Good Practice Category: Enviroment

Feedback from action training on the smart village methodology with the Smart Community pilot areas

Mooraculum is a milestone in summer tourism in the mountain region of Sörenberg / Flühli. The bgg adventure park Mooraculum is situated on the Rossweid above Sörenberg, which can be reached by foot (hike from Sörenberg) or by gondola. The adventure park is designed to inform children in a playful way about the bog as well as the plants and animals that live in it.Bogs are very common in the Entlebuch. There are 45 raised bogs, 61 low-moore bogs and four bog landscapes in the region. The Mooraculum offers an opportunity for children of different ages to discover the bogs and their inhabitants, combining play and the transfer of knowledge.The heart of the Mooraculum is the bog water park with ponds, play equipment and resting places. For the toddlers there is a mini-bog, which was created near the restaurant, while the older children can solve puzzles in the bog village. The station «Save the Bog» discusses the balance of the water budget in a playful way: as with the other stations, the sensitivity of bogs and their inhabitants to human intervention is addressed. The station “Bog concert” is dedicated to the sounds – chirping, croaking, trills - that can be heard in bogs: visitors can organise a bog-concert themselves with oversized wooden figures.Special points of attraction are the climbing garden and a shallow pond that can be crossed with a raft. With this facility, entire families are made aware of the concerns of protected moorland in a playful and exciting way. The admission is free, which especially supports the utilization of the mountain railways during the summer months.

Networking Pilgrimages is the joint promotion of living monasteries, churches and places of pilgrimage. These shape the religious and cultural life in Central Switzerland. Paths invite pilgrims, religious sites for reflection or cultural events for enjoyment.In the meantime, 62 sacred places in 7 cantons have formed a sacred landscape of Central Switzerland. The Central Switzerland Sacred Landscape Association has set itself the task of allowing the numerous hidden sacred beauties of Central Switzerland to blossom and shows them in all their diversity.What began as an idea from a pilot community development project using the example of the municipality of Luthern under the leadership of the Lucerne West Region in 2011 has developed into a wonderful network.Central Switzerland has many well-known and lesser-known places of pilgrimage and pilgrimage as well as sacred buildings of high art-historical value that are of national importance.The following are just some of the results of the network of pilgrimage sites: "Walking the "Heavenly PathsA network of pilgrim and hiking trails connects the various places of the sacred landscape of Central Switzerland. Each of the three sections of the Heavenly Paths takes you to places steeped in history where you can drink healing waters and to places of power that tell legends and stories. Monasteries invite you to take a break away from everyday life. A rich culinary offer delights body, mind and soul. Whether in single stages or as a multi-day hike, the trail network offers a rich selection of easy trails to challenging paths. The tour suggestions are linked to the SchweizMobil map material. They are supplemented with many tips for a weekend excursion full of discovery or a whole week's hiking.

cewas is an “international center for water management services”. As an international competence center for water management, cewas offers various access points: qualified specialists find professional support in establishing their businesses and existing technology or service providers can network with the cewas start-ups, participate in them and thus open up new markets. Investors can reduce their risks by having potential “investment recipients” supported by cewas;governmental and non-governmental organizations can train their employees at cewas and prepare them for new collaborations with the private sector.This project guarantees an inclusive and sustainable society.According to the "think global, act local"-principle, local value creation is promoted in order to develop market-oriented offers for the national and international demand for sustainable solutions in the water management sector. For cewas, the Lucerne West region offers interesting location factors, such as low-cost office spaces, low corporate taxes, and attractive living and leisure options for those involved in the start-ups.The cewas start-up program is unique in that it combines the provision of work infrastructure with thematic course modules and the personal support of the start-ups by renowned water experts. These not only provide their experience and knowledge from science and practice, but also secure the strategic and market-oriented development of start-up business ideas. Bringing together international teams (north-south partnerships) allows the KMU’s to benefit from the Swiss state of the art and science on the one hand and to act quickly in the target countries on the other. The individual course modules of the cewas training program are also open to individuals or organizations who benefit from this platform and can position themselves in the international water management market. Co-operations between cewas start-ups and existing companies in the water sector as well as university institutes in the inland and abroad are also supported.

The municipality of Ried-Brig did not have any water meters, consumption was not billed at tax points based on consumption. After a referendum at the end of 2017, the commissioning of electronic water meters could start. The electronic water meters were installed together with so-called smart meters - electricity meters that collect all consumption data and send it to the control center - in practically all households in the community. The advantage is that consumption can be recorded depending on consumption, no more meters have to be read in the households, the households only receive a bill for water, electricity, gas etc. from the electricity distributor and thus the municipal administration is relieved of reading and billing . The municipality of Fieschertal would like to follow the example of Ried Brig and has already prepared a technical roll out with the regional electricity distributor EW Goms. Electronic water meters and smart meters are to be installed there in 2021/2022.

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