ResCult – Increasing RESilience of CULTural heritage: a supporting decision tool for the safeguarding of cultural assets

The project aims at enhancing the capability of Civil Protection to prevent/mitigate disasters impacts on Cultural Heritage through the realization of an Integrated European Interoperable Database designed to provide a unique framework for Civil Protection, national Ministries, the European Union and local authorities as supporting decision tool to understand the risk of damage to Cultural Heritage as well as its impact on cohesion sustainable cultural tourism and engagement with local communities in protecting environment. The database will design and prototype an European Heritage Map, a sort of ‘cadaster’ of happened disasters with evaluations about affected items, a platform for monitoring and modelling risk scenarios in specific disasters, ad advise seeking interface, a platform for acquiring crowd-data, a 3D models to help finding/recognizing dispersed artworks and support restoration post-emergency and preserve digital memory in case of destruction, a knowledge base useful for training, education and research about Cultural Heritage and disaster reduction.

Project sheet ResCult (176.29 kB)