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Numerous initiatives in the alpine region offer courses and training for young people in alpine terrain. These initiatives are presented here and a link to the respective homepage is available, where the entire range of courses can be viewed and booked.

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Courses for school classes

Where: Austria, Italy, Swizzerland

Pupils who who live and spend their free time in the should have the opportunity to complete an avalanche prevention course or winter sports safety days at least once during their time at school.

Shred Kids

Where: Bavaria und Tyrol

Contact: info@shred-kids.de

Shred Kids offer weekly snowboard coaching with peers, snowboard camps (also for freeski kids), and kids’ snowboard festivals that are also suitable for beginners. The focus is always on fun, true to the motto “Happy Shredding.” Adjustable rental equipment for the whole season is available for a small fee.

The main target group is kids aged 5-13 (but participation is possible from 3 years of age)!

Service center school sports weeks

Where: Austria

Contact: office@sportwochen.org

The Service Center for School Sports Weeks offers you comprehensive information, useful information and documents relating to school sports weeks and supports teachers and providers in planning.

Check Your Risk

Youth of the German Alpine Club

Where: Germany, Austria
Level: beginner/advanced/expert
Age: from 13 years
Contact: Lukas Amm | jdav@alpenverein.de

Check Your Risk (CYR) is an initiative to teach risk and decision-making skills when freeriding. Specially trained CYR instructors sensitize young people to the dangers of off-piste skiing. Three free teaching units can be booked for schools and youth groups. The one-week CYR camps are open to all young people and round off the JDAV’s freeriding offer.

Safety Days

Alpine School Imst

Where: Hoch Imst ski area
Age: 8 to 18 years
Contact: info@high-mountainworks.at

Contents:

LVS search

Understanding the avalanche bulletin

Companion rescue

First aid

Material science

risk'n'fun FREERIDE

Alpenvereinsjugend Österreich

Where: Austria
Level: beginner/advanced/expert
Age: from 10 years
Contact: Dani Tollinger | +43 512 59 54 713 I risk-fun@alpenverein.at

LOCALS days for young skiers and snowboarders are offered by the risk’n’fun training program of the Alpine Club Youth. The risk’n’fun TEAM comes to the area and checks together with the young people according to the motto: “Show us where you’re going!” Lines and slopes. For everyone aged 16 and over, there are then four levels that build on each other in terms of content, taking you from the area close to the slopes to high alpine terrain. “perceive-judge-decide” provides the content basis for all events.

Freeride day for young people

Safe Vorarlberg

Where: Vorarlberg
Level: beginner/advanced
Age: 13 to 18 years
Contact: Sabrina Burtscher | +43 5572 543 43- 43 | sabrina.burtscher@sicheresvorarlberg.at

Freeride day for young people; winter sports equipment market (for all winter sports enthusiasts); safe off-piste courses (for young people and adults aged 16 and over); avalanche transceiver training day for all winter sports enthusiasts

Kids on Tour

mc2alpin

Where: Tyrol
Level: beginner/advanced
Age: 8 to 14 years
Contact: Walter Zörer | +43 676 599 6660 | walter.zoerer@mc2alpin.at

In one to two-day workshops, children (approx. 8 – 14 years) can experience all facets of ski touring and off-piste skiing together with our mountain guides. The focus here is on the shared experience as a family. Material science, avalanche danger, walking technique and material testing with the child-friendly equipment of our industry partners.

fit4powder

Alpenverein Zillertal

Where: Tyrol
Level: beginner/advanced
Age: 13 to 15 years
Contact: Alois Stöckl | alois.stoeckl@notarzthelicopter.at

.. fit4powder – an initiative of the Alpine Club Zillertal, the winter sports clubs WSV Hippach, SCM Mayrhofen and the Zillertal Mountain Guides Association to educate and prevent avalanche accidents for 13 to 15 year olds in open ski terrain.

Freeride Academy Innsbruck

Location: Tyrol
Level: advanced/expert
Age: 10 to 18 years
Contact: Flo Orley | +43 650 9221010 | hello@freerideacademy.at

Authentic freeride program for children and young people with authentic coaches from the freeride scene, offering everything from learning independent risk management on the mountain to coaching for freeride competitions.

3! Winter Life Camp

Austria Alpine Competence Center East Tyrol

Location: East Tyrol
Contact: Martin Rainer | martin.rainer@tsn.at

– Comprehensive winter safety day for all East Tyrolean 3rd grade middle schools and high schools (approx. 550 pupils/year)
– with 3 alpine organizations: Mountain rescue, mountain guide, alpine police
– 3 focal points: Snow and avalanche awareness, piste rules and behavior in the event of accidents, first aid

Alpine Safety Academy

Location: Tyrol
Contact: Info@Alpine-Safety.org

The Alpine Safety Academy is a non-profit association dedicated to safety in mountain sports and offers a wide range of courses in winter, bike and alpine & climbing sports. Members have the opportunity to learn from a team of state-certified guides, experts and professional athletes in a cost-effective and practical way. The progressive course structure offers optimum opportunities to build up a wide range of knowledge about dealing with alpine dangers. All members are optimally covered by sports accident insurance in the event of accidents and receive access to discounts from the association’s equipment partners.

