ASIS (Alpine Social Innovation Strategy) project objective is to increase Knowledge, change Behavior and Influence attitude by initiating, developing and promoting a new vision of innovation, proposing new tools, methodologies, guidelines and creating a common vision of social innovation. Finally, this project also intends to give recommendations to public authorities on how to adapt public [...]

The globally attractive Alpine Space cities face common challenges through growing land use pressure. It strains vulnerable natural & cultural assets of periurban landscapes calling for multifunctional solutions, intersectorial and intermunicipal collaboration. Yet, this increases implementation barriers: complexity, various ownership patterns, more stakeholders with non-excludable interests. [...]

Services of general interest (SGI) are in the competence of authorities at different levels. Up to now, authorities and the service providers tend to have a strictly sectoral approach to SGI which leads to isolated solutions, neither taking benefit of potential synergies nor optimizing the use of public money. Therefore there is a need for a better horizontal and vertical coordination of [...]