The SMACH Forum is a follow up of the SMACH project, Sustainable MAnagement of Cultural Heritage in the Balkans in Response to Climate Change. SMACH Forum further supports know-how exchange on sustainable management of cultural heritage, through the creation of a Europe-South Eastern European (EU-SEE) platform for institutions, researchers and decision makers working on this topic.
Starting from the stakeholders’ needs identified in SMACH project, the SMACH Forum is mapping the existing initiatives in South Eastern European that meet those needs in terms of research, good practices and policy. A series of activities is guiding this process, along with a survey available here.
The first of these events is the International Workshop on Cultural Heritage Policy and Management in South Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean taking place at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, on June 3-4, 2025 in collaboration with ARCHE, Alliance for Research on Cultural Heritage in Europe.
The final goal of SMACH Forum is the promotion of a collaborative EU-SEE strategy by uniting experts and leveraging existing EU research and policy platforms, to support sustainable cultural heritage management throughout the region.
The project is co-funded by the Central European Initiative (CEI) Know-how Exchange Program supported by the CEI Fund at the EBRD.
The 2-year project started on April 2024.
Partners
Know how providers
- VIU with
University of Ljubljana
University of Rome Tor Vergata
CNR
- City of Venice
Beneficiary partners
- Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje
- University of Belgrade
- Sarajevo School of Science and Technology
- University of Montenegro
For further information please contact Alessandra Fornetti, Executive Director of the TEN Program on Sustainability at alessandra.fornetti@univiu.org
