Elisabeth Fuchs is a social worker. She has worked in a shelter for homeless people in Innsbruck since 2009. She spent the summers between 2010 and 2014 as an agriculturist in the Swiss and Tyrolean mountains, where she worked as a shepherdess and dairymaid. In 2014 she developed and carried out the projekt "Edelweiß 2 - Nationalpark Hohe Tauern bekommt Asyl - Verbindung von Potenzialen" in collaboration with the National Park "Hohe Tauern". This was a very successful integration and work project for asylum seekers in the Austrian National Park Region of Osttirol.