Jasmin Sandriester

University of Graz | KFU Graz · Department of Geography and Regional Sciences

Covid-19 has greatly influenced and restricted people's everyday lives worldwide, especially the freedom to travel and engage in tourism. In Austria, tourism contributes 7.5% to the country's GDP, ranking it in the top one-third of EU countries (Statistik Austria, 2021a). Hence, the consequences of the pandemic have been significant. However, in co...

Youth as a relevant group for the development of smaller industrial towns is barely a topic of current discussions. Their population dynamics, modern lifestyles, and complex everyday needs are a special challenge for planners. The catalogue presents ten successful stories from Austria and Slovenia of how to make industrial towns a better place for...

The valorization of cultural heritage for regional development (“Conservation 3.0”) has been a widely used concept in the last decade. Heritage institutions and the European Union have advocated and fostered the view of cultural heritage as a place-based development potential. Therefore, this article investigates the impacts of such approaches in t...

This document provides a scientific background on the topic of youth outmigration from industrial towns and regions. The empirical work encompassed a systematic review of 20 peer-reviewed articles dealing with youth challenges in industrial urban and regional settings. The focus was on eight thematic priorities, identified on the basis of internati...

This document explores the issue of youth outmigration and demographic change in the context of industrial small and medium-sized towns in Central Europe. It maps out the general status of research in this field, highlighting an existing knowledge gap. The text also analyses two case studies from Slovenia and Austria, the town of Idrija and the reg...

Peripheral regions are seen in the literature as disadvantaged in various dimensions, struggling to valorise their existing (cul-tural) assets. Networking is often considered an integral part in unlocking these assets, an approach also fostered by different regional policies. In this article, we analyse governance arrangements around tourism assets...

Encapsulating the destination’s USPs and identity in a logo with high recognition value is a challenge DMOs face. This recognisability as key to a ‘strong brand’ is particularly based on natural resources and the attractiveness of landscapes that form the basis of touristic USP in most destinations. The paper stresses the importance of the logo an...

This input paper provides a basic overview of the conceptual and practical knowledge about the main topic of the Interreg Danube WIN project, co-funded by the European Union, the position of female workers in peripheral industrial regions with a special focus on the Danube Region. It aims to enable a common understanding among project partners (PPs...

Die Verknüpfung von Digitalisierung und Nachhaltigkeit ist eines der großen Themen in der Nachhaltigkeitsdebatte der vergangenen Jahre. Gerade im Kulturerbe-Bereich sind in den letzten Jahren dazu verschiedene Ansätze und Projekte forciert worden. Dieser Beitrag gibt Einblick in diese Entwicklungen und versucht gleichzeitig, die Frage nach Potenzia...

Youth as a relevant group for the development of smaller industrial towns is barely a topic of current discussions. Their population dynamics, modern lifestyles, and complex everyday needs are a special challenge for planners. The catalogue presents ten successful stories from Austria and Slovenia of how to make industrial towns a better place for...

Youth out-migration and demographic changes pose significant development challenges in many regions across Europe. However, the topic of youth out-migration has hardly been discussed in the literature so far, revealing a knowledge gap that exists on both an academic and a practical, applied policy level. Thus, the YOUIND project (‘Youth in industri...