Dedicated on Digital Cultural Heritage Documentation, Preservation and Protection, the EuroMed 2018 International Conference announces its FINAL EXTENSION OF PAPERS.  The conference will take place Oct. 29th – Nov. 3rd, 2018; Cyprus  website

Paper submission deadline: 30th June, 2018 (24:00 London-UK time)

Dear colleagues,
The 7th biannual  European-Mediterranean (EUROMED)  conference brings together researchers, policy makers, professionals, fellows and practitioners to explore some of the more pressing issues concerning Cultural Heritage today. In particular, the main goal of the conference is to focus on interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary research on tangible and intangible Cultural Heritage, using cutting edge technologies for the protection, restoration, preservation, massive digitalization, documentation and presentation of the Cultural Heritage contents. At the same time, the event is intended to cover topics of research ready for exploitation, demonstrating the acceptability of new sustainable approaches and new technologies by the user community, owners, managers and conservators of our cultural patrimony.

Topics and themes:
Researchers and practitioners willing to participate to the EUROMED 2018 conference are invited to submit papers on original works addressing the following subjects and research themes:
i) DIGITAL HERITAGE DOCUMENTATION and PRESERVATION
ii) PROTECTION, RESTORATION AND PRESERVATION OF TANGIBLE AND INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE
More detail information regarding the themes can be found at: http://www.euromed2018.eu/index.php/call-participation

AN ACTION FOR VIRTUAL MUSEUMS

Virtual Multimodal Museum (ViMM) is a high-visibility and participative Coordination and Support Action (CSA), funded under the EU Horizon 2020 programme (CULT-COOP-8-2016). ViMM brings together Europe and the world’s leading public and private sector organisations working on Virtual Museums and in the wider sector of Digital Cultural Heritage, to support high quality policy development, decision making and the use of technical advances. The partner consortium (see website) is supported by an expert Advisory Group in building the ViMM Framework, involving decision-makers and expert practitioners in defining and resolving issues spread across 7 interlinked Thematic Areas (‘the 7 Ds’): Definitions – Directions – Documentation – Dimensions -Demand – Discovery – Decisions

The 21st International Assembly and Symposium of the Romualdo Del Bianco Foundation announces “Heritage for Planet Earth 2019“

Anticipated topics include:

One part will be dedicated to the scientific work and presentations under the tentative title “Heritage for Dialogue: technology and traditional knowledge for the heritage and planet Earth”

Another part will be dedicated to the presentation of ‘territorial knowledge’, under the preliminary title “Cultural expressions of territories”.  In this session the excellences that characterize the territories will present themselves with the help of a power point and an exhibition/tasting of their products.  For this part, we already received adhesions from Italian food production and wine companies, as well as from jewellers and leather goods’ manufacturers.

Sherban Cantacuzino, former Trustee of COTAC and supporter of architectural conservation, has passed away.  An obituary by The Telegraph detailing his impressive accomplishments can be viewed here.

The HES annual summer school gives everyone the chance to learn the latest advice on the care of traditional buildings. The course is for anyone interested in traditional building skills, from conservation beginners to professionals.

The week-long introduction to building conservation and traditional building materials and method takes place from 11 – 15 June 2018.

See here for more information.

Participate now in the H4PE Photo Contest!

See here for April’s winners

See here to enter May’s contest!

AABC is pleased to announce the programme of its summer seminar for applicants and apprentices, which will be held in Leeds on 14th June.

Date: Thursday 14 June 2018

Venue: The Printworks, Leeds, LS10 1JY

Time: 10.30am until 3.00pm

Fee: £30

See here for more details.

The Scottish Lime Centre Trust (SLCT) was established in 1994 as a ‘not for profit’ organisation registered as a charity in Scotland in response to growing concern over the shortage of skills and understanding in the field of traditional building technology.  Our essential aims are to promote and encourage the appropriate repair of traditional buildings, and to conserve and develop the associated building traditions, crafts and skills through training and education.

To find out more about what the Scottish Lime Centre Trust does, see here.

Disasters and catastrophes pose risks not only to the conservation of cultural heritage assets with its cultural, historic and artistic values, but also to the safety of visitors, staff and local communities. Additionally, they cause undoubtedly negative consequences for the local economies. The ProteCHt2save project contributes to an improvement of capacities of the public and private sectors to mitigate the impacts of climate change and natural hazards on cultural heritage sites, structures and artefacts. The project focuses primarily on the development of feasible and tailored solutions for building resilience of cultural heritage to floods and events of heavy rain.
It will help regional and local authorities to prepare measures and evacuation plans in case of emergencies.  ProteCHt2save will deliver ICT solutions (web-based inventory and maps) and tools (decision support tool, best practices manual, handbook on transnational rescue procedures) for risk management and protection of cultural heritage in central Europe. Pilot actions will test the approach and tools in  risk prone areas and areas with cultural heritage vulnerabilities to improve the existing disaster risk management plans and policies in municipalities.

To learn more about the project and to see upcoming events, see here.

On November 8-10, 2018, an international scientific conference “Historic ruins – protection, use, management” will be held in Cracow. The conference is co-funded by the Interreg Central Europe Programme within project CE902 RUINS.

The Conference Venue is: Jagiellonian University, Collegium Iuridicum, Art History Institute, Cracow, 53 Grodzka Grodzka str. Abstracts of the proposed papers should be sent by June 15, 2018.

More information can be found here.