By: MICHELA CAVALLINI

Official Announcement

The Alpine Space Monitoring Committee has set up a series of three Transnational Workshops addressing the issues of climate change and natural hazards, development of the alpine rural areas and sustainable transport development. Two successful workshops already took place in Rosenheim in November 2004 (on Climate Change) and in Innsbruck in April 2005 (on rural development). The aim is to analyse already achieved as well as envisaged project results, to set impulses for thematic networks, to match national and international development strategies and to identify calls for action. The now upcoming third transnational Workshop of this series is on the issue

"Transport in the Alpine Space Area"

will take place on

16/17 June 2005

in Scuola Grande S. Giovanni Evangelista, Venice (Italy)

The workshop is targeting project holders of INTERREG IIIB Alpine Space projects in particular those submitted under Priority 2, all relevant organisation dealing with the transport sector in the Alpine Space, public administrations at local, regional and national level.

The Workshop is financed by the INTERREG IIIB Alpine Space Programme, the Italian Ministry for Transport and Infrastructure and Veneto Region.

We are looking forward to welcome you in Venice!!!

Please, find herewith the leaflet with the programme of the event in English, Italian, French, German and Slovenian version, the respective registration forms and a list of hotels including a map of Venice and of the venue of the event.

For more information please contact:

Alpine Space Programme - Joint Technical Secretariat

(Ms. Michela Cavallini)

Phone: +49 8031 362773

Alpine Space Programme - Italian National Contact Point:

Phone: +39 06 44124100

Veneto Region:

Phone: +39 041 2792324