CHEERS

Contact

SUPSI

Duration: 2018- – 2021-

Heritage, natural hazards, natural risks, open data

This page documents a research project in progress.
Information may be incomplete and change as the project progresses.
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CHEERS: Cultural HEritagE. Risks and Securing activities is an international comparative research project about the protection of cultural heritage from natural disasters. The project focuses on the Alpine area and it involves partners in Italy, France, Slovenia, Austria, Germany and Switzerland.

Cultural Heritage is the ground of people’s identity and strongly contributes to Alpine economy. But natural disasters represent a major threat to these resources. Risk assessment, hazard reduction, and disaster management focus its attention on the protection of human lives and infrastructures, while the safeguard of cultural resources has not been properly tackled yet. The project focuses on this gap.

Open Data and Open Maps

To protect cultural heritage from natural hazards and risks, open data and collaborative online projects are relevant tools to document international cultural heritage and to integrate data about cultural heritage with data related to hazards and risks; OpenStreetMap (in particular with the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap and its specific projects focusing on hazards and risks) and Wikidata (in particular thanks to the international project Wiki Loves Monuments and the intense collaborations with GLAMs) are significant tools which allow access to continuously updated transborder content, and institutional and civilc cooperation in its production.

Heritage on the Wikimedia Projects

Heritage, articles related to heritage on Wikipedia in different languages.

Organisation

The project CHEERS involves 12 partner from 6 alpine countries. It is promoted by FLA - Lombardy Foundation for the Environment and supported by the European Union via Interreg Alpine Space.

Italy

FLA - Lombardy Foundation for the Environment (Lead Partner)
UCSC - Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
TCI - Touring Club of Italy

France

IRSTEA - National research institute of science and technology for environment and agriculture
BRGM - French Geological Survey
EPLFM - Valabre Consortium

Slovenia

SFI - Slovenian Forestry Institute
CUDHg Idrija - Idrija Mercury Heritage Management Centre

Austria

BFW - Austrian Research Center for Forests
AIT - Austrian Institute of Technology

Germany

RCC - Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society

Switzerland

SUPSI - University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland

Contacts

Liaison for the Wikimedia and OpenStreetMap community: Iolanda Pensa

References

External links

Website of the project CHEERS