This very colorful publication gathers 26 local recipes from all over the Alps and includes drawings made by the young people who took part in Youth at the Top 2021. Each recipe is explained in the 4 Alpine languages + English.

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The 9th edition of the international event Youth at the Top will take place on July 13th 2023 (and the night of July 13th to 14th). Registration is now open!
The common topic of this year’s edition is “Forest – the Almighty”. Protected areas, organizations, youth associations, local professionals, and refuges from all over the Alps and the Carpathians: you are all invited to take part in this international event and to plan an educational activity on the common theme.

The past-event press release is available in:

• English
• French
• German
• Italian
• Slovenian

Photo: Nationalpark Hohe Tauern Tirol © S. Zeiner

This year the common theme for the event is “Local Food”. Thus, all the participant are invited to join the “International Cookbook” project. The idea is for each organization to provide us a recipe that would have been illustrated by the group during the event. ALPARC will collect all these recipes after the event and create a unique multilingual cookbook of local recipes! We believe that this cookbook will be a wonderful memory to share will all the young participants and that it will empathize the international aspect of the event. In order to coordinate the participation to this book of more than 40 organizations, please read the following documents:

- The guidelines → In English • In French • In German • In Italian
- The associated Excel file → Here

In this year we want to organize one event like Park Festival, Clean an Green or Night tour treking- stars observe.

We want to organize a field study trip for 2 days in alpine area of Rodna Mountains National Park with 4 rangers and 15 youngsters. The accommodation will be organised at a sheepfold up in the mountains. The program will include a variety of activities such as: monitoring of pray birds, monitoring of small mammals with live-traps, monitoring of moths with lighting traps with UV lights, inventorying of grasshoppers with entomological nets, inventorying of bats with nets and bat detectors, preparing traditional food as sheep cheese, shepherd polenta, inventorying of tinctorial plants, inventorying of medicinal plants used by local people, identifying sky constellations during the night.

Partners: ECO RODNA Association, Association of local sheep breeders, Borsa City Hall, ECO club, Association of Traditional Dancing from Sangeorz-Bai town

Montée au refuge de Moëde-Anterne avec des jeunes migrants. Découverte de la faune et de la flore de montagne.

Montée au refuge de la Vogealle. Découverte de la RN de Sixt-Passy. Découverte de la faune de montagne. Diaporama sur la réserve le soir dans le refuge. Découverte du lac de la Vogealle le lendemain.

Nuit au refuge de Tré-la-Tête et découverte le lendemain du glacier de Tré-la-Tête avec les jeunes en difficulté sociale de l'EPDA de Passy. Observation des animaux de la montagne. Observation du glacier et découverte de son histoire. Problématique sur le changement climatique.

The Apuseni Nature Park Administration in partnership with the Romanian Alpine Club and local entrepreneurs is organizing a two day event in one of the most famous european karst areas.

Therefore, we are inviting schools from local communities to register their groups of students for the competition which is going to lead them towards a possible participation in this first edition of the Apuseni Youth of the Top (more information about the competition is about to come).

Highlights of the event:

- thematic trail with rangers from the Apuseni Nature Park Administration;
- birdwatching with the biologist of the Apuseni Nature Park Administration;
- astronomical observations with the Romanian Alpine Club (using telescopes and other astronomical instruments is part of this activity);
- local gastronomy workshop with local entrepreneurs;
- educational activities.