Abstract
The report presents the pilot sites and cross-border areas of the Interreg Alpine Space OpenSpaceAlps project, gives a short overview of the main reasons why open spaces are endangered in the Alps and breaks the issue down to the level of the pilot sites. The deliverable collects current governance and spatial planning approaches in pilot sites to complete the catalogue of different planning approaches. It gives indications of planning gaps and obstacles of implementation for safeguarding open spaces to build a basis for the elaborationof local implementation strategies for each pilot site in the subsequent activities of the project. This will finally contribute to the planning handbook for alpine open spaces proposing new integrated approaches and strategic recommendations for the coordination of open spaces at national and transnational level.