Young Alpinists Youngsters

Alpenvereinsjugend Österreich

Location: Austria
Level: advanced/expert
Age: 14 to 20 years
Contact: Joanna Kornacki | joanna.kornacki@alpenverein.at

Young Alpinists YOUNGSTERS is the offer of the Alpine Club Youth for young mountaineers between the ages of 14 and 20 who want to deepen their alpinistic skills in the disciplines of ski touring and ski mountaineering, alpine climbing, ice climbing, learn at eye level, develop personally, experience adventures and meet new rope partners and friends.

Tyrolean Mountain Guide Association

Location: Tyrol
Contact: Tom Rabl | office@bergsportfuehrer-tirol.at

Many of our members pass on their knowledge on this topic in various organizations, at events and initiatives and can also be booked for individual courses.

Avalanche warning service of the province of Tyrol

Contact: lawine@tirol.gv.at

The Tyrol Avalanche Warning Service informs the public about the current snow and avalanche situation in the Tyrolean mountains. The avalanche warning service collects, evaluates and interprets a wide range of information on snow cover snowpack and weather. All information and interpretations ultimately flow into the central warning product of the avalanche warning service, the avalanche bulletin.

SAAC

snow & alpine awareness camps

Location: Austria
Level: beginner/advanced/expert
Age: from 14 years
Contact: anmeldung@saac.at

SAAC is an initiative that draws the attention of snowboarders and skiers from the age of 14 (“Family” camps from the age of 12) to alpine dangers, actively raises awareness and encourages personal responsibility.

SNOWHOW

xhow


Location: Tyrol
Contact: Klaus Kranebitter | +43 650 2248432 | info@xhow.info

Free avalanche courses in theory and practice for students of all ages. Avalanche awareness as a general education in the alpine environment. Approx. 10,000 pupils have taken part since 2006

Safety Shredders

FLAT S*CKS

Location: Tyrol
Age: 8-16 years
Contact: +43 664 4254829 | info@flatsucks.at

The Safety Shredders Freeride Events are designed to make young riders between the ages of 10 and 16 aware of the dangers on the mountain. We want to show in which areas the risks are low, but also where the limits are. Starting with the youngest, we want to create more awareness of the dangers and measures on the mountain.

Snow and avalanche awareness

Avalanche warning service South Tyrol

Contact: lawine@provinz.bz.it

The Avalanche Warning Service South Tyrol offers interested school classes lectures and field days on snow and avalanche awareness. Details can be discussed directly.

Junior Ranger

Karwendel Nature Park

Contact: info@karwendel.org

You can collect points for your Junior Ranger training through the school and vacation programs as well as the monthly dates in the Karwendel Nature Park’s annual program! Anyone between the ages of 7 and 14 can become a Junior Ranger. You can register for the monthly dates, with your school class or during the vacations via the various vacation programs. It is important to us that you gain specific knowledge and skills in different subject areas and have great experiences and adventures with us in nature.

Ski safety

AUVA

Contact: info@safety-guide.info

  • Ski safety workshops in the classroom for pupils
  • Ski safety training for teachers
  • Ski safety training as part of the winter sports week for schools
  • Training and further training of teachers

Out into the snow

Avalanche colloquium

Contact: office@lawinenkolloqium.net

The “Out in the snow” campaign aims to provide young and very young people with an enjoyable and lasting first contact and access to winter in the great outdoors. The aim is to open their eyes, sharpen their senses, amaze them and create an experience. In doing so, we want to perceive nature and others in a holistic and unbiased way.

Avalanche Camp Bavaria

Alpinwerkstatt – The mountain sports agency

Contact: info@alpinwerkstatt.de

With our “Avalanche Camp Bavaria – Together for more safety”, we will once again raise awareness among young and adult winter sports enthusiasts in the 2023/2024 winter season, in our perfect training area at Spitzingsee, with practical avalanche courses that build on each other on the topic of avalanche safety, explain typical dangers and demonstrate the correct off-piste behavior.

Open Freeridedays 2024

Alpine Club South Tyrol

Contact: office@alpenverein.it

Up in the mountains, snow-covered dream slopes await you and your buddies. Can’t wait to carve new lines in the untouched deep snow and are you really into freeriding? … But avalanches can also happen! At the AVS Freeridedays, you can learn the basics of avalanches on deep snow descents together!

Mountain sports for children and young people

Swiss Alpine Club SAC

Contact: info@sac-cas.ch

WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF

Contact: contact@slf.ch

Austrian Society for Snow and Avalanches

Contact: info@oegsl.at

The Austrian Society for Snow and Avalanches is dedicated to the interdisciplinary exchange of knowledge and the promotion of teaching, development, training and application in the field of applied snow and avalanche research and related areas.