STRENCH: STRENgthening resilience of Cultural Heritage at risk in a changing environment through proactive transnational cooperation

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STRENCH
description

Natural and man-made hazards, anthropogenic effects and extreme climate change events, are persistently putting natural and cultural heritage under pressure, with an increasing frequency over time. In addition, such disasters and catastrophes impose new and continuously changing conservation challenges and urgently needs for innovative preservation and safeguarding approach, particularly during extreme climate conditions.
STRENCH outcomes will strongly contribute and capitalise EU funded projects results to improve capacities of the public and private sectors to mitigate the impacts of climate change and natural hazards on cultural heritage sites, structures and buildings at risk as outlined in the priority 6 of the call. It will be specifically tailored and robustly implemented in order to propose ready-to-use solutions (WebGIS tool, hazard maps, methodology for vulnerability ranking, strategies for disaster risk reduction) for assessing climate change effects in order to define strategies for the protection of cultural heritage at risk, assisting local stakeholders in improving their know-how on the process of definition of priorities of intervention and strategies (preparedness/emergency/recovery).
According to the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 and the European Agenda for Culture, the political development of innovative strategies will be also an asset together with the introduction of cultural heritage preservation in the main political and planning documents for the next programming period. By the achievement of the planned objectives, STRENCH is expected to proactively target the needs and requirements of stakeholders and policymakers responsible for disaster mitigation and safeguarding of cultural heritage assets and to foster the active involvement of citizens and local communities in the decision-making process.

Partners
1. (LP) Istituto di Scienze dell'Atmosfera e del Clima - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche – Bologna, Italy;
2. Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of the Czech Academy of Sciences – Praga, Repubblica Ceca;
3. University for Continuing Education Krems Danube University Krems – Krems, Austria;
4. Fondazione Villa Ghigi – Bologna, Italy;
5. SISTEMA GmbH – Wien, Austria;
6. Balatoni Integrációs Közhasznú Nonprofit Kft – Siófok, Hungary;
7. Urbanistični inštitut Republike Slovenije – Ljubljana, Slovenia;
8. Landkreis Forchheim – Forchheim, Germany;
9. Općina Dugopolje – Dugopolje, Croatia.

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Funding institution
EU - Interreg Central Europe
Responsible_name
Alessandra Bonazza
contact person ISAC
date inizio fine
2020-03-01 - 2022-02-28