalenco (Mountain community of Valtellina di Sondrio) in the center of lombardy’s Alps near the Bernina peak that is the highest peak in Lombardy (3.600 osl). The ski resort is placed between 1650 and 2400 m osl.

  • Maniva Ski

    Maniva ski resort, is a ski resort placed on the coupling place of 3 mountain communities (Valtrompia, Valsabbia and Valcamonica) in the province of Brescia. The ski resort is placed between 1470 m and 2090 m osl.


  • Megeve

    Megève is located in Haute-Savoie départment of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. It's a very big ski resort with 2 ski areas : Evasion Mont Blanc et Portes du Mont-Blanc (+ de 400 kms of slopes). It's a Worldwide renowned mountain territory, which benefits from its proximity to Mount Blanc area, with a model based on international and luxury tourism.

  • Saint-Pierre-de-Chartreuse

    Located in the National Park of Chartreuse a few kilometers far from Grenoble and Chambery, in the Auvergne Rhône-Alpes Region, it's a middle area ski resort with 7 ski-lifts and 31 km of ski slopes.

  • Sankt Corona

    St. Corona is a place in the Wechselgebiet at the edge of the Alps and a 1 hour drive from Vienna. It is located in the southeast of Lower Austria. The municipality of St. Corona has an area of 8,70 square kilometers and a population of 399. The ski area covers an area of 75,000 square meters and has been in this size since 2013. In 2013, parts of the ski area were dismantled. As a result of this upheaval, there has been an increased focus on summer tourism. Successful steps have already been taken with, for example, a motorikpark and mountain bike trails.

  • Großes Walsertal

    The UNESCO Biosphere Reserve Großes Walsertal is a protected nature reserve in the Alps in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg. The valley covers an area of 19,200 ha. There are 3,420 inhabitants and around 180 farms (40% of which are organic). The region was included by UNESCO in 2000 in the list of model global regions for sustainable livelihoods and economies. In a biosphere reserve, humans and nature should interact with each other and only positively complement the other. In winter, familiar skiing areas as well as skitouring and snowshoeing through silent winter landscape are part of nature experiences.

  • Surselva

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    03 - 04 May 2023
    Living Labs Workshop in Megève
    Project: TranStat
    Living Labs Workshop in Megève
    Image de Megève au printemps/Megève in springtime
    22 Mar 2023
    Interreg Alpine Space – TranStat Overview
    Project: TranStat
    On Wednesday 22 March, at 5.30 p.m., there will be an online presentation of the Transtat Project
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      Project news

      TRANSTAT: INTERNATIONAL LIVING LABS WORKSHOP

      09.05.2023
      On the 3rd and 4th May in Megève (France) took place the first international workshop of the nine Living Labs involved in the European project Interreg Alpine Space Transtat (Transition to a Sustainable Ski Tourism in the Alps of Tomorrow).