Description
ARGE ALP, Working Community of Alpine Regions was founded on 12 October 1972 in Mösern, Tyrol, with the aim of helping to solve problems common to several Alpine regions in a good neighbourly and mutually cooperative relationship. It currently consists of the following members Länder Vorarlberg, Tyrol and Salzburg (Austria); Free State of Bavaria (Germany); Autonomous Province of Trento, Autonomous Province of Bolzano and Lombardy Region (Italy); Cantons Grisons, St. Gallen and Ticino (Switzerland).
As stipulated in the Community Statute, the member countries of ARGE ALP take it in turns to preside each year in alphabetical order. On 25 October 2024, the presidency of ARGE ALP passed from the Canton of Ticino to the Autonomous Province of Trento. The Province is therefore the entity in charge of planning, organising and managing the institutional activities of the Community until the transfer of the Presidency to the Land of Vorarlberg foreseen on the occasion of the 56th Conference of Heads of Government to be held in Trento on 24 October 2025. In particular, it will undertake to develop the theme related to "Young people and mountains: life, work and business projects. Experiences of resilience'. This political theme is intended to propose the valorisation of the projects of those who live in and choose mountain territories, implementing territorial regeneration through their commitment.
