Overview

Status

Ongoing

Start
1 January 2024

End
31 December 2025

Type: Knowledge for Action in Prevention & Preparedness (KAPP)

EU contribution amount: EUR 926 946.02 (EU contribution)

Funding source: Union Civil Protection Mechanism (UCPM)

Contact email: proculther-net@protezionecivile.it

Description

Building on the experience and lessons learnt by the previous PROCULTHER initiatives implemented under the framework of the Union Civil Protection Knowledge Network, PROCULTHER-NET 2 aims at implementing the pathway mapped out by the PROCULTHER-NET project in order to consolidating the inclusion of the protection of cultural heritage at risk sector in the Union Civil Protection Mechanism processes and structures, so as to increase disaster preparedness capacities and knowledge at European and national levels. .

The project focuses on the two priorities envisaged under Topic 2 of the call: priority 1-Institutional preparedness and priority 2-Individual capacity strengthening. By addressing both priorities, PROCULTHER-NET 2 will be able to translating the path mapped out by the PROCULTHER-NET project into practice to efficiently establish a thematic community dedicated to the protection of cultural heritage at risk within the UCPKN. With an eye toward the fifth Union disaster resilience goal: “Secure – Ensuring a robust civil protection system”, the project will reinforce interdisciplinary, cross-sectoral, inter-agency preparedness capacities and facilitate the transfer of knowledge, as well as the integration of innovative practices/processes/instruments at an institutional level having also the opportunity to expand, simultaneously, capacities of functional groups/experts at each national level. In particular, the PROCULTHER-NET 2 project -taking into account new emerging risks, needs, existing capacities and interests relevant to the protection of cultural heritage at risk, as well as the agreements made by the PROCULTHER-NET- will increase interoperability standards and preparedness capacities for the inclusion of cultural heritage protection in UCPM operational structures by reinforcing knowledge management process linked to this sector within the UCPKN and extending, informing, feeding and advocating for the inclusion of all relevant actors in the community, including those participating in other UCPM-funded projects or countries of interest to the UCPM (e.g., IPA countries, countries of the Mediterranean basin, other neighbourhood countries).