Our partners
We could only realize the projects and all local activities with our network of partners of the mobility weeks. We’re very grateful that so many partners support our ideas about teaching climate change in mountain areas.
“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
Dr. Jane Goodall
Partners of the mobility week at the Jakob-Fugger-Gymnasium Augsburg
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Buermann (head of chair Physical Geography and Climate Science) from the University of Augsburg held a lecture on interesting facts about climate change in Germany, particularly in the Alps. He showed the multinational group several graphs and charts to outline the problems we are facing in our project weeks and in the very near future.
Emma Didier, an expert from Alpinium, informed us about the issue with building new cable cars for the ski resort. Emma then took us on a hike up the mountain, stopping multiple times to explain how climate change affects plants and animals, using marmots as an example.
In Grasgehren, the project group met with Tobias Lienemann, the CEO of the local ski resort Grasgehren, who informed the group about the issue with building new cable cars for the ski resort and the alternative way they chose in the frame of the BeyondSnow-project. “It is our great concern to respect, protect and preserve nature and the unique diversity of life around the Riedbergerhorn.” was the message of Mr. Lienemann to the group.
Mr. Specht, a forest engineer from the Office for Food, Agriculture and Forestry Kempten and head of the Allgäu Protection Forest Management Centre, took us on a three-hour hiking tour called ‘From Primeval Forest, via Protection Forest to Avalanche Protectors’. During the breaks of the hike, the group learned a lot about the protection of the forest which was planted after an avalanche had destroyed a significant area of the village. The speeches focused on the natural forests in the Bavarian Alps, the impact of human activity on the composition of tree species, and the effects of storms and bark beetles on the protection forest were the focus points during the hike.
The multinational project group was invited by the mayor of community of Balderschwang, Mr. Kienle. After the group enjoyed the very delicious lunch the mayor informed the group about this very special village, which is known as the highest municipality in Germany. Despite this altitude, climate change and decreasing snowfall can also be observed here and the municipality has set out to develop alternatives to winter tourism and to further develop winter tourism as part of the BeyondSnow project.
As a consequence the snow-independent offers in winter are being further expanded, so that Balderschwang appears perfectly equipped for the future thanks to the forward-looking planning of the local council.
