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DIAMONT
Data Infrastructure of the Alps - Mountain Orientated Network Technology
- AS priority area: Accessibility and Connectivity
- Duration: 03/2005 - 03/2008
Project partners
- Lead partner: Institute of Geography, University of Innsbruck (AT) Contact person: Axel Borsdorf, Tel.: + 43 512 507 5400, axel.borsdorf[at]uibk.ac.at
- European Academy of Bozen/Bolzano (EURAC), Institute for Alpine Environment (IT) Contact person: Ulrike Tappeiner, Tel.: +39 (0) 471 055 301, ulrike.tappeiner[at]eurac.edu
- Anton Melik Geographical Institute, Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SI) Contact person: Drago Perko, Tel.: +38 61 4706 360, drago[at]zrc-sazu.si
- Bosch & Partner GmbH (DE) Contact person: Konstanze Schönthaler, Tel.: +49 89 2355 5852, k.schoenthaler[at]boschpartner.de
- irstea Unité de Recherche Dévelopment des Territoires Montagnards (FR) Contact person: Vincent Briquel, Tel.: +33 4 7676 2751, vincent.briquel[at]grenoble.cemagref.fr
- ifuplan Institut für Umweltplanung, Landschaftsplanung und Naturschutz (DE) Contact person: Stefan Marzelli, Tel.: +49 89 307 4975 10, stefan.marzelli[at]ifuplan.de
- UNCEM Unità Nazionale Comuni e Enti Montani (IT) Contact person: Marco Zumaglini, Tel.: +39 06 49 27251 uncem.nazionale[at]uncem.net
- Forschungsstelle für Wirtschaftsgeographie und Raumordnungspolitik (CH) Contact person: Martin Boesch, Tel.: +41 71 224 2582, martin.boesch[at]unisg.ch
Project summary
DIAMONT worked in the field of sustainable regional development in the Alps. The project provided expert assistance to the Permanent Secretariat of the Alpine Convention in Innsbruck with the review and implementation of the pan-Alpine information system SOIA (System for Observation and Information of the Alps). DIAMONT elaborated harmonised data and relevant indicators to monitor the sustainable development of the Alpine regions. This process involved the testing of pilot tools for regional development and discussions with the population in test regions. It also analysed the planning milieu and experts expectations on alpine development, made an inquiry among mayors. Besides 3 databases on hard data on NUTS5 level and qualitative data on steering instruments and best practices it published an Atlas of the Alps in five languages.
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Results
Results of a project can be differentiated in outputs, outcomes and impacts of an intervention.OECD Glossary of Key Terms in Evaluation and Results Based Management. Project outputs can generally be identified very easily. Yet, they represent only a first step towards the ultimate objective of project interventions: Initiating project-related outcomes and having true impacts on the ground.
Outputs
Outputs are an immediate deliverable of a project, which result from a development intervention. They should be finalised and publicly available by the time the project terminates. Outputs comprise tangible project results such as tools, databases, executive summaries, educational material etc.
Result | Category | Language(s) | Target group | Remark |
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Atlas of the Alps: Mapping the Alps | Other | EN, IT, FR, SI, DE, AT | Civil society / citizen | The Alps are the largest and most significant high mountain area in Europe and the starting point for numerous debates on transit traffic, climate change, tourist trends or the impact of a global market economy, to name but a few. What has been lacking so far is a sound basis of cross-national data, as well as comparative maps generated from such a basis. Editors Ulrike Tappeiner, Axel Borsdorf and Erich Tasser, together with well-known experts and practitioners from the respective nation states, were thus confronted with the task of compiling an up-to-date and solid basis of information that would support stakeholders from the fields of research, politics and the economy in dealing with issues and decisions involving the Alpine region. This is how Mapping the Alps came about. It contains more than 100 four-colour, pan-Alpine maps on social, economic, and environmental aspects, presented in an intuitive format with concise interpretations in German, French, Italian, Slovenian, and English. |
DIAMONT Database | Data | EN | Scientists | For the DIAMONT database a DIAMONT teaching tool has been elaborated in the FP 7 project mountain.TRIP |
Outcomes and Impacts
Outcomes are the likely or achieved short-term and medium-term effects of an intervention's outputs, e.g. the outcome of improved, knowledged-based decision-making processes as an effect of a knowledge database (= output) established by a project. Outcomes will in most cases not materialise before project closure.
Impacts are positive and negative, primary and secondary long-term effects produced by a development intervention, directly or indirectly, intended or unintended.OECD Glossary of Key Terms in Evaluation and Results Based Management
As outcomes and impacts are difficult to differentiate, this section contains both of these types of project results.
The identification of outcomes and impacts requires a deeper insight into the respective project e.g. through project participants or direct interviews with project representatives. Outcomes and impacts are usually not solely influenced by projects, but are a complex combination of project results on the one hand and framework conditions on the other. Unlike project outputs, outcomes and results cannot be described in a standardised way. Therefore, they are listed as free text:
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