A Handbook on Rescue Strategies and Procedures for recovery operations was designed as digital interactive application for smartphones in the form of an educational game. CHRT: Vltava Rising is available via the various app stores since June 2020, the user can choose from 8 languages as subtitles. The player faces a disaster scenario and has to coordinate a Cultural Heritage Rescue Team consisting of different decision-makers and experts. In the fictional game scenario, Prague will be flooded by a Vltava flood within the next 72 hours. In this short period of time, a special exhibition made up of various international loan exhibits must be evacuated from a museum. 

The meeting has been held during an on line session of the two years Master of Science for the Conservation - Restoration of Cultural Heritage organised by the University of Bologna. ISAC CNR presented the project within the course Environmental Impact on Material, Deterioration and Ageing. The students had the opportunity to test the GIS tool developed within ProteCHt2save and performed a pilot testing. The students successfully answered to the test implemented in each project pilot sites and positively evaluated the potentialities offered by the web GIS tool.

The Municipality of Kocevje organized the meeting of key local stakeholders. 

New developments on the project along with new outputs on the project were presented. The participants also discussed the organization of evacuation exercise that will be held in June. The exercise will be of a demonstration nature with the goal to obtain a protocol for the protection of cultural heritage in the event of heavy rain. 

The leader of the meeting was Gábor Domján needle. lieutenant-colonel, Chief Inspector of Civil Protection of the Baranya County Disaster Management Directorate. The participants were able to gain insight into the experiences of the exercise "Monument 2019", as well as into the results of the project. 

Exceptional times require excepcional solutions.

As a consequence of the COVID19 situation all around Europe, the project partners held their current meeting online - this way taking care of each others physical well-being.

The event was organised by ITAM and Municipality Prague-Troja. Apart from updating the local stakeholders on the project progress, there were two points on the agenda: organisation of the pilot exercise TROJAN HORSE 2019, and the presentation of the Manual for Owners and managers of cultural heritage. 

At the meeting ways to improve the management of movable cultural heritage in case of natural disasters were presented. The participants discussed ways in which Kočevje Regional Museum and the Kočevje Library can improve their preparedness level with additional risk assessment and action plan for natural disasters. The decision support tool was also presented to the local stakeholders. 

The meeting was organised by Bielsko-Biala District, and was attended by representatives of local authorities, the Heads of Towns and Municipalities, Cities, as well as by the board of the Bielsko-Biala District. After the general introduction of ProteCHt2save project, the pilot site and the tactical and combat exercises were presented (“Of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross” church in Stara Wies). The rest of the meeting focused on plans for the Protection of Monuments.

A meeting of the Local Focus Group in Stara Wies was held on the subject of "Protection of cultural heritage in crisis situation". The conference was organized by the Crisis Management Department of the Bielsko District and was combined with tactical and combat exercises "TEMPEST 2019" at the pilot site, the historic Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in Stara Wies. 

The meeting was coordinated by the Disaster Management Department of Baranya County, and was attented by the representatives of the county police, museums, the university library, the archives of Pécs, the mayor's office and the Faculty of Health Sciences. The participants discussed and finalized the details of the Joint Exercise focussing on rescuing objects of cultural heritage sites.

ITAM together with Municipality Prague - Troja organised the 1st LFG event, including a part intended for dissemination and presentation of the project to the local stakeholders, and another part open to the public. The participants visited a historical Troja Mill endangered by potential floods. The organisers got a valuable feedback from the experts present, and they also took advantage of this opportunity to coordinate future collaboration and inform the stakeholders about the international project conference in June 2019.

On 7^th March 2019, the Regional Development Agency in Bielsko-Biała organised a meeting of the local focus group. The title of the meeting is “Risk Assessment And Sustainable Protection Of Cultural Heritage In Changing Environment”, in line with the project.

The event dealt with the vulnerability of cultural heritage, especially in the Wachau valley that is listed as UNESCO World Heritage Site. Inter alia stakeholder from the government of Lower Austria, the municipality of Krems and the Lower Austrian Fire Brigades discussed on possible measures and plans for protecting movable and immovable cultural heritage along the Danube. A special train took the participants to Spitz an der Donau, where the local fire brigade demonstrated the installation of the mobile flood barriers.

Representatives of the project partner Obcina Kocevje attended the Seminar and workshop at the Technical Museum of  Slovenia in Bistra castle. The event was organized by the Slovenian Association for Fire Protection. Representatives of museums, fire-fighters, fire safety engineers, architects, curators and other experts exchanged valuable knowledge and joined the discussion an how to cooperate in the future. The fire-fighting exercise included rescuing objects of cultural heritage from the Museum.

Danube University Krems’ programme took place at the Benedictine Monastery of Melk in Austria. 19 participants from 9 countries developed models and prototypes for Cultural Heritage Rescue Teams, and conducted their own table-top-exercise "KOLOMANI18x-3", a fictitious flood scenario were the participants had to support the Territorial Military Command of Lower Austria with their expertise. 

Representitives from ITAM Uni. had a meeting in Kaštela with the deputy mayors. The emphasis is placed on the risks of the sea due to the specific position of the city and increasingly unstable climate change with strong and sudden rainfall. Models of early warning and prevention of further damage will be developed. 

Cracow (Poland)

The international event presented the methods of securing and evacuating cultural heritages, the participants attended practical exercises as well. 

Since the city of Cracow has the most cultural heritage in Poland, it has a wide array of experience about their protection.

Danube University Krems (Austria)

The event was dedicated to the emergency treatment for materials from archives and museums, affected inter alia by climate change induced floods.