Sustainable MAnagement of Cultural Heritage in the Balkans in Response to Climate Change. Best Practices for Adaptation and Intercultural Cooperation - is a 1-year Central European Initiative (CEI) Know-how Exchange Program. It supports the exchange of knowledge and best practices between the EU and the Balkan region, to promote the sustainable management of cultural heritage in response to climate change. It will thus contribute to encourage climate change adaptation and, broadly, sustainable development in the area, engaging the regional decision makers and key stakeholders in a dialogue to compare current approaches and develop common best practices in this concern.
SMACH is coordinated by the VIU TEN Program on Sustainability, with the City of Venice, ENEA and three VIU Members: the University of Ljubljana, the University of Rome Tor Vergata, and the CNR (National Research Council of Italy). Four Balkan institutions are beneficiary partners of the initiative: the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, the University of Belgrade, the Sarajevo University School of Science and Technology, and the University of Montenegro.
The SMACH know-how exchange program addresses the key stakeholders from the region, playing an active role in the fields of restoration, conservation, cultural management, strategic planning, climate change, sustainability and science communication.
The program is built around the actual needs of the Balkan region in the addressed topic, which will be identified in collaboration with scholars and stakeholders from the beneficiary countries (Phase I). A high-level workshop with representatives from EU and the Balkans countries involved will be organized (Phase II) as a basis for developing and implementing a 4-month on-line training (Phase III), which will address technologies, tools and strategies for understanding, documenting and communicating Cultural Heritage, with a special focus on adaptation to Climate Change.
The project started on March 15, 2021 and finished on February 28, 2022.
Partners
Know how providers
- VIU with
- University of Ljubljana
- University of Rome Tor Vergata
- CNR
- City of Venice
- ENEA
Beneficiary partners
- Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje
- University of Belgrade
- Sarajevo School of Science and Technology
- University of Montenegro
For further information on the SMACH Project please contact Alessandra Fornetti, Executive Director of the TEN Program on Sustainability at alessandra.fornetti@univiu.org
This project is cofinanced by the CEI Know-how Exchange Programme supported by the CEI Fund at the EBRD
