Predecessor Projects (ARCH & SHELTER)

ARCH was a European Union-Horizon funded research project that aimed at preserving areas of cultural heritage from hazards and risks. It developed a disaster risk management framework for assessing and improving the resilience of historic areas to climate change and natural hazards. It designed tools and methodologies for local authorities and practitioners, the urban population, and national and international expert communities. The project presented various models, methods, tools and datasets to support decision-making. ARCH‘s expert interdisciplinary team included four European municipalities; Bratislava, Camerino, Hamburg, and Valencia; research scientists, the city network ICLEI and the standardization organization DIN. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 program under grant agreement No. 820999 and ran from June 2019 to August 2022.

SHELTER was a European Union Horizon funded project with the goal of enhancing resilience and reducing the vulnerability of Historic Areas to climate change and natural hazards. SHELTER aimed at achieving this through an operative knowledge framework that both increased the robustness of the system and reduced the time of recovery and restauration, providing the necessary information for planning and adaptive governance. All developments of the project were validated in 5 Open Labs (Ravenna, Seferihisar, Dordrecht, Sava River Basin and Baixa Limia-Serra), that were representative of main climatic and environmental challenges in Europe as well as different heritage typologies. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 program under grant agreement No. 821282 and ran from June 2019 to May 2023.