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Port slash podcast. Welcome to an episode of our Sipra podcast. My name is Karolin Beke. Traveling sustainably through the Alps.
That was the motto of 125 young people from all Alpine countries who were part of Sipra's project, Yorin, short for Youth Alpine Interale. They explored Alpine regions by train and bus on foot or by bike. They stormed summits, strode through cities, camped under the stars. Most importantly, they traveled climate friendly.
One of these Yorlin travelers was Isis from France. I went in France, the Aten part, then in Switzerland, then in Italy and after I ended my trip in Slovenia. And so long trip. Two months and a half.
Really interesting. I wanted to experiment so many things and I did. So it's in the same time the thing to go alone and to learn a little bit more about what limit I have still and what I can do to also go further. And when you're alone, you're also very dependent on the people you met.
So it was a little bit paradoxical, but to meet people was really interesting. For me, Yorlin, well at the beginning it was just an amazing opportunity to travel by train in the Alps. And I understood it first like this, but after the group of Yorlin members who I can talk with them and create new relations, it was for me a way to travel sustainably and also to meet other people that values this way to travel. This also visited the closing event which took place in Innsbruck in Austria at the end of September.
Around 60 other Yorlin travelers were there to share experiences and discuss sustainable mobility with experts. Another traveler is David from South Chirol. He was enthusiastic about meeting the organizers and other Yorlin's. It's really nice.
It was wonderful to meet people that are actually part of this project. There are splendid persons and I really really enjoyed it because people are really nice everyone and so open-minded and so talkative and really wonderful persons. And it was nice to see the people behind the project. Zipra launched the Yorlin project in 2018 together with the Seapur Youth Council, CYC.
It is a project by young people, for young people. The vision is to travel the Alpine regions in a more climate-friendly way and with a clear conscience. I really believe that there is a lot to do and that our generation has to take action if we want sustainable future. Says Luis Tom from Switzerland.
She's also a member of the Seapur Youth Council and a so-called Yorlin ambassador. I think the Alps are the perfect size for action because it involves a lot of countries, a lot of regions, but there's also a common culture and there's a common understanding of what the main issues are. And I think there is a lot also of cooperation already happening in the Alps and we really have to use that network for our initiatives to see that other young people are involved with me. It gives me a lot of innovation and those initiatives such as Yorlin and Arctic and the Seapur Youth Council in general are very much made.
The commitment and passion of the young people was clearly noticeable at the final event and a strong confirmation for the project team, the supporters and the organizers that they are on the right track. It's such a great community of young people. Everybody is so committed and so motivated. It's a full of energy.
I think this is really something that shows what is behind this project, all the passion that is behind this project. It's always a lot of interaction. People really want to be here. You can also see that they have made a lot of great experiences during the travels.
Says Melanie Planker from the Austrian province of Thirrol. She works for the Algae Alpe, the Association of Alpine States, which has been formed focusing on sustainable tourism for many years. Algae Alpe is one of the supporters of the Yorlin project and organized the event in Innsbruck. Melanie Planker.
In the way with regard to sustainable mobility, we think that it's very important to take up the concerns and interests of young people because they are the ones who will travel to these urban reaches in the future. They are also often very sensitive to sustainable mobility and we think it's very important to make concrete projects for them to promote sustainability together with them and to offer them something to travel sustainability. So we thought this part is really great and we are very happy now to support it. Yorlin is not only supported by AgAIP but also by the signatory states of the Alpine Convention and financially by the German Federal Office for the Environment, Nature, Conservation and Nuclear Safety, the Austrian Ministry of Climate Protection, the Liechtenstein Office for the Environment, the Slovenian Ministry of Environment and the Swiss Federal Office for Spatial Development, AR.
Well, the AR is the Swiss Federal Office for Spatial Development. We deal with sustainable spatial development in Switzerland but also in the Alps and mobility is a very big issue in this. Says Kavan Alksbogel from the AR in Switzerland. We always use up an interval or Yorlin we really want to show and encourage young people to discover this very beautiful region in a sustainable and climate-friendly way and encourage them to do so and also providing a means to do so and I think it's a beautiful project and we are happy to support this.
Sustainable mobility is a fundamental key to climate protection. Yorlin shows how climate-friendly travel works and how much fun it is to travel by public transport. In addition, the project offers a lively and active community that is constantly growing and spreading the topic of sustainability. For the travellers themselves, Yorlin means...
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