The RechAlp.vd project, which began in July 2013, is the outcome of the wish of the Faculty of Geosciences and the Environment at the University of Lausanne to create a priority study area in the Alps of Canton de Vaud. The project aims to develop a support platform that encourages and maintains interdisciplinary research in the Alps of Vaud. An online geo-database storing and retrieving what data and metadata exist on datasets, projects and activities in the study area is available since July 2014. A portal is homed on the UNIL's website at URL: http://rechalpvd.unil.ch and to date contains more than 3840 metadata in the fields of natural sciences. The promotion and the introduction of the project are currently in progress. It is now possible using the RechAlp.vd portal to do the inventory of the data linked to the Alps of Vaud, to identify geographic or environmental gaps in the existing information and to design complementary data sampling strategies. In this regard, RechAlp.vd should open new scientific perspectives for research and teaching, especially in transdisciplinary fields of
natural sciences